Engadget reports that the rumored desktop dock for Nexus One is now available for $US45.
Similar to Motorola Droid, dropping the phone into the dock triggers the Clock application to fire up to give you access to alarms, music, and weather , but the special sauce lies out back where you’ll find a 3.5mm jack that connects to your stereo system using an included 3.5mm-to-RCA cable. A charger is included to keep the phone topped off while it’s resting in the cradle, too.
I think that it would be appropriate to remind that the phone is made by HTC, and that the only thing it’s got from Google is the name, a cardboard box (which is still made in HTC’s style, and coloured by Google), and a logo on the battery cover.
I have finally received my Nexus One few days ago and have been playing with it since then. I am planning to write a series of in-depth reviews that will provide details about hardware and software components and compare the phone with other competing devices. In the first post I will cover positioning of the device on the market as I see it. Future posts will focus on design, controls, display, battery life, camera, software, etc.
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Great news for the Android community! User Agent Profiles for seven new devices have been added to the HTC website. All seven phones are Android-based. Some of them are brand new; others have already had some details leaked.
If you are a lucky owner of Nexus One and want to enable multitouch visit Gizmodo for detailed instructions. The phone supports multitouch, but it is not enabled in the software for some reason.
Images of Gigabyte’s first Android smartphone have been leaked to the Internet. At this stage it is unclear whether this phone will form part of the Gigabyte’s Smart line, or whether the company will create a new brand for its Android devices.
LG’s first android smartphone (called GW620) has been recently revealed during a blogger conference in Seoul. To be honest, the whole purpose of this event was to show the device to the public and start the PR campaign. The device is already available in Europe, but not in Australia – so there may be some interest in it. In this article I will briefly talk about the device and try to describe its prospects in Australia.
In this article, I want to think out loud about people who would be interested in Nexus One. At the same time, if possible, I would like to find out what you think about the prospects for this device. After all, whatever one may say, Google Nexus One enthused up the masses, even though the wave was raised by PR-departments of several companies and word of mouth.
There are a few programs available for Android that can properly remove installed applications or create data backups. However, for most of these programs application control is a secondary function (you will find that almost all file managers can do it). Therefore this functionality is either not that easy to use or doesn’t have all of the necessary options. AppControl is one of the first few programs (and I’m sure that more will come in the future) that are specifically designed to control installed applications. It can monitor installed software, delete or archive it, and perform many other functions.
These days you need to have a reliable and easy-to-use Twitter client. I have found a couple of nice ones for Android – Seesmic and Twidroid. In this article I will review the Seesmic, and describe what I liked about the program, what I didn’t, and quickly compare Seesmic and Twidroid. I will post Twidroid review in the near future as well.
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