Therecently launched Verizon Motorola Droid 3, currentlyon a great BOGO deal at the carrier, has been dismantled to expose the same 3G chip that Apple is using in itsiPhone 4. Deep under the plastic of theMotorolaDroid 3 lays silicone from Qualcomm. The chip is the Qualcomm MDM6600 3G model which is the same as the one to be found in Apple's CDMA iPhone 4 variant for the same carrier. Unlike the Cupertino product though, theDroid3 is a world phone that can be used in Europe too over GSM network. For those of you enjoying device teardowns, head over to the source link and see theMotorola Droid3 internals as the phone is dismantled.
In this episode of the Android Application Weekly we demonstrate some apps that will help you edit your photos, play music from your computer to your Android, and entertain with some challenging puzzle games. To download these directly to your Android smartphone or tablet just take a picture of the QR-Code using Google Goggles or any other QR-Code scanner or click on the app title link to be taken directly to the Android Market.
Apparatus is a fun and challenging 3D puzzle game. The object of the game is to position various planks and tools into a position to get the marbles into the blue crates. Build complex structures or use as little of the tools as possible to achieve the goal.
If you enjoy artistic photos with gray scale and color but haven’t had the skills to create your own masterpieces then ColorUp is the photo app for you. Just select a photo and with the simple tools you will be able to remove and add color to highlights in your photos. Share with friends or family and save to your SDcard.
Refraction is a challenging puzzle game in which you must position various mirrors and prisms to redirect or change the beams of light to their particular orb. Some levels are very difficult to be forewarned but along with that comes a lot of time missed trying to solve the puzzles.
Audiogalaxy is a great app for anyone that likes to have access to their music files on the go. While storing music on the SDcard is great, being able to access your other countless tracks on the go is ever better. The app does require to sign up for a free Audiogalaxy account and install the helper tool to keep your music synced and updated.
Even though many Android developers are creating their own audio equalizers, many are not as easy to use as this free Equalizer app. If you like your music to have a heart thumping sound then you will enjoy Equalizer. The app is simple to use and will run in the background so that any audio playback will use the Equalizer preset.
It's been seven months since the debut of Android Gingerbread, and we continue to see brand-new smartphones released running Froyo. We appreciate the lengthy development cycles phone manufacturers must plan for, but we're really starting to get to the point where our tolerance for seeing Android 2.2 on a new smartphone is dropping sharply. LG's Optimus 3D, for instance, despite its eye-catching display and powerful processor and memory configuration, will still arrive with Froyo on board. At least now we have an idea of how long users will have to wait before they can finally upgrade, with LG revealing that Gingerbread will be coming to the Optimus 3D in the UK this October.
There is some good news in all of this, that LG will supposedly bundle that Gingerbread update with an auto 2D-to-3D app converter that should get you some more mileage out of the smartphone's no-glasses-required 3D display. The company didn't reveal when regions outside the UK would gain access to the update, but we certainly hope it would be sooner, rather than later.
It's only been a couple of hours since Applepushed out its iOS version 4.3.4 update that fixed the PDF security vulnerability which enabledJailbreakMe.com to work and the mobile platform has already been jailbroken.
This is a tethered jailbreak, which means that every time your iPhone reboots you will have to apply the jailbreak again. Nevertheless, a tethered solution is better than no solution at all and the good thing is that the tool used allows you to preserve your iPhone’s baseband. If you can't live without a jailbreak and must set your Apple-phone free, follow the source link for a detailed tutorial on how to achieve that.
Let the rumor rumble begin. Digitimes, who's famous for landing lots of the very accurate scoops on what's going down in the iPhone supplier factories has recently learned that Apple has just ordered 15 million iPhone 5s (or it could be iPhone 4S) from their Taiwanese supplierPegatron. Sadly it seems that this will be more of an iPhone 4S with no significant design changes from theiPhone 4. According to the report: Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is estimated to have landed orders for 15 million iPhone 5s (iPhone 4S) from Apple and is set to start shipping in September of 2011, according to sources from upstream component makers. In response, Pegatron declined to comment about its cooperation with clients. Now, what makes this interesting is that we all know that Pegatron was in charge of manufacturing only theCDMA version of the iPhone4 that currently runs on Verizon. We also know that Foxconn is alsopreparing their teamsfor a September release with undisclosed orders of the device on the other hand, so this could mean either of two things: 1. That Apple is preparing to sell as many as 30 Million iPhones in a specific period of time between both suppliers 2. Thatnext Generation iPhonecould probably still be a device that's limited to a specific technology like GSM or CDMA, for example We all know that theVerizon iPhonewas fit from day one to handle GSM just as much as it handles CDMA, which would leave assumption 2 without any water to survive, but the other idea of selling as many as 30 Million iPhones also seems pretentious. This must either be a revolutionary product all the way, or Foxconn isn't getting as many orders as Pegatron is.
