Saturday, 25 September 2010

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Google: Requiring Stock Android would violate the “Principle of Open Source”

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:52 PM PDT

A lot of the popularity of Google's Android OS comes from the fact that it is open source, developers, manufactures can do what they want with it. This leads many of them to customize it to their own liking for any specific device (e.g. HTC Sense UI, MOTOBLUR). Some of these builds do not exactly fit everyone's liking, so some believe the end user should have the option to revert back to a clean, stock version of the Android OS if they so desire. Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, was presented with this concept at a press release last week.


His response was that simply requiring manufactures to have the option available would violate the principles of "open source" in which they operate on.

“if we were to put those type of restrictions on an open source product, we’d be violating the principle of open source.”

So it looks as if this option will not be available as an official option anytime soon. You can still go and manually download it yourself, as well as other ROMS, depending on your device, but as far as an easy official option – we are all out of luck. You can check out the video of the luncheon where Schmidt was presented with the question below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[Via Engadget]

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Adobe Flash Updated again, Version 10.1.95.2

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:36 PM PDT

Just a few short days after Monday's crucial Flash update that fixed the security hole within Flash 10.1, comes another update. The changelog for this update has not been published yet, but we can only guess that it makes it more stable as well as potentially patching something they left behind in 10.1.95.1.

As always, it is recommended that you keep all of your software up to date. Especially software that has proven to be a target and the exploit was well known while it was active. We will be bringing you the updates as we hear about them, but for now head to the Android Market to update your Flash Player.

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Framerate Cap removed from EVO 4G in latest update

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 12:45 PM PDT

The EVO 4G update that was released earlier this week has now been confirmed to have fixed the pesky artificial framerate cap. The old cap of 30 frames per second, which HTC said could not be crossed or fixed with a software update alone, has been passed by Engadget's own updated EVO 4G.

The old official story directly from HTC was that the cap was necessitated by the phone’s support for HDMI-out, and there’s way way the company could craft a software update to remove the limitation. Well, they have, and now we can fully enjoy our HDMI out from the device without a limitation on framerate. This is one of the secret bugs that HTC had fixed with the latest update. The others including calendar event edit issues, and adding support for multiple Gmail account syncing.

As stated before, to Update over the air:

  • Go to the Home screen
  • Tap Menu > Settings > System updates > HTC software update
  • Your EVO will automatically download and install any available updates.

You may need to power your phone off and back on to complete the software upgrade.

You can check out the “Find and update the software version on your HTC EVO 4G” page for further information regarding software versions and update procedures.

[Via Engadget]

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