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- iGloLEDset Android-controlled multicolor Christmas lights released [Video]
- Notion Ink Demos Adam’s custom Mail’d App [Video]
- HTC Desire HD Heading to Saudi Arabia
- Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play to be PlayStation gaming phone?
- CasaTunes offers first Android app for controlling multi-room music
- Android users can get app for annual ball drop in Times Square
- Dell 7-inch Streak gets name-check on Vaja case site
- RadioShack offers $99 Evo 4G and more this week
- Viewsonic denies GTablet hardware defects; promises software fix this week
- Notion Ink sells out of Adam as pre-orders snapped up
- Android Community Google Cr-48 Giveaway Winners Announced!
- Android Community Daily Wrap Up: December 20th 2010
- Nexus One’s Gingerbread Update Confirmed to be Released “In the Coming Weeks”
- Swype Beta Re-Opens for a Limited Time
- NookColor Updated to 1.0.1
- DROID Incredible gets MultiTouch Via Kernel
| iGloLEDset Android-controlled multicolor Christmas lights released [Video] Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:46 AM PST It’s not quite whole house automation from your Android smartphone, but if you’ve been looking at your Christmas tree in disgust as it cycles through its preset LED lighting patterns then you need MEA Mobile’s iGloLEDset. A string of 120 color-changing LED lights, the 5m string comes complete with an Android app to remotely control it.
There are also iOS apps if you’re an Apple user too. The whole thing hooks up via WiFi, so you needn’t be in the same room as the tree either. Sadly this sort of Christmas control doesn’t come cheap; the iGloLEDset is priced at $299, though the company says they’re still shipping in time for Christmas day. Press Release: )
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| Notion Ink Demos Adam’s custom Mail’d App [Video] Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:34 AM PST Notion Ink has released another video demoing their much anticipated Adam tablet, this time it’s their custom email client. The “Mail’d” app is said to be one of the fastest around and includes some useful features such as the ability to recall messages that you didn’t mean to send.  The app supports multiple accounts and boasts some impressive organization and color-coding features in its 3-panel design. Check out the full video demo below! [Via SlashGear] )
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| HTC Desire HD Heading to Saudi Arabia Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:23 AM PST It looks as if the HTC Desire HD will soon be hitting the Saudi Arabian market. HTC announced their plans at a press conference in Jeddah on December 19th with stating that they are excited to bring the nation’s second Android-equipped device to market.  Customers in Saudi Arabia have always been widely receptive to HTC products which is why they plan to introduce the Desire HD as well as the Windows Phone 7 HD7 into the market. Mohamed Kais Zribi, Regional Manager of HTC Middle East and North Africa said: “Customers in Saudi Arabia have been eagerly awaiting the launch of these new models. As far as the HTC Desire HD is concerned, I am confident that they will fully appreciate the new features and applications that we have introduced, especially its more engaging, intuitive, user-friendly design. We have likewise retained the attention-grabbing features of the phone, taking advantage of the powerful Android platform and the latest version of HTC Sense2.0, which has become a major hit among smartphone users.” Android is definitely making its way into very diverse markets, we can expect many more countries following suit and release a wide array of Android-equipped devices in 2011. [Via AndroidGuys] )
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| Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play to be PlayStation gaming phone? Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:26 AM PST Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation phone could well launch as the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play, if a new batch of freshly-registered domains are anything to go by. XperiaX10Blog found Swedish PR agency – of whom Sony Ericsson is a client – Jung Relations has snapped up multiple “xperiaplay” domains, including the .com, .org, .co.uk and .net.
Right now there are only holding pages to be found, but we’re guessing that will all change by the time the gaming smartphone is officially announced. That’s expected to happen at MWC 2011 this coming February, though the actual launch is yet to be pinned down: recent sources tipped a March launch, while a new report from Pocket-lint suggests it’s more likely to be April 2010, in the UK at least. )
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| CasaTunes offers first Android app for controlling multi-room music Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:25 AM PST
CasaTunes says the app is free for all CasaTunes owners and a trial version will be offered for users to try before they buy CasaTunes hardware. The app is on the Android Market right now. "With the fast growth of Android devices, we felt that it was important to create a powerful, convenient and easy to use Android application to control our CasaTunes multi-room audio systems," said Kim Knapp, co-founder of CasaTunes. "With the Android app, homeowners who own one of the new Android based phones or tablets can select and play music in any room of the home where they have CasaTunes music, from anywhere in the home that is covered by their wireless network. Plus, they can create schedules for waking up to music, display and change the currently playing music and create CasaTunes Playlists. The new Android app for CasaTunes gives the owners the capability of complete control of their music from a modern, handheld device." )
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| Android users can get app for annual ball drop in Times Square Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:49 AM PST
The app puts you in the middle of the Times Square action and you might even see your face on the giant Toshiba screen beneath the ball. You get a continuous countdown to show when the ball will drop. You can submit photos of your New Year’s festivities for other people to vote on. The app will also give you information about Times Square with weather, photos, maps, show schedule and more. Live streaming video will also be offered on the app and the countdown clock can be customized to your time zone. The video below shows the iPhone app, but the features are the same for Android.
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| Dell 7-inch Streak gets name-check on Vaja case site Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:21 AM PST Dell’s 7-inch Android tablet has shown up again, though only as a brief mention from luxury accessories manufacturer Vaja. The Vaja product page now lists Dell Streak 5″ & 7″ as a category, though so far there’s only a generic carry case for 7-inch tablets on offer.
CEO Michael Dell brought the 7-inch tablet – also known by its Looking Glass codename – on stage back in September for a very brief demo, and shortly after the WSJ suggested the device would launch within mere weeks. That failed to transpire, however; hopefully Vaja’s mention of the tablet means it’s coming sooner rather than later. [via Streak Smart] )
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| RadioShack offers $99 Evo 4G and more this week Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:10 AM PST RadioShack has announced the Deals of the Week for this week. These specials started this weekend and will run until December 25. If you haven’t picked up a gift for someone on your list yet, these smartphone specials may pull your Yule log out of the fire.
If you are a new customer or have an upgrade RadioShack is offering the Evo 4G smartphone for $99 with a $100 trade in allowance for any working mobile phone. Once you agree to a new 2-year contract and had over that old device you can walk out with the Evo 4G. RadioShack is also offering the Samsung Captivate for $49.99. To sweeten the deal a bit more RadioShack will also offer every buyer who gets a new smartphone in store a free Plantronics Explorer 240 Bluetooth headset with a qualifying 2-year plan. These are nice deals that will make good gifts. )
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| Viewsonic denies GTablet hardware defects; promises software fix this week Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:08 AM PST Viewsonic has blamed Android and Adobe’s Flash for poor first-impressions of its 10.1-inch GTablet slate, suggesting that the reason the Tegra 2 based tablet was pulled from Staples shelves over the weekend was not, as the retailer suggested, because of a “manufacturing defect” but merely a shortfall in “user experience”. The GTablet will get a software update by the end of this week that will apparently address complaints about the Tap ‘n’ Tap UI – including giving owners the opportunity to turn it off altogether – among other things.
However, the GTablet will have to wait until the end of January 2011 for an update to Flash Player that will see the plugin certified by Adobe; Viewsonic has been impacted by the same issue that Advent reported earlier this month affecting its Vega tablet. [via SlashGear] Press Release: )
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| Notion Ink sells out of Adam as pre-orders snapped up Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:01 AM PST Notion Ink has sold out of its pre-order stock of the Adam tablet, though the 10-inch Tegra 2 powered slate isn’t expected to ship until early January 2011. Supplies of the Pixel Qi version of the Adam were snapped up within hours of the tablet going on sale earlier this month; it’s taken around a week and a half for stock of the cheaper LCD version to be accounted for.
Without solid stock numbers it’s hard to say how much of a success this is for Notion Ink, though given the understandable wariness many have experienced regarding a new start-up and an unproved design, it’s still reasonably impressive. [via SlashGear] )
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| Android Community Google Cr-48 Giveaway Winners Announced! Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:39 PM PST One heckuva contest just went down here on Android Community and over at one of our partner sites: SlashGear. We both teamed up with Google to get pumped up about the future of computing, together giving away a total of FIVE brand new Google Cr-48 notebooks, all of them running Google Chrome OS. We’ve got ALL of the winners of these fantastic new Cr-48 notebooks below, take a look! If one of them is you, get super excited because your laptops are probably already on their way! If you don’t show up below, get super excited anyway because the Pilot Program is still active! Now get to clicking!
Our first winner is Tom Yu! We’d like to thank everyone on behalf of Android Community, our friends at SlashGear, and our friends at Google! We hope you had a pleasant experience entering the contest, and stick around for more contests and giveaways around the bend – we might very well have more stacks of stuff coming up soon! Wee! )
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| Android Community Daily Wrap Up: December 20th 2010 Posted: 20 Dec 2010 03:27 PM PST As we near closer and closer to the end of the year, the hot topic of the technology community is, of course, CES 2011. We know that Motorola has the Everest to show off, Verizon has some LTE devices to announce, and we expect to see quite a bit of Android news coming out of CES next year. We will be there covering it all! We covered a lot here on Android Community today, for a full list of news check after the break!  R3 Media Network AndroidCommunity Featured:
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| Nexus One’s Gingerbread Update Confirmed to be Released “In the Coming Weeks” Posted: 20 Dec 2010 03:18 PM PST One of the best selling points of the Google Nexus One was that it was common knowledge that the device would be updated immediately to Google’s most current operating system. With all devices, the life cycle has to end sometime, but Froyo is not the final update for the Nexus One.  Google’s Nexus Twitter has just tweeted that the Gingerbread OTA will be coming, and coming soon. It reads:
Even though Nexus One owners have had the oppertunity to get their hands on a Gingerbread ROM, after Christmas and New Years we can expect the official update for Nexus One owners. [Via Twitter] )
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| Swype Beta Re-Opens for a Limited Time Posted: 20 Dec 2010 02:23 PM PST For everyone who missed out on the last opening of the Swype beta, there is some good news to report this afternoon. Swype for Android has received an update as well as had its beta re-opened to the public.  The update to the beta brings Swype for Android to version 2.15.56.14870. Introducing a new Double-Tap-to-Edit mode the user can now tap a word twice to bring up the word choice window, and pick the correct word. There was also many new features and fixes detailed here. The beta is said to be open for a “limited time,” so if you’re wanting to get into the beta program it’s best that you hurry on over to beta.swype.com and register. [Via Swype] )
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| Posted: 20 Dec 2010 12:17 PM PST Barnes & Noble has just released a minor update to its NOOKcolor firmware. The update will bring in improved WiFi connectivity and browser experience as well as some minor bug fixes.  The update will begin rolling out over the next few days. However, if you’d like to manually download the update, follow the instructions below: To get the update immediately, you can manually download the software update to your computer at any time and then copy it onto your NOOKcolor. Simply follow the steps below. If you choose to wait for an automatic download when you’re connected to Wi-Fi, updates will begin rolling out to devices over the next few days: Manual Download Instructions 1. From your computer, click here for the software update file. Select Save and select Desktop as the location. Do NOT modify or change the downloaded file’s name in any way. 2. Tap Settings on your NOOKcolor’s Quick Nav Bar, then tap Device Info and make sure your NOOKcolor battery charge is at 20% or more. 3. Connect your NOOKcolor to your computer using the USB cable that came with your NOOKcolor. A new, removable drive should show up in My Computer (Mac users will see the NOOKcolor drive appear on the desktop or in devices). You should also see a “USB Mode” message on your NOOKcolor screen. 4. From your computer, drag and drop the downloaded file onto the main directory of the NOOKcolor drive. Do NOT unzip the file. You should not create a new folder on the NOOKcolor drive or add the file to any other existing folder. 5. Eject or Safely Remove the NOOKcolor drive after the file transfer is complete. 6. Your NOOKcolor will automatically recognize the file after a few minutes or when it goes to sleep mode, and proceed to install the updates. 7. Please do not turn off your NOOKcolor during the installation process. 8. Once the installation is completed, your NOOKcolor will automatically restart and go to the Home screen. 9. On the bottom left status bar a green “n” will appear. Tap on it; the software has been successfully updated. NOOKcolor must remain turned on while the update is being installed. Once the software is installed, NOOKcolor will reboot itself back to the Home screen. To verify you have the latest update, tap Settings from the Quick Nav Bar, tap Device Info, then tap About Your NOOKcolor and check to see that your software version is 1.0.1 Congratulations, your NOOKcolor has been updated! If you need additional help, please call Digital Customer Service support at 1-800-843-2665. [Via B&N] )
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| DROID Incredible gets MultiTouch Via Kernel Posted: 20 Dec 2010 11:48 AM PST XDA member tchebb has had the working 3-10 DROID Incredible kernel for quite some time and decided it was time to release to the world. Now DROID Incredible users can download a kernel that will bring true multitouch to their device.  After hearing that the DROID Incredible’s screen was far better than the Nexus One’s, tchebb wondered why it would could only handle a maximum of two touches. The result of this curiosity was a new kernel that supports 3-10 fingers. He has been running this kernel for about a month and hasn’t noticed any ill effects. However, he does admit to it getting a bit buggy past 5 finger gestures. You can download and find instructions for the kernel at this thread. [Via XDA] )
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CasaTunes has announced the first app for Android devices that allows control of multi-room audio gear that it makes. The app is available right now for Android 2.1 or later smartphones and supports Gingerbread as well. 
If you are the sort that makes a big deal out of New Years Eve, you will want to grab this app for your Android device. The app is called the official 
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