http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/ Engadget Comments for Android 1.6 update for Dev Phone 1 now available http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
Android 1.6: Malasada]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
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Without XDA people would be screwed]]>Sep 29th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
They exist, but there isn't much to update.

I have some concern about the constant need to update the OS.

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Now i can only speak from experience. I havent had an Android device, only WinMo.

My Touch cruise had 1 update from memory, and it was half assed.

What about camera software updates?
What about Manila updates?
What about HTC Keyboard skin updates?
Dialer skin updates?
Connection Manager updates?
Audio Manager updates?
Heck even updates which include the 3D drivers that were supposed to be their in the first place.

Most of these updates are interchangable from one device to the next. Thats why you see Rhodium or HD or Jade packages inside a Touch Cruise rom.

Why cant HTC just update their devices officially!

Then of course the biggies like being able to update from 2003se to 5 to 6 to 6.5 (i believe some were allowed to update to 6.1)]]>Sep 29th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
Sit down sir.]]>Sep 29th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
iphone would really need to be on verizon, sprint, et al. but as soon as the AT&T exclusivity is over its up for grabs at that point]]>Sep 29th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/Sep 29th 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
iPhones with Apple saying which applications I am able to put onto the device. That should be my decision, same as wether or not I would like to run things in the background. I don't want to wait 3-5 seconds for my SMS app to open 10-20 times an hour.

Android is just not polished enough for me. There is no need for a touch screen and trackball. There is no need for a home button and an escape button. Home button can be same as end button, just as RIM does it. And the escape button does not always bring you back a screen sometimes brings you back to home/or different app when you were 2 screens into the app. The app store is decent but there is no guarantee that the apps will behave the way they advertise. Many apps that I downloaded would not load or would force quit on many launches. And these are standard phones no hacking.

Blackberry is lacking heavily with their browser. Only two other things drives me crazy with the Blackberry. Having SMS and Email/PIN separate if I go into SMS and hit create new it asks which kind and lists SMS,MMS,Email,PIN, BBM. If I am in SMS I would like to create an SMS or MMS. If I am in Email I would want to create Email/PIN and if I am in BBM I would like to create BBM very simple in my mind. The only other thing that drives me crazy is with google maps and thats not a Blackberry problem.

With all this arguing over which is best everyone needs to remember that to each their own. For some the iPhone is the best choice, others will like Android the most and there will be some that can not live without their Blackberry. If you failed to noticed that I didn't include WinMo I haven't played with it for more than 4 years so I have nothing to say about it.

]]>Sep 29th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
What kind of crack are you smoking? Android IS completely open-source --EXACTLY opposite from iPhone OS. Here's a link for you: http://source.android.com/download
Go back to your mansion Bill Gates, you obviously know nothing.]]>Sep 29th 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/okubax/sets/72157622268665153/]]>Sep 30th 2009 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
It's not an earthshattering update. Wait till the app devs get a hold of the new text-to-speech and OCR features, though. But it's snappy and stable, and fixes two minor but irritating 1.5 issues:

1. The browser no longer refreshes the content when you switch to another app and then back
2. The camera starts up pretty much instantly, and has very little shutter lag.

So I'll call that pretty good for a .1 update.]]>Sep 30th 2009 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/android-1-6-update-for-dev-phone-1-now-available/
1. The browser no longer refreshes the content when you switch to another app and then back
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