Author: Gary H
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Development weekly – Dolby Mobile activation app for Android, Free your Android Development site, plus HP’s GPL violation
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Here at the Gadget Helpline we like to keep you up to date with the latest developments in the mobile world, bringing you the latest info on tweaks hacks and mods for your mobiles and tablets alike. This week we are going to start with a little application that has been developed to run on…
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Sony are producing new type of TV to rival Apple
TV’s are a part of every day life, if you look in any household you will find at least one TV set, more often than not, one TV set is only scratching the surface and you will find one in almost every room. The problem however is no matter how many TV’s consumers buy, it…
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The SDK ports continue as Ice Cream Sandwich hits the Xperia X10
So as we move closer to the release of the Galaxy Nexus and the Holy Grail for Android developers, – the Ice Cream Sandwich source code – developers remain hard at work with the small piece of ICS, including the software developer kit (SDK). The latest in the list of handsets getting some chilly Ice Cream…
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The Toshiba TG01 gets some Windows Phone 7 love
The development world never sleeps, especially the mobile phone development world. We are always getting some new goodies on one handset or another and today it’s the turn of the Toshiba TG01. The handset was brought out to rival the always impressive HTC HD2, and sported a screen of similar size, a 1GHz processor and…
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Android Ice Cream Sandwich ported to the Samsung Galaxy S
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The big news going around the Android world is still Ice Cream Sandwich, but now it has moved to when or how will people get their device updated to receive some ICS love. Unfortunately not all devices are going to be graced with ice cold delight that is Ice Cream Sandwich, not officially anyway. We…
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The Android 4.0 SDK fun has begun – Let’s go against everything Google has said
So Google have announced the Nexus One will not be getting an update to ICS, for all the die-hard fans of the handset who just cannot bear to part with their beloved device, this news will not be good news. The thing is, thanks to the efforts over at XDA, the Nexus One already has…
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Meet Iris, Siri for Android
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So the iPhone 4S came out over a week ago now, boasting of ‘new’ features that Apple may well believe are revolutionary. Just one of the new features on the iPhone 4S is Siri, a voice recognition tool that will allow you to do a number of different things such as send a text without…
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus or Samsung Galaxy S II? You decide
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Last night was the dawn of a new era for Android users, with Samsung releasing the much anticipated Galaxy Nexus, not to mention Androids next incarnation in the form of Ice Cream Sandwich. But this now brings us to the first order of business, how good will the Galaxy Nexus be, and is it worth waiting…
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Want access to the full Android Market on your MeeGo Device? Now you can
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MeeGo is an OS with much potential, unless someone mentions it to Nokia, and then all we will hear is how it’s not Windows Phone. However, it is an OS that is in most ways amazing. It can be utilised on multiple different platforms and is customisable in so many ways. So what is it…
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Morph your HTC Sensation into a Sensation XE
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Have you just spent some good hard earned money on the brand new HTC Sensation and feel a little annoyed at the fact HTC have just announced an upgrade already, the HTC Sensation XE? The new Sensation XE comes with some snazzy new additions including Sense 3.5 and the Beats Audio software, a processor and battery…
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Windows 8 on the HTC Shift
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Do you remember the HTC shift? No? The HTC Shift was a very interesting handset; this was a piece of kit that came loaded with 2 different operating systems and a 7 inch Active TFT touch screen. The two operating systems were Windows Vista (for use in notebook mode) and SnapVUE (a stripped down version…
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TouchPad Android port nears completion
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The lucky owners of the HP TouchPad who snapped one up for less than £100 are soon going to be in for a treat, as the Cyanogen Mod team have just posted a video showing the TouchPad now has hardware acceleration, allowing 3D games to run as smoothly as they would on a native Android…