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How To: Install The HTC Hero’s UI On Your Sad Old G1
7:00AM John Herrman | The tireless tinkerers over at XDA have assembled a definitive guide to loading the Hero’s custom-baked Android build onto G1s. It’s fairly involved and a little risky, but hardly unfamiliar territory to HTC fans. [XDA, GetYourDroidOn—Thanks, Patrick!] More »
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10:48AM Nick Broughall | Reader Daniel loves his HTC Dream, but was a little unimpressed by the company’s reticence to actually upgrade the Android software to version 1.5 (Cupcake). So he asked Optus about it on Twitter and actually got a response: they’ll be rolling out the update in “late July”. More »
Optus Rolling Out Cupcake To HTC Dream Owners ‘Late July’
10:48AM Nick Broughall | Reader Daniel loves his HTC Dream, but was a little unimpressed by the company’s reticence to actually upgrade the Android software to version 1.5 (Cupcake). So he asked Optus about it on Twitter and actually got a response: they’ll be rolling out the update in “late July”. More »
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Google Plans Three More Android Updates This Year
8:50PM John Herrman | Official word about Android’s 2009 roadmap has been handed down, and it contradicts the early scuttlebutt: the mobile OS will get not two, but three updates by 2010, each named for a slightly more esoteric dessert than the last. More »
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Two More Android Updates This Year
5:43AM Jason Chen | In addition to the one minor and one major (Cupcake) update Google rolled out, there’s going to be two more updates for the 2009 year. One’s minor and one’s major (Donut). [Mobile Crunch]
Gadgets
MakerBot Cupcake CNC Delivers DIY 3D Printing For Just $US750
11:30AM Matt Buchanan | You know Wired editor Chris Anderson’s pet idea of the moment that “atoms are the new bits”? At just $US750, MakerBot’s CupCake CNC rapid prototyping machine—3D printing with extruded melted ABS plastic—made me think about it. More »
Phones
T-Mobile G2 (HTC Magic) Review: Most Improved Award
7:20AM Jason Chen | Not only does the T-Mobile G2/HTC Magic/Google Ion phone improve on original T-Mobile G1 in just about every way, it manages to do it while cutting down significantly on the size. The only thing it doesn’t have going for it is a hardware keyboard. AU: Worth noting that this is a US review (obviously). I had a Vodafone HTC Magic delivered yesterday afternoon, and will look to see whether anything changes locally over the next week or so.
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TuneWiki for Android Cupcake Blips Your Playlist to Twitter and Facebook
12:00AM Matt Buchanan | There’s a new version of TuneWiki for Android Cupcake, and it looks like a pretty solid update: The Blip feature burps your current playlist to Facebook and/or Twitter, and there’s a new Android homescreen widget for faster, more direct player access. You can also pay $US5 for no ads. More »
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Some Kind of Android Cupcake Update Is Happening Right Now
3:33AM Matt Buchanan | A bunch of people running the UK version of Cupcake on their US phones are getting some kind of Cupcake update right now, though no one’s sure what it does. Could Cupcake hit sooner than next week for everybody else? [Phandroid] More »
Computers
Dell Demonstrates the Mini 10v Running Android Cupcake
11:00PM Mark Wilson | Warning: Dell has not announced that their 10-inch, $US299 Mini 10v netbook will be optionally loaded with Google’s smartphone environment Android (Cupcake). But that hasn’t stopped Dell from demonstrating it working.
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