http://www.androfun.com androfun Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:32:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rooting the Motorola Milestone has been a somewhat impossible task given Motorola locking down the bootloader. I say somewhat because some folks at AllDroid have managed to gain root access on the TELUS Milestone, albeit without kernel access. A good start is better than nothing and there are some directions on ... http://www.androfun.com/telus-milestone-rooted-kinda.html So you’ve got an Android application that pretty much kicks but and haven’t monetized it and don’t want to charge for it in the market. We all know ad-supported apps are a go-to model for monetization and to be honest – they’re one of my favorites. Integrating them in a ... http://www.androfun.com/nexage-android-apis-offer-devs-additional-revenue-streams.html Android seems to be gaining great velocity in the UK – not only has Vodafone shown great interest in Android recently (besides already major Android players such as T-mobile) but Network 3 too. 3 UK’s head of internet services -David Kerrigan – said that the company will release 6 ... http://www.androfun.com/3-uk-adding-6-more-android-handsets-to-its-line-up-%e2%80%93-all-within-the-next-three-months.html The Motorola Droid launched with Android 2.0. Then the Nexus One launched with Android 2.1. Since then Droid owners have been clamoring for 2.1, been promised and then unpromised the update, and are still waiting for its arrival. That arrival might finally be coming if its pre-loaded existence on Motorola ... http://www.androfun.com/motorola-milestone-pre-loaded-with-android-21-in-bulgaria.html Often times manufacturers will take a high-end handset, make it smaller, slightly lower the specs, slap a name like “Lite” or “Mini” on it, slash the price and call it a day. Sony Ericsson is doing something similar with the X10 and we’ve seen Samsung do it with the Galaxy. ... http://www.androfun.com/nexus-one-litecheap-flying-to-india.html The Nexus One sold through Google’s website is a Google Experience phone. That is – it runs a stock version of Android with no customizations out of the box. That makes perfect sense since it isn’t branded as an HTC device. But something else makes sense in a different way: ... http://www.androfun.com/verizon-nexus-one-coming-with-htc-sense.html The code monkeys at Vodafone look like they’ve been rather busy today! The usually rather vacant ‘coming soon’ section of Vodafone’s UK website has just today added 3 of the latest handsets including the HTC Legend and HTC Desire clearly pointing out they’re coming in “April” with the Nexus one ... http://www.androfun.com/nexus-one-htc-legend-htc-desire-appear-on-vodafone%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ccoming-soon%e2%80%9d-section.html We told you to keep an eye out on androidforums ‘Official HTC Incredible thread’ now more pics have surfaced of the snapdragon powered incredible thanks to AF member NKT! With the pictures come interesting specs. Reportedly, the Incredible measures 17.5 x 58.5 x 11.9 mm – almost the same as the ... http://www.androfun.com/htc-incredible-%e2%80%93-new-pictures.html Most United States carriers will be rolling out some flavor of “4G” technology this year except for AT&T which has chosen to wait till 2011 for LTE. AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega thinks there will be a shortage of LTE devices in 2010 and chose to wait till ... http://www.androfun.com/att-to-also-use-hspa-in-certain-locations.html First, on the topic of games, I have a small update to a story we ran last week. I had been speculating that Epic Games would announce the Unreal Engine for Android and I was completely wrong. Epic unveiled the Unreal Engine for Palm’s webOS and that was it for ... http://www.androfun.com/android-will-have-ps3-graphics-in-3-years.html