Seidio’s 3200mAh battery for Nexus One

Need some extra juice for you Nexus? Unleash the full multimedia capabilities of your Nexus One with the Seidio 3200mAh extended battery. This battery comes with a replacement back cover and will make the phone thicker. But, if you need power over looks for your long road trip, this battery is a life saver. The guys over at Engadget did a power test with this battery and got over 30 hours of use out it. This battery is available now for purchase in our store for $69.99. So far it has a 5 star rating by the 6 people who responded with their experience with it. Features: Made from the highest quality cells Comes with black replacement door featuring Seidio’s signature soft touch coating Textured bar to mimic the phone’s original design Door is contoured to compliment the shape of the original device – no hump Adds only 6mm to your device Keeps your phone charged and ready, even with heavy phone and data usage Compatible with Seidio Innodocks Capacity: 3200mAh

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AndroidCommunity: Wirefly 2010 Blog Awards

Wirefly has just announced their first annual blog awards. We need all of your help in winning this thing, as a matter of fact, we want it every year. So head over to Wirefly and cast your vote for AndroidCommunity.com and help us bring this home. We were contacted personally by Wirefly alerting us of this new award. Finalist will be announced on the 16th and any of our viewers can vote. Click this link , put androidcommunity.com in the reply and thank you all for your support.

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How To Install 3rd Party Apps On The Motorola Backflip

The Motorola Backflip has its lovers and has its haters – but lets put this particularly unique piece of hardware aside. A good portion of the phone’s criticism has come because of AT&T’s insistence on locking down Android . Not only do they bloat up you phone with ATTware, prevent you from removing/deleteing said bloat, but they also don’t allow you to install .APK files from anywhere besides Android Market. FOOEY! If you’re the type of person who wants no part of that nonsense, there IS a way to finagle your way around those limitations. Over at XDA they’ve got a complete guide to setting up ADB (developer’s tool) on your computer, connecting your backflip via USB, and moving/installing non-market android applications directly to your Backflip. The beauty of this is it can be done without rooting your device, something that scares away a good portion of the masses, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t proceed with caution. You should – and this is me going on the record stating that. So yeah, proceed with caution and enjoy your APKs from here, from there, from everywhere!

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Dell Aero Disappoints, Seeks Redemption

Epic tech fiend Joshua Topolsky from Engadget got his mittens on the Dell Aero and the outcome wasn’t good. He immediately noticed the software keyboard was one of the worst ever and his analysis continued down that slippery path. AT&T bloatware, lack of Google applications, weird home/back button, medium speed UI… he simply wasn’t digging it and seems to think AT&T/Dell are just positioning it as a decent feature phone: Not the types of things AT&T or Dell wanted to hear from the Aero – their first American Android. Both parties reached out to claim the device might not bbe pre-loaded with Google apps but the phone does have Android Market. Not to mention, the version tested probably was a beta and doesn’t represent a final product. Fair enough, but I’m not sure how much or if the device will actually improve before launch day.

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Dell Aero fails to impress in hands-on video

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I’m not the type of person to dismiss a phone on first impressions, but the Dell Aero isn’t making easy to stick to that belief. Dell didn’t show off the phone at CTIA, and that was for good reason based on the hands-on time that Engadget managed to get with the device. While the Aero reportedly

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AT&T Planning to Lock Down all Android Handsets?

As CTIA was kicking off last week, AT&T and Dell unveiled the forthcoming Aero handset . The sleek touch-only device which features a 3.5-inch screen and 5 megapixel camera may have something in common with AT&T’s other Android phone, the Motorola Backflip.  According to PhoneNews.com, the Dell Aero will not allow for installation of applications that do not come from the Android Market.  We hope this isn’t a growing trend for the nation’s second largest provider.  Sadly, this doesn’t have the feel of “coincidence” to us.  For whatever reasons, AT&T doesn’t appear to like one of the fundamental benefits of Android – choice.  Thankfully, there’s still a Nexus One that can be had with the full Google experience. How many of you were considering picking up an Android phone from AT&T only to rethink your decision? Might We Suggest… Dell Aero – Android Never Looked So Good Besides the status bar, you wouldn’t know this was Android. This in my opinion could be the best looking Android UI we have seen since HTC Sense. The phone I talk about is soon to be released by AT&am…

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AT&T’s Android lockdown is about money, not the iPhone [OPINION]

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AT&T announced its second Android phone, the Dell Aero, last week at CTIA. Just like its first Android phone, AT&T has opted not to let the Aero install apps from outside the Android Market. A few blog authors and readers have suggested that this is a move to appease Apple and protect iPhone exclusivity. I’m

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Hummingbird Graphics Processor, Galaxy S

Well, this came as a complete surprise to me. The Galaxy S will be the strongest handset as far as graphics and gaming goes when it is released (unless something stronger is in the making). Once you pair this outstanding GPU with its beautiful SUPER AMOLED display and powerful processor, you will have a handset that truly rivals today’s mobile gaming platforms. Here are the numbers of some Android Phones compared with consoles: • Motorola Droid: TI OMAP3430 with PowerVR SGX530 = 7 million(?) triangles/sec • Nexus One: Qualcomm QSD8×50 with Adreno 200 = 22 million triangles/sec • iPhone 3G S: 600 MHz Cortex-A8 with PowerVR SGX535 = 28 million triangles/sec • Samsung Galaxy S: S5PC110 with PowerVR SGX540 = 90 million triangles/sec • PS3: 250 million triangles/sec • Xbox 360: 500 million triangles/sec For some odd reason Samsung did not discuss this in their official press release for the device. You would think that this would be one of the top features highlighted in the device specs. I personally have no idea what million triangles/sec means but once I seen the comparison above, it’s pretty clear to me that it means something cool. Androidguys dug up the following definition on Wikipedia. A polygon in a computer graphics (image generation) system is a two-dimensional shape that is modelled and stored within its database. A polygon can be coloured, shaded and textured, and its position in the database is defined by the co-ordinates of its vertices (corners). Naming conventions differ from those of mathematicians: * A simple polygon does not cross itself. * a concave polygon is a simple polygon having at least one interior angle greater than 180°. * A complex polygon does cross itself. Use of Polygons in Real-time imagery. The imaging system calls up the structure of polygons needed for the scene to be created from the database. This is transferred to active memory and finally, to the display system (screen, TV monitors etc) so that the scene can be viewed. During this process, the imaging system renders polygons in correct perspective ready for transmission of the processed data to the display system. Although polygons are two dimensional, through the system computer they are placed in a visual scene in the correct three-dimensional orientation so that as the viewing point moves through the scene, it is perceived in 3D. Morphing. To avoid artificial effects at polygon boundaries where the planes of contiguous polygons are at different angle, so called “Morphing Algorithms” are used. These blend, soften or smooth the polygon edges so that the scene looks less artificial and more like the real world. Meshed Polygons. The number of meshed polygons (”meshed” is like a fish net) can be up to twice that of free-standing unmeshed polygons, particularly if the polygons are contiguous. If a square mesh has n + 1 points (vertices) per side, there are n squared squares in the mesh, or 2n squared triangles since there are two triangles in a square. There are (n+1) 2/2n2 vertices per triangle. Where n is large, this approaches one half. Or, each vertex inside the square mesh connects four edges (lines). Polygon Count. Since a polygon can have many sides and need many points to define it, in order to compare one imaging system with another, “polygon count” is generally taken as a triangle. When analysing the characteristics of a particular imaging system, the exact definition of polygon count should be obtained as it applies to that system as there is some flexibility in processing which causes comparisons to become non-trivial. Vertex Count. Although using this metric appears to be closer to reality it still must be taken with some salt. Since each vertex can be augmented with other attributes (such as color or normal) the amount of processing involved cannot be trivially inferred. Furthermore, the applied vertex transform is to be accounted, as well topology information specific to the system being evaluated as post-transform caching can introduce consistent variations in the expected results. Point in polygon test. In computer graphics and computational geometry, it is often necessary to determine whether a given point P = (x0,y0) lies inside a simple polygon given by a sequence of line segments. It is known as the Point in polygon test. Looks like the Galaxy S has more up its sleeves then we thought.

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Get your iTunes music on your phone with MP3tunes

Keeping all your iTunes music is a deciding factor for most potential Android users. iTunes has been around for years and many people use it as their main source of music storage.  Most people decide to stick with the iPhone just because of the iTunes integration. Now you can keep all your music in iTunes and sync them to your Android device thanks to MP3tunes . The guys over at Eurodroid received an email that describes how it works. It reads: – Sign-up for a free MP3tunes account to warehouse your personal music collection here. (Read below to see how you can get 50gbs of storage for free**.) – Download and install the free LockerSync software which will gather your personal music collection from iTunes and load it into the cloud. Besides your music it will also capture playlists which can be useful. If you’ve got a big music collection you can schedule the sync to run in off-peak hours when your PC is idle and your network connection is untapped. Once the initial sync is complete you can leave the software running and it will automatically add any new tracks loaded to your PC into your cloud storage. If you’ve got music on multiple computers you can run this software on each and you’ll end up with one complete collection with no duplicates. – From the Android market install the App called MP3tunes and login with your MP3tunes credentials. Then you’ll be able to browse your entire iTunes song library and play songs and playlists. MP3TUNES TIPS: Download any song from the cloud to your device by clicking the menu button and selecting “Download”. This will download in the background a high fidelity version of the song storing it locally for future playback. Songs stored on your memory card will be combined with cloud based songs displaying one meta collection. Songs will always play from local storage if available in both places to save battery and minimize network lag. The app will always prefetch the next song in a playlist to allow for snappy fast forwarding. You may notice differences in audio quality. This is dependent on the bandwidth speed you have. Slower connections will automatically have lower quality audio files. If you have music files on your Android phone you can load them to the could by selecting “Upload” from the menu or long clicking on a song title. ** Normally the free account is capped at 2GBs however there is a special coupon code: itunesonandroid which will get you 50GBs of storage for free (normal cost is $39.95). Go here: mp3tunes.com/itunesonandroid, type your email/password, and click the “Buy” button. The coupon code expires 4/5/10.

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Dell Aero To Become AT&T’s 2nd Android

AT&T recently launched their first Android smartphone – the Motorola Backflip – and the Dell Aero has just been announced as the carrier’s second phone with the open source platform. The press release gave few details about the Aero beyond its existence, but a new landing page at AT&T provides a few pictures and some details: The Aero has a 3.5-inch screen, 5MP camera, and seems like a renamed version of the Dell Mini 3i – we’re wondering what version of Android that’s sitting on. Either way, it clearly isn’t your regular old Android and Dell has made some sweeping UI customizations that I’m hoping we don’t have to wait too long to check out for ourselves. Now that AT&T seems to being going full speed ahead on Android too, it looks like there is no turning back. And for Dell, will they finally get the exposure and success in the smartphone market they’ve been hoping for with the help of Android?

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