Posts Tagged ‘Cupcake’

T-Mobile Samsung Behold II hands on

Haven’t had your fill of Android handsets yet? Neither have we. T-Mobile just hit us up with a Samsung Behold II and here are some first impressions:
Physically the unit feels pretty good to hold, albeit a little cheap. The…

Samsung Moment now available from Sprint

Motorola’s DROID might be the new darling of the Android world, but other manufacturers are still kicking about and pumping some great offerings. Yesterday Sprint pushed out one such device and that’s the Samsung Moment. It might not be benefiting…

T-Mobile G1 on a starch and sugar-free diet?

This is pretty interesting even if it doesn’t apply to you (you’re not a T-Mobile G1 owner): apparently since the T-Mobile’s G1 internal flash memory is so puny, any OS updates after Cupcake (1.5) simply won’t fit. That means besides…

Google Android struck with sweet tooth: Donut, Eclair and Flan for the future

Not to be overshadowed by Chrome OS, Android is still moving strong and has plenty of updates coming in the future. Google and T-Mobile held a media event on June 10th and Andy Rubin, vice president of engineering at Google,…

Cupcake update delayed by T-Mobile; new target release is June

Oh no they didn’t. We hope T-Mobile locations around the US are currently in the process of riot-proofing their facilities — you read that title right folks, no Android update in May. Ok, so we’re exaggerating a teeny tiny bit……

Android 1.5 (Cupcake) official rollout date leaked

We’ve been teased and we’ve waited and waited for this, and now it’s finally here. After several false alarms, it looks like the big update to Android is officially coming our way. We knew it was coming sooner than later…

Android “cupcake” 1.5 has arrived for T-Mobile G1s

All through the night we received reports from ecstatic T-Mobile G1 users who have been letting us know the Android “cupcake” 1.5 update has been pushed out by T-Mobile. We checked ourselves and this is indeed the case but as…

Android 1.5 “cupcake” update now available for dev phones

Owners of the Android dev phone can now head over to HTC’s website and update their G1 to the official 1.5 version of Android. This early release for dev phones will provide developers with a few weeks of on-device testing…

T-Mobile Germany confirms May release of Android “cupcake” update

The overview page for the G1 on T-Mobile Germany’s website promises a software update in May. With new features such as an on-screen keyboard, video recording/playback and A2DP support, this is none other than the cupcake update that G1 users…

Samsung readying three Android handsets for the European market this year?

Today is apparently your day, Android fans. First we broke word of Cupcake’s less-than-official availability and now some possible info regarding a trio of new Android handsets is trickling in. Citing “a credible source”, a sister site to the reliable…

Just because it’s open source doesn’t mean it’s open; Google blocks Cupcake users from Android Market

Seeing as Google built the Android platform with the concept of “open” at the forefront of its collective mind, we find the following a bit contrary. It appears as though G1 owners who have taken advantage of haykuro’s handywork and…

Google too slow for you? Get Cupcake on your G1, today!

While the keys to the Android 1.5 “Cupcake” SDK may have just been handed over to developers, the clever folks in the XDA-Developers community have been playing with the software on their G1’s for the past few days already thanks…

Early-look Android SDK 1.5 released to developers

The long awaited Android “cupcake” upgrade for the Android OS looks to be one step closer to release. An early-look version of the Android 1.5 SDK has been released to developers which includes a preview of soft keyboards, home screen…