Tag: DROID

Love Firefox on your desktop? Wishing your Android handset could run a Mozilla browser, too? Well, now it can -- probably, anyway! Mozilla developer Vladimir Vukićević has shared the news on his personal blog: a Fennec pre-alpha for Android has arrived. Vlad states that the build has only been tested (internally, anyway) on the Nexus One and Moto Droid. But hey, this is a pre-alpha ...

After much flip-flopping from Verizon about the release date of Android 2.1 for Motorola Droid owners, our sister site, Engadget, says that Droid Does...finally get a firmware update this week. A limited rollout has already started, and most customers should see the update starting on Thursday. It's an over-the-air release, so don't worry about having to download and install it manually. Make ...

Back in November Jay told us about an ebook reader called Ibis Reader that would get around Apple's app store by being built as a web app rather than a native iPhone app. Well, Ibis Reader is now available, and the implementation is beautiful. As expected, Ibis Reader is not a native iPhone (or Android) application, but rather is a mobile-optimized web application that makes use of HTML5 offline ...

A planned firmware update for the Motorola Droid might benefit owners of other Android devices, too. According to Android and Me, "every Android phone currently released in the United States will be receiving an upgrade to Android 2.1." This news comes from the same site that was previously skeptical about Google's ability to fit version 1.6 of the Android OS onto a T-Mobile G1. Google, of ...

I have a confession to make: I use a really, really, simple Nokia cell phone. It's not "smart" by any means. I've been badly burned by a Windows Mobile 6 device, and ever since then I've been sitting on the sidelines of the burgeoning smartphone market, and wondering how the chips are going to fall, in terms of operating systems. Just off the top of my mind, I can quickly list iPhone OS, ...

Those crazy cats over at Engadget get really excited about Android apps and gaming, so I wasn't surprised to see them gushing about this news: Quake 3 has been ported to Android! That's right, the end-all-be-all of early-00's first-person shooters, a game that used to require top-of-the-line PC hardware to play, now just requires a nice phone. Cool! There's video of Quake 3 in action on a ...

Motorola's Droid is a sweet piece of hardware that's hyped to give the iPhone a run for its money, especially since it's running the new Android 2.0 OS, and works on the Verizon network in the US. We care about software here at Download Squad though, and there's some dismaying news about the Droid on that front: it has only 256MB for app storage. Seriously. The Droid reportedly only packs a ...

When you hear that there's a new iPhone-killing Google Android phone that's coming to Verizon and has a name straight out of Star Wars - the Droid - it's easy to get so excited that you forget about the software side of things. Yes indeed, Android 2.0 is coming, and it has a spate of hot new features that might legitimately make iPhone users jealous. Gadget-blog Boy Genius Report ended up with a ...