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		<title>Will my phone get Flash Player 10.1?  The Answer from Adobe&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Adobe today, the following devices will have Flash Player 10.1 (and consequently, the Android 2.2 &#8220;Froyo&#8221; update if they don&#8217;t already:) Dell Streak Google Nexus One HTC EVO 4G HTC Desire HTC Incredible Motorola Droid/Milestone Samsung Galaxy S Future devices running Android 2.2 will also support it, of course. My Droid is sitting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to Adobe today, the following devices will have Flash Player 10.1  (and consequently, the Android 2.2 &#8220;Froyo&#8221; update if they don&#8217;t already:)</p>
<p>Dell Streak<br />
Google Nexus One<br />
HTC EVO 4G<br />
HTC Desire<br />
HTC Incredible<br />
Motorola Droid/Milestone<br />
Samsung Galaxy S</p>
<p>Future devices running Android 2.2 will also support it, of course.  My Droid is sitting here with 2.1 just itching to be updated.  Of course, I&#8217;m also expecting the Archos 7 tablet in the mail for review, and the Creative Vado HD 3rd gen camera so I&#8217;m just itching all over.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve now handled almost all of the following devices, I decided to re-do my &#8220;140 characters&#8221; list and just do a simple rundown of every Android phone with pictures. We&#8217;re going to see a lot more at Mobile World Congress. I really want to go, but it&#8217;s a little expensive, and I&#8217;ve got about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I&#8217;ve now handled almost all of the following devices, I decided to re-do my &#8220;140 characters&#8221; list and just do a simple rundown of every Android phone with pictures.  We&#8217;re going to see a lot more at Mobile World Congress.  I really want to go, but it&#8217;s a little expensive, and I&#8217;ve got about 5 trips coming up that are going to be expensive.  I also really really really want a Sony Vaio X Signature Series (VPCX115KX/S)&#8230;but that&#8217;s $1,589.99.   money.</p>
<p><strong>RELEASED/CONFIRMED:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/c95e6f61-fcd9-4cbc-ae5e-49d270ed2c85.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/c95e6f61-fcd9-4cbc-ae5e-49d270ed2c85-300x270.jpg" alt="G1" title="Google Phone" width="300" height="270" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-350" /></a><br />
<strong>G1 (HTC Dream)</strong>  This is the phone that started it all one year ago: Keyboard, Chin, Trackball, Slider, and Android 1.0</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/t-mobile-myTouch-3G.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/t-mobile-myTouch-3G-300x239.jpg" alt="MyTouch3G" title="t-mobile-myTouch-3G" width="300" height="239" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-351" /></a><br />
<strong>Mytouch3G (HTC Magic) </strong>, (Dopod) It&#8217;s still got the chin, but no keyboard.  Shellable, skinnable, endorsed by Whoopi.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/htc-hero-unboxing-14.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/htc-hero-unboxing-14-150x150.jpg" alt="HTC Hero" title="htc-hero-unboxing-14" width="150" height="150" class="aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-352" /></a><br />
<strong>HTC Hero (World)</strong>  Slim and sexy, this is the first &#8216;droid with a custom UI #HTCSense  The CDMA version is Sprint&#8217;s first Android device.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/htc-tattoo-unboxed-6.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/htc-tattoo-unboxed-6-300x187.jpg" alt="HTC Tattoo" title="htc-tattoo-unboxed-6" width="300" height="187" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-355" /></a><br />
<strong>HTC Tattoo</strong> yet another all-touch device with HTC Sense bound for Europe.  Mysteriously ditched the &#8220;chin&#8221; but went with custom shells.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/verizon_droid_eris_by_htc_1-365x500.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/verizon_droid_eris_by_htc_1-365x500-219x300.jpg" alt="HTC Droid Eris" title="verizon_droid_eris_by_htc_1-365x500" width="219" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-349" /></a><br />
<strong>HTC Droid Eris (HTC Desire)</strong> Launch partner of Verizon Droid, standard 528MHz CPU, very similar to the Hero.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/nexusone-1.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/nexusone-1-163x300.jpg" alt="" title="nexusone-1" width="163" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-356" /></a><br />
<strong>HTC Nexus One</strong>  Sold directly through Google, all-touch, 1GHz Snapdragon, cross-carrier, world phone. Very controversial and reputed to have some problems, but otherwise a totally compelling device.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/RootMotorolaCLIQ.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/RootMotorolaCLIQ-258x300.jpg" alt="" title="RootMotorolaCLIQ" width="258" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-357" /></a><br />
<strong>Motorola Cliq/Dext </strong> the first Android phone from Moto, which unveiled MotoBLUR, the second big UI premiered for Android.  Thanks to the timing of the big data loss of 2009, this became a replacement for many Sidekicks.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/motorola-droid-2.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/motorola-droid-2-300x252.jpg" alt="Motorola Droid" title="motorola-droid-2" width="300" height="252" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-348" /></a><br />
<strong>Motorola Droid</strong> aka &#8220;Sholes,&#8221; &#8220;Tao,&#8221; and &#8220;Touchstone.&#8221; QWERTY slider as thin as an iPhone.  VZW&#8217;s first Android and first Android 2.0 (eclair) device. A killer.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/backflip1.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/backflip1-300x228.jpg" alt="Motorola Backflip" title="backflip1" width="300" height="228" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-347" /></a><br />
<strong>Motorola Backflip</strong>, aka &#8220;Enzo,&#8221; a weird form factor with keyboard on back of chassis and trackpad behind the screen, also rocks the MotoBLUR interface.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/displaymediaioX3if.png"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/displaymediaioX3if-179x300.png" alt="" title="displaymediaioX3if" width="179" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-405" /></a><br />
<strong>Motorola MotoROI</strong>, First released in China and South Korea, this powerful device features 720p video capture with HDMI output and has a fully-featured 8 Megapixel camera.  Rumors say it&#8217;ll be released in the U.S. also.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/HuaweiU8220.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/HuaweiU8220-233x300.jpg" alt="" title="HuaweiU8220" width="233" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-339" /></a><br />
<strong>Huawei U8220</strong> aka T-mobile Pulse, the first prepaid all-touch Android device &#8220;perfect entry level smartphone&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Huawei8230.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Huawei8230-275x300.jpg" alt="" title="Huawei8230" width="275" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-342" /></a><br />
<strong>Huawei U8230</strong> 3.2 megapixel camera on the back, VGA cam on the front, update to the T-Mobile Pulse.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/LGEtna.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/LGEtna-300x229.jpg" alt="" title="LGEtna" width="300" height="229" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-343" /></a><br />
<strong>LG inTouch MAX (GW620)</strong> aka &#8220;Etna&#8221; this QWERTY slider was launched in EU, turned up unlocked in France €450, and is now available in the UK on Virgin and T-Mobile.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/LGw9901.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/LGw9901-210x300.jpg" alt="" title="LGw990" width="210" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-344" /></a><br />
<strong>LG GT540</strong>, don&#8217;t know the name of this one, but is all-touch, runs 2.0, and comes in various colours. Launched at CES, coming to EU/Asia</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/acer-liquid-a1-android-1.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/acer-liquid-a1-android-1-242x300.jpg" alt="" title="acer-liquid-a1-android-1" width="242" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-360" /></a><br />
<strong>Acer A1</strong> or Acer Liquid, like Motorola, Acer said it&#8217;s focusing on Android now.  <a href="http://www.acer.co.uk/acer/news_detail.do?LanguageISOCtxParam=en&amp;sp=page13&amp;ctx2.c2att1=17&amp;kcond9.c2att193=20263&amp;CountryISOCtxParam=UK&amp;ctx1g.c2att92=122&amp;ctx1.att21k=1&amp;CRC=3806456676">Launched UK 10/14</a>, runs Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Dell-Mini-3i.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Dell-Mini-3i-285x300.jpg" alt="" title="Dell-Mini-3i" width="285" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-361" /></a><br />
<strong>Dell mini 3i</strong>, one of China Mobile&#8217;s first Ophones, rumored to be AT&amp;T&#8217;s first Android phone, we&#8217;ll have more.  Dell is good with staying in touch.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lenovo_o1_ophone_1.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/lenovo_o1_ophone_1-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="lenovo_o1_ophone_1" width="300" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-362" /></a><br />
<strong>Lenovo O1</strong>, another TD-SCDMA Ophone for China.  Pretty, but not likely to come to the U.S.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/samsung-galaxy-1.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/samsung-galaxy-1-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="samsung-galaxy-1" width="300" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-366" /></a><br />
<strong>Samsung Galaxy</strong>, @I7500,  typical Samsung quality display, all-touch AMOLED with light sensor, not a &#8220;Google phone,&#8221; available in Germany, Austria, and Poland.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SamsungBeholdII.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/SamsungBeholdII-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="SamsungBeholdII" width="300" height="225" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-367" /></a><br />
<strong>Samsung Behold 2</strong>, shown with #TouchWiz #Cube UI, will be first Samsung droid phone in US on T-Mobile</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/samsung-moment-1.png"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/samsung-moment-1-195x300.png" alt="" title="samsung-moment-1" width="195" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-368" /></a><br />
<strong>Samsung Moment</strong>, thought to be the #InstinctQ, this 800Mhz QWERTY monster came to Sprint and is being test marketed as an ATSC TV.</p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/samsung-galaxy-spica.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/samsung-galaxy-spica-300x249.jpg" alt="" title="samsung-galaxy-spica" width="300" height="249" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-369" /></a><br />
<strong>Samsung Galaxy Spica</strong>  @I5700, 800MHz CPU, 3.2-inch HVGA, a 3mpix cam,  180MB internal memory.  Actually quite dull.  Announced on Nov 16.</p>
<p>@GeeksPhoneONE  QWERTY slider <a href="http://www.geeksphone.com/es/moviles/">available in EU (Spain)</a> in December &#8220;extremadamente ágil y eficiente!&#8221;</p>
<p>@SaygusV1  Their V1 has 2-way video calling and <a href="http://www.saygus.com/comm_v1">is a huge, heavy monster of a phone</a></p>
<p><a href="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/xperia-x10-2009-11-02-71.jpg"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/xperia-x10-2009-11-02-71-300x199.jpg" alt="" title="xperia-x10-2009-11-02-71" width="300" height="199" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-370" /></a><br />
<strong>Sony Ericsson Xperia X10,</strong> comes with slick UI and new &#8220;UX Platform,&#8221; powered by Snapdragon.  SE is forgoing the Android praise and just sticking with making phones. This thing is big and burly, it&#8217;s one of 2 I still haven&#8217;t played with yet.</p>
<p><strong>UNCONFIRMED</strong>:</p>
<p>@MotorolaDevour aka @Calgary&#8230;the name has shown up for 2 years, and only recently has any actual evidence shown up.  We&#8217;ll see at CES!</p>
<p>@MotorolaHeron or @IronMan  This Windows Mobile phone was pulled from AT&amp;T, listed as &#8220;specifications subject to change due to move to Android.&#8221;  Whereabouts unknown.</p>
<p>@MotorolaZeppelin  Spotted in China in a regulatory filing, with not much known besides 5Mpx camera, and HDMI output</p>
<p>@MotorolaOpusOne &#8211; Supposed to be the first iDen Android Device, to ship with 1.5, 3.1&#8243; screen, 3 megapixel cam&#8212;looking cheap</p>
<p>@TMobile &#8220;Tap&#8221; shown on the Samsung Behold II launch paper&#8230;possibly a #ZTE device?</p>
<p>@INQ committed to an Android device, but we haven&#8217;t seen anything yet.</p>
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		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(UPDATE: I originally wrote this for new Motorola Droid owners, but since I&#8217;ve answered many of these questions for other Android devices, I&#8217;ve changed it to be more far-reaching.) For whatever reason, you bought the Motorola Droid a new Android phone; and you&#8217;re sitting there with no experience with the platform at all, no Earthly [...]]]></description>
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<p>(UPDATE:  I originally wrote this for new Motorola Droid owners, but since I&#8217;ve answered many of these questions for other Android devices, I&#8217;ve changed it to be more far-reaching.)</p>
<p>For whatever reason, you bought <strike>the Motorola Droid</strike> a new Android phone;  and you&#8217;re sitting there with no experience with the platform at all,  no Earthly clue what can be done with your new phone, and a new two year contract saying you&#8217;ll hang onto it.    You&#8217;ve heard people say how powerful it is, and how it&#8217;s comparable to the iPhone and blah blah blah.  Let me just invite you to clear your mind of any preconceived notions, and fill it with these important things about Android that no one seems to talk about:</p>
<p><strong>The Long Press is your most useful command</strong></p>
<p>It seems like the most overlooked fact about Android:  you can&#8217;t live without the long press.  And if you&#8217;re new to the touchable OS, it&#8217;s not really an intuitive command.  I mean, flip open an old RAZR,  hold down a key and see what happens.  But press and hold your finger on nearly anything in Android, and you get super important and useful results.  Try it on the home screen and you get the &#8220;add to home screen&#8221; menu, which lets you put new app shortcuts, widgets, live folders, or change the wallpaper.  If you want to get rid of the icons on your homescreen when you get your new device, just long press them and drag them to the trash can that appears on the bottom of your screen.  Long press an email and you can open, delete, forward, reply/all, or mark as read;  Long press a link in the browser, and you can open it in a new window, bookmark it, save it, share it or copy the URL.  It is the single most useful command you have.</p>
<p>Long.<br />
press.<br />
everything.</p>
<p><strong>The first place you must go is the &#8220;settings&#8221; menu</strong></p>
<p>Find the menu button and push it, and then push &#8220;settings.&#8221;  On the first Android phones, this was one of the most important things to do, so you could optimize performance and stretch out your battery life.  It&#8217;s not quite as necessary  to tweak the Droid in this way, because right out of the box you&#8217;ll find it is able to sustain a great deal of use without much lag and without battery slaughter.  However, you absolutely must must must (impossible to overstress) familiarize yourself with the tweakability of Android 2.0 so if something bothers you, it can be changed.</p>
<p>I read an awful article today on Silicon Alley Insider about &#8220;The 10 Things we Love and Hate about the Droid, &#8221;  and most of their complaints could have been negated with conscientious use of the settings menu.  You can turn haptic feedback off, you can adjust media and ringer volumes, you can turn off screen re-orientation, you can turn off screen auto-dimmer, and such.  Most of their other complaints stemmed from the Droid&#8217;s differences from the iPhone. They concluded that it&#8217;s &#8220;not better than the iPhone.&#8221;  Which is just retarded. It&#8217;s different, and you love your iPhone.  Nobody fucking decides an interface or ecosystem is better right after switching to it.</p>
<p>After a few days of using your new Android phone,  I highly suggest going to the settings menu, and then hitting &#8220;about phone,&#8221;  and then &#8220;battery use.&#8221;  It&#8217;s both eye-opening and hilarious.  Chances are good that more than half of your battery power is consumed by the screen being on and a tiny fraction by the Android Operating System and apps.  It makes for a strong argument in favor of electrophoretic displays (e-book/kindle screens.)</p>
<p><strong>You don&#8217;t need iTunes,  no, wait&#8230; FUCK iTUNES!</strong></p>
<p>Harsh, yes&#8230;but anyone who tells you that Android is somehow inferior to iPhone OS because it &#8220;lacks sync&#8221; has obviously spent too much time with their iPods and iPhones.  It amazes me that people actually believe the need to sync their devices is A POSITIVE THING?!?!  If you have to take time to hook your computer up to your phone so all the files stay fresh and up-to-date, guess what&#8230;they are fundamentally out of sync.  They are working in their own little worlds and must be strung together after the fact.   That is an old way of doing things, and anyone who has owned a Palm Pilot or similar PDA will tell you, it is goddamn annoying and should be abolished.</p>
<p>Repeat after me:</p>
<p>Sync is not a positive feature.<br />
The need for sync means incongruity is programmed into the device.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;ve come to Android expecting an iPod, where your desktop and your handheld are in constant communion, you will be disappointed.  Though <a href="http://mobiletech.knguyentu.com/2009/11/motorola-droid-syncing-music-with-apple.html">there are ways to hook up the Droid with iTunes</a>,  I hope you will look at Android as a mobile portal to the Web and Web-based services, and not an extension of your lousy desktop and your pirated mp3s.  Get used to this. Without network connectivity, most of your devices are probably pretty worthless, right?  Your laptop can bear some heavy computational loads, and your workstation can do the serious powerlifting, but we don&#8217;t live in the supercomputer era of homebase power computing any more.  Even the burliest teraflop setup would be considered crippled if it wasn&#8217;t connected to a larger-scale network.  And our wimpy sub-1GHz mobile phone processors have helped this become a reality.</p>
<p>Besides, if you&#8217;re looking for music, Pandora (and to a lesser extent Slacker Radio) are the great equalizers.  They&#8217;re free, &#8220;cloud-based,&#8221; and on Verizon, stream like magic.  The network is, again, the power.</p>
<p>With all that being said, I&#8217;ll give you your next point.</p>
<p><strong>Hook up with any email service (how-to)</strong></p>
<p>My inbox receives my work email, gmail, aim/aol mail, yahoo mail, and windows live hotmail and so can yours.  Here&#8217;s how you do it, in order of increasing difficulty.</p>
<p><strong>Gmail</strong>:  This is part of the device setup, and Gmail gets its own app.  You&#8217;re walked through it, so this doesn&#8217;t even factor in, really.<br />
<strong>Windows Live Hotmail</strong>:  This is delightfully easy.  Go to the email app, push the menu button, push &#8220;add account,&#8221; then type in your Live/Hotmail address and password, and you&#8217;re done.<br />
<strong>Yahoo Mail</strong>:  This is a bit more tricky.  When you get to the &#8220;add account&#8221; part, you have to enter your Yahoo email name and password, but then hit &#8220;manual setup.&#8221;  From here, (Incoming Server Settings) make the IMAP server “imap.mail.yahoo.com” and the Port is 143. In Outgoing Server Settings,  set the SMTP Server to “smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com” and the Port to 587.  Then, check “Require sign-in” and press Next.<br />
<strong>AIM Mail</strong> This is almost identical to Yahoo, but just change the IMAP and SMTP server names to &#8220;imap.aim.com,&#8221; and &#8220;smtp.aim.com.&#8221;  The ports are the same.<br />
<strong>Others</strong> I highly encourage you to poke around, and try setting up connections to any Webmail accounts you have.  And because the Droid is Exchange compatible, you can set up your work-related email accounts and calendars just as easily as you set up a Windows Live account.  Just enter your username and password and it&#8217;s good to go.</p>
<p>Next:  Apps in the &#8220;Verizon&#8221; directory in the Android Market and what&#8217;s so special about them.</p>
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		<title>Android 2.0 features unveiled!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Android SDK Tech lead Xavier Ducrohet announced Android 2.0 support in the SDK, which unveils some of the big capabilities in the latest version of Android, expected to hit the market soon on at least one of Verizon&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;Droid&#8221; devices. In the developer video posted today, for instance, all the new features were [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, Android SDK Tech lead Xavier Ducrohet announced Android 2.0 support in the SDK, which unveils some of the big capabilities in the latest version of Android, expected to hit the market soon on at least one of Verizon&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;Droid&#8221; devices. In the developer video posted today, for instance, all the new features were shown off on a device connected to the Verizon network, and the release notes say it will be deployable in November.</p>
<p>The keyword with Eclair is interoperability.</p>
<p>Motorola recently launched its custom Android build with a UI called MotoBLUR, the central function of which is the ability to integrate with a user&#8217;s many social web services from a single interface. The new APIs included in Eclair give this communicative function to all developers. So with the new Account Manager API, developers can centrally store account credentials on the device, the Contacts application can now sync and aggregate contact data from multiple accounts, and the Sync Adaptors API provides full two-way contact sync with ANY backend. </p>
<p>To provide a single, unified face for this data, the Quick Contact function has been added. By clicking on a contact&#8217;s picture, a user can pull up a menu of all the different ways to reach that contact&#8230;Gmail, Email, IM, Phone, and the various Social networks. It&#8217;s like the existent &#8220;live folder&#8221; concept for contacts, but brought together under the standard contact list, or in any app the developer chooses.</p>
<p>Android 2.0 also updates the Bluetooth API so apps can now access Bluetooth controls to discover, connect and share information with nearby devices, which unlocks the ability to make peer-to-peer and proximity-based applications.</p>
<p>The built-in Android browser has been updated with a refreshed UI with an actionable address bar, bookmarks sorted by thumbnail, double-tap zoom command, and HTML5 support, which opens up Application cache, client-side SQL databases, geolocation API support, and fullscreen video tag support.</p>
<p>The camera app has again been tweaked, but this time it includes digital zoom (with macro mode), built-in color effects (posterize, solarize, etc) and built-in flash support. </p>
<p>It even adds Exchange Support and includes Multi-touch support for the soft keyboard.</p>
<p>Throw this out there with the upcoming availability of Verizon Droids, the Sony Racheal, and whatever else is coming out, and we&#8217;ve got a really huge quarter for Android.  I&#8217;m gonna start doing video blogs soon, it just takes a bit longer to write and record them.</p>
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		<title>Aren&#8217;t you glad you&#8217;re an Android early adopter?</title>
		<link>http://androidbakery.com/2009/10/15/arent-you-glad-youre-an-android-early-adopter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing that Android Bakery is about, it&#8217;s giant foam pastries being dropped on Google&#8217;s lawn, and apparently the customary giant eclair has made its grand debut. I&#8217;m going to make two predictions, one a longshot, one more logical. Here are the factors adding up: 1.) Verizon&#8217;s Getting an Android phone (and we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there&#8217;s one thing that Android Bakery is about, it&#8217;s giant foam pastries being dropped on Google&#8217;s lawn, and apparently the customary giant eclair has <a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/10/15/googles.front.lawn.android.gets.newest.dessert/">made its grand debut</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to make two predictions, one a longshot, one more logical.</p>
<p>Here are the factors adding up:</p>
<p>1.)  Verizon&#8217;s Getting an Android phone  (and we now know Eric Schmidt&#8217;s boner for Verizon)</p>
<p>2.)  At the Google earnings call <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/15/schmidt-android-adoption-is-about-to-explode/">late in the day today</a>, Eric Schmidt says,  “Android adoption is about to explode.&#8221;</p>
<p>3.) &#8230;on the same day the giant Eclair lands?</p>
<p>Prediction one (longshot) Verizon is getting the first Android 2.0 phone.</p>
<p>I mean, they only released the Donut SDK last month&#8230;and we first heard about that in May.  <strong>BUT </strong> if you remember, as I&#8217;m sure you do,  they showed off all the Donut features at Google I/O not even one month after the big foam Cupcake dropped and all our G1s updated.  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s too early in Android&#8217;s lifespan to be able to predict these kind of trends, but dropping a comically huge representation of the OS&#8217;s codename is about as obvious a hint as you could hope to receive.  Something with Eclair is going to happen very soon.</p>
<p>What sucks is that we don&#8217;t know anything about Eclair, really. So that leads me to my second, and probably more likely prediction:</p>
<p>Verizon and AT&#038;T will be getting their Android phones at the same time as Sprint and T-Mobile gets their new devices, summarily &#8220;exploding&#8221; the OS onto all United States carriers with four new devices&#8230;then after the five minutes of pants-pooping is over, and tons of new Android users are born,  we&#8217;ll get to see an early build of Eclair to tease the new users with sick new upcoming features.</p>
<p>Also, Michael Arrington commented on the article I linked to above, saying he&#8217;s seen a new Android device that&#8217;ll &#8220;blow everyone away.&#8221;  (I could have the quote wrong, but that&#8217;s the gist of it.)   I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s Rachael from Sony Ericsson, because that looks really hot.  But hell, it could be something even better.</p>
<p>All of this, combined with the daily media coverage making the &#8220;duh!&#8221; prediction that Android is on its way to market domination make it a very good time to be an Android early adopter, and everyone who&#8217;s going through the 528MHz generation right now has my personal permission to refer to himself as an &#8220;O.G.&#8221;   </p>
<p>&#8230;or something less dorky.</p>
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		<title>140 characters about every Android handset thus far.</title>
		<link>http://androidbakery.com/2009/10/05/140-characters-about-every-android-handset-thus-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Android Phones keep comin&#8217;, so here&#8217;s a rundown of what we&#8217;ve got in the immortal language of Twitter. I&#8217;m going to keep updating this post as more devices come out, so #havenofear. After updating this a number of times, I&#8217;ve decided to organize this list by phones that have been released or announced first, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More Android Phones keep comin&#8217;, so here&#8217;s a rundown of what we&#8217;ve got in the immortal language of Twitter.  I&#8217;m going to keep updating this post as more devices come out, so #havenofear.  After updating this a number of times, I&#8217;ve decided to organize this list by phones that have been released or announced first, then followed by rumored devices.</p>
<p><strong>RELEASED/CONFIRMED:</strong></p>
<p>@HTCDream, @TmobileG1  This is the phone that started it all one year ago: Keyboard, Chin, Trackball, Slider, and Android 1.0</p>
<p>@SamsungGalaxy, @I7500,  typical Samsung quality display, all-touch AMOLED with light sensor, not a &#8220;Google phone,&#8221; avail in Germany, Austria, Poland</p>
<p>@HTCMagic,  @Mytouch3G, @Dopod, It&#8217;s still got the chin, but no keyboard.  Shellable, skinnable, endorsed by Whoopi.</p>
<p>@HTCHero (World)  Slim and sexy, this is the first &#8216;droid with a custom UI #HTCSense  The CDMA version is Sprint&#8217;s first Android device.</p>
<p>@HTCTattoo yet another all-touch device with #HTCSense bound for Europe.  Mysteriously ditched the &#8220;chin&#8221; but went with custom shells.</p>
<p>@HTCDroidEris, @HTCDesire Launch partner of Verizon Droid, standard 528MHz CPU, very similar to the Hero</p>
<p>@HTCNexusOne  Sold directly through Google, all-touch, snapdragon, very controversial.</p>
<p>@MotorolaCliq, @MotorolaDext  first Android phone from Moto, features #MotoBLUR, second big UI for droid. Surefire Sidekick replacement.</p>
<p>@MotorolaDroid aka @sholes aka @tao aka @touchstone. QWERTY slider as thin as an iPhone.  #VZW&#8217;s first Android and first Android 2.0 (eclair) device. A killer.</p>
<p>@MotorolaBackflip, aka @Enzo, a weird form factor with keyboard on back of chassis and trackpad behind the screen, also rocks #motoBLUR</p>
<p>@TmobilePulse, #Huawei makes this, the first prepaid all-touch Android device &#8220;perfect entry level smartphone&#8221;</p>
<p>@LG GW620, @LGEtna this QWERTY slider was launched in EU, turned up unlocked in France €450. lacks d-pad/trackball but has arrow keys.</p>
<p>@LG GT540, don&#8217;t know the name of this one, but is all-touch, runs 2.0, and comes in various colours. Launched at CES, coming to EU/Asia</p>
<p>@AcerA1, @AcerLiquid, like #Moto, #Acer said it&#8217;s focusing on Android now.  <a href="http://www.acer.co.uk/acer/news_detail.do?LanguageISOCtxParam=en&amp;sp=page13&amp;ctx2.c2att1=17&amp;kcond9.c2att193=20263&amp;CountryISOCtxParam=UK&amp;ctx1g.c2att92=122&amp;ctx1.att21k=1&amp;CRC=3806456676">Launched UK 10/14</a>, runs Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset.</p>
<p>@Dellmini3i, one of #ChinaMobile&#8217;s first Ophones, rumored to be AT&amp;T&#8217;s first Android phone, we&#8217;ll have more.  Dell is good with staying in touch.</p>
<p>@LenovoO1, another TD-SCDMA Ophone for China.  Pretty, but not likely to come to the U.S.</p>
<p>@SamsungBehold2, shown with #TouchWiz #Cube UI, will be first Samsung droid phone in US on T-Mobile</p>
<p>@SamsungMoment, thought to be the #InstinctQ, this 800Mhz QWERTY monster is headed for Sprint in Nov.</p>
<p>@SamsungGalaxySpica  @I5700, 800MHz CPU, 3.2-inch HVGA, a 3mpix cam,  180MB internal memory.  Actually quite dull.  Announced on Nov 16.</p>
<p>@GeeksPhoneONE  QWERTY slider <a href="http://www.geeksphone.com/es/moviles/">available in EU (Spain)</a> in December &#8220;extremadamente ágil y eficiente!&#8221;</p>
<p>@SaygusV1  Their V1 has 2-way video calling and <a href="http://www.saygus.com/comm_v1">is a huge, heavy monster of a phone</a></p>
<p>@SonyEricsson Xperia X10, comes with slick UI and new &#8220;UX Platform,&#8221; powered by Snapdragon.  SE is forgoing the Android praise and just sticking with making phones.</p>
<p><strong>UNCONFIRMED</strong>:</p>
<p>@MotorolaDevour aka @Calgary&#8230;the name has shown up for 2 years, and only recently has any actual evidence shown up.  We&#8217;ll see at CES!</p>
<p>@MotorolaHeron or @IronMan  This Windows Mobile phone was pulled from AT&amp;T, listed as &#8220;specifications subject to change due to move to Android.&#8221;  Whereabouts unknown.</p>
<p>@MotorolaZeppelin  Spotted in China in a regulatory filing, with not much known besides 5Mpx camera, and HDMI output</p>
<p>@MotorolaOpusOne &#8211; Supposed to be the first iDen Android Device, to ship with 1.5, 3.1&#8243; screen, 3 megapixel cam&#8212;looking cheap</p>
<p>@TMobile &#8220;Tap&#8221; shown on the Samsung Behold II launch paper&#8230;possibly a #ZTE device?</p>
<p>@INQ committed to an Android device, but we haven&#8217;t seen anything yet.</p>
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		<title>WpToGo and blogging in public.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I go into anything, I would like to warn anyone who&#8217;s attempting to seriously blog from their Android phone with wptogo as I have...you will lose your work at some point. This is my fourth attempt at making a post entirely in the wptogo WordPress blogging app on my G1&#8230;let&#8217;s see if I can [...]]]></description>
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<p>Before I go into anything, I would like to warn anyone who&#8217;s attempting to seriously blog from their Android phone with wptogo as I have..<strong>.you will lose your work at some point</strong>.</p>
<p>This is my fourth attempt at making a post entirely in the wptogo WordPress blogging app on my G1&#8230;let&#8217;s see if I can save a draft before I go on.</p>
<p>I think that worked.  Unfortunately, though, I&#8217;ve lost a lot of pretty decent writing due to force closes when attempting saving drafts or other features.  I wrote half of one post using only the soft keyboard and talking about the interesting benefits of auto-completion while blogging on the move.   I tried to post some instantly captured pics&#8230;and I explained the app&#8217;s layout and its pros and cons.  </p>
<p>But it&#8217;s all gone, and I&#8217;m a little upset about it.</p>
<p>However, it&#8217;s not anger or annoyance&#8230;  It&#8217;s disappointment that this app has not been the magical solution it promised to be.  I thought of all the professional bloggers who use WordPress that could seriously benefit from this app, and I was saddened by its frequent crashing and the thought of all the brilliant work that could get lost.</p>
<p>I was also particularly fond of the idea of writing a blog about an Andoid blogging app while using that very app.</p>
<p>Anyway, let&#8217;s talk about the app and hope that it sticks.  The touch interface makes this app great,  I can highlight text and hit bold or italics, insert links, blockquotes and in-phone images.  It&#8217;s a bit wonky if you don&#8217;t already have photos snapped because you can&#8217;t leave wptogo open, go to the camera and take a quick picture for the entry.  It requires saving and moving around. </p>
<p>I hit &#8220;pictures>add&#8221; but nothing has shown up in this field to indicate that a picture has been inserted.  It&#8217;ll be a surprise for me to discover later.  They should be random pics I just took here in line at the grocery store of caffeinated Butterfinger candybars and a sensationalist Newsweek headline. </p>
<p>Okay, I&#8217;m back on my computer at home to finish out this review, and apologize for the serious lack of cohesion.  Re-reading this entry now, I realize that my composition process is totally uncoordinated, and when I can&#8217;t constantly revise a piece of writing, it seriously lacks flow.    I shouldn&#8217;t say WpToGo RUINED this review, the lack of flow is my fault, but the crashing made me progressively more careless until I eventually just wanted to get something posted.   </p>
<p>And as you can see, the one picture was automatically inserted in the top of the post&#8230;.so I have a nice, ridiculous teaser shot that is sure to get people shaking their heads.</p>
<p>By the way, a woman in front of me in line saw me take the picture of that magazine cover and asked why I had.  I said &#8220;well, because babies pretty much love everything by default.&#8221;  </p>
<p>And I kid you not&#8230;she said &#8220;yeah, and if they don&#8217;t,  you slap the shit out of them.&#8221; </p>
<p>People are hilarious.   This is why public blogging is great.</p>
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		<title>My six reasons for considering the Cliq</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AndroidGuys is a solid site. Amid the hue and cry of today&#8217;s Motorola Android news, they&#8217;ve made a post saying &#8220;We want to hear what you think of the Motorola Cliq and MOTOBLUR.&#8221; Well, I&#8217;ll tell you what attracts me to the Cliq in order of importance: 1.) Glass Screen&#8211;the G1&#8242;s screen is just too [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AndroidGuys is a solid site.  </p>
<p>Amid the hue and cry of today&#8217;s Motorola Android news, they&#8217;ve made a post saying <a href="http://www.androidguys.com/2009/09/10/what-theyre-saying-about-motorola-now/">&#8220;We want to hear what you think of the Motorola Cliq and MOTOBLUR.&#8221;</a>  </p>
<p>Well, I&#8217;ll tell you what attracts me to the Cliq in order of importance:</p>
<p><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/displaymedia.png" alt="The Cliq (aka &quot;Dext&quot; aka &quot;Morrison&quot;)" title="displaymedia" width="324" height="299" class="size-full wp-image-176" /><br />
1.)  <strong>Glass Screen</strong>&#8211;the G1&#8242;s screen is just too  sticky.  Glass has just enough friction to feel good, and it totally enhances the touch experience, not to mention adds stability to the entire unit.<br />
2.) <strong>Boosted RAM</strong>&#8211;even though it&#8217;s only a minor bump, it&#8217;s totally something that will make a noticeable difference in day to day use.<br />
3.) <strong>Solid Chassis</strong>&#8211; This is the only thing I consistently favor about the iPhone, and if this is anywhere in that neighborhood, the Cliq will have improved on all my biggest complaints about the G1.<br />
4.) <strong>3.5mm headphone jack</strong>&#8211;Self explanatory:  I use the MP3 player, DroidLive, Listen, and now Pandora and I DESPISE the usb headset.  I will dedicate a rant to this in the near future.<br />
5.) <strong>Keyboard</strong>&#8211;it may not be as powerful as the HTCHero*, but it&#8217;s the second &#8216;droid phone on T-Mobile with a keyboard.<br />
6.) <strong>Exclusive UI</strong>&#8212;Not that I particularly have a need for social networking 24 hours a day, but I am interested in the UI design since it&#8217;s been compared to HTC&#8217;s Rosie/SenseUI, which I totally dig.</p>
<p>Naturally, I want to handle it before I decide to buy it&#8230;but it&#8217;s beginning to look like this is what I&#8217;ll be picking up in the fall. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not a phone to die for by any stretch, but it certainly would be an improvement over the G1, aside from the move from a trackball to a D-pad, which would only take a matter of time to get used to.</p>
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		<title>Uh oh&#8230;how do I organize these widgets?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem of widget disorganization in Android has been approaching for some time. Now that many of the most popular apps come with widgets, I&#8217;m really beginning to feel the clutter on my homescreen. With today&#8217;s release of the official Pandora app and yesterday&#8217;s release of the official Facebook app, I now have two more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The problem of widget disorganization in Android has been approaching for some time.  Now that many of the most popular apps come with widgets, I&#8217;m really beginning to feel the clutter on my homescreen.  With today&#8217;s release of the official Pandora app and yesterday&#8217;s release of the official Facebook app, I now have two more medium/large widgets to deal with, and some reorganization to consider.<br />
<div id="attachment_168" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 327px"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pandorawidget.png" alt="Pandora Widget, with some 2nd wave ska" title="pandorawidget" width="317" height="104" class="size-full wp-image-168" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Pandora Widget, with some 2nd wave ska</p></div><br />
I&#8217;ve reached the point where things have gotten ugly.  With traditional icon-based apps, I can at least do a cohesive theme where everything is the same size and color and it matches the background.  With non-themed widgets, though&#8230;I&#8217;m kind of at the mercy of the app&#8217;s designer.  </p>
<p>Fortunately, I can add up to 7 more homescreens with Open Home, but anyone who&#8217;s dealt with a pack-rat will tell you that giving a hoarder more space doesn&#8217;t solve any problems, it just makes them harder to tackle.</p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t call myself a &#8220;widget hoarder,&#8221;  but let&#8217;s see.  In my &#8220;Add to Home Screen > Widgets&#8221; folder, I currently have:  Analog Clock, Calendar, Facebook, Music, Open Home Big Analog Clock, Open Home Music, Open Home Setting Widget, Open Home Weather, Pandora, Picture Frame, Search, Tiny Clock Widget 2, Twidget Lite, Voice Text, Voicemail+ Large/Small, Weather Large/Small/Tiny, Weather Channel WxWidget Large/Small.</p>
<p>Do I really need <em>SIX</em> different weather widgets and three clocks?  Not really, but you sometimes need to compare to get the best looking widgets that also provide the best results, plus it&#8217;s really only three in multiple sizes.  The WxWidget actually isn&#8217;t my cup of tea, though it&#8217;s a super popular and handy app with more in-depth updates and alerts, but the Weather Widget <a href="http://lock2.wordpress.com/">by Lock2</a> is 100% better looking and gets the job done (I believe it&#8217;s designed after HTC Sense&#8217;s weather widget).  It&#8217;s free too, but I highly advise floating a donation their way if you&#8217;ve got some change to spare.</p>
<p>Before I can even begin to think about organizing anything, I have to have a deep philosophical &#8220;chicken or egg&#8221; discussion with myself:  <strong>Do services gain homescreen position because I use them more, or do I use them more because they&#8217;re on my homescreen?</strong>  My homescreen is usually a bit of both.  I use the weather widget a lot mostly because it&#8217;s there, not because I always care about the weather.  Shazam is an app icon I feel like I always need on my homescreen, but I don&#8217;t use it nearly as much as, say, the Google Search bar, which I have relegated to a secondary screen.  But really, I&#8217;ve started to feel like I don&#8217;t need app shortcuts any more with the way things are going.  Everything I use pretty much resides in the &#8220;side drawer.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s times like this that I wish there was a Widget &#8220;snap to&#8221; program, or a position randomizer, where I could just hit a button and have the widgets fit to a grid on my screen and I could decide if I liked it or not.</p>
<div id="attachment_170" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 330px"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/facebookwidget.jpg" alt="New Facebook widget with Twidget Lite" title="facebookwidget" width="320" height="455" class="size-full wp-image-170" /><p class="wp-caption-text">New Facebook widget with Twidget Lite</p></div>
<p>Because I prefer an uncluttered layout, I&#8217;ve switched to a five-screen layout where each screen serves a different purpose.  The main screen has weather and calendar,  the &#8220;music screen&#8221; has the Mp3 player and Pandora, the &#8220;feed screen&#8221; has Twitter and Facebook,  the &#8220;utility screen&#8221; which right now only has the settings widget, and the &#8220;Google screen&#8221; only has the search widget right now, but anticipates the arrival of new homescreen toys from Google.</p>
<p>It&#8217;ll get the job done for now, but more widgets=more processes which ultimately means slowness.  It&#8217;s running acceptably now, but we&#8217;ll see how things get bogged down in the real world.  This is something we need to think about as Android users, since the elegant use of widgets is helping to make Android both stand out above icon-based smartphone interfaces, and run more efficiently for the user.</p>
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		<title>Android Rule #1:  All Apps made by Google are must haves.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TimConneally</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took me a while to get into podcasts&#8230;like very long&#8230;like I had an iPod for 3 years before I even considered checking any out.  And this is coming from a guy who runs errands on Saturday mornings just so he can listen to Car Talk, Wait Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me, and This American Life [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It took me a while to get into podcasts&#8230;like very long&#8230;like I had an iPod for 3 years before I even considered checking any out.  And this is coming from a guy who runs errands on Saturday mornings just so he can listen to <em>Car Talk, Wait Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me, </em>and <em>This American Life</em> in close succession.  This is coming from a guy who would subject his bandmates to old tapes of <em>Johnny Dollar</em> and <em>Nero Wolfe</em> when on tour.</p>
<p>So, long story short, it took me a while, but I eventually learned that I love podcasts.  However, using mp3 players without their own wireless connection kind of makes the acquisition of podcasts a little bit tiresome&#8230;especially if you don&#8217;t use iTunes. So being able to get them wirelessly as soon as they come out is probably one of my top five favorite media conveniences.  It&#8217;s definitely up there with Kindle whispernet shopping and Netflix Instant streaming.  (I&#8217;ll think of a couple more later.)<br />
<img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/play_screen_2-200x300.png" alt="play_screen_2" title="play_screen_2" width="200" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-75" /><br />
I used DoggCatcher for a while when the app was still pretty new, but it really sucked the battery,  sucked up resources, the interface was crap, and there was no easy method of content discovery.   On top of all that, they started charging for the full version.   It was at that point that I uninstalled it.  I haven&#8217;t had a podcatcher on my phone since then.<br />
<div id="attachment_72" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 210px"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/screenshot_subs-200x300.png" alt="check that out!" title="screenshot_subs" width="200" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-72" /><p class="wp-caption-text">check that out!</p></div><br />
So I&#8217;m stoked on <a href="http://listen.googlelabs.com/">Google Listen</a>, the new Android-exclusive podcatching app in Google Labs.  Like most of Google&#8217;s stuff, it&#8217;s simple and straightforward.  You search for podcasts you already know, download them, subscribe to them, or stream them instantly.  On 3G you can get a good chunk of a podcast listened to, but once you hit the spot where it would normally pause to buffer, it actually starts all the way over again and you can&#8217;t jump back to where you were interrupted.  It&#8217;s an annoyance, but they&#8217;ll fix it&#8230;they&#8217;re Google. </p>
<p>You can also discover new content by browsing through recent and most popular searches, or by entering topical search terms.  For example, if you don&#8217;t know exactly which show you want to listen to, but you want it to be about some current event, just type in the event or the date.  It&#8217;s a good use of search.  I suppose it may actually be more a search tool than a podcatcher, but I haven&#8217;t decided yet.  I have only been using it for one day.</p>
<p>Like the title of this post says,  if it&#8217;s made by Google, even as a Lab, you can expect a certain degree of awesomeness.</p>
<div id="attachment_71" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 190px"><img src="http://androidbakery.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/chart.png" alt="Scan this to download Google Listen!" title="chart" width="180" height="180" class="size-full wp-image-71" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Scan this to download Google Listen!</p></div>
<p>Humorously,  In the Listen FAQ, it asks:  &#8220;Will Listen work on my iPhone, Palm Pre, or Newton?&#8221;</p>
<p>Jokes.</p>
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