{"id":282593,"date":"2010-02-04T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/6383c7d62436eb07b00ea1eb92f50dba"},"modified":"2010-02-04T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:58:00","slug":"article-this-week-in-droiddog-020410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282593","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: This Week in DroidDog: 02\/04\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know, PhoneDog is pretty crazy about giveaways. The main site just sent out it&#8217;s 67th prize from the <a href=\"http:\/\/phonedog.com\/sweepstakes\/default.aspx?utm_source=Rss&#038;utm_cammpaign=PhoneDog&#038;umt_medium=Blog\">One Paw Bandit<\/a>, and they haven&#8217;t been pencil erasers, either. DroidDog is getting in on the action and just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/02\/winner-of-the-rooted-g1-retweet-giveaway\/\" >gave away<\/a> a rooted G1 as a reward to a reader for shooting off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/01\/droiddog-rooted-g1-giveaway\/\" >a quick tweet<\/a>. Not only does the PhoneDog crew love giving out free stuff, we like to make it easy.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Leslie W. from Cerritos, Ca, who won the contest!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6486\" title=\"rooted-g1-winner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rooted-g1-winner1.jpg\" alt=\"rooted-g1-winner\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p> DroidDog is currently undergoing some changes, and while I&#8217;m not ready to announce them all just yet, stay tuned. I think it&#8217;s going to be an interesting Spring. Aside site design and features, the DroidDog team is growing pretty quickly and the variety of content posted each day has grown as a result.  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/NeilLund\" ><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/NeilLund\" >Neil Lund<\/a><\/strong> is the most recent addition to DroidDog, and as he showed us with his G1 hacking guide, Neil likes to bring people together for group projects. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/02\/swype-keyboard-review-for-g1\/\" >review<\/a> he, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gfurr24\" >Garrett Furr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ZombieUsr\" >John Michael Guerra<\/a> have done of Swype (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/02\/swype-keyboard-review-for-g1\/\" >this link<\/a> for Neil&#8217;s thoughts):<\/p>\n<p>{Widget type=&#8221;youtube&#8221; id=&#8221;qhOjZVz2eiU&#8221; }<\/p>\n<p>As usual, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DustinEarley\" >Dustin Earley<\/a><\/strong> has his ear to the ground, looking out for all things Android. He wrote posts this week on topics as varied as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/02\/dyzplastic-android-figures-make-my-heart-melt\/\" >Android figurines<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/02\/weather-channel-promoting-android-app-on-screen\/\" >QR code on The Weather Channel<\/a>, and the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/02\/droid-eris-source-code-released\/\">HTC Eris&#8217; source code<\/a>.  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/CarlosGraves\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/CarlosGraves\">Carlos Graves<\/a><\/strong> regularly reviews, on video, cooked ROMs and applications, and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/01\/twicca-review-video\/\" >Twicca review<\/a> is a good example of his work:<\/p>\n<p>{Widget type=&#8221;youtube&#8221; id=&#8221;rw8FMmLUKzw&#8221; }<\/p>\n<p>Those are some of the items that stood out to me at DroidDog over the past week, but there&#8217;s plenty more material available. If you&#8217;re curious about upcoming phones, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/01\/motorola-bringin-on-the-android\/\" >Motorola&#8217;s Android plans<\/a> for the year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/01\/nexus-one-for-att\/\" >Nexus One&#8217;s coming destination<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/01\/mytouch-slide-gets-caught-flashing-its-keyboard\/\">myTouch Slide<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/02\/motorola-devour-details\/\">details of Devour<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/02\/samsung-shw-m100s-with-android-2-1\/\" >another Sammy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you signed up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/forums\/\" >DroidDog Forums<\/a> yet?<\/p>\n<p>Take care, folks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yCtQyx-uApwFjbcjPClRLtsGNSQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yCtQyx-uApwFjbcjPClRLtsGNSQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yCtQyx-uApwFjbcjPClRLtsGNSQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/yCtQyx-uApwFjbcjPClRLtsGNSQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/ZfH7G_KXttc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably know, PhoneDog is pretty crazy about giveaways. The main site just sent out it&#8217;s 67th prize from the One Paw Bandit, and they haven&#8217;t been pencil erasers, either. DroidDog is getting in on the action and just gave away a rooted G1 as a reward to a reader for shooting off a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}