{"id":365428,"date":"2010-02-26T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/97f6ffc28569129b1d8fc113dc51d287"},"modified":"2010-02-26T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:53:00","slug":"article-7-days-of-droiddog-22510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365428","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: 7 days of DroidDog: 2\/25\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, we learned that Android is the leader of the pack when it comes to the availability of free apps<\/a> and that a huge chunk<\/a> of the Android-loving public is male. I think some of that may have to do with those aggressive Droid ads. Also – and don’t get me wrong here – it seems like the vast majority of phone hackers are male. I don’t know why, and I can’t say I know for sure that it’s true. It just seems to be the case. I think that, if there were a recent study on which kind of mobile phone experienced the most tinkering, Android would hold such a great majority that all others would be lumped together as “other.” Speaking of which… <\/strong><\/p>\n

Hacks & Mods<\/strong>
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Less than a week after we mentioned the release<\/a> of an early Desire ROM, I rooted my own Nexus One (right) and flashed MoDaCo’s Alpha 10. I recorded the entire process on video and have created a tutorial that can be found here<\/a>. However, Carlos was right on top of the continually improved releases and shot a video review<\/a> of Alpha 6 before I was even rooted. Carlos is super busy and working on numerous projects right now and may not be back with ROM reviews for a while, but I’ll try to squeeze some in on my own when possible. If the above doesn’t quench your hacking thirst for the week, see this post<\/a> on running Android on a handful of HTC WinMo devices.<\/p>\n

Phones and Gadgets<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week saw leaks and announcements about numerous products, but I would be willing to bed that three models are responsible for the lion’s share of the buzz. We’ve heard that the Desire is headed for AT&T and Legend to Sprint<\/a>, and we saw a Verizon inventory screen<\/a> listing the Incredible. Those are the most exciting items of the week to me, anyway. Almost a year-and-a-half after the launch of the first Android and HTC is still in charge, as far as I’m concerned. Rogers just announced the Magic+<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

Of course my respect for HTC doesn’t mean that I don’t lust after gear from other brands or that I don’t see important work going on elsewhere. Acer’s Liquid<\/a> is really interesting to me, even if I think the best is yet to be cooked. Philips unleashed a monstrous display<\/a> designed to showcase the custom UI they’ve developed for an Android 2.1 PMP, and while fun, I think a PR dude with big hands and a real device would have been more awe-inspiring.<\/p>\n

Apps<\/strong><\/p>\n

We didn’t cover a whole lot of apps this week, but two posts of note are Adobe’s response<\/a> to impressions of Flash leaked with cooked ROMs and Google Earth for Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That does it for my “7 Days” this week. I’ll leave you with Alberto’s second post in his series on Google’s strategy: Nexus One: How Google is Laying the Groundwork<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Take care<\/p>\n

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This week, we learned that Android is the leader of the pack when it comes to the availability of free apps and that a huge chunk of the Android-loving public is male. I think some of that may have to do with those aggressive Droid ads. Also – and don’t get me wrong here – […]<\/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-365428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365428","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=365428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}