A clever hacker managed to strip Android 2.1 OS from the Nexus One handset and ported its features to Motorola Droid, allowing it to support multitouch. Frankly speaking, ever since the iPhone and Palm Pre, we haven’t seen multitouch smartphones handling touch interfacing so well.
Droid uses a cooked ROM, courtesy of the hack we’ve mentioned...
The brilliant folks of the XDA Developer community have messed with the code of a new device once again and this time it’s the Motorola Droid we’re talking about. They managed to port Google’s new turn by turn Navigation, that was exclusively available on Droid and now it has hit HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 thanks to a hack.
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The wonderful folks of PPCGeeks posted a hack that allows you to add TV out functionality to your HTC Touch Pro. All you need is the original multi-adapter that came with the device and an iPod 3.5mm AV cable found here.
You’ll just have to plug the iPod AV cable into the 3.5mm port of the multi-adapter and then plug the latter in the handset....
Everyone was disappointed when the G1 was launched and it seemed to lack multi-touch support, making it somewhat inferior to the iPhone. The handset’s screen is multi-touch capable, but this feature was disabled, for some reason, by Google or HTC. Here’s a hack that allows the device’s display to track the user’s fingers:
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The number of devices supporting the Android OS is increasing, as is the number of ports that the operating system has seen so far. Open source is surely neat business, because now the OS has hit HTC Touch and gets messed around with in the following video:
Not everything’s perfect, though, as, in spite of having that custom soft keyboard, you’ll...