SqueezeCommander – Your Android is a Squeezebox-Remote too!

switching to Google Nexus One was easy, once I discovered SqueezeCommander to remote-control my SqueezeBox. For EUR 3,- it does everything iPeng does on the iPhone, including support for SqueezeBox apps & multi-player & -server-support. searching large libraries of music seems faster than on the iPhone. but the best thing: it can download single tracks [...]

Google Goggles: Test Drive

had some fun toying with Google Goggles this morning. Goggles uses your phone’s camera to do image-based search for products, landmarks, media, shops etc. the results I was getting for products & books are pretty accurate. most impressive: I snapped the artwork (no text, title at all) of a german, medical text-book – first result [...]

Huawei RBM2 quick-review

after spending the better part of last weekend using the Huawei RBM2 from Red Bull Mobile (unboxing-pictures here) I won’t deprive you of my thoughts on the device. the RBM2 basically offers everything you’ld expect from an Android-phone nowadays, given that the platform is out now for more than a year. in other words: the [...]

unboxing redbull rbm2 by huawei

unboxing the RBM2, which is produced by Huawei exclusively for Red Bull Mobile and should hit stores on monday, nov. 9th. the RBM2 seems to be a quite decent Android phone, with a form-factor & featureset (UMTS, GPS, half-VGA 3.5″ touch-display) similar to the iPhone. the RBM2 comes with a modified Wikitude AR-browser displaying Red Bull-related [...]

G1: the ultimate Android-app!

after handing back my evaluation SIM-card to T-Mobile earlier today, I’ve finally found G1’s real purpose: as a glorified alarm clock on my nightstand (Nightwatch is the name of the app and it even uses text2speech to tell the time).  

11 more incredible useful Android-apps can be found at Lifehacker.
PS: got a [...]

Testdrive G1: Mobile Photo Uploads

Niko wrote in:
somehow I can’t seem to find a good Android-app to upload photos to the web, preferably to Flickr. any hints?
after toying around with several other apps, I found Pixelpipe to be the perfect solution for this task. similar to Shozu (which I’ve been using back in the day on Nokia’s S60 phones), Pixelpipe [...]

Android Cupcake screencast

while there’s still no way to get root-access  for manually upgrading the firmware of the Austrian T-Mobile G1, MobileCrunch has a promising screencast of Android’s development-branch, codenamed ‘Cupcake’. besides a large number of bugfixes, Cupcake is supposed to include essential new features like a process-manager (to kill those power-sucking background-apps), browser-extensions (improved JavaScript performance, copy&paste, [...]

Testdrive: G1 music apps

it’s been almost a week since I first started testing the G1, and so far my initial impression hasn’t really changed that much. like many of my fellow testers I’m disappointed by many aspects of both hardware and software. while the former would make me wait for a successor (I guess the G2 can’t be [...]

Testdrive: T-Mobile G1 aka Google Phone (Day 1)

visiting Vienna’s WerkzeugH yesterday evening, one might easily have  had the impression Vienna’s blogging geeks collectively got something mixed up in their calendars about christmas this year.  impatient looks, nervously shuffling feet – and then finally – hastily unboxing, clumsy attempts of inserting batteries & SIMs, followed by the happy smiles only gadget-lovers can sport … (drama [...]