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Sprint’s new Phone: Kyocera Milano Features and Price

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The Anroid phone Kyocera Milano, a 3″ touchscreen device running Android Gingerbread arrived to Sprint Friday September 9, 2011.

Release Date: Friday September 9, 2011
Carrier: SprintList price: $299.99
Phone Price: $49.99 with a 2-year contract and after instant rebate and mail-in rebate via reward card

Sprint Kyocera Milano

Here’s a list of features of the Sprint’s Kyocera Milano:

3.2MP camera with camcorder
512MB onboard memory
2GB microSD™ memory card included (and supports up to 32GB)
Wi-Fi hotspot capability, supporting up to five devices
Google Mobile Services
Full Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support
Sprint Zone for one-stop access to account information, phone tips, news and more.
Access to Sprint Navigation, Sprint TV & Movies and NASCAR
Media player and high-quality video streaming
Accelerometer, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, digital compass. Voice recognition – speaker independent Multiple language support (English/Spanish)

Motorola DROID X2 Android 2.3 update details

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Simply a hair over a week after we learned that the Motorola Droid X2 was about to take part in a saturate test that many thought was with regard to the device’s Android 2.3 update, Verizon has published all of the information on the new application in handy PDF form on its website. The update, that is build number 1.3.232 and weighs in at 101MB, includes goodies like the newest version of MotoBlur Motorola’s Applications Platform like the one found one the DROID 3, improvements in the screen display, and improved stability to reduce device resets. You can find the full list of improvements below.

All in all it sounds like a pretty worthwhile update, no? Unfortunately, we haven’t heard any reports of anyone actually receiving the update just yet. When Verizon posted the support PDF for the DROID Incredible 2′s Gingerbread update earlier this month, the new software didn’t actually start rolling out until a few days later, so we might have to wait just a tad longer before the DROID X2′s Android 2.3 update actually begins hitting users’ handsets. If any of you DX2 owners feel like trying to manually pull the update down, though, head into your Settings menu, hit About phone, then go into System updates and hit Download. Just be sure to come back and let us know if you’re able to yank some Android Gingerbread from the sky, okay?

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AT & T’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread updates

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One of the largest gripes from clients who purchase cell phones directly from a U.S. company (instead of unlocked) is that carriers aren’t always so quick to push out Android updates. Good example — the unlocked Nexus One received its Froyo updates a long time before any other phone, and the Nexus S has seen updates faster as well.

AT&T is answering customer demands, though: the carrier just announced that upgrades to Android Gingerbread are planned for all post-paid Android mobile phones already introduced in 2011. This means that the Motorola Atrix 4G will get the update starting today, and HTC Inspire 4G owners will see it in the coming weeks.

The Motorola Atrix 4G update allows users the ability to download apps from third-party stores, and if you have a “Samsung Captivate”, you can rest assured that your phone will get the update too. Now will rival carriers take notice and get caught up?

Beginning today and continuing over the next few weeks, Motorola ATRIX 4G users will be prompted to install the update. To download the update, users must be connected via Wi-Fi. In August, HTC Inspire 4G users will be notified that the update is available and can be downloaded when connected to a Wi-Fi network. AT&T smartphone users can access at any one of the company’s more than 26,000 Wi-Fi hotspots at no cost.

The AT&T smartphones planned for a Gingerbread update are:

HTC Inspire™ 4G
LG Phoenix™
Motorola ATRIX™ 4G
Pantech Crossover™
Samsung Captivate™ 4G
Samsung Infuse™ 4G

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Gingerbread delivers a number of improvements, such as user interface refinements, refined copy/paste functionality and speed enhancements. The upgrade offers improved power management that offers a more active role in managing applications in addition to an improved on-screen keyboard with multi-touch support that makes typing faster and more accurate

Motorola Atrix 4G receives Android 2.3 Gingerbread update

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Motorola Atrix 4G proprietors can be really very happy to hear that their official Android 2.3 Gingerbread update is currently available for download on their computers.

Motorola Atrix 4G

This update brings Gingerbread 2.3.4 to Atrix 4G owners through Motorola’s web page. The update brings all of the awesome features of Gingerbread to your device such as improved web browsing, HD Video Playback, and other miscellaneous improvements. The largest improvement to the device is the ability to sideload applications, thanks to AT&T’s new policy to allow all devices to sideload.

The update comes in at 161 MBs. I highly recommend downloading this update thanks to all of the new features including the ability to sideload apps. It was about time, thanks Motorola and AT&T.

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LG Optimus 3D Android 2.3 Gingerbread update will likely be available in the UK in October

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If you’re contemplating buying an LG Optimus 3D, but saw which it runs Android 2.2 Froyo and want to know when you should expect an update to the latest version of Google’s mobile os, here’s some not so good news.

LG has told The Inquirer that the Optimus 3D will be updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread in October, at least in the united kingdom. That’s likely to be ten months after Gingerbread was released. It can also be very close to when Google will officially unveil the next version of Android, called Ice Cream Sandwich. Meaning Optimus 3D owners will only have a very short window of time by which their devices will be current, after which it’s returning to the waiting game. And who knows if LG will update the Optimus 3D to Ice Cream Sandwich? You’re most likely not going to find that out in 2011.

Also, and the above is just valid for the UK. Other places may get the Gingerbread update long after it starts rolling out in the UK.
Therefore if you’re into this complete 3D thing and also such as your Android versions to be as up-to-date as possible, maybe you should look at HTC’s Evo 3D, since that will at least ship with Gingerbread preinstalled.

LG Optimus 3D

Evidently the Gingerbread software update for the Optimus 3D will do more than just enable you to get the newest bits from Google though. LG is thinking about making 2D to 3D conversion possible on the fly for applications and games, so you’ll be able to play Angry Birds in 3D. The only real requirement of that to work is that the application or game has to be depending on OpenGL. Presently, the Optimus 3D offers 3D upscaling for pictures and videos, even having a depth control so you can customize the ‘amount’ of the third dimension that you see.

Requested why it didn’t launch the Optimus 3D with Gingerbread on board, LG basically said that it chose to ship. That informs us that work was started on the phone with Froyo, and then LG might have needed to port over Gingerbread. So it decided not to do before starting the phone, in order to be the first available on the market with a glasses-free 3D display.

Sales numbers are the ones which will tell us the total story in a few months – whether LG’s decision was a doozy or if it will turn against it.

Bell Motorola Atrix bootloader open found via Orange UK Gingerbread leak

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The Motorola Atrix, the company’s 1st dual-core device that was published earlier this year on Bell, includes a locked bootloader. İt is then very, very hard to hack. In fact, nearly impossible depending on who you ask. So, locked bootloader means no custom ROMs, no overclocking kernels. A pain.

That’s until a couple weeks ago when a version of Gingerbread is discovered on Motorola’s servers that included the code to unlock the bootloader only on AT&T devices. But, since Motorola has verified they would begin unlocking bootloaders later this year, it had been only a matter of time. Using the discovery came a flurry of activity from the development community, but international users, Bell clients included, were left out in the cold.

Motorola Atrix

That is, so far. A group of enthusiasts who joined together to attempt to find a version for international Atrixes (which go by the awesome name Team Cheesecake) have discovered a version of Gingerbread, Android 2.3.4, that isn’t only compatible with the Bell Atrix but will even unlock its bootloader. So, custom ROMs, overclocking kernels. Fun.

At this time the procedure is kind of complicated, so we wouldn’t recommend diving in if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing. Clearly, of course, unlocking your bootloader will void your warranty, so be careful. But if you’re into living dangerously, and let’s face it, what Android user isn’t, here’s your ticket.

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