Monthly Archives: August 2011

[Video]HTC Sense UI 3.5 demo

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/30/2011

One of the major factor in the success of HTC Android phones is their unique UI overlay. In HTC it is called the HTC Sense UI and recently HTC has the demo of the new HTC Sense UI 3.5 running in their latest HTC Bliss… Watch the Sense UI 3.5 in action:

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Samsung Galaxy S2 coming to US – video teaser

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/23/2011

Samsung is showing something big to America! Samsung released a teaser of the Samsung Galaxy S2. The invasion of America is coming very soon. Check the cool video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUinl4Wclr4

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Steve Kondik aka Cyanogen is hired by Samsung

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/19/2011

This one of the surprising news in the Android hacking scene.. Steve Kondik aka Cyanogen is the lead developer of CyanogenMod firmware was hired by Samsung as a software engineer. Steve posted in his Facebook profile work info about the hiring. He also clarified that his involvement in the CyanongenMod will continue even though he [...]

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PLDT TelPad AD-1000 running Android 2.3 Gingerbread?

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/19/2011

User happy recently commented in the blog post  PLDT Telpad and this what he/she have said: i just had my Telpad AD-1000 demo unit repaired and was surprised to receive a totally different interface. when i checked details, i found out it is now android 2.3 not the hanging and lagging android 2.2 demo version. [...]

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Google to acquire Motorola mobility

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/16/2011

Google to acquire smartphone maker Motorola Mobility. Announced today, the acquisition is worth $12.5 billion USD in cash and this means that Google will have its own smartphone hardware maker. Motorola is already over 80 years in communication business and it was Motorola who introduced the first cellular phone and  one of the biggest Android [...]

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HTC to aquire Beats Electronics

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/12/2011

HTC – the Taiwan based smartphone manufacturer has agreed to invest $300 million to Headphone maker Beats Electronics, famous in their product Beats by Dr.Dre. Beats Electronics was founded by Dr. Dre, also known as Andre Young, and Universal Music’s Interscope Records Chairman Jimmy Iovine. Their products are famous in the hiphop scene and indorsed  [...]

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[Video]How to update HTC Desire – Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/12/2011

The HTC Desire Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread update has been released. After a long wait good this is a great news to HTC Desire owner out there. HTC will not provide over the air update for the Gingerbread on this phone and there is no turning back from Froyo to Gingerbread. The Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread update [...]

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HTC Puccini leaked interface screenshots

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/11/2011

The HTC Puccini is the anticipated tablet from HTC, though the HTC Flyer is the first tablet from the said company. There are only few details about this HTC Android tablet and recently PocketNow released some screenshot of the HTC Puccini Interface. The Puccini Interface is the Sense UI and tablet OS is an Android [...]

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HTC Still Lock Bootloaders – unlock it via HTC online unlocking tool

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/11/2011

HTC announced few months ago that they will release their future Android devices with unlock bootloaders and will provide unlock bootloaders to existing devices via a software update but from then on many of the recently launched HTC Android phones still have the lock bootloaders. The ‘unlocking bootloaders’ issue was raised by many HTC Android [...]

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Top 15 Android Games from GamePro

By PinoyDROID | Published: 08/08/2011

Android is the current leading mobile operating system from its humble beginning back in 2008 and part of Android’s success is its support for mobile gaming. One of the most popular games that hit the smartphone gaming is the Angry birds. Android gaming evolved from 2D and Text-based games to much complicated and graphic intense [...]

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