T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide? I think so!

It’s no secret that HTC and T-Mobile are working on a successor to last year’s myTouch 3G Slide.  Over the weekend, our friends at TmoNews got their hands on some images of the upcoming myTouch 4G Slide (aka the HTC DoubleShot).  We’ve known for a while that T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide would feature a QWERTY keyboard, dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, and an 800 x 480 resolution display, but this is the first time we have gotten a clear picture of what the phone will actually look like.





As you can tell from the pictures, the myTouch 4G Slide looks to be a composite of the original myTouch 3G Slide and the myTouch 4G.  The front of the myTouch 4G Slide features the same speaker grill, front-facing camera, myTouch logo, and button placement (yes the Genius button is still there) as the myTouch 4G while the slide-out QWERTY keyboard is nearly an exact replica of the original Slide.


I find it exciting that phones are being churned out faster, and with better hardware at a pace the iPhone cannot keep up with. Android will win, will always win. No offence to the Apple fanboys of course. 


Timmy


Source: HTC Source

Amazon Appstore

Amazon officially released their very own application market for Google's Android mobile OS. It was released on March 22, 2011, it has become evident that Android is becoming vastly superior to iOS due to the openness and expand-ability of it and the tightly closed door of iOS. It may seem minute that another Appstore has been released, but this means competition. And that is a very good thing for android, and a bad thing for iOS.

On another note, the appstore. It has a lot of nice features, and some bad ones, however if you can deal with the kinks and bugs you're in for a treat. One great thing that I love about this Appstore is it has a paid app for free, every day. Once you download it you own the license for that app, so you can delete it and re-install it as many times as you please.

Keep in mind, you can only use this appstore if you have the ability to install apps from an unknown source. AT&T does not allow that, because they are evil. There is an alternative so don't fret, you can root your device (in a sense this is like jailbreaking the iPhone, to an extent) which is usually painless and harmless.

Best regards, Timmy

Name change reasoning.

I decided to change the blog title to a different name. I feel like the "n" rather than "and" is more attractive. Plus it'll be easier to tell all your friends and family to check out "Droids n iPhones"!

Best regards, Timmy.

I'm back!

It's been awhile! I was honestly expecting this to happen without any effort, however it's become painfully obvious to me that it isn't quite as easy as expected. Although I am excited to tell you guys (or gals) that I am prepared to put my full attention towards this blog and take it seriously..

Stay Tuned, Timmy

When it comes to rolling out Android updates, HTC certainly has a better track record than most other manufacturers out there. Over the past year, we’ve seen HTC push out Android 2.1 to the majority of their first generation Android handsets and the majority of their second generation of Android phones have been updated to Android 2.2. While it’s nice to have a good track record, we’re pretty sure most you are are wondering if HTC phone you currently own will be getting a taste of Gingerbread (Android 2.3). HTC has not released any specifics quite yet, but did state: “We are excited about the OS update coming for Android, and while HTC will definitely have some phones running this OS, we do not have a specific timeframe for new phones or updates at this time. Please stay tuned for more details.”
















Our best guess if that HTC will be rolling out Android 2.3 to their newest phones first. We’re nearly 100% confident that the HTC Desire HD and Desire Z will be the first to receive the update, followed by the T-Mobile G2, myTouch 4G, EVO 4G, DROID Incredible, and the original Desire. While Google has no specific hardware requirements for Android 2.3, we would certainly not be surprised if HTC decides not up update any phone that does not have 1GHz or second generation processor.

For now, all we have are our educated guesses. Let’s hope HTC decides to give us a few more details on what the Android 2.3 upgrade strategy will be in the next few weeks.

Timmy.

Source: TechRadar

iPad 2 may start shipping by end of February 2011

Warm up your credit cards: Digitimes reports that the next-generation iPad may start shipping as early as late February of 2011. Digitimes' Taiwanese sources claim that Foxconn, Apple's leading product manufacturer, will ship the next-gen iPad within the next 100 days, with an initial shipment run of 400,000-600,000 units.

The current iPad, announced in late January, was not available for sale in the US until early April (Wi-Fi only) and late April (3G). While a late February ship date for an unannounced iPad 2 may sound far too optimistic to be true, Digitimes has been a decent source of component-related rumors in the past. Over a month before the release of the iPhone 4, Digitimes described the then-forthcoming handset's internals to a tee, correctly describing the specs of the Retina Display and the CPU and RAM upgrades.

Timmy

[via Mac Rumors]

AT&T The wost carrier..... Again?

For the second year in a row, Consumer Reports has rated AT&T lowest in customer satisfaction. Based on a survey of almost 60,000 customers - half of them Phone users, AT&T got the lowest possible rating in every single category of the survey except for texting. AT&T was also the only carrier to see a significant drop in overall customer satisfaction, according to a blog post announcing the findings.

58,000 Consumer Reports readers were surveyed about the US big four - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile - as well as U.S. Cellular, which covers the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, parts of the East Coast and most of New England. U.S. Cellular actually got the highest ranking of any of the providers, with a score of 82. Verizon was second with 74, followed by Sprint with 73, T-Mobile with 69, and AT&T bringing up the rear with a lowly 60.

AT&T scored the lowest possible ranking in eight of the nine categories, including overall value, voice service, data service, support via phone, support via website, support via e-mail, staff knowledge, and issues resolved. In the only other category - texting - the carrier managed to get the next-to-lowest possible score.

Consumer Reports says that half of the AT&T customers surveyed were iPhone users, and were overall much less satisfied with AT&T than other customers. AT&T iPhone users especially rated their data service lower than owners of smart phones on other carriers. Paul Reynolds, the electronics editor at Consumer Reports, noted that "an iPhone from Verizon Wireless, which is rumored, could indeed be good news for iPhone fans."

Last year's survey also had AT&T coming in last, though with a considerably better showing. The overall score was 66, and that was before AT&T made major investments in infrastructure this year to improve its service.

Timmy

Source: TUAW