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Dell Streak to get official Android 2.1 update on September 1st or 2nd, according to O2

Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Looks like things are going swell for Dell Streak owners in the UK — following the earlier Android 2.1 firmware leak, news from the grapevine is that O2 will be rolling out a final build of said update on September 1st, which would easily fit into th…

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T-Mobile UK quietly retracts Pulse’s buggy 2.1 update, Huawei says it was non-final anyway

Posted on 27. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Remember T-Mobile’s money-saving, finger-friendly Pulse? You know, the Huawei Android handset that received a 2.1 update in Hungary back in May? Earlier this month (on the 6th, to be precise), said phone’s British counterpart also received its share o…

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Verizon pushes out first Droid 2 update, doesn’t cure signal woes

Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

As is becoming almost customary with high-profile smartphone releases these days, Verizon and Motorola have already gotten around to releasing the Droid 2′s first over-the-air firmware update just days after its initial launch on the 12th. There’s not…

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Motorola Milestone to get Android 2.2 in Europe and Korea in late Q4, Dext 2.1 upgrade looking bleak

Posted on 22. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Until now, Milestone owners could do nothing but to envy Droid users rocking the Froyo upgrade; however, according to Motorola’s recently published timeline, the former device is now slated for the same dessert party in Europe and Korea in Q4 — speci…

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T-Mobile tells reps the Vibrant GPS update is ‘coming soon’

Posted on 19. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

No word on what AT&T is communicating to its peeps regarding the similarly-afflicted Captivate, but it looks like T-Mobile fired off a communique to its sales reps in the past few hours letting them know that the Vibrant’s update to solve its GPS …

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Samsung commits to September updates for Galaxy S GPS woes

Posted on 13. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

AGPS capability on various versions of the Galaxy S — including the Captivate and Vibrant released here in the US — has been deeply hosed since launch, the apparent result of a bunk positioning server being used to associate towers to geographical l…

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Dell Streak gets leaked Android 2.1 update in the UK, but still the same ol’ 1.6 in the US

Posted on 13. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

What is there to do on a cloudy Friday in Britain? Why, scouring the web for your phone’s firmware update, of course. That’s probably how a Modaco member unearthed the Dell Streak’s latest Android 2.1 build (apparently just for locked O2 devices), any…

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Older Apple iOS devices must jailbreak to be secure — oh the irony

Posted on 13. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Remember that nasty PDF bug that allowed potentially malicious code to be executed on your iOS device? Right, the one that Apple recently patched with the iOS 4.0.2 software update, slamming the door on jailbreakme.com. Well, if you own the original i…

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Motorola Droid Android 2.2 Froyo OTA updates are go

Posted on 11. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Judging by the deluge of tips that just hit our inbox, it looks like Verizon just pulled the trigger and released the Android 2.2 Froyo over-the-air update for its venerable Droid handset. At least it has for some lucky owners. So tell us, did you get yours?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Dell Streak with Android 2.1 update exclusive preview: 720p video capture, better keyboard, and more

Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

We’ve got some good news and some bad news for fellow Streak-wielding chums. The bad news is that said Dell tabletphone won’t be getting its Froyo update in September — well, in the UK at least. The good news, however, is that O2 will be squeezing ou…

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Sony Ericsson X10 firmware update introduces wildly annoying WiFi bug

Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by IBM. 

Apparently, the latest firmware update for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 (which, yes, is still based on Android 1.6) does more harm than good — if you’re frequently using WiFi and you find yourself in weak cellular coverage, anyhow. Basically, any time …

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HTC will ship all Android phones in China with Froyo on board, fuels fire for immediate update closer to home

Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

A wordy headline, to be sure, but a pleasing one nonetheless. We came across HTC’s Chinese web portal listing the Desire as coming with Android 2.2 (with Sense!) and simply had to ping the official source for confirmation. It turns out the info up the…

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Motorola Cliq / Dext gets leaked Android 2.1 update, not pinch-to-zoom (video)

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Don’t know about you, but our poor Motorola Dext (or Cliq as it’s know in the Land of the Free) had been left gathering dust for some time as it got unbearably laggy, even after a few wipes. We only clung onto this Android 1.5 device in the hope that …

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Conflipper says Shipped Roms is ‘here to stay,’ will cooperate with HTC

Posted on 02. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

It looks like those worried that firmware site Shipped Roms would disappear after being hit with a cease and desist letter from HTC can now rest a bit easier — Conflipper, the man behind the site, says that it is “here to stay.” That news comes after…

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Apple: iPhone 4 reception problem is a software issue, fix coming in ‘a few weeks’

Posted on 02. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Whoa, Apple just admitted that there’s an issue with the iPhone 4′s reception, but it might not be what you think:

Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally…

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Sprint halts EVO 4G update due to reports of it bricking phones

Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by IBM. 

Uh oh. There’s been a tiny little hitch in the latest EVO 4G update, which has resulted in a number of people finding their superphones becoming unusable. Aside from rooted handsets having their predictable woes with new official software, some users …

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Microsoft says Kin software update is scheduled for mid-summer

Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by IBM. 

We’d already heard some talk that Microsoft’s Kin One and Kin Two phones might be in store for an update, and it looks like the phones will indeed be getting one sooner rather than later. While it remains to be seen if it will include those rumored IM…

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