Android 2.2 wastes no time getting hacked onto HTC Dream and Magic

Android 2.2 wastes no time getting hacked onto HTC Dream and Magic: "

Though we're not even a wee bit shocked to see a 'usable' version of Froyo already available to owners of the G1 / Dream and Magic, we're definitely heartened to see that phones running 2008 specs can handily run a mid-2010 version of the platform. There's plenty of stuff that doesn't work yet -- WiFi and GPS, just to name a couple of biggies -- but we suspect that this is one dev community that won't give up until everything is working to their satisfaction. Motivation to hang on to otherwise outdated hardware for a few more months, perhaps?

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Skype Mobile with video support coming to Android Market later this year?

Skype Mobile with video support coming to Android Market later this year?: "

Skype's PR folks have been unusually loquacious today, as they've responded to a query about whether HTC's EVO 4G would get a Skype client with a deep and meaningful forward-looking statement, underpinned by a promise of an Android app 'for all consumers globally to download regardless of carriers.' This universally available addition to the Market should arrive 'later this year,' but what's important about it is that it's preceded by a lengthy spiel about Skype's ambition to 'set the bar on mobile video calling,' which it also intends to do this year. Does this necessarily mean that Skype video calling is coming to Android in time for us to wish granny happy Hanukkah over video chat? No. Is it a well constructed insinuation to that effect? Hell yes. Read the full statement at the source, or find the juiciest excerpt after the break.



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