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Motorola Droid hacked – Wi-Fi tethering within reach

Paul Fang, Dec 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

The recently released Motorola Droid is a jack of many trades but unfortunately stops short at the art of wireless tethering. An online tutorial over at DroidForums has incidentally appeared and evidently reveals how to enable the Wi-Fi tethering functionality on the smartphone. Read The Full Story

Archos 5 Internet Tablet gets Android 1.6 Donut with firmware v1.6.08 [Update: it's been pulled]

Satsuki Then, Dec 23rd 2009 Discuss [2]

Archos have released a new firmware update for the Archos 5 Internet Tablet, v1.6.08, and the key change is the introduction of Android 1.6 "Donut". With the new version of the OS comes the quick-search box for the MID/PMP's homescreen, improved power management, native WVGA display support and VPN functionality; Archos have also tweaked media handling, so that the Archos 5 Internet Tablet better supports H.264 SD and HD videos. Update: Strangely, all mention of the update - including the firmware itself - has been pulled from Archos' site. Read The Full Story

HTC HD2 update fixes camera distortion issue

Chris Davies, Dec 10th 2009 Discuss [0]

HTC have pushed out an update which is intended to address the pink blob problem experience by some HTC HD2 owners. Described as "Digital Picture Enhancement", the new firmware aims to remove the patch of pink-hued distortion some users have found in the center of photos taken with the HD2's 5-megapixel autofocus camera. Read The Full Story

Verizon pushing out OTA HTC DROID Eris update

Chris Davies, Dec 10th 2009 Discuss [0]

Did you wake up this morning to a firmware update? Owners of the HTC DROID Eris on Verizon may have, since the carrier has begun OTA distribution of the 1.16.605.1 ROM [PDF link]. While we'd love to see Android 2.0 on the cards, unfortunately this is more a bug fix and feature fettle release, including such niceties as better switching between 1x and 3G networks. Read The Full Story

Sony Ericsson Satio update R1CA037 released to salve touchscreen issues

Chris Davies, Dec 4th 2009 Discuss [3]

Sony Ericsson have released a firmware update for the Satio smartphone, recently pulled from some store shelves over misbehaving touchscreen issues. Software version R1CA037 apparently addresses the non-responsive touchscreen problem, together with freezing during media playback, poor speaker performance and camera glitches. Read The Full Story

Verizon OTA fix coming to address DROID photography woes

Chris Davies, Dec 4th 2009 Discuss [0]

The Motorola DROID's bizarre date-related camera bug will apparently be addressed "within the coming weeks" according to Verizon, who are promising an over-the-air (OTA) firmware update that will prevent the cyclical "bad autofocus" issue from reoccurring. The new software will also improve voice call quality, something the DROID didn't have too much difficulty with in the first place. Read The Full Story

HTC HD2 1.48 WWE firmware gets video demo: speedier and more stable

Chris Davies, Dec 2nd 2009 Discuss [1]

When it came to bugs and glitches, our experience with the HTC HD2 was generally uninterrupted; a few on-screen keyboard slow-downs were pretty much all we observed. Still, other users have reported more significant issues, and so HTC have pushed out a new firmware version for the smartphone, build 1.48 WWE, which attempts to address the problems. Xmoo - who happens to have two HD2's - put together a quick comparison video highlighting the improvements. Video comparison after the cut Read The Full Story

Intel X25-M and X18-M SSDs get TRIM fix

Shane McGlaun, Dec 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

Users of the Intel X25-M and X18-M SSDs were not happy when they learned that the firmware update that promised to increase write speeds actually killed Windows 7 installations. Intel removed the firmware update that added support for TRIM shortly after the reports started coming in of the Windows 7 issue. Read The Full Story

webOS 1.3.2 speeds up Palm Pixi; 1.3.5 imminent

Chris Davies, Dec 2nd 2009 Discuss [0]

A sprinkling of webOS news this morning, as both a new update gets pushed out to Palm Pixi owners and a future update is tipped. Palm Pixi owners are reporting that webOS 1.3.2 is being pushed to their handsets, though there's still no sign on Palm's Pixi software page, and while we're lacking an official changelog the new firmware is tipped to speed up how the smartphone handles multiple open applications. As for the rumored future update, that's believed to be webOS 1.3.5 and expected to arrive in mid-December. The news was revealed by a loose-lipped O2 Germany rep, apparently, who explained that one of 1.3.5's tweaks will be to fix an SMS bug that roughly halves the character limit after a special letter is entered.

Sony Walkman X firmware update v1.10 boosts browser

Chris Davies, Nov 27th 2009 Discuss [1]

Sony have outed a new firmware release for their Walkman X PMP, and the headline feature is an improved browsing experience. The new software tweaks the NetFront browser into rendering pages faster, maintaining layouts more like what you'd see on a desktop, and boosting scrolling speeds. Read The Full Story

Apple TV 3.0 tipped in new iTunes T&Cs

Chris Davies, Oct 29th 2009 Discuss [0]

An upcoming update to the Apple TV has been tipped by a change in Terms & Conditions for the iTunes Store. The new agreement - which is shown as of today - lists that "you can now use iTunes LPs and iTunes extras on Apple TV with software version 3.0 or higher"; however Apple are yet to release version 3.0 for their set-top box. Read The Full Story

Intel X25-M SSD update yanked over Windows 7 flaw

Chris Davies, Oct 28th 2009 Discuss [0]

Intel have yanked their recent X25-M SSD firmware update, after users reported the new software killed Windows 7 installations. The update introduced TRIM support to the solid-state drives, together with boosting sequential write performance by up to 40-percent; however, some Intel support forum users have discovered that after rebooting their Windows 7 machine the new OS will no longer load. Read The Full Story