The developer of CyanogenMod, an “unofficial” build of Android based on Cupcake that incorporates parts of Donut and a number of contributions from the xda-developers.com community, has received a cease and desist from Google.
The first Android-powered phone to market, the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream), was an awkward device with its main appeal derived from the fact it was Android-powered. The HTC Magic is the second Android device to reach consumers, and in terms of hardware, it’s largely the same as its predecessor. The key difference is the move [...]
Pixelpipe, the content distribution gateway service that distributes your content—now including audio and video—across multiple social media sites, released a big update Friday. Android users running “Cupcake” can now send videos to Facebook, Picasa, 12Seconds.tv, Twitter, Flickr and others, with additional options over the built-in YouTube uploader.
While T-Mobile’s over-the-air Cupcake update we told you about at the start of the month has been delayed until early June, the waiting game is now over – provided you’re willing to download the update files and force your T-Mobile G1 into a manual update procedure.
According to our analytics software, there’s a massive number of T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream owners out there salivating over the Android 1.5 (or Cupcake) update – and we now have news regarding the release dates for the UK, US and Australia.
While owners of the T-Mobile G1 will likely be waiting until May to get their hands on the Cupcake update, the developers out there who are sporting an Android Dev Phone 1 can get in on the action right now.
T-Mobile Germany has updated its website with the news that the Android 1.5 (Cupcake) update will be automatically rolled out to G1 customers on the network in May, free of charge.
Here’s one that’s sure to interest those of you who are tired of waiting for Google to release the Android 1.5/Cupcake. A hacker by the name of haykuro has managed to port the as yet unreleased operating system from the upcoming HTC Magic/G2 device to the Dream/G1.
Google has released an “early look” build of the Android 1.5 SDK, allowing developers to prepare their applications for compatibility with Android 1.5, based on the Cupcake branch of the Android Open Source Project, ahead of its final release around the end of this month.
Greg Kumparak from MobileCrunch got some hands on time with the latest build (1.5/CRA79) of the upcoming “Cupcake” firmware update for Android at CTIA 09, and has detailed a few of the new features including text auto-correction, emoticons, orientation switching, and changes to the Add to Home screen.
