Android Devs

The fine folks at Apple have seen the light and have decided to toss out plans for iPhone OS 4 and partner with Google to truly unleash the power of their hardware. No more will they lash the whip of Jobsian tyranny and cackle with glee as developers and customers alike skitter to and fro at their beckon call. It is reported that Steve Jobs was sitting on his diamond-encrused iToilet one night, when he heard the voice of God [...]

A complete, step-by-step guide for how to return your Nexus One to completely stock settings, including the original, stock/shipping bootloader, system image (ERD79), and recovery console. (Courtesy of seraph at xda-devs).

Many fine folks tethered to an AT&T contract were salivating at the Nexus One when it was released for T-Mobile over the holidays. Those who simply couldn’t wait, and didn’t mind settling for slower, EDGE data speeds bought an unlocked N1 from Google and went merrily on their way. And finally, months after the aftermath of Google’s phone distribution paradigm shift “whatever” debacle, AT&T users finally see the device come to their 3G network. Rejoice!

For those uninitiated into the world of Android rooting and custom ROM builds, Cyanogen is one of the pioneers (one of the few still active as well) in the world of custom Android ROM building. He has quite a following of users, so much so that Google at one point sent him a Cease and Desist order for inadvertently breaking copyright on the Google Apps suite of tools (Gmail, Maps, etc). In response, Cyanogen simply split his modifications and improvements [...]

Those of us who use our Android phone in an environment that requires Exchange email access no longer have to suffer with a 3rd party (slow) application to deliver our email via ActiveSync. Exchange for Android is here. For free.