While the world anxiously awaits Motorola‘s 2013 flagship device, the company is looking to get rid of existing stock to make room for what’s to come. To give consumers a bit of incentive for buying Moto, the company is offering $50 in free Google Play Store credit with the purchase of one of the following devices: Droid Razr M Droid Razr HD Droid Razr Maxx HD Droid Razr Droid Razr Max... »
Google has announced on their developer blog, new tool sets to make it easier for developers to program for in app payments. Those of you, who are familiar with apps and games from developers such as Glu Mobile and MADFINGER Games, are no stranger to the practice of in-app pay-for-upgrades as you blast your way through their intense game play, but now says these new tools will give developers: An ... »
This week we are introducing a new feature here at OMG!Droid, entitled “The Bootloop”. This is a feature where we’ll keep you up to date on any Android or Google related news you may have missed in the past seven days. As always in the Android world, there was a lot of news this week so let’s get going. Giveaways: Samsung Galaxy S III Flip Cover Giveaway & Review Deal A... »
So you’ve got yourself a Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE and you want to root it, eh? Lucky for you, it’s not the most difficult of tasks, and XDA Recognized Developer, shabbypenguin, has put together a handy little guide for gaining root access and installing ClockworkMod Recovery on the device. We take no credit for this guide, nor do we accept any responsibility for anything that goes afou... »
My personal favorite custom recovery, TWRP, has received an update to version 2.2.2 for a whole ton of devices. The latest version brings along with it several improvements and bugfixes. If you’ve never used TWRP before, be sure to check out the video review I shot of an earlier version a while back. Here’s what’s up with the latest build: Significantly improved sd-ext handling (... »
As you all know Sprint is the latest to join in the LTE network game, being completely beaten by Verizon and AT&T in terms of the sheer number of markets. A few days ago Sprint light a few more LTE markets and has started revamping the 3G service it has in other areas. The list of the new markets is below: Baltimore, Md Gainesville, Ga Manhattan/Junction City, Kan Sedalia, Mo And the revamped ... »
As a Motorola fan and giant Android …tinkerer, and with as much as I love Moto devices, the inability to unlock the bootloaders for said devices has hindered the dev community. Even though major releases like the Droid X and RAZR have an amazing community, it’s nothing like it would be if the bootloader had an easy ability to be unlocked. Well, Moto plans on helping the community by fi... »
It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve talked about the Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE, but today we just caught wind of a possible launch date for the device. As promised, here is your update. According to our pals from Phonedog, Sprint employees began training for the QWERTY slider handset yesterday and now, per their unnamed source, the device is scheduled to hit retail shelves on August... »
Motorola has announced availability for two new Android handsets slated for release on U.S. Cellular, the nation’s sixth-largest wireless carrier. First up, we’ve got the “incredibly thin, made Kevlar strong” ELECTRIFY 2, which is the second-generation followup to the original ELECTRIFY, released about a year ago. The ELECTRIFY 2 features a slim 8.4 millimeter design and an... »
We announced a little earlier the new Photon Q from Sprint, and they were kind enough to roll out a full fact sheet for everyone. I’m personally familiar with the Photon series after owning the original, which was a pretty solid device. Looking at this list, I’m impressed with the extra work done to make it a contender with over devices on the market now. Can it really compete thou... »
