Jason Taylor, Author at OMG!Droid's Posts

Seidio Charging Vault: An extended battery in your pocket!

Seidio, the maker of popular aftermarket smartphone accessories, recently added a new product to their line.  The Charging Vault, it allows you to charge your phone on the go.We rely on our phones for a calendar, to retrieve our emails, keeping up on our social networks, your alarm clock and even make phone calls on it.  But doing all this will leave you with a dying or dead battery.What can you d... »

Go Launcher EX Updated to 2.65 – Contains Bug Fixes and Improvements

The popular home screen launcher replacement app, Go Launcher EX, was updated today to version 2.65.  This application keeps getting better and better with every update!  I personally use this application and recommend you give it a try.  My favorite feature of this app is the amount of themes made for it.  You can personalize the app to your liking.  And new themes are being added all the time.  ... »

HSPA+ networks announced for 11 new T-Mobile Markets

T-Mobile announced today another expansion of their HSPA+ 42Mbps network to eleven new markets.   They are expanding their 21Mbps network in an additional nine cities. New Markets to see HSPA+ 42: Bend, Medford and Corvallis, Ore.; Benton Harbor, Mich.; Bloomington, Champaign–Urbana and Springfield, Ill.; Columbus, Ga.; Hagerstown, Md.; Montgomery, Ala; Yuba City, Calif. Markets where HSPA+ 21 is ... »

HTC Receives Cease and Desist Letter from Vivid Entertainment

Whats in a name? A lot of you ask Vivid Entertainment.  They recently sent smartphone maker HTC a case and desist letter requesting that the HTC Vivid phone name be changed to something else.  Vivid claims that the phone is infringing on Vivid’s trademarked name.  Lawyers on behalf of Vivid Entertainment claim that consumers might get confused and think that Vivid Entertainment is behind the... »

CyanogenMod 9 Bringing ICS To You In Two Months?

Yesterday as we all know, Google officially made the Ice Cream Sandwich source code available for public use.  Today, CyanogenMod founder, Steve Kondik, tweeted this morning “and we’re off, check back in 2 months “.   Could this mean we will see an update to the ROM as soon as January of next year?  It’s quite possible.  Since CM is built directly off the source code of Android, ... »

Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code Being Pushed to Git Servers!

This bit of new should make all the ROM developers happy!  Google is pushing the Ice Cream Sandwich source code to Google’s Git Servers.  This is the full release, Android 4.0.1, which will ship on the Galaxy Nexus device.  Most of you out there will have no idea what to do with this code.  However, if you would like to take a stab at cooking up some ICS yourself, you can find build instruct... »

WildTangent Bringing its game rental service to Android

Most mobile games for Android are cheap.  The only problem is the purchase is a permanent one and the game isn’t transferable.  Another problem is now that Google decided to change the refund time from 24 hours to a mere 15 minutes, finding the game you want to keep is even harder than before. WildTangent is here to fix that problem.  They announced over the summer that they would be expandi... »

Go Launcher EX Updated to v2.62

Go Launcher EX was updated today to v2.62.  The update brings some new features along with a couple of bug fixes.  Below is the change log directly from the Android Market. (New) App search in horizontal app drawer (optional in the app drawer settings) (New) Custom highlight color of home screen icon (Improve) Speed of entering screen preview (Improve) Zoom transition when opening apps (Fix) Retur... »

European Galaxy Nexus Carrier Availability

On Thursday, Samsung released more details on availability of the Galaxy Nexus in Europe.  As we know, it will be available on Nov 17.  Here is a break down, country-by-country: United Kingdom: O2, Three, SIM-free Ireland: Three France: SFR, SIM-free Germany: Vodafone, O2, SIM-free Italy: TIM, Vodafone, Three, Wind, SIM-free Spain: Vodafone, SIM-free Portugal: Vodafone, SIM-free The Netherlands: S... »

Go Launcher EX Updated to v2.61

The popular homescreen application, Go Launcher EX, which is an extension of Go Launcher, was updated to v2.61 today. This is my favorite homescreen application have used it for quite some time.  I love all the customization options and themes that are available. I’ve tried the other launchers and always come back to Go Launcher EX.  With every update, the application has gotten better and b... »

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