Maybe we need an Android tweaking thread

[whisper]

Originally Posted by ADoubleDot

That may be a Sense UI piece of awesome. I have motoBlur Craptasticness to deal with. Thanks though.

You may want to go with a launcher, like ADW or Launcher Pro - that may kill the Blur problems.

[no driver]

Not Android specific but since several folks in this thread are on Verizon I thought I'd pass it along:

http://consumerist.com/2010/10/veriz...-auto-pay.html

[ADoubleDot]

They are so lame. I can't wait till Google buys them.

I will just send it through my bank's bill pay now. But I lose the rewards points for using the debit as a CC though. Oh well.

[thing]

Originally Posted by ahow

I'm confused about your situation. I only have one podcast loaded in listen and I haven't used the Queued items list. I only pop up the Fresh items. Also, the main benefit of Reader integration is that you get notified of new episodes. Can you actually control it from there?

I'm confused about my situation too. Haven't found a good tutorial on how it's supposed to work; maybe I should do some more sleuthing for such a thing.

[ahow]

Just found Ultra Keyboard via James Kendrick. Highly recommend watching the video. Looks very promising and I'll try to post my thoughts later on.

http://jkontherun.com/2010/10/13/vid...d-for-android/

[thing]

Originally Posted by thing

I'm confused about my situation too. Haven't found a good tutorial on how it's supposed to work; maybe I should do some more sleuthing for such a thing.

Found a couple of articles at Lifehacker, nothing that changed my life. But it seems like when you first add a feed, if you click "Queue", it downloads the most recent episode, no problem. But it will only download one episode at a time, so if (like me) you're adding multiple podcasts at once, the second one doesn't do anything when you add the subscription, and won't bring in the most recent episode when you update all, etc. At which point, hitting "play" on the second episode gives you an error pop-up, but starts downloading the second episode.

Not sure that's making sense; but then the programs not making sense to me either.

http://lifehacker.com/5342445/listen...ts-audio-clips BTW

[whisper]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/19/s...e-immediately/

Citing "personal reasons," the Symbian Foundation has just announced that executive director Lee Williams has left the company -- yes, "left," as in he's not going to stick around for a while to manage a transition.

Interesting. I wonder if this is due to the influence iPhone and Android has had, or something inappropriate...

[whisper]

To add to the chaos:

http://phandroid.com/2010/10/19/germ...sets-possibly/

Ever wanted to build your own Android 2.2 handset from the ground up? Start with a 4.0-inch screen, choose your 3G or 4G LTE or WiMAX radio, pick a camera up to 12MP, and round it out with options from Bluetooth and WiFi to HDMI output and extra storage? Well, German company Synapse is apparently offering just that for prices starting around €434 ($600), that is if the website would proceed to load.

Seems like the website is having some technical difficulties. Definitely would not advocate being an early adopter on this concept..

[E]

Originally Posted by whisper

To add to the chaos:

http://phandroid.com/2010/10/19/germ...sets-possibly/



Seems like the website is having some technical difficulties. Definitely would not advocate being an early adopter on this concept..

I think this will become common. It's not unreasonable to imagine a future when people can easily build their own mobile devices from inexpensive kits.

[Mojo]

Droid X Oced at 2Ghz:

http://androidspin.com/2010/10/22/mo...to-2ghz-video/