Cellular South Offering Android 2.1 to HTC Hero

Cellular South today announced that customers with the HTC Hero can download and install Android 2.1 Eclair on their devices. Aside from all the new features found in Android 2.1, (Google Maps Navigation, pinch-to-zoom, Yahoo Mail support and better …(follow link to read)

Sprint Confirms Android 2.2 Coming to HTC Evo 4G

Sprint today announced that it is finalizing the software to upgrade the HTC Evo 4G to Android 2.2. Sprint’s other Android phones, the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment, will not receive the system update. Sprint says its Android 2.2 …(follow link to read)

Sprint Now Offering Android 2.1 to HTC Hero

Today Sprint informed owners of the HTC Hero that they can now upgrade their devices to Android 2.1. Aside from all the new features found in Android 2.1, the update also includes the newest version of HTC’s Sense user …(follow link to read)

Sprint Pushes Android 2.1 Update Back to Q2

In an official forum post concerning an update for the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment, Sprint said it had hoped to have this issue resolved by now.

Sprint Has Yet to Schedule Android 2.1 Updates for Hero, Moment

Sprint provided a brief statement to Phone Scoop when asked about when and how the Android 2.1 update will be provided to users of the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment. Sprint spokesperson Mark Elliott said in an email, “Sprint …(follow link to read)

Babo Crash gem-switch game for iPhone

Here we have Babo Crash [$0.99 - iTunes Link], a fun new gem-switching game for the iPhone and iPod touch from Playbrains. In this game you have to match similar coloured gems with adjacent gems in sets of three or more, in a similar fashion to Bejeweled. The difference in Babo Crash is that if you match up more than 4 gems you unleash specialized hero gems. These hero gems, when matched, have specialized gem-busting powers. ..read more

TiPb Apps 6.1: Panda Hero for iPhone (GDC 2010)

Live from GDC 2010 Rene talks to Jodi and Jacques Ropert of Barefoot Explorers about their upcoming iPhone game, Panda Explorers.

Scheduled to hit the App Store this spring, in addition to maze-style adventure and pets-style casual gameplay, it packs an environmentally conscious message into all those great graphics — Barefoot Explorers will plant four (4) actual, real, live trees on behalf of players for each download of the game.

Check out the video below for details and a look at the ..read more

Sprint Android Phones Will Get 2.1 Upgrade This Spring

Sprint representatives have confirmed to PhoneScoop that the carrier’s current crop of Android smartphones, the Samsung Moment and HTC Hero, will be updated directly from Android 1.5 to Android 2.1. As Sprint Communications Manager Caroline Semerdjian told us, Sprint …(follow link to read)

Apple iPad Orders Start Tomorrow 5:30am PT, 8:30am ET, 1:30pm GT

TUAW played hero today, riding to the rescue of would-be iPad pre-orderers everywhere with firm news from Apple PR of just when exactly those iPad pre-orders would start:

“Customers can pre-order online at apple.com at 5:30am Pacific time on Friday, March 12.”

So that’s 5:30am PT, 8:30am ET, 1:30pm GT. Of course, the Apple Online Store might go down first, and who knows what delays might spring up between now and then, but for what it’s worth that’s currently go time.

So now ..read more

HTC Desire = Nexus One + Sense UI — The Competition

While yesterday’s Mobile World Congress news was all about Windows Phone 7 Series (henceforth WinPho7s), the Android invasion has returned with news of the HTC Desire, which looks to be Nexus One-style hardware running a new version of Sense UI, and the HTC Legend, a unibody update to the Hero.

Android Central has your details and your HTC Desire hands-on.

In terms of competition to the iPhone, it’s probably not too different than the Nexus One either. The specs remain over the ..read more

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