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Apple’s castle is under siege, Android is close to the walls

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10 months ago
by Ivan Femia in , , ,

Original posting http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/23834

iPhone Android Blackberry

During the past months I have been following the debate between Android and Apple fans. Each side considers its own device a better performer than the other, but what is the reality? (more…)

Android Froyo 2.2 on HTC Hero? Yes, You can!

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1 year ago
by Ivan Femia in ,

In this new blog I’ll give a quick guide in order to install a fully working and stable Android Froyo on your old (as HTC suppose :evil: ) HTC Hero.

As always, I’m not responsible for any damage that could occur to your device. This guide is for HTC Hero only, not the Sprint Hero.

Prerequisites

  1. HTC Hero is rooted successfully, if not follow first 3 steps reported in my previous blog How to install Eclair 2.1 on HTC Hero.
  2. Amon Ra is successfully updated to the latest release, follow these two blog posts to get some instructions

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Android Froyo what’s new?

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1 year ago
by Ivan Femia in

Android Froyo

Today at the Google I/O Froyo (Android 2.2) makes its official appereance and it looks really really great!!!

I would like to resume the biggest news of the latest Andorid release:

1. Android Just In Time Compiler

JIT

Finally JIT (Just In Time) Compiler is released in Android. JIT Compiler represents a hybrid approach in code compilation between the two classic one: intepreted and static compilation. This “feature” makes our android much faster.

In particular during the event it was shown the fps rate in a game running on two Nexus One (one Eclair and one Froyo with JIT);  as you can see, the first is much better performance of the second although they have the same hardware.

Some days ago a NexusOne with Android 2.2 beated its “brother” with Android 2.1 in a benchmarch test (Linpack for Andorid), the first is 450% faster.
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HTC Hero & Android 2.1 Eclair… Is it just a dream?

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1 year ago
by Ivan Femia in

Android Eclair ReleaseSome days ago HTC apologised for the delay of the development of the new Android 2.1 firmware with HTC Sense for Hero, last official news is that HTC will release the new official firmware on June.

What I would like to say to all HTC users is to root anyway your Hero and install a custom ROM, they are now pretty stable and fully working; if you are not confortable with Eclair you can install Modaco cutom ROM based on HTC 1.5 that is faster than the official one.

Currently, absolutely IMHO, the best Eclair custom ROM is VillainRom, I changed many ROMs in the last few month, without any significant data loss or problem.

You can download latest version at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=654030.

If you have no rooted HTC Hero before, follow my two blogs in order to root and update the recovery manager:

Happy Android everyone!!!!!

Flash support: Android vs IPhone

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1 year ago
by Ivan Femia in ,

Android 2.1 is going to have the new Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0. What for IPhone users?

This is our test on both devices: on top an Android device on bottom an IPhone.

Android vs IPhone

Source: http://www.tuttoandroid.net

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