From Htcyou: A e-mail alleged to be from HTC has some titillating details about the much discussed Droid Incredible. HTC might be prepared to release a major upgrade to the Incredible that includes Android 2.2 FroYo and a slew of fixes and other updates. The race amongst Android smartphone makers for 2.2 has begun in earnest. More »

From Htcyou: Most of you could care less what South Koreans are getting, but many North Americans will buy some version of the Samsung Galaxy S, which is hitting every carrier under the sky. An early August FroYo update for the Korean Galaxy S should mean that its carbon copies worldwide will receive the same treatment shortly thereafter. More »

From Htcyou: By Q4, LG will have an updated SU950 that comes loaded with Android 2.2 FroYo. Naturally, the SU950 out now will be upgraded to FroYo simultaneously. More »

Slowly but surely, solid-state-drives are making their entrance into mainstream acceptance. For sometime, higher-end laptops from Apple, Sony, HP, etc. have offered optional SSD hard disks as replacements for mechanical drives, which, due to moving parts, are significantly slower than solid-state storage for random and sequential reading (as well as random writing) speed. More consumers are taking notice of SSD because their benefits are readily apparent: much faster operating system and application boot up times and quicker general response from computers. Unfortunately, the biggest hurdle of SSD (in addition to first generation drives that had terrible Jmicron controllers) has remained its small capacity and high price. While drives are becoming more affordable and bigger, 60-64Gb disks are still in the $150+ range. People like myself have waited for the ideal solution, and with Corsair’s budget Nova series, I think that I have found it. More »

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From Htcyou: Droid Life is on a roll today. After the juicy bit of information about the Droid Incredible, the blog is citing one of its “most reliable sources” to report that July 13th marks the date for the Motorola Droid’s upgrade to Android 2.2 FroYo. More »

Long has been the wait for the hybrid 10.1″ Pixel Qi LCD that can transform itself from a conventional color display into an extraordinarily energy efficient (”80% less power”) e-ink mode like on e-readers for viewing text in extremely bright environments. More »

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Sprint customers and Europeans who have unlocked versions of the HTC Hero have been granted an over-the-air Android Eclair update. HTC is not leaving other Hero owners high and dry either because an official ROM upgrade can be downloaded directly from its servers. More »

From Htcyou: A new rumor from a “trustworthy source” puts the Motorola Droid 2 for Verizon’s launch on August 23rd. Should the Droid 2 be released in late August, it will almost surely have Android 2.2 FroYo. The Droid X is landing on July 15th with Eclair. More »

5. Google Android smartphones are rather fast sellers, moving at 2 per second. Samsung’s Galaxy S is being renamed the Vibrant for T-Mobile. More »

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From Htcyou: In a blatant demonstration of passive disregard for its valuable customers, Sprint has callously declared that its Samsung Moment and HTC Hero will never see Android 2.2 FroYo. More »

From Htcyou: Instead, put the blame squarely on your carrier/handset manufacturer. Why? Because when Google released the open source code of Android 2.2 FroYo a couple of days ago, Tim Bray remarked that with FroYo, developers can “build and boot a fully open-source system image out of the box, for the emulator, as well as for Dream (ADP1), Sapphire (ADP2).” What this means is that even an old dog (the eldest of all Androids) can officially be programmed to run Android 2.2. More »

Regularly $100, the budget 32Gb Nova solid-state-drive from Corsair is $69.99 for a limited spell after a $20 mail-in rebate. After years of putting it off, I am finally going to get an SSD as my main OS X drive, the Corsair Nova, which has the benefit of TRIM support right out of the box. More »

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From Htcyou: Verizon says that the Motorola Droid is receiving Android 2.2 FroYo in July, presumably before the upcoming Droid X, which is shipping with Eclair on July 15th. More »

From Htcyou: Straight from Google is build FRF72 of Android 2.2 for the Nexus One. Before you venture off to perform the non OTA update, ensure that you have the FRF50 build, which must be installed on an unrooted unit. More »

However, as with the 13″ MacBook Pro, the new unibody Mac Mini retains Intel’s last generation Core 2 Duo Penryn chipset. The biggest draws are the upgraded NVIDIA 320M graphics and HDMI, which is long, long, long overdue on the Mini since many people use it as a multimedia hub or even as an HTPC. Apple can get away with excluding the port on its Macs, but the Mini deserves it. More »

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