http://www.phonesonly.com/blog Cellphones, Web Phones, Home Phones Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:22:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Historically, Samsung has worked up a pretty spotty record for properly supporting its Android devices with updates to newer versions of the platform -- just look at the Behold 2 debacle for evidence of that -- but that doesn't mean some enterprising folks out in the field can't make up ... http://www.phonesonly.com/blog/samsung-i5700-galaxy-spica-hacked-for-multitouch-support/ It appears we missed an opportunity at IFA to spend some quality time with LG's recently-outed C300 Town, a dumbphone in every sense of the word whose main mission in life seems to be making your texting an easier task thanks to a full portrait QWERTY keyboard. It's got a ... http://www.phonesonly.com/blog/lgs-c300-town-spotted-in-the-wild-textin-on-the-cheap/ Considering the sheer volume of 5800 XpressMusics that Nokia has sold over the past year and a half, it's little wonder that they've got a few dedicated hackers out there working on keeping the company's first S60 Fifth Edition device up to date, isn't it? Sure enough, the C6's updated ... http://www.phonesonly.com/blog/nokia-c6-firmware-hacked-with-care-onto-5800-and-5530/ Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone," but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning. A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close ... http://www.phonesonly.com/blog/mit-app-turns-your-android-phone-into-a-supercomputer-of-sorts/ O2 UK has been a little late to the Desire's Android 2.2 party, but of course, it's a "better late than never" sort of situation -- or is it? After getting a "small number" of reports that the just-released update for O2-branded units was causing problems, the carrier has put ... http://www.phonesonly.com/blog/o2s-htc-desire-gets-official-froyo-update-for-a-moment-anyhow/