A few months ago when Google introduced Android 2.2 Froyo, the company promised one of the upcoming features would be the ability to push content from a web browser directly to your phone. Want to finish reading that article you have open on your desktop on your phone? Just click a button and the page will automatically open on your Android handset. This can also… Read more »

Folks who own an HTC Evo 4G phone are starting to report that they’re receiving over the air updates bringing Google Android 2.2 Froyo to their mobile phones. The update was expected to start rolling out tomorrow, but I guess HTC is on… I don’t know, European time or something. Anyway, this makes the Evo 4G one of the first phones to receive an official… Read more »

Yet another build of Google Android 2.2 Froyo for the Nexus One phone has started rolling out. The difference is that some users are reporting that they’ve been getting the latest build as an over the air update — leading some people to concluded that this is the final build of Android 2.2 for the Nexus One. The fact that the Froyo source code was… Read more »

Google just made two rather significant announcements. The first is that 160,000 new Android handsets are activated every day — which is about 60,000 more than just a month ago. The second is that Google Android 2.2 is now open source, meaning it’s likely to start showing up on phones that aren’t the Google Nexus One pretty soon. Opening up the source code also makes… Read more »

It certainly doesn’t take long for hackers to figure out how to cram unofficial software updates onto Android hardware, does it? The Dell Streak Android tablet started shipping in the UK yesterday. Today we have the first report of a user gaining root access, which essentially means he can run officially unsupported code and even install custom firmware. In other news, the first unofficial firmware… Read more »

A few weeks ago it looked like Google had started pushing out Android 2.2 Froyo to Nexus One users. But it turns out that what was really happening was that Google was giving some testers (including a handful of tech bloggers with demo phones) a pre-release build of Froyo. An official update should be on its way soon. For the most part, Android 2.2 runs… Read more »

Didn’t get around to manually downloading the update.zip file that would let you install Google Android 2.2 Froyo on your Google Nexus One phone this weekend? Looks like you might have to wait a little longer for Froyo then, because Google has removed the file that hackers were using to update their phones. Google had been pushing out Froyo as an over-the-air update to some… Read more »

Yesterday I took a quick look at Android 2.2 Froyo and found that third party apps ran faster, flash Player 10.1 worked, but was a bit sluggish at times, and a few third party calendar apps stopped working. Today I wanted to take a more detailed look at some of the things that have changed in Android 2.2 Froyo. You can find a video overview… Read more »

I’ve been playing around with Google Android 2.2 Froyo on my Nexus One for the last hour or so. While Google is slowly rolling out the over the air update to Nexus One users, there’s a way to download the update and install it manually if you’re the impatient type. Overall, I like Froyo so far. Third party apps definitely feel a little faster. Fennec… Read more »

Just a few days after unveiling Google Android 2.2 Froyo, it looks like Google is starting to roll out the software update to folks with Google Nexus One handsets. TechCrunch blogger MG Siegler received the update on his phone last night, and a handful of other users have posted on Twitter that they have the update as well. Google tends to do phased rollouts –… Read more »