First Android-Powered Vehicle Hits Production

It’s in digital photo frames, cell phones, and even netbooks, Google Android 2.1 operating system is quickly establishing itself as a reliable and great basis for many electronics.

British car manufacturer Roewe has now implemented Android 2.1 into their latest vehicle hitting production — the 350. It is the first vehicle in the world to come Android-equipped.

Before you even think about remote starting the 350 from your DROID, the Android implementation is minor, to say the least. Essentially, the car’s DVD/GPS system runs the latest Android kernel, and will allow drivers to access real-time traffic reports, access to the web, and even online chat.

Android, Google’s open source mobile operating system, has evolved past being just a platform for mobile phones, finding it’s way into digital photo frames, satellite navigation units, tablets and even laptops.

Highlighting the versatility of Android, a new product that started production yesterday which is slightly bigger than most Android powered devices; the Roewe 350, has become the world’s first Android equipped automobile.

The car features a DVD/GPS system that runs on Android 2.1, the latest kernel release from Google. The system will enable drivers to gain access to real-time traffic reports and allows for direct web access from within the car. Being constantly connected, the car also allows the driver to be contacted via online chat, which could be an interesting point for road safety groups.

For those not familiar with the Roewe brand, the company is an amalgamation of the Chinese company SAIC and the old British car manufacturer Rover/MG. According to TwitTown, SAIC bought the Rover 25 and 75 models in 2004, just before MG Rover went into administration, producing the cars in China under both the MG and Roewe names.

It’s not known quite how the car will be connected to internet, whether it will feature an inbuilt 3G card or allow third-party wireless WAN cards.

The Roewe 350 is due to be officially launched at the Beijing Auto Show next month.

[ via TNW ]

Coming soon- Unrevoked Application to break NAND!

The Unrevoked team is putting together an application that will make it easy for any person to root their Evo and Incredible. This has been a long time coming 

My Custom Droid Boot :)

Took the Verizon Droid X commercial converted, and shortened it to make my custom Droid boot animation it's not fully finished but here take a look I will try to up the quality in the future release "Tested and it works"

Droid X Commercial the boot is riped from took out the end part

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Motorola i1 android phone for boost mobile

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DROID X On Motorola’s Website

Verizon and Motorola are sure taking all the steps necessary to prepare for the big announcement of their two new Droid’s next Wednesday. The latest, a dedicated page for the Droid X at Motorola’s website.
This is also our first official look at the new Motoblur 2.0 which for whatever reason includes the Froyo Tip widget, but apparently is only running Android 2.1. Can’t wait to find out the real goodies on Wednesday

CyanogenMod-5.0.8 has landed!

CyanogenMod-5.0.8 for Nexus One, Droid, Dream, and Magic has arrived!

This is by far the BEST CM release! So much good stuff in there that you won’t even know what to do with it. And ADW Launcher is now the default launcher! This is another huge milestone for the Android community.

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Android Quick App: Trapster


A social drivers network. Who would have thought that such a thing would ever exist? If you check out the app Trapster and live in a major city, you’ll see that there is definitely a social network for the commuter crowd.

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lost Super Mario Brothers game"Super Mario Brothers Special"!

To get the new-look WoS off to an especially tremendous start, we've got something a little special for you. This week, your intrepid reporter discovered a piece of gaming history whose existence has until now escaped even the most supposedly definitive of books and web archives - a lost Super Mario Brothers game. Called "Super Mario Brothers Special", the game ran on the obscure Japanese PC-8001 computer, and was created in 1986 by veteran developers Hudson Soft. Looking and sounding very much like the arcade/NES original, SMB Special has two major differences to its parent.

Firstly, it contains a complete new set of levels, different from both the first game and the Japan-only "Super Mario Bros 2" which later appeared on the SNES Mario Allstars compilation. And secondly, rather than having a scrolling display in the manner of the other Mario games, SMBS features a flick-screen format which changes the gameplay significantly. (For example, a kicked Koopa shell will now rebound off the edge of the screen and come back at you whether there's an obstacle there or not.)

Despite these changes, and the primitive hardware the game was running on, SMB Special is an entertaining game, significantly harder than the original and a challenge even in comparison to the Japanese SMB2. But hey, don't take my word for it.

This file contains everything you need to play SMB Special - the PC88Win emulator, the system ROMs, and the disk image itself. Simply unzip the file contents to a folder, load up the disk in drive 1, select "N Mode" from the "Options" menu and then reset the emulator. The game should auto-run from there. (Controls are numeric pad to move, Z and X the fire buttons. You can use normal cursor keys by switchng Num Lock off.) Enjoy, before Nintendo's lawyers have us all killed.

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