In case you haven’t got Froyo on to your Verizon Droid Incredible as yet, you should. Android 2.2 has been available for the Droid Incredible for a few days now, so here’s how to manually install it.1) First you need to download the official Android 2.2 firmware from Google, available here (warning .zip file!!!). Now copy the file to the root directory of the microSD card you use. Before you copy it make sure its name is update.zip.2) Done that?  Okay now just switch off your phone and switch it on again while pushing down the volume key.  You will now get to see the

Well here it is folks, we now have it confirmed that the Verizon Wireless locked Droid 2 has been officially compromised and the gang to do it, as always, is xda-developers. Now before you start getting all the more excited, be sure to know that the hackers warn you that rooting the device will be all at your risk.This implies that although the Droid 2 has been hacked to do a lot of other things you otherwise can’t do, there is a stern ‘hidden’ warning that your smartphone may also end up as a dead box in a single second. Honestly speaking, we believe the

Google has plans to launch a global paid movie service through YouTube. We get to know from sources that talks have been going on for a service that would stream major movie releases and would be tied into both Google’s search engine and YouTube.Google is said to be in talks with major Hollywood studios to bring streaming movie rentals from their catalogs to YouTube. YouTube has actually been offering streaming movie rentals from a number of smaller studios since January.YouTube had then started to expand the service. So the rumored rental service will be similar to this

As expected from the leaks yesterday, it is now confirmed that the Verizon Droid Incredible will be getting its share of Froyo goodness, starting today. The news was tweeted through Verizon Wireless’s Support channel.This should make several owners ( as well as many prospective owners who found the phone out of stock the past couple of months ) very happy, with all the performance improvements and features brought in by Froyo. Major updated features include, pre-install Flash 10.1 plugin, 720p video recording, mobile hotspot support ( like on the Droid X ), and all the other

Google got some serious competition in the face of Bing, and unlike some companies which would’ve just relied on their current success and ignored the potential competition, Google are actively developing various new features for their search engine and upgrading it all the time. The latest feature which is apparently being tested on a limited number of accounts, gives you search results as you’re typing your query into the box.The feature was first spotted by SEO consultant Rob Ousbey, who had it enabled on his own account. It works pretty much as you would expect

Orange will be releasing an  Android tablet by Christmas. Les Echos, the French publication, has got hints that Orange France is preparing to sell a tablet under the Orange brand made by an unnamed Asian company, and it will be part of a three-pronged tablet attack in time for the Christmas shopping period.This is not the first tablet Orange has sold under the  brand. Orange’s Tabbee tablet (pictured), launched in April 2009, had failed to capture the market.The new tablet will be 3G-enabled and based on Google’s Android operating system. It is reported that the device

There are folks who just can’t live without the latest financial information at their fingertips and with that in mind. Since many of us are on the run throughout the day and don’t always have our computers in front of us, it came as no surprise that one of users’ most frequently requested features was a fast, easy-to-use mobile website for Google Finance.Google has finally made a mobile device compatible version of their Google Finance service. The new mobile website offers nearly all the functionality of the desktop client. This includes real time quotes and data,

Google Earth has been a great app for Android bringing in 3D imagery and terrain of almost every region on earth. Now what was missing? The oceans of course. Now Google has decided to take out that “flaw” as well. The latest iteration of the Google Earth for Android, packs something entirely new.With the new release, zoom in below the ocean surface itself, and check out the landscape and terrain of the ocean trenches. You can “fly” around Monterary Bay Canyon, or the Laurentian Abyss and discover the majesty of the marine world. This is made possible by the

For once the combination of speculations and company commitments has been true as we see the Motorola Charm being released on T-Mobile. They did say August 25 and gladly, the Charm has been available through the T-Mobile since yesterday. It is not an outright top-notch Android device and hence there is no sensationalism surrounding it, but it does pack a feature set, which we find pleasing enough.To begin with, there is the Android Eclair goodness on board and things get even better with the presence of a 600Mhz processor along with the MOTOBLUR user interface, which is an asset

Google has had some sad attempts at expanding its business in the recent past with new features like the buzz failing to impress majority of people while some others, viz. the development of the Android OS, have been a major ‘non monetary success’. We are now backing Google to come up with a successful addition to their business in the form of testing a VoIP service within Gmail.You read it rights folks and this implies that Google intends to tread in Skype’s territory, something which the others have tried to do in the past without much success. The difference