HTC launch two Android mobile phones

Mobile phone maker HTC has launched two Android mobile phones designed to secure its place as one of Apple's top competitors.

The Taiwanese firm hopes to challenge the iPhone 4 with the large-screen Desire HD and the Desire Z with its fold-out keyboard.

Both HTC phones are based on Google's Android operating system.

They come a day after Finnish rival Nokia presented three phones to revive its flagging smartphone division.

Mobile phone makers and network operators are betting heavily that consumers are keen on a connected and multimedia experience on the move.

Smartphone sales soar
Speaking at the HTC launch, Patrick Chomet, global director of terminals at network operator Vodafone, said smartphone sales were soaring, already taking more than 30% of the market; in two years Vodafone expects that smartphones will make up 70% ot total mobile phone sales.

With most smartphones now easy to use, customers are making heavy use of new services. During the past year, Mr Chomet said, Vodafone had experienced a doubling of data traffic for both location services like maps, and access to social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

Fallout Fun

With Fallout: New Vegas on the horizon and a friend of mine leaving work, we decided to do a papercraft for his last day.

My colleague Ben created the head and I worked on the rest of him!

I can only say that this turned out better than I thought it would! The hands and the ears were the hardest part and two be honest they were actually fudged on a little.

This now has pride of place in my house to go with the bobble head from my Fallout 3 collectors edition, and to replace the one you wont get with New Vegas. :(

If you fancy taking this on yourself you need a special program to print it off. Have a look at the site I got it off.

Action Papercrafts

There is also another one on the site for Speech.

I'm now off to ask for a pay rise now I have an extra point in Charisma.......

Cyanogenmod 6

With Cyanogenmod 6 (Android 2.2 Froyo) now available for a lot of Android devices (Nexus One, Aria, Dream/Magic, Desire, Evo, Hero, Slide, Droid Incredible, Droid) I thought I would express my appreciation to all the devs involved.

I am running CM6 on my Desire (T-mobile UK) and I'm loving it. Having ran it on the G1 prior to this my expectation was big and I have to say that this has excelled it.

For any body wanting to give this a try be sure to pop to CYANOGENMOD.

You must have root access first but all the help you should need is on this site. These guys eat, sleep and breathe Android and have some of the most amazing developments crammed into CM6.

The full changelog can be found here.

Face Vs Watermelon

A friend of mine brought this to my attention today so I thought I would immortalize it on here!!

This is beyond funny! Oh and painful!



Enjoy!