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Hacking the HTC Desire

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So its been awhile since I blogged and I decided to make a come-back with an update on my phone. No it's not a phone review yet, but that is on the list too. So the HTC Desire is a super phone and I've loved every bit of Going Android. The Android Market has so many applications to download and explore, loads of games, books, health apps, wallpapers, media and loads of widgets. There's just one thing that stops me from downloading unlimited and that is the issue of Android 2.2 not letting you save your apps to the SD Card. This means everything I download or atleast most of the apps I download gets stored on the internal memory - 512 mb giving me the *beep beep* Low on Storage Space alert.* The good news is, that there is a solution with Android 2.3, but what until then? Well, I just went ahead and hacked my phone. Here's how. Download SDK from here - http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. Extract the files. Copy the second folder into the sdk named "andro

Samsung Google Nexus S in India

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Looks like Samsung & Google have finally decided to officially launch the much awaited Nexus S. It has been avialable for a while now from various sellers on ebay for about 30-35k INR, without a bill or samsung support and warranty. However now with an official launch on the cards we should see the brand new Nexus S in India by early April,  Flipkart states the phone comes with a 1 year Samsung India warranty and will be priced at Rs. 27,999, you can pre-order it here .   A notable change is the swap of a Super AMOLED display with a Super Clear LCD, much like the Nexus S being launched last month in places like Russia, what would also be interesting is to see is if Samsung swaps out the Hummingbird processor with the OMAP one thus using an inferior GPU (i.e. a PowerVR SGX530 GPU instead of the more powerfull PowerVR SGX540) which could make this handset over priced. A few specs: - 4-inch Super Clear LCD screen at 480x800 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash HSDPA su