Droid Sector

If you’re on Verizon and prefer the larger screen, the Droid X takes our pick for the best Android phone on the market today.

Read the full 20-page article “Motorola Droid X: Thoroughly Reviewed”.

Release candidate of CyanogenMod was released today, and here is a quick overview of all tweaks.

Application settings

Check “Allow application moving” and you will be able to move any app to SD card. If you select “External” as install location, new apps will be automatically installes on external storage.

Input settings

Now you can tweak how strong will be haptic feedback for softkeys. Enable “feedback up” to get more natural response.

Long-press of home button can be configured to show up to 15 recent apps or any application of your choice.

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Launcher Pro have a very customizable dock, you can basically place there anything you want: apps, bookmarks, playlists, even FourSquare venues!

Recent versions have up to 3 scrollable docks. One simple idea of how you can use it:

The 5-10 favorite contacts now easily accessible from any home screen.
Tapping on a contact photo will invoke the QuickContact menu:

Related links:

• Adobe Flash showcase for mobile – m.flash.com
• Kongregate Games – m.kongregate.com

To get full screen mode on the Nexus One, tap and hold until you get a semi-transparent bar with two buttons. Tap first button to enter full screen mode.

Seriously, it’s great that I can write Android apps on Mac, as well as on Windows and Linux.

If you for some reason think that iPhone can shot as good as 7D, just see this video:

Or this:

And now a night video from iPhone 4:
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The idea of mSpot is simple: select music folders or iTunes library to sync, and uploader will store your music in a cloud. Now you can listen to your music on mSpot web page or on Android (2.1+) client.

This is how playlist page looks:

The first two is smart playlists. Quick-List contains selected albums, artists or songs. You can quickly add current track to quick-list by tapping on big Q button. On My Phone playlist simple lists all track cached on your SD card – very convenient if you offline.
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A very clever idea. But I hope the rest of system is stock Android.

Media files from Motorola Droid X system dump:

• Wallpapers: http://www.mediafire.com/?tvyz1zjnimy
• Sounds: http://www.4shared.com/file/69Svz8Vb/tones.html

Source: Android Central

Let’s create a simple Automator app to make installing apk files a little easier.

• Download the Android SDK for Mac and extract to Android folder in your home directory.
• Launch Automator and create a new application.
• Add action “Run Shell Script” with sh shell.
• Paste this command: ~/Android/android-sdk-mac/tools/adb install -r “$1″
• Add another two actions shown below if you want a feedback from the script.
• Save application to the Applications folder.
• Associate apk files with your new application.

Now you can install Android apps by double clicking on apk files.