If you own or have ever used an Android tablet, you know that the same app will run differently on the tablet than it will on the phone. This is because each app has its own DPI setting that dictates the app's behavior. In a lot of cases, tablet apps are better: they often present split-screened views, more controls, and more customization potential. What if you could run tablet apps on your phone? Better yet, what if you could selectively choose which apps run in tablet mode, and which apps in phone mode? Then you could have your email be shown in a super-productive split-column view, ...

It's been a long time coming, but the Android 2.1 (Eclair) update for AT&T's Backflip is finally available -- and it's a significant upgrade for the device, which has been stuck at version 1.5 (Cupcake). The update file runs a bit more than 90MB, and the installation process takes about 20 minutes, but once you've got it, it's well worth it. In addition to getting an extra two homescreens, the new Market, and a whole bunch of new apps available, users are reporting a noticeable jump in speed. Motorola should have this available any time now, but if you'd rather not wait, here's how you can ...

If you've got a Google Nexus One and you haven't unlocked it, rooted it, and/or flashed a custom ROM on it, there's an update for you! If, on the other hand, you have done any of those, this update isn't for you. Don't proceed any further. This update is coming OTA (over-the-air), but if you haven't gotten it yet and want to manually update, here's how you do it. 1. Download the 2.2.1 firmware from Google. 2. Rename it to update.zip (for you newbies, update.zip.zip is wrong), and place it on the root of your microsd card. 3. Turn off off your Nexus One. 4. Hold the VOLUME DOWN button and ...

If you've got an HTC Dream or Sapphire (also known as the G1 and myTouch 3G) and haven't yet rooted it, you're in luck! Wes Garner has put together a new and much more simplified method of rooting these devices. While rooting the G1 wasn't all that difficult, rooting the MyTouch 3G often required the use of a "Gold Card" which added significantly to the process. Once you have rooted either of these devices, flashing a custom ROM (such as Cyanogen MOD 6) is a relatively simple task -- and can easily bring both devices up to Android 2.2 Froyo, breathing new life into two of the oldest ...

It looks like that leaked copy of BlackBerry OS 6 that we saw running on the Bold 9650 last month was the real deal, as a ROM is now available for all 9650 owners to download and install. Since this is still beta software, users should naturally flash this firmware at their own risk. CrackBerry has published a video of its experience with the build running on a Verizon 9650, which we've re-posted below. BlackBerry OS 6 brings several new features to the device, including a revmaped UI, Universal Search, and a new WebKit browser courtesy of RIM's acquisition of former Windows Phone ...

We've been eagerly awaiting the release of the HTC Desire HD, what some are calling a "GSM Evo", which we expect to happen sometime in October 2010. Apparently someone got their hands on one of these beautiful devices and was able to pull the ROM from it. This is just the raw image dump, it's not ported to run on any other device (yet), but you can open it up and take a look at it, and possibly pull some of the .APK files out for installing on your own device. Check out the thread at XDA-Developers for more information and the (password protected) download. (Via: Angelito (aka: Microang))

Three weeks after its counterparts on the Sprint network got the same treatment, Verizon's Palm Pixi Plus owners are starting to see the highly-anticipated webOS 1.4.5 update being offered for download. What makes this latest version of Palm's proprietary operating system so important is that it allows users to run 3D games and apps developed with the company's PDK software development kit. Interestingly enough, while Sprint's 1.4.5 rollout hit both the Pre and Pixi simultaneously, it is reportedly only Pixi (Plus) users who are seeing the upgrade right away this time around -- Verizon Pre ...

A new video has appeared online which seems to show a custom ROM booting on Verizon's Motorola Droid X -- a very big deal for anyone who has been following Moto's extreme attempts to ensure that such a feat would never be possible. As an excellent article by our own Joe Levi explained, Motorola has included a chip in the Droid X, known as eFuse, which makes it theoretically impossible to run any bootloader besides the stock one which ships with the phone. The chip essentially monitors certain code, and if it detects anything other than what is expected, the phone goes into recovery mode ...