It looks like Android 2.3.3 is going to be the magic number that finally brings Gingerbread to Google's own Nexus One. What's more, according to the GoogleNexus Twitter account, the update is rolling out now over-the-air, but may take a few weeks to complete. If you want to see if your Nexus One is in the first batch to get Gingerbread, open your dialer and key in *#*#CHECKIN#*#*. This will manually ping the Google servers to let them know your device is online. Within a few moments you should get a "Checkin Successful" response. If your device is eligible you should be notified that an ...

Not long ago we showed off "Honeybread", a theme for CM7 that looks a lot like Android Honeycomb. It wasn't really Honeycomb, but it did look very similar. This time around we starting hearing of people porting the Honeycomb SDK to devices such as HD2, DROID Incredible, EVO 4G, and others. Now it's hit the Nexus One, and we caught it on video. Take a look! To start things off, I downloaded the ROM from XDA-Developers to my sdcard. Once complete I rebooted into recovery and performed a full backup (so I co revert later), then did a full wipe/factory data reset. From that point all that was ...

OK, so the last time we told you that Gingerbread on the Nexus One was imminent, Google didn't deliver. Until we hear it straight from the Android's mouth, there's always the chance for these rumors to fizzle; people misinterpret things, timelines shift, and priorities change. This time feels a little more solid, though, as word is supposedly leaking out of the Mobile World Congress that Google's first smartphone will finally be getting an Android 2.3 update by this time next week. MobileCrunch caught wind of a casual mention of the update at the MWC, and sought to try and nail it down a ...

What we're looking at here is somewhat of a mystery device. If you thought that HTC was moving beyond mechanical trackballs, you might be mistaken. This handset features a design similar to the Nexus One (we're thinking a 3.2 inch screen is a possibility), and with a totally redesigned (almost geometric) earpiece. There might also be a front-facing camera on this handset, though that might actually be a light sensor. The buttons below the screen tell us that this is an Android handset. It's popular that HTC, in recognizing the almost cult-following for the highly versatile Nexus One, is ...

This is what we wait all year for, friends: the chance to pick the single best phone in all of 2010. Sure, we could break it up by category, by platform, by carrier, by something, but we'd rather pit the Droids against the iPhones against the BlackBerries in a winner-take-all cage match that will crown the one true champion. We thought about including a poll here, but we don't want to limit your choices even one bit; if you think that the Sanyo Zio was the best that the industry had to offer in 2010, by all means, cast your vote in the comments and tell us why you made that pick. A few of ...

According to a post by @GoogleNexus, Google's Nexus One will be getting its update to Android 2.3, Gingerbread, "within the coming weeks". Additionally, they urge that we "Just hang tight!" What's more, the update will be an over-the-air (OTA) update, so downloading and installing via a desktop computer won't be necessary. All that having been said, the Google camp has officially thrown the gauntlet, challenging all custom ROM developers to release a final, stable Gingerbread ROM based on the AOSP source-code, before the official, OTA update from Google is released into the wild. Which do ...

For the longest time, I've felt that serious e-mailers and texters needed a hardware keyboard to have the best typing experience possible. In fact, it was the Motorola Q9h that I felt had the best hardware keyboard of any mobile phone. Trouble is, the software on the Q9h is far from modern (kicking it with Windows Mobile 6), so using it today just isn't feasible. Today, there are no shortage of smartphones that utilize an on-screen keyboard for text entry. And in fact, that's fine by me, because I think they're better. Here's why. In a keynote in 2007, Steve Jobs paved the way for the ...

Looks like some people had all the fun this weekend playing with Nexus Ones powered by both Google's Gingerbread and Honeycomb platforms, as AIRBench shows, an application that benchmarks device performance to determine how it can run Adobe AIR. A Gingerbread update for the Nexus One was already rumored but there was nothing about Honeycomb and the website clearly shows three different builds of the platform running on the Nexus One. The alleged Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform, opposed to 2.3 Gingerbread, was rumored to be tablet-optimized; seeing it running on a Nexus One -- if the numbers ...