John Walton

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John Walton

John Walton is a student and writer who spends most of his free time fingerpicking an acoustic guitar and authoring biographical snippets in the third-person. He lives with his wife and their cat, who are, like him, compulsive movers/travelers. He is passionate about open source software, learning to speak Thai, and watching poker tournaments on television (WPT).

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ISB Corp's Android TV

Appearing in Tokyo at the Embedded Systems Expo was an experimental unit that utilizes Android for web and HD video. It still needs some tweaks for smooth playback, but ISB is on it. Wireless mouse...

Bah! Cupcake delayed 'till early June

Sorry, folks. T-Mo has announced a delay in the OTA Cupcake update. See the link for the announcement over at T-Mobile forums. Man, oh, man. Early June. Stop playing with our emotions! "G1 community...

Is that... Android?

So... what do you think? Is Android ready for the big time? I tell you what - the best PR is free. Haykuro released some tutorials from "the device" tonight. Does that mean Hero? I guess we'll just...

Haykuro's Hero - an early look at a new Android

For those who don't know the name, Haykuro is an Android hacker who tends to get his hands on exclusive stuff and present it to the masses in packages so simple that even I can figure out how to use...

HTC's soft keyboard for Android

This video is primarily meant to be a preview for those that are curious about what to expect from HTC's coming Android phones. For the hackers and modders, I've given all the resources you need to...

A day's worth of Android news

With the increase of Android chatter I've found it easier for myself - hopefully it's been easier for you as well - to have my Android stories grouped together based on category. It gives me a chance...

Android app review: GDocs

I should preface this by saying that GDocs is still in beta. The version I tested was 0.3.2. So maybe this is more a of a preview than a review. Whatever the case, GDocs is beginning to address the...

Teradesk for Android ROCKS!

Last Summer, Google put up $10,000,000 in rewards as incentive to create the most innovative, useful, and beautiful software coders could conjure up for the Android platform. They called it the...

The state of Android netbooks

There's so much chatter about Android netbooks nowadays that I'd pretty much have to dedicate myself to that topic alone in order to cover it all. Plus, I figure less than half of the stories will...

All should have Cupcake by May 25th

At least that's the latest - don't hold me to it. So they said May 11th, right? Well, according to googleandblog, the rollouts officially started today - May 14th. That doesn't explain the few...

Someone's making a new Linux handset

Rather, someone's making a new Linux stack for a lot of different devices. Considering the recent news that Nokia and Intel are collaborating on a Linux project called oFono that would compete with...

Here's to another Google Summer of Code

Google's Summer of Code institution was born in 2005 with the intent of bringing bright but relatively inexperienced programmers together with seasoned mentors to collaborate on real world open...

Droid Wars - Breakout clones

How many Breakout clones are available for Android? A lot, that's how many. I had to edit out my banter about how a neighbor destroyed my Atari 5200. That's how many Breakout clones are in the Market...

Android app review: Close Everything 2

One of the coolest features of a rooted G1 is the ability to manually close an application as you see fit. But with the release of Android 1.5 - better known as Cupcake - comes an application that...

Bigfoot run on Donut

Raaaaaar! That's the word that comes from a tasty new Samsung spec sheet (second photo), which also calls the i7500 Capela. While that handset rocks the Cupcake, Bigfoot will be running a new version...

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