Droid 2 Global gets Gingerbread, customizable dock and more in latest update from Verizon
Droid 2 Global users, your moment in the Gingerbread sun has arrived. Verizon’s put up a page with download instructions for a 103MB update, taking your QWERTY slider from version 2.4.330 to 4.5.600. Updating isn’t the most taxing of activities, you just look for a system update in the About Phone menu and then give your blessing for the download to commence. VZW will also be prompting tardy users to take their OTA medicine in due course. So what’s new apart from Android 2.3? Well, the big change is that the previously static phone, contacts and apps icons at the bottom of the UI have now been turned into a user-customizable dock, with three links of your choosing sidling up next to the App Launcher. There’s also a freshened up UI look, a Download Manager App, user-definable App Groups, encryption for data both on the device and its SD card, improvements in battery life while using WiFi and Bluetooth, and the obligatory stability fixes. If all that sounds irresistible and you have the requisite phone in hand, go get it!
[Thanks, Jon]
Droid 2 Global gets Gingerbread, customizable dock and more in latest update from Verizon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: June 15th, 2011
at 6:59am by Vlad Savov
Topics: 2.3, Android2.3, Droid2, Droid2Global, Motorola, VerizonWireless, android 2.3, droid, droid 2, droid 2 global, firmware, gingerbread, moto, ota, over-the-air, software, update, upgrade, verizon, verizon wireless, vzw
WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers
Hardly the most exciting Palm news you’re gonna hear this week, but the company that still owns itself for the time being has just updated its WebOS software on Verizon to the extremely granular version 1.4.1.1. The helpful changelog informs us there are no new apps, but pinch-zoom now works correctly in Doc and PDF views, a lag in the camera shutter sound has been rectified, and forwarding videos uploaded to YouTube on to your friends via email has also been made to work as it should. The most important fix of all, though, is to a keyboard input issue whereby a single key press would generate a letter twice — both Pre Central and one of our readers report that this problem appears to have been consigned to the past. Good stuff, now let’s see it go global, shall we?
[Thanks, subzero and Sam F.]
WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: April 29th, 2010
at 7:58am by Vladislav Savov
Topics: FirmwareUpdate, MobileOs, OperatingSystem, OsUpdate, Palm pre, PalmPixiPlus, PalmPre, PalmPrePlus, PixiPlus, PrePlus, SoftwareUpdate, VerizonWireless, firmware, firmware update, mobile os, operating system, os, os update, palm, palm pixi plus, palm pre plus, pixi plus, pre plus, software, software update, update, verizon, verizon wireless, vzw, webos
Apple Software Update Enables Support for Magic Mouse [Apple]
Apple just released an update for Leopard and Snow Leopard granting use of the Magic Mouse’s more advanced functionality (read: multitouch) instead of just pointing and clicking. Check out our review of the Magic Mouse here. [The Loop]
Posted: October 27th, 2009
at 10:00pm by Dan Nosowitz
Topics: Apple, Magic mouse firmware, firmware, magic mouse, software, update
Canon’s EOS 7D experiencing ‘residual image’ phenomenon, fix is on the way
Canon’s $1,900 EOS 7D DSLR just started shipping a month ago to pros and those who’d like to be, and already the thing is causing all sorts of fits when shooting continuously. In a service notice posted today on the outfit’s website, we’re told that images “captured by continuous shooting and under certain conditions [can exhibit] barely noticeable traces of the immediately preceding frame.” The phenomenon isn’t apt to be noticeable with optimal exposure, but apparently a number of Photoshoppers have been irked by the additional (and unwelcome) elements added to their shots. Canon assures us that a firmware fix is on the way, and you can bet we’ll point you to a download link as soon as it hits.
[Via DPReview]
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Canon’s EOS 7D experiencing ‘residual image’ phenomenon, fix is on the way originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
at 6:59pm by Darren Murph
Topics: 7d, CanonEos, CanonEos7d, DigitalCamera, EOS 7D, Eos7d, Residual Image, ResidualImage, camera, canon, canon eos, canon eos 7d, digicam, digital camera, dslr, eos, firmware, issue, problem, recall
Nokia N97 firmware 2.0 hits the tubes, is ready for your attention
Got an N97? Yeah? Reckoned that Nokia has forgotten about your loyalty and moved all of its focus onto the N900? Fret not, dearest early adopter — the engineers in Espoo are making good on a promise to clear out lots of bugs in the aforesaid handset with firmware 2.0, and if we’re seeing this right, it’s available now to download all over the world. We know, you 5800 owners are clamoring for the same type of TLC, but for now it looks like the pricier sibling is getting its due. Hit the read link and get your download going, and make sure to report back on your kinetic scrolling experience, cool?
[Thanks, Daniel]
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Nokia N97 firmware 2.0 hits the tubes, is ready for your attention originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
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Topics: Firmware2, Firmware2.0, NokiaN97, NowAvailable, available, download, firmware, firmware 2, firmware 2.0, n97, nokia, nokia n97, now available, software, update, upgrade
