Ever get the message, "Phone storage running low"?

Here is what to do on the original Droid:

Go to the home screen, and press the menu button, then go into "settings".
From the main menu press "Applications"
Then press "Manage Applications"
Then press the menu button again and you will get the option to "sort by size", press that.
Now starting at the top of the screen and listed in descending order are your applications and how much space they are taking up.
Not playing the Christmas version of Angry Birds anymore?  Delete it!
Assassin's Creed demo run out of time? Delete it!

Another trick is to go into your phone app, press "Call log" at the top of the screen, then press the menu button and you should get an option to "Clear call log"....press it.  Amazing how much space that takes up.  

Droid 3 preview

Ain't much to shout about here but of you are interested, hop over to blog phonepads for some video on the next gen Droid from Motorola.


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Android OS overtaking the World !

Ok - maybe not the world but on Friday comScore released its latest mobile subscriber market share report, which suggests that both Android and iOS are increasing their U.S. market shares at the cost of RIM’s BlackBerry OS. According to ComScore's survey  Android’s U.S. market share jumped 5.2 percentage points to 34.6% of the industry. Apple’s iOS market share grew 1.3 percentage points to a 26% share. RIM’s BlackBerry OS share fell from 30.4% in January to 25.7%. 


Samsung remains the most popular mobile phone manufacturer with a 24.5% share of the market and is followed by LG (20.9%), Motorola (15.6%), Apple (8.3%), and RIM (8.2%). 

Android Application Writer

In their never ending quest to open up everything to everybody, Google has written a program to help the everyman write an Android Application for your Android phone.  I havent tried it yet but everyone is talking it up as easy as 1-2-3.  I dont know, when you look at the screen captures that I have seen, it might not quite be that easy, but I am going to give it a try.  If you do write up an app and you think everyone is going to want it, let us know.  We will start tracking them and maybe figure out a way to offer them up to everyone.  Let us know how it goes when you write your app !!

OpenFeint To Bring World's Largest Mobile Gaming Developer Community To Google's Android Platform

Burlingame, CA – July 8, 2010 – OpenFeint, the leading mobile social gaming ecosystem for iOS devices, today announced that its 9,200 member game developer community with thousands of published games will soon have a complete solution to thrive in the Android apps economy. Launching later this summer, the company's complete solution will include its de facto standard SDK, a game discovery store and mobile payment options. It will also include high quality content from leading publishers Astraware, Digital Chocolate, Glu Mobile, Hudson Soft and independent studios like Distinct Dev (Moron Test), ustwo (Dot Dot Dot), Pik Pok (Flick Kick Football) and RocketCat Games (Hook Champ).


With a strong set of partners at launch, OpenFeint's ecosystem provides Android users the most compelling way to discover and buy high quality online games. In addition to incorporating Google Checkout and leading community features into its developer SDK, OpenFeint will extend its wildly successful Game Spotlight discovery app to Android. Interested parties can register at www.openfeint.com/developers/android for details as they emerge.

At the same time, OpenFeint continues to invest in and expand its efforts on Apple's iOS devices and maintains the largest mobile social gaming ecosystem on that platform with over 28 million users and a presence in over 2,200 live games.

"Android is an evolving gaming platform that will greatly benefit from OpenFeint's industry leading online gaming and community technologies," said Niccolo de Masi, CEO of Glu Mobile. "OpenFeint is leading the charge for game developers on Android, helping simplify and improve the game discovery and purchase process for players on the platform."

OpenFeint also announced that its expansion to Android is backed by a recent strategic investment by leading Chinese online gaming company, The9. This marks the path for a significant expansion for the company as it rolls out its cross platform strategy. As always, OpenFeint will remain open source and free for both developers and players.

"OpenFeint continues to demonstrate leadership and innovation in building community technologies which drive considerable discovery and monetization for publishers," said Jason Loia, COO of Digital Chocolate, one of the industry's most highly-rated publishers of mobile and social games. "We are excited about their entry into the Android ecosystem and we look forward to partnering with them to bring the best gaming experience to the Android platform."

With over 160,000 Android powered devices shipping daily, Google's mobile platform is growing rapidly and leading game developers recognize the tremendous opportunity to bring quality content to the platform.

"This is a big step for OpenFeint and an even bigger step for Android as it becomes a serious mobile gaming platform," said Jonathan Goldberg, Analyst at Deutsche Bank Equity Research. "OpenFeint ushered in mobile online gaming for iOS devices and we think they'll lead the revolution on Android."

First-gen DROID to get Froyo before DROID X

Good News early adopters - According to a leaked picture of an internal Verizon communication, the "Original" DROID will be receiving the Android 2.2 upgrade (Froyo) and all the goodness that comes with it, like speedier processing and flash support, before DROID X owners get to install the upgrade.  The original DROID should end up with the update in late July. The DROID X will be getting Android 2.2 late August. Both updates are scheduled to be done OTA, similar to the way original DROID owners received the Androids 2.1 upgrade.

All about the DROID X - from Verizon's NY press event

DROID X

.....eight megapixel HD camera....

.... 1GHz OMAP processor, with 8GB of memory on board and a 16GB card packed in. Expandable to 40GB with a 32GB card....

....WiFi hotspot for up to 5 other devices ..... ($20 extra per month on top of data plan - ugh)

....three microphones.One for video, one for voice, and one for noise cancellation.....

...preloaded Swype.....

.....access to enterprise email." Support for Exchange and Gmail enterprise, push email, corporate directory, and remote management / wipe....

Wow, here is an interesting tidbit  "Selling 160,000 Android devices a day, with 65,000 apps in the Market"

More on DROID X .....

.....Droid X will ship on July 15th for $199, but it won't come with Froyo or Flash 10.1 -- that's coming "later this summer."......ugh

.....Verizon is accelerating upgrade dates -- everyone with an upgrade date in 2010 can updgrade to the Droid X at launch......

DROID X - June 23rd It's here......

Todays the day.  Here in New York the Droid X is rolling out this afternoon at high noon.   Stay tuned for all the details, or check out the DROIDNATION Store for all your DROID X accessories.

New Verizon Droid on the horizon (sooner than we thought)

Verizon’s official Droid website is now showing the Droid X as “coming soon.” The site mentions that the Droid X has a 4.3″ display, 720p display and HDMI output, and also allows potential customers to enter in their email address to get further details about the phone. Looks pretty good to us.  Anyone know anything more out there?

Motorola, Verizon announcing 'next generation of Droid' on June 23

Anyone wanna guess what its all about??