Tag Archives: android

HOWTO run Chromium OS on a Dell Mini 9 with wifi

chrome-icon-200x200UPDATE: I’m now running the latest build of Hexxeh’s Chrome OS named Flow – and everything just works out of the box.  The release is much improved, and it’s getting very close to being the perfect day-to-day netbook OS as far as I’m concerned.  Great work!

Credo mobile: eat yr iphone

Thanks a million!

Dik needs no support from u.

Since its introduction, my beef with the iPhone has been obvious; buying it ties you to AT&T, a company that violated the law, and the rights of its customers, by allowing and assisting with the illegal wiretapping and data-mining for the NSA.  Keep in mind, there were other phone companies asked … but AT&T is the one that said yes.  So if you want to put your money where your mouth is, be like me and consider Credo Mobile.  Their recent promo postcard (seen to the right) has a permanent place on my refrigerator, so I’ll wait until they sell Android based phones, or support an Openmoko phone (drool) to get rid of my ancient (aka- 1 year old) cell phone.  The copy on the flip side of the postcard tells it like it is; if you’re paying AT&T for anything, you’re contributing to the current administration.

(Paranoid) Android demo

Here’s a working demo of Google’s Android operating system in action.  It’s got some pretty fly features, with a few bits that remind me a bit too much of the iPhone, but hey.  Now if they put it on a decent phone (OpenMoko anyone?) with a data plan that doesn’t require the use of AT&T, we’ll talk…

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg]