Some exciting news for UK gadget and Android fans is that HTC's Desire mobile phone has just last week been released on T-Mobile, and its looking likely that the device will be following on Orange, O2, Vodafone and 3 in the next month or so.
HTC are the manufacturers behind Google's very own Nexus One, and one first appearances HTC seem to have followed a very similar blueprint for the Desire. The look and feel of the phone are near identical to N1, with the exception that Desire has HTC's heralded "sense" UI and has a optical rollerball rather than the N1's physical rollerball.
What is even more good news is that the pricing from T-Mobile is very reasonable, offering contracts from £10 a month (the £15 a month contract the phone costs ~£95) - I am holding on to see what the other providers price it at, but I think one will be coming my way pretty soon!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Thirdmindmedia App Development
Another aside, I have re-jigged the website http://www.thirdmindmedia.co.uk a little - I have decided to move it away from just a personal site, no longer just being an extension of the blog with my ramblings, but having it more dedicated to the android development, as hopefully in a few months i will have a couple of those apps in the app store.
So check it out, its a whole new look, but there isnt much content yet...
So check it out, its a whole new look, but there isnt much content yet...
long awaited return...
It feels like it has been ages since i have blogged, well, i suppose it has been a month to the day since my last blog, so I should post another update...
The main reason for the being so quiet on the blogging front is I have been swamped with loads of other things and so any time I have been having on the computer has been spent working on the projects.
Mostly i have been working on my Android Twitter app, which is coming along pretty nicely - i am smoothing out some issues and tweaking littles aspects here and there and it should be ready for general release soon. I will be releasing it for free, but still need to register with the Android market first to get it up on there. In the meantime i have also began a second app - this time a silly little trading game, based loosely on the classic 80s film Trading Places, its currently named after Eddie Murphys character Billy-Ray. Its just going to be a simple stock market game whereby you have 30days to try and make as much money as possible, with extra twists and turns such as being able to try your hand at insider trading (which could result in prosecution and bankruptcy!).
I have also been continuing work with my extjs/jpa web app - and have recently been looking in to testing the UI using Selenium (an automated web test tool). Selenium seems like a really nice tool, but i have already encountered several issues with testing ExtJs with it... a full post on that experience will hopefully follow!
The main reason for the being so quiet on the blogging front is I have been swamped with loads of other things and so any time I have been having on the computer has been spent working on the projects.
Mostly i have been working on my Android Twitter app, which is coming along pretty nicely - i am smoothing out some issues and tweaking littles aspects here and there and it should be ready for general release soon. I will be releasing it for free, but still need to register with the Android market first to get it up on there. In the meantime i have also began a second app - this time a silly little trading game, based loosely on the classic 80s film Trading Places, its currently named after Eddie Murphys character Billy-Ray. Its just going to be a simple stock market game whereby you have 30days to try and make as much money as possible, with extra twists and turns such as being able to try your hand at insider trading (which could result in prosecution and bankruptcy!).
I have also been continuing work with my extjs/jpa web app - and have recently been looking in to testing the UI using Selenium (an automated web test tool). Selenium seems like a really nice tool, but i have already encountered several issues with testing ExtJs with it... a full post on that experience will hopefully follow!
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