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A new version of the Nokia N900 firmware 1.2 (public release) have been leaked. I highly recommend you guys to wait with the update until you can download it from Nokia. Changelog after the break… Update: added a new video Read more [Thx Dilin]

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Got a great chance to take a close look at Nokia’s awaited new phone the N8, which should be available in the Saudi market somewhere around August. The new Nokia N8 has so many cool features like the 12MP Carl Zeiss camera, a 16:9 nHD OLED screen, HDMI port, and direct micro USB connector, among many More >

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“Writing user interface layouts for Android applications is easy, but it can sometimes be difficult to optimize them. Most often, heavy modifications made to existing XML layouts, like shuffling views around or changing the type of a container, lead to inefficiencies that go unnoticed.

Starting with the SDK Tools Revision 3 you can use a tool called layoutopt to automatically detect common problems. This tool is currently only available from the command line and its use is very simple – just open a terminal and launch the layoutopt command with a list of directories or XML files to analyze:

$ layoutopt samples/
samples/compound.xml
  7:23 The root-level <FrameLayout/> can be replaced with <merge/>
  11:21 This LinearLayout layout or its FrameLayout parent is useless samples/simple.xml
  7:7 The root-level <FrameLayout/> can be replaced with <merge/>
samples/too_deep.xml
  -1:-1 This layout has too many nested layouts: 13 levels, it should have <= 10!
  20:81 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  24:79 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  28:77 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  32:75 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  36:73 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  40:71 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  44:69 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  48:67 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  52:65 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
  56:63 This LinearLayout layout or its LinearLayout parent is useless
samples/too_many.xml
  7:413 The root-level <FrameLayout/> can be replaced with <merge/>
  -1:-1 This layout has too many views: 81 views, it should have <= 80! samples/useless.xml
  7:19 The root-level <FrameLayout/> can be replaced with <merge/>
  11:17 This LinearLayout layout or its FrameLayout parent is useless

For each analyzed file, the tool will indicate the line numbers of each tag that could potentially be optimized. In some cases, layoutopt will also offer a possible solution.
The current version of layoutopt contains a dozen rules used to analyze your layout files and future versions will contain more. Future plans for this tool also include the ability to create and use your own analysis rules, to automatically modify the layouts with optimized XML, and to use it from within Eclipse and/or a standalone user interface.”
[Via Android Developers]

“As a general rule of thumb, we’d say that whenever you hear rumors of an Android-powered candybar with a numeric keypad, it’s probably going to end in tears. Such might be the case with Sony Ericsson’s codename “Susan,” a device originally thought to accompany the X10 in the company’s brand-spanking-new Android line but now apparently thought to be a simpler QVGA dumbphone coming to market as the J10 with WiFi and a 5 megapixel cam with flash. Not as exciting, no — but the good news is that the phone should come in as a member of the GreenHeart line, meaning that it’ll probably be made of eco-friendly materials and get packed in with an ultra-low or zero-power draw charger (when there’s no phone attached, anyway). No word on pricing or release just yet.”

[ Via engadget ]

I can’t believe it has already been zero days since Bell launched the first Galaxy as its very first Android device.  It seems like only earlier today! Finally, rumor rolls around for the successor – Galaxy2!

According to PhoneReport – super secret ninja that shall not be named, Eldar Murtazin, has got his hands on the Galaxy2 and had a rather enjoyable experience.

The phone reportedly packs an awesome 32GBs of internal memory and a 4″ AMOLED display.  Said to run Android 2.1 and launch the second quarter of 2010.

We’ll keep an eye out for you but as per usual – if you see something on this before we do, let us know!

[ phonereport ]