For all you Android fans out there this page is for you. Google have created a slick page packed with all the information you need about any Android handset currently on the market. It’s ideal for when your current 36 month contracts comes to an end.

A nice feature is to be able to compare three handsets side-by-side.  It’s will tell you the operator, where to buy it from (depending on your country), the OS version and so on.
So if you are a voyeur of mobile phones, or you just want …

Orange UK announced today that they are to release a smartphone called the San Francisco. Although they have not given the reason behind the naming of the phone they do have a video introduction of it.

We heard your feedback and are please to announce we’ve launched the new Android/iPhone edition of Google Finance for mobile! The markets don’t stop when you leave your desk, so we’re bringing the markets to you. Our new design gives you a unified experience across desktop and Android or iPhone phones, offering nearly all the same features and functionality on both.

The latest version of Google Earth for Android also introduces the “Explore the Ocean” layer, which features hundreds of photos and videos from more than 100 contributors who are excited to share their stories of the sea.

that managed to create a videoplayer that lets you play almost any video file on Android. The only requirement is an Armv6 or Armv7 CPU with vfp instruction set.

Even though it’s not new that Android has been ported to run on an Intel processor, this time it’s official, Intel seeks to take back the market share that ARM has been picking in from Intel’s bread and butter.

Those of you that browse the XDA-developers forum have for sure heard of Brut.All. First time I heard of him was when he modified the Google Maps application so that Navigation was also possible outside of the United States.
I guess modifying apps like that brought him the idea of writing a tool that was able to do this.
Development on this tool seem to have really started in the beginning of March, that’s when it first appeared on XDA-developers forum and he also created a project on Google Code.

Last week we applied for an Amazon Associates Program account so we could put some ads on the site for Android phones, accessories and books.
A few days later we received the following:
Hello,
Thanks for your application to the Amazon Associates Program.
When you filled out our online application form, you listed the URL for your web site as: http://www.androidunderground.com/
We do not allow the use of URLs that include trademarked words. This includes variations or misspellings of any trademarked words. Therefore, we are unable to accept your application. Please review our Operating Agreement for further details:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement
Thank you …

As already mentioned in Part 1, here’s the next part of our series ‘Building an Android Donut ROM.

After we complete this series, we will start with a new one, Building an Android Nexus One / Passion ROM. There will be lots of screenshots and maybe some videos. It will be a ‘work in progress’ as I have never built a ROM for my new baby yet. You will see all the errors I make (if any ) and I also count on you to point out stuff in the comments.

Well, I was planning to write my own tutorial about building an Android Donut ROM (which I successfully managed to do btw), but it took me so long and a lot of messing around with it that I, honest to God, cannot remember which changes I had to make. That is why I asked Chris Soyars if I could blatantly copy his tutorial and he agreed So without further ado, here is Part 1 of ‘Building an Android Donut ROM.