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Cha-cha-cha-cha-changes!


The DroidDog renovation continues this week with our new mobile site! As with the desktop version, subtle tweaks and trimmings are likely to continue but I can finally say that we’ve got a mobile home to call our own…


Work continues on the main site, in the forums, and anyplace else that needs another feature or a little bit of polish. It’s not all about aesthetics and cool doohickeys though, new content and contributors will continue to pop up and as of now, you’re going to be reading news, leaks, and more from a man named Evan Selleck. Evan is an experienced tech blogger, Community Director, Editorial Director, husband and father, and we’re glad to have him on board. I just typed, then corrected, “blooger,” so you know I need all the help I can get. Your work is much appreciated, Evan. Check out Evan’s first day of work with posts on the Moment 2.1 upgrade rumor, clarification on the Droid’s 2.1 update, and a price slash on the Camangi Webstation. (Last minute add-on: TED attendees get N1s.)

Dustin Earley continues to stay on top of the news and he’s been posting the DroidDog Daily for those moments those tidal waves of Android info come splashing down and it’s just not possible to cover each little item with a dedicated post. If you like the Saturday Wrap on the weekends, you’ll dig the occasional Daily popping up in your reader. Subscribe to it via RSS here.

Alberto Vildosola is a new contributor with a powerful lust for tech and the knowledge/resources to match. Alberto is an insightful writer and I’m really happy to have him on board. Check out his author page for all of the news he’s covered this week. There’s some great stuff in there.

Garrett Furr will also be posting more at the site. You might already know Garrett as the video reviewer that turns up in some of Neil Lund’s written reviews. They work together to bring the two media together for more comprehensive evaluations of apps, tutorials on hacks, and whatever else they might be cooking up right now. You can see the result of their teamwork in their post on Orb Live.

Carlos reviewed the FastTest ROM by HTCClay this week, and would have had another review up had I not reset the DroidDog YouTube password without realizing that it would reset the password of the email that YouTube used to send password reset info to. There’s some half-baked Google account integration for you. It took me two days to figure out that I needed to reset the password at GMail in order to get a link in another email account, so I’m really not in a position to call Google’s work half-baked. Anyway, stay tuned for another great cooked ROM vid from Carlos.

Scattershot

I’m so excited by all of the great things happening with the site that I’ve spent most of this wrap on DroidDog news rather than Android News. Here are some items you may want to check out:

Google acquires Aardvark
Buzz drops
The new Compaq Android
Saygus’ custom UI
T-Mo and Google?
Pinch-and-zoom homescreens in Sense
X10 coming to T-Mo UK
BEWARE THE IDES OF MAAAAARCH!!!
Legend lives
GA’s a50
Dell Mini 5 snapped
Skyfire + Steel = …something new

OK, folks, that’ll do. I leave you with the image of a very nice, handmade (knitted crocheted, actually), Android that you can grab right now for $15.00 at etsy. That is, if I don’t buy all five first. Take care, peoples.