App Review: Cardio Trainer with Weight Loss Trainer

For the past week I've been testing out Cardio Trainer from Work Smart Labs for Android. I've also been using it with the bonus add on feature, "weight loss trainer".

The app basically focus's on exercise rather than calorie counting, which I believe is important when keeping healthy and loosing weight.

This concept of "healthy weight loss" and all the great features it offers was what initially drew me to Cardio Trainer. 

But weight there's more (sorry terrible pun)

Android and security

I was reading a little article earlier about Norton releasing an app that allows you to control your Norton 360 application on Windows from a anywhere, presumably to allow you to run a definition update or induce a mind-numbingly slow virus scan (never been a fan of Norton, sorry).

This got me thinking about Android and security. We keep or lives on our phones; the people near and dear to our hearts, appointments, emails, text messages, photos, music, videos.... the list goes on. But what if, god forbid, we should lose our precious device out of negligence or theft? There are a few options out there for the more paranoid of users...

Lineardroid.co.uk

Well we've finally taken the plunge and we now have a .co.uk, but remember that lineardroid.blogspot.com still redirects to this address.

Please update your RSS feeds so you can stay up to date with Linear Droid.

Check back over the next few weeks, as we will be completely updating the site layout, and moving to our fully functional LinearDroid version 1.0.

So fingers crossed we have no problems.

We all desire the Desire

Is there any droid-aholic out there that is not drooling? We are almost 'universally' in agreement that the Desire is one of the sexiest phones to come from HTC with our favourite mobile OS installed and is possibly the nicest Android phone so far.

Fennec to be available in Q4 2010

An update from our friends at Androidandme, the Firefox mobile browser "Fennec" is expect to be available to us mortals in the last quarter of 2010.

I wonder if google will look to improve their browser, to compete with Fennec. I'm sure some one will leak the specs and features, and Google will look to match and even beat its Firefox counterpart.

Further delays for HTC Hero update to 2.1

How long do Hero users need to wait to be upgraded to 2.1? The grumblings from the Android community is that it could be as late as April not mid-March as we had previously been led to believe.


This has not gone down well with myself, as one of the main reasons I bought this phone and bought into Android was because the phone was updated frequently...or was supposed to.

Desire on Nexus...

So, you may have heard the good news. Modaco, famed for his Hero ROM, has already got a the SenseUI-ified HTC Desire ROM working on a Nexus One. As we know, the Desire and Nexus One are almost identical, hardware wise. Aside from the optical 'mouse' and physical buttons and a tiny bit more RAM , they ARE identical. Analogous to the Dream/G1 and the Magic/MT3G.

HTC Desire......Mummy

Well we wouldn't be a very good Android focused tech blog if we didn't discuss the new juicy piece of kit from HTC.

The HTC Desire, and can I say its a fantastic name because I certainly do desire one of these phones. The phone has been touted as the replacement for the sort of current flagship sense phone from HTC, the Hero. I say sort of because the Nexus didn't exactly make it obsolete with all the issues it's had.

We can quote Rom developer Cyanogen in saying that "the Desire is a nexus done right". 

The phone packs some impressive specs, such as the 1 Ghz SnapDragon  processor which is becoming a standard on many smart phones from HTC recently. This processor allows the phone to work more comfortably, and possibly run Adobes Air apps if and when Android gets them.