Category Archives: Android

My list of best Android applications

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Some time ago I published a list of my favorite free software. This time I’ll tell you about my favorite Android applications that I use on my Samsung Galaxy i7500 mobile phone. Compiling this list was hard, but again I took the ‘what I remember’ approach: it’s forbidden to use phone to remember the ‘favorite’ apps – what I can… Read more »

Samsung offers Samsung Galaxy software as open source

Samsung mobile has a special page devoted to releasing their phone software as open source. If you browse through the models available you will find that there are also versions for Samsung galaxy i7500. There are currently four files available: GT-I7500_OpenSource.zip GT-I7500_OpenSource_Update1.zip GT-I7500_OpenSource_Update2.zip GT-I7500_OpenSource_Update3.zip This has come as a surprise to me. I have thought if Samsung has released it’s… Read more »

Android 1.6 for Samsung Galaxy is released

Some time ago I wrote on how to get firmware updates for Samsung Galaxy. A few days ago I have read that Samsung is releasing a firmware update for i7500 that includes Android 1.6! The firmware version is supposed to be I7500XEFJB2. I tried to get it myself through NPS but apparently it’s not available for me yet. I can’t… Read more »