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by Chris Umiastowski
May 22, 2012
Last week the AT&T HTC One X and Sprint EVO 4G LTE were delayed at U.S. customs following an International Trade Commission exclusion order and subsequent review that Apple won against the Taiwa...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2012
No patents. No petitions. No bootloaders. No multitasking. No customs delays. See y'all next week.
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2012
This week brought a painful reminder that for as awesome as the ol' World Wide Web may be, it's still a pretty sorry state of affairs when it comes to online music. As a quick recap, Google ...
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by Alex Dobie
May 16, 2012
Google's reported introduction of more manufacturers into the Nexus fold could be a stroke of genius, but it’s not without its risks.
We don’t often present entire articles of...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2012
Two thirds of these guys busted their butts at CTIA in New Orleans. One of them was not me.
Another CTIA has come and gone. I'm not usually one to gripe about the pace of a show, given that at...
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by Alex Dobie
May 10, 2012
It’s been a week or so since I first laid eyes on Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III. On the night in London, the barrage of information was relentless -- brand new hard...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 06, 2012
The Samsung Galaxy S III event has come and gone. Some say that's true about the phone as well, that it's so disappointing it's done before ever getting off the ground. Of course, many o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 29, 2012
It's another working weekend. Time for some quick hits:
If I wasn't over the Samsung Galaxy S3 fakes, leaks and fake leaks, I certainly am now. Alex and I will be at the event o...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 27, 2012
Our complete run-down of what to expect from Samsung on May 3
If you’ve been following our news coverage over the past week, you’ll be aware that there’s a small epidemic of Ga...
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by Jason Harrison
Apr 24, 2012
The Google Play Devices store is back!
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2012
Welcome, ladies and germs, to Android Central v3.0.
What you see before you here is the third major iteration of the design of the best damn Android website in the world, bar none. Born of some inc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 15, 2012
One of our greatest features at Android Central is the Android Dictionary, an ever-evolving list of frequently used terms. But did you know there's a second, secret blogging dictionary? Here&...
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by Chris Umiastowski
Apr 12, 2012
Today Google announced its latest set of financial results. Not too shabby, either. Google's also splitting its stock by way of introducing a new class of shares. It sounds all complicated...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 08, 2012
Exciting times, folks. I'm writing this from somewhere over New York and Pennsylvania and Maryland and Virginia, on the way home from the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE event, and recuperated from the 3 ...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 06, 2012
If you’re a regular around these parts, you’ll already be well-acquainted with HTC’s latest beast, the One X. You’ve seen our pre-release coverage from MWC, read Phil’s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 03, 2012
Why do you hate Sense?
That's not a particularly inviting question. Hell, it's not even nice. But it's one I kept asking myself over the course of a week or so while writing our HTC One...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 01, 2012
It's another working weekend. Yeah, that's two in a row. For now, some more random thoughts:
Go download the Android Central Forums app right this second! Don't read the rest of ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 25, 2012
It's a working weekend, so here are a few quick thoughts to keep things moving:
Picked up the Kindle Fire again this week. Google should be praising it publicly as being a shining exampl...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 21, 2012
Sony has announced the Xperia Neo L MT25i today -- a 4-inch, single-core device that will ship with Ice Cream Sandwich to China. The successor to last year's Xperia Neo and Xperia Neo V, it will...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2012
Let's talk tablets.
Specifically, let's talk Nexus tablets. Forget, for the moment, that as yet there's no such thing as a Nexus tablet. And I'm willing to bet that if Google actual...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2012
It was a question I knew I'd get this week. Wasn't sure when, and I wasn't exactly sure what the ramifications would be.
"I have 4G now?!?!?!"
That was a text from...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2012
Oy vey! According to a report from Reuters (via Phonescoop), U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "reports that applicati...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 04, 2012
It's good to be home.
Don't get me wrong. Mobile World Congress is a blast. That we get to work for a week in Barcelona, Spain, is but one perk of this job, and certainly not one that shoul...
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by Jason Harrison
Feb 28, 2012
Let's be honest: You won't be using the Samsung Galaxy Beam to watch kids shows.
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2012
Welcome to Barcelona and Mobile World Congress. And things are already pretty insane. And we're not just talking tapas here. Though if you want to talk tapas, I can go on for days. And if his...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 21, 2012
Well, that was quicker than I expected. Here we are, mostly through February -- Mobile Nations Fitness Month -- and what started as two weeks of solid daily walking as slipped back into 16-hour days...
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From the Editor's Desk: Ch-ch-ch-changes, permissions and paranoia, Droid 4 and Galaxy Note thoughts
by Phil Nickinson
Feb 19, 2012
I am an excited editor. No, really.
Excited because I've seen the roadmap for Android Central. Excited for the way we're going to bring you more Android news than ever before. For the way w...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 19, 2012
I'm 6 feet, 8 inches tall. For our metric friends, that's 203 centimeters. I have, on more than one occasion, been called the tallest blogger in the world. (And may well be.) I can palm a ba...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 14, 2012
I've been playing with the Samsung Galaxy Note for the last week or so (be sure to check out our full review here), and though I'm still digging the novelty of a 5-inch smartphone, there'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 12, 2012
Hell of a week, eh? We saw the rise of Chrome for Android, and Google Wallet hit a couple of potholes -- but nothing we're really worried about -- but some of the coolest news out of Mountain Vi...
