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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2011
Fun fact: Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow has at least six Android apps and a live wallpaper in the Android Market. (Make that eight total if you count the misspelled "Tbows World.")
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 27, 2011
We go through a lot of Applications here at Android Central. Some are good. Some ... not so good. Some are awesome, but I don't need them.
Here's a look at the apps that get me through the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 26, 2011
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The folks at Max MP have released version 2.0 of PowerAmp, their excellent music player for Android. We've loved PowerAmp in it's previous versions, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 26, 2011
So you found a new Android phone under your tree this year did you? Welcome to the family, we're glad you're here, and you picked the right place to visit. We understand all the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 23, 2011
One of the best things about toting around an Android phone is the way you can make it yours. Wallpapers, widgets, icon sets, even system apps can all be customized just about any darn way you...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 23, 2011
It's tough to listen to satellite radio these days without hearing an advertisement for Ashley Madison, an online community that boasts having more than 12 million anonymous members looking for ...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 23, 2011
Norad tracking Santa started back in 1955, pretty much by accident when a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement accidentally printed the number to the Continental Air Defense ...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 23, 2011
Having previously slipped a preview of the Dropbox update with optimizations for Ice Cream Sandwich, we all knew it was coming but we didn't know when, exactly. As it turns out, the latest updat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 22, 2011
The good news: NVIDIA's shouting from the rooftops that the game Shadowgun (read our review) has been updated and optimized for Tegra 3 devices. And, the bad news: There's only one Tegra 3 d...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 22, 2011
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The only thing better than that video is the name of the user who uploaded it -- "KoreanFrongMania."
And after the break, the far more subdued bearded dr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 22, 2011
If you're hopping on a plane today for the holidays, there's a new free travel app that's worth giving a look. GoHow Airport is a simple app that gives you information on a score of airp...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 21, 2011
Google's App Inventor is dead, long live MIT's App Inventor!
A final notice everyone -- if you have some projects sitting around in App Inventor, and would like to keep them, either for som...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 21, 2011
Google TV might not have taken off like some folks expected it to, but those of us who use it (especially with the Honeycomb/Google TV 2.0 update) know that it can be a great way to get the web into...
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by Android Central
Dec 21, 2011
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If you are a Firefox user on the computer odds are that you have already tried Firefox for Android, but if not there is no better time to do so then now. Feat...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 21, 2011
Google Currents has received its first update, with no new features to report but a couple of important fixes.
In the changelog we get stability improvements, and performance improvements in ...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 20, 2011
Looks like the folks from Myriad are cooking something up to show off fully at CES. The makers of the Myriad Dalvik Cache that allows Android apps to run such things a iOS and MeeGo have now taken t...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 20, 2011
The guys over at Dropbox have slipped a preview of a forthcoming update to their Android application out into their forums, complete with optimization for Ice Cream Sandwich.
Besides looking ...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 20, 2011
Hot on the heels of Flash Player 11, Adobe have today updated AIR to include support for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich. More good news for those of you with a shiny new Galaxy Nexus b...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 20, 2011
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Naughty by Nature has been around for 20 years. We'll let that sink in for a minute. But they're also cooler than you in that they've got their own Andr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 20, 2011
The NFL on Thursday announced that Super Bowl XLVI will be streamed to the web and mobile devices -- including the NFL Mobile Android app available on Verizon devices. Additionally, the wild-card ga...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 19, 2011
Just in case you never caught the prolougue for the game while watching the Galaxy Nexus unboxing video, Clash Of The Nexus Ninjas is a real game that is currently available in the Android Market. B...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 19, 2011
We've gotten a sneak peek at some new features coming to Google+ as a whole, and the Android app just got itself a nice little update. Here's what's new:
Start a hangout from a M...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 19, 2011
Google has some great new improvements in the works for Google+, and today they let us know we'll be getting them soon -- as in before New Year's Day. Starting to roll out in the "...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 19, 2011
If you're a fan of Glu's stable of games on Android and are rocking a Sprint phone and are into the Sprint ID thing (that's a lot of qualifies, we know), Glu's now got its own Sprint...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 19, 2011
Tapatalk is one of the more popular ways to use the Android Central Forums from your smartphone. One problem though -- it wasn't playing nicely with Ice Cream Sandwich. But we've been workin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 18, 2011
Now that webOS is all but dead, we're starting to see not only the end users defect to Android, but developers as well. And one of the more popular webOS Twitter apps is headed this way, to...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 18, 2011
Yeah, yeah. Google Wallet is not officially on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. We get that. We don't like it, but we get it. And we've been able to hack it on there easily enough. But what if you ...
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by Joshua Munoz
Dec 16, 2011
For all of you mobile-MMOers out there, take notice: Spacetime Studios is spreading holiday cheer to their gaming base by unveiling a slew of new content for this time of year. Depending on which ga...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., didn't like what he'd heard about the whole Carrier IQ saga. And after receiving answers from the analytics company, he still doesn't like what he hears. O...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
AT&T's responses to questions posed by U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., over the use of Carrier IQ analytics software are probably the most interesting we've seen thus far.
AT&T...
