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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 11, 2011
If you've picked up a shiny new Motorola Droid RAZR today -- be sure to read our full review -- and can't wait to get it rooted, well, you don't have to wait to get it rooted. Wicked ove...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 09, 2011
Looks like we've now got the manual update location for the Sprint Epic 4G's Gingerbread update, which means no waiting for it to actually push out to you. And because you're going to as...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 08, 2011
You've got a few more days before you can get your hands-on the Motorola Droid RAZR. (And because you've already read our full review, you know it'll be worth the wait.) In the meantime,...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 07, 2011
Good news for anyone involved with tinkering around with software for the venerable HTC Desire. In accordance with open source rules, HTC has just released the kernel source code for the device'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 06, 2011
Thanks to the talent and hard work of our very own AC Developer Beezy, we've been playing with Ice Cream Sandwich on the Nexus S for a while now. One of the cool things that caught our eye...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 04, 2011
Following on from yesterday's root-based escapades, MoDaCo's Paul O'Brien has uploaded the boot and recovery images from the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, along with a full (non-odexed) system d...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 04, 2011
Bazinga. The Qualcomm chip in the T-Mobile Galaxy S II has been overclocked to 1.8GHz, and as far as we know nothing has caught fire and no fuzzy animals have been harmed. The Hercules i...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 03, 2011
For the past few years, apps for safer driving have been popping up all over the place -- all seeking to keep you safe on the road but when you think of augmented reality, that's not likely some...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 01, 2011
Here's the latest version of the Android Market. Looks mostly like the Android Market you have now, but it's not. It's better. It's newer. And therefore better. And a fun fact about ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 28, 2011
HTC has made the Gingerbread kernel source for the EVO Shift 4G, HTC Thunderbolt, and Droid Incredible available for download on their developer center website. As always, unless you're a ...
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by Kevin Michaluk
Oct 27, 2011
Greetings Android Nation!
This past summer we soft-launched "Mobile Nations", initially using the name for our cross-site podcast that brings together the heads of state from AndroidCentr...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 25, 2011
An e-ink Sony PRS-T1 Reader might not be an all-singing, all-dancing tablet-come-e-Reader like the Kindle Fire or the Nook Color. But, as the folks at The Digital Reader have found out, it does run ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 23, 2011
Possible good news here if you've been eyeing the Motorola RAZR, and live outside the U.S. -- Motorola has confirmed to the folks at Ausdroid that the RAZR will be the first Motorola phone to of...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 21, 2011
The T-Mobile Galaxy S II has been rooted, thanks to Samsung releasing the kernel source. Like most Samsung Android phones (and tablets) there's no trickery involved, you simply flash the n...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 20, 2011
Developers have worked out a one-click root option for the HTC Amaze 4G, that provides a temporary root option if you have a locked bootloader, or a perm-a-root if you've managed to get the boot...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 20, 2011
As we explained yesterday, now that the Ice Cream Sandwich SDK has been released, we're about to see a deluge of SDK-based ROM ports. We're not going to cover them all here, but will will co...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 20, 2011
Samsung has released the kernel source code (and other GPL bits of code for open-source software) for the D700, which we all know and love as the Epic 4G. Does this mean a stable Gingerbread b...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 19, 2011
With the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich just around the corner, everyone's excited for all the new features and look. We can't offer a way to get any of the features just yet -- t...
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by Jared DiPane
Oct 13, 2011
40 million users, and 3.4 billion photo uploads through Google+. Take a moment, let that settle into your system. Those are some pretty large numbers considering that Google+ was in closed beta for ...
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by Chris Parsons
Oct 13, 2011
The AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II is still fresh coming off the shelves and already their is a new firmware out there for it courtesy of DesginGears. Labled I777UCKJ1, the Android 2.3.5 build does ha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 10, 2011
Verizon this morning announced its first 4G LTE-capable smartphone with a slide-out keyboard -- the Samsung Stratosphere. It'll be available Oct. 13 for $149 after two-year contract and a $50 re...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 10, 2011
We teased the Breaksclusive™ last week from the CyanogenMod panel at the Big Android BBQ (check out the video if you haven't already), and today CyangenMod 7.1 has been released. The chang...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 09, 2011
The Samsung Captivate has a new Gingerbread build in the works, and as evidence the UCKJ1 build has been leaked for your flashing delight. While everyone is extolling the virtues of AT&a...
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by Joshua Munoz
Oct 09, 2011
One of my favorite things to do on Android is use the T-Mobile Theme Chooser to change the look of my phone. With a few simple clicks you can alter things like the notification pulldown bar,...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 08, 2011
If you have an HTC EVO 3D, and have had some issues flashing the TWRP (and be sure to check out Josh's awesome hands-on and interview with developer agrabren) while using version 1.5 of hboot, o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 07, 2011
The fellows at Android Police have their hands on a couple new apps from the Ice Cream Sandwich build that's floating around out there (how 'bout a dump for the community, Mr. Anon?), and wi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 05, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing
If you bought a TouchPad during the fire sale, and decided that you like using webOS while waiting for hackers to get a full Android port up and running, news in th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 03, 2011
NFC may or may not be the future of on-the-go banking, but for most Android fans it's pretty damn cool. That's why there was a whole lot of disappointment when Google decided to go exc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 02, 2011
(And it doesn't mean the sky is falling)
Update (Oct. 4): HTC says a fix is on the way. Original follows.
Another week, another bit of scary news that nobody is taking the time to properly ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 01, 2011
If you weren't able to make it to Austin for the Big Android BBQ this year, don't worry -- we have you covered. We're on the scene and taking in all the sights, and sharing the hig...
