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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
As the Samsung Galaxy S4, which is likely to be the most popular selling smart phone for the summer, is being announced tomorrow in New York, we find that Apple's senior vice president of market...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
Google has removed several ad-blocking apps from Google Play this afternoon, and sent letters to the developers explaining that they were breaking one of the rules. Section 4.4 of the Play store dev...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 13, 2013
In case you've been living under a rock the past couple weeks, Samsung's throwing a little party on Thursday night in Times Square, and we're here in New York to partake in the festiviti...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
In a letter obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Andy Rubin takes some time to talk to Android partners about the growth of Android, and why he feels it is the right time to step away and leave thin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
While announcing that Andy Rubin was leaving the Google Android team, Google CEO Larry Page also dropped another big bombshell -- there are now over 750,000,000 installs of Android devices.
Andr...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 13, 2013
Amazon is announcing both wider-scale availability of its largest Kindle Fire -- the HD 8.9-inch -- along with a price cut of both Wifi and 4G versions. Starting today the new, larger tablet will co...
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by Sean Brunett
Mar 13, 2013
Google has announced today that Android founder and longtime leader Andy Rubin will be leaving the Android team to explore a "new chapter at Google." Larry Page posted the announcement on ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 13, 2013
Update: Fifty minutes after, Google I/O tickets are officially sold out. That's a little longer than it took last year, however that's likely down to Google's new method of allocating ti...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 13, 2013
If there were a flagship phone launching in the UK -- or anywhere, for that matter -- without 4G LTE capabilities, we'd be a little concerned. That's why we're not terribly surprised to ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 13, 2013
As rumors swirl that the HTC One may or may not be delayed, the company announced today that it will make a Developer Edition of the device available as well. Following up on HTC's continue...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
An unannounced Motorola phone has leaked out, and it really shows Google's influence over the software. Carrying the XT912A model number, the folks at the Vietnamese site Tinhte are quick to tel...
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by Casey Rendon
Mar 13, 2013
Registration for Google I/O, Google's yearly developer conference held in San Francisco, opens Wednesday morning at 7 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (to check your local registration time, go here)....
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by Casey Rendon
Mar 12, 2013
A very important piece of the T-Mobile/MetroPCS puzzle has fallen into place today: getting the approval of the Federal Communications Commission. Citing increase in competition and the consumer ben...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 12, 2013
The Humble Bundle 5 has been out for a few days now, and after raising over $1 million in donations, the bundle is growing with three more games. The updated bundle adds the following three games, w...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 12, 2013
UK retailer Clove Technology is reporting that the flagship HTC One's European launch has been held back to Mar. 29, two weeks later than Clove's expected date of Mar. 15. Though HTC ha...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 12, 2013
In case you were wondering, yes, Three UK and Phones4U will sell the Samsung Galaxy S4 Next Galaxy handset. As was the case last year, carriers and retailers are hopping aboard the Galaxy hy...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 12, 2013
Yesterday we saw screenshots allegedly from a dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy S4 variant destined for the China Unicom carrier. Today we're getting an even closer look at the handset in question, c...
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by Casey Rendon
Mar 11, 2013
Today we got a first look at some of the apps for Google's upcoming Glass. Many developers were in attendance, where Timothy Jordan explained the goal of the Glass experience: provide timely con...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 11, 2013
Samsung's quite the tease lately. It's launched a campaign of bizarre teaser trailers for the upcoming Galaxy S4, but so far these have been devoid of any real information about the device. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2013
What's this in our inbox? Why, it's an invitation to OUYA's launch party March 28 in San Francisco. The $99 Android gaming console is one of the more anticipated releases this year, and ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 11, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S4 guardian Jeremy Maxwell returns with his magical glowing box in the second teaser trailer for the upcoming handset. If you were hoping for any hint of actual information on wh...
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by Ashley Esqueda
Mar 11, 2013
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 11, 2013
The Samsung Galaxy S4 rumor mill has been churning in the run up to Thursday’s big announcement event in New York City, but so far we’ve seen little to indicate what the upcoming handset...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 11, 2013
LG announced its LII Series of devices at MWC last month, and now we've got some details on the global availability of the Optimus L5II. As we covered when we had our hands on the devices a...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 10, 2013
Samsung has been using a fictional game called "Unicorn Apocalypse" in a barrage of internet and TV commercials lately, and has followed up on it by actually releasing the game in the Play...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 10, 2013
Despite a name which almost screams low end, the Samsung Galaxy Pop is far from low end. Packing a quad-core processor, LTE, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and many of the software bells and whistles the Ga...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 09, 2013
Ahh yes, the Apps of the Week. We meet here every Saturday afternoon to bring you an app from each of the Android Central writers. But not just any apps, these are the apps that we're using day-...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 09, 2013
What a week we’ve got ahead of us. In the next seven days we’ll have seen the HTC One launch in Europe, and the unveiling of the Galaxy S4 at Samsung’s big event ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 08, 2013
Chrome for Android (stable, not beta) has just received a small follow-up update to the large version 25 release from last week, with mostly behind the scenes performance enhancements. There are une...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 08, 2013
Google Play has turned one year old, and although it kicked off the celebration slowly on day 1 the flood gates are now open to hundreds of deals across the store. There are special deals now for TV...
