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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 10, 2010
If you're looking at an HTC Desire but aren't all that crazy about having yet another black slab laying around, UK retailer Expansys has you covered. A silver job will be available for a lim...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 10, 2010
In what should be a surprise to no one, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said recently that he expects to see two to four phones (Android, we assume) with front-facing cameras coming later this year. That...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 10, 2010
Adobe Flash is finally coming to Android with the update to Froyo, and quite a few of us have been rocking Android 2.2 for a few weeks now. So let's put it to you, folks. Now that you've actually bee...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 10, 2010
Samsung makes all sorts of electronics (including some nice Android phones), but their name is synonymous with screen technology. That being said, anytime they chime in about screens or displays...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 10, 2010
For those of you following the development of Mozilla's Firefox browser for Android -- also known as Fennec -- you'll be happy to learn that basic multitouch has been added in a development build. Th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 10, 2010
The Droid Incredible has been a tough nut to crack, with rooting eluding the hacking elite (and thus the rest of us mere mortals, too). But it looks like some real progress has been made, and Sha...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 09, 2010
Not quite satisfied with the stock firmware on your new HTC Evo? Or maybe you just have the itch to tinker that comes naturally when some folks get their paws on an Android phone. Android ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
It's no great secret that the Evo 4G doesn't do as well as other Android phones when it comes to holding a Wifi signal. In fact, we've got page after page in our forums of how displeased many of you ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
The hot app of the year appears to be one that will lock and/or wipe your phone. And as such, Norton -- the longtime virus-cleaner (among other things) -- has the Norton Security app in beta in the A...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
T-Mobile has Father's Day covered, apparently, with a leaked document showing that every phone in TMo's inventory will be free on June 19. TMoNews scored what purportedly is a couple of commercial scr...
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by Dallin Hampton
Jun 09, 2010
Today, Google expanded its Google Maps Navigation system to cover 11 more countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland for And...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
If you've got an extra $199 burning a hole in your pocket and are desperately in need of some serious Garmin action on your phone, you can now go out and get the T-Mobile Garminfone. It's the first re...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
Since everybody got all excited yesterday when the Evo 4G was listed as being out of stock on Sprint's website, we feel we should at least give a half-hearted "Woo hoo!" now that's back. An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
For those of you waiting for the Samsung Acclaim ... well, here it is, outed by none other than Samsung itself. There's been little doubt that it'd be an Android phone, and this seals the deal. You'v...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
For everybody who's asking us when the Nexus One will get its official update to Froyo, well, we still don't know. But Google employee passion-ate does give us an Android 2.2 update update (see ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
Good news for those of you who prefer to do your Google searches via voice input -- and in French, German, Italian or Spanish -- you can now do so in your native tongue. You'll need to have at least A...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
Yeah. Apparently Sprint goofed pretty big when it reported first-day sales numbers for the Evo 4G. When it said this:"The total number of HTC EVO 4G devices sold on launch day was three ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 09, 2010
While it may seem that everybody and their brother are busy poking around the innards of the HTC Evo 4G, developers are still hard at work on other Android phones as well. Late last night I was...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
Here is a blurry picture of the Droid 2 Android activation screen. It looks exactly like every other activation screen you've seen, only this one is blurry, and on a Droid 2, which we're nearly convin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 08, 2010
Who says only the latest and greatest Android phones will get Android 2.2? Not T-mobile. HTC already let us know that all their Android devices manufactured this year would be getting a Fr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
Update: And just like that, Google says its fix is in place and developers are seeing their apps again. Huzzah! [Google, Google Developer blog]Original: Apps have been disappearing from the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
We've already taken a walk through the basic functions of the updated Qik video chat app for the Evo 4G -- now let's take a look at video chat in action. Check it out after the break as Jerry and I&n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
If you're looking to snag an Evo 4G, you're going to have to hoof it, as it's currently out of stock on Sprint's website. Sprint's said the Evo set a one-day launch record, and it must not have been k...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
Yes, folks, it's all but official that the Samsung Galaxy S (see our hardware and software hands-ons) is coming the U.S. Only questions are when and to which carrier. (OK, those are pretty big questio...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
A note to anybody with an Android smartphone: Don't leave it sitting around Paul from MoDaCo, or he's liable to root the thing on principal. Such is the case with the LG Optimus (aka th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
We know. You Droid Incredible owners have had to sit through an awful lot of Evo 4G news of late, and you're feeling a little left out. We hear you. But there's actually been some great stuff goi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
Waving your hand in the air to control your phone isn't a new idea -- we've seen talk of it before on Windows Mobile, and it's been implemented on other platforms. But now that Android is getting fro...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
We can't vouch for anything here, but the inventory shot you see above apparently shows the HTC Intruder on AT&T. Maybe it's yet another name in the Liberty/Aria lovefest, giving us a proper ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 07, 2010
It's been a crazy day. We've been playing with the Qik video chat. We had to choke down another Apple keynote. We saw the Nexus One disappear and then reappear -- yes, it's back now -- from Google's o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 07, 2010
Those of you joining Android from other platforms -- and we know who you are -- may well be familiar with The Missing Sync, a longtime leader in personal information management. And if you're looking...
