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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 24, 2010
Yes you read it correctly :) The Sprint Evo 4G appears to have been rooted, before its officially released. Android developer Matt Mastracci at his blog grack.com has some pictur...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 24, 2010
Android 2.2 Froyo video walkthrough Top features of Android 2.2 Google announces Google TV The best of Android Central at Google I/O Sprint Bl...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 23, 2010
For those of you who worry about locking down your phone -- just in case it gets lost or stolen or your wife likes to check up on your calling and browsing habits -- you now have a couple of new opti...
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by Jared DiPane
May 23, 2010
Another week finished, and boy was it a busy one. Phil went to tackle Goole I/O and brought the world some great news, reviews, and more. It was a busy week, so let's take a look at what too...
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by Jared DiPane
May 23, 2010
In what seemed like the wait of a lifetime, the myTouch 3G Slide is now available for pre-order in T-Mobile stores, with an official release date of June 2. While pricing has been rumored to be $149.9...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 23, 2010
Internet tethering -- over USB and as a wireless hotspot -- is one of the bigger features built into Android 2.2 Froyo. And it's stupidly easy to set up and use. Just dive into the main wireless sett...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 23, 2010
This is Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering with Android. And he's about to say something you need to listen to. Something you all need to listen to. And when he's finished, go back and liste...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 23, 2010
Connecting your Android phone to your computer to use it as a mass storage device isn't new, and we've detailed how and why you'd want to do it. But in Froyo, it gets a little more friendly. Gone is ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
Here you go, folks, the down and dirty walkthrough with Froyo -- aka Android 2.2 -- on the Nexus One. Remember that there's a lot of back-end stuff that's been optimized, and we're really just start...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
Now we don't mean to cause any undue alarm here, but check out the live wallpaper on the Nexus One above. It doesn't reproduce perfectly in the picture, but there's definitely some major color bandin...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
For those of you who are running rooted and ROM'd Nexus Ones with a custom recovery module -- either Amon Ra or ClockworkMod or the like -- it's now stupidly easy to upgrade to Android 2.2 Paul at Mo...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
Stop. Do not pass go. Now that you have Froyo up and running on your Nexus One, it's time to take part in the Adobe Flash 10.1 beta. Just click here in your Android browser, install it, and start...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
Let's all pause from the Froyo mania for a second and ponder the above picture, brought to us via Howard Forums. This purportedly is the Motorola Shadow, which kind of looks like a mashup betwee...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
It took what for most Nexus One owners seemed to be a lifetime, but we now have the download location for Android 2.2 (Froyo). Here's what you need to do to flash it to your phone:Update: Yeah. Hang o...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
One thing that apparently already is working its way out in the open (unlike the mythical Nexus One Froyo update that's only reaching a blessed few) is the new crash report tool for Android applicatio...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 22, 2010
So here's the thing: TechCrunch's M.G. Siegler apparently awoke to an over-the-air update of Android 2.2 (Froyo) on his Nexus One. And immediately, everybody and their mother started postin...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
We got our first look at the Samsung Galaxy S and its gorgeous (indoors, anyway) Super AMOLED screen at CTIA in March. And Sammy was showing it off again this week at Google IO. Not much els...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
There's a bit of a fuss going on at the moment about a slew of new HTC code names. Engadget spilled the beans about the Glacier, LED and Vision -- and that's about all we know. The Vision ap...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
You guys want us to do an unboxing of the Sprint Evo 4G? Fine. We'll do an unboxing. And we'll do it live, in living color, with stereophonic sound. Maybe snakes will fly out. Maybe it'll be a gr...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
Get a bunch of execs on stage -- Micrososoft, Google, Apple, whomever -- and people are going to try and cause trouble. Same goes for the Android team at Google IO. Asked to compare the Android "...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
See here! There's the Bump contact-sharing Android application. And it's just like it sounds: Bump your phone against another with the app, and it shares the info. Oh, and see that iPhone coweri...
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by Casey Chan
May 21, 2010
First things first, these screen shots are really easy to fake. Ridiculously easy. With that out of the way, it looks like a settings screen shot is showing a T-Mobile Motorola Cliq running Andr...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
Good news, everyone! We found our first giveaway item for this week's podcast. (Here's another contender.) But you'll have to be there live to win. Join us at 7 p.m. EDT / 4 p.m. PDT at androidce...
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by Jared DiPane
May 21, 2010
Google I/O started off a little slow on Wednesday, but boy did Thursday take over, with the announcement of Android 2.2 -- Froyo -- and Google TV. Here's what we've posted thus far. And while we're h...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
I'm pretty sure I could probably fly myself home after spending a few minutes with Laminar Research's X-Plane Android flight simulator (this is no mere "app"), which we toyed around wi...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
So what, exactly, killed off the Google phone store? We had a couple really good questions during this afternoon's Q&A regarding the death of the web distribution model, and what happened with the...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
First question out of the gate today for the Android leadership at Google IO was about everybody's favorite subject: fragmentation. And VP of engineering Andy Rubin put things in ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
A small programming note, people: Due to our regularly scheduled Android Central Podcast falling smack in the middle of Google IO/cross-country travel, we're going to push it back a day this wee...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
You guys keep asking, and here's the official answer: Android 2.2 -- Froyo -- is trickling out in the SDK now, but it's going to be a few weeks before we see it on phones en masse. That doesn't m...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We first showed you the official Froyo sculpture a week ago, and here it is, finally on the Google campus. Yummy, eh? [Twitpic via @billnapier]...
