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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
You didn't think we'd let the Sprint Evo 4G launch without giving one away, did you? Here's what you have to do to win the biggest, baddest Android smartphone from the biggest, baddest Android blog:Ju...
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by Casey Chan
May 17, 2010
Looks like everybody's favorite T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide just got a price. According to a leaked slide from Tmonews, the myTouch 3G Slide will be available for $149.99 with new 2-year contract and $3...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
HTC today announced the Wildfire (you might remember that name from a contest HTC ran), essentially the Desire squeezed down into a 3.2-inch screen, with a lower price the end result. (That's al...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 16, 2010
Live at the Sprint Evo 4G launch party in New York Android updates: Samsung Moment gets Android 2.1, Android 2.1 update for the Droid Eris is rolling out and Android 2.1 lea...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 16, 2010
To say everybody's excited about the Sprint Evo 4G is a bit of an understatement, at best. You're blowing up our forums (and inboxes) with pictures, videos and questions. Here's what's at the tip of y...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 15, 2010
This one's going to make a lot of you Android purists happy: Unlike on the Droid Incredible, you can run the stock Android 2.1 home screen on the Sprint Evo 4G, as our pal Andrew from Androinica sho...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 14, 2010
By now everyone knows the Verizon has started slowly rolling out the Android 2.1 update for the HTC Droid Eris. Just like the Motorola Droid 2.1 update, you can wait for the OTA notification or ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 14, 2010
When it rains, it pours. Just got word of a new leak for the HTC Sprint Hero. No way of knowing if this is the final 2.1 version, but this one is signed with release keys so you will lose ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2010
At this point, the Sprint Evo 4G has been handled every which way to Sunday -- not that it's some big secret or something. But there still are a few odds and ends to clean up. One of them is the reta...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2010
We pretty much spilled all the beans yesterday, but the Samsung Moment's Android 2.1 update is officially official today, right now, as in currently, and you can go get it here and be rid of that old...
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by afazel
May 14, 2010
Great news out of Mountain View for students today. Google is prioritizing Google Voice invites for college students to help with keeping in touch on a college budget. Now parents everywhere will be a...
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by afazel
May 14, 2010
Let's cut to the chase. Google is going to offer the Nexus One in traditional retail outlets. While they were trying to be innovative in offering the phone exclusively through their google.com/...
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by Casey Chan
May 14, 2010
When we heard that U.S. Cellular would exclusively carry the Samsung Acclaim, we wondered like you guys, what's a Samsung Acclaim? Luckily, it looks like the Acclaim has been outed and it looks ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2010
You wanted to manually update your Droid Eris to Android 2.1, and so you shall. Here's what you need to do:Download this file. (Thanks, AndIRC!)Copy it onto your SD card. Be sure not to put it in...
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by Casey Chan
May 14, 2010
We've heard that the Dell Streak, the sexy Android MID heretofore known as the Dell Mini 5, was headed to AT&T before. But haven't heard official confirmation since. Until now that is. CEO M...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2010
You're going to be able to buy the Sprint Evo 4G from everybody and his mother, which is good. That will mean lower prices and higher incentives. Radio Shack's sweetener? A free $20 accessory credit. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
The hottest Android phone, the world's greatest city, and the world's best Android blog. It all came together at Sprint's Evo 4G party last night in New York, and we brought it to you live.Missed it?...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 13, 2010
Everyone is looking forward to the release of Android 2.2. So when the editors over at TechCrunch got a tip that a giant frozen yogurt sculpture was delivered, they sent a staffer over to check ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
Oh ... You mean that Froyo sculpture? Here it is, folks. Froyo. With mixed nuts and berries. Video after the break, at least until YouTube pulls it. [YouTube] Thanks, dion!
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
A senior Android software engineer is leaving the Android team, hot on the heels of senior project manager Erik Tseng's announcement that he's going to Facebook. Cedric Buest is headed to Linked In a...
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by Adam Sawyer
May 13, 2010
If you’ve tried the new Dolphin HD browser, you'd know that one of its best features was the ability to download YouTube videos directly to your SD card. Unfortunately, this rubbed YouTube th...
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by Casey Chan
May 13, 2010
Here's Sony Ericsson's latest ad spot on the Xperia X10 Mini (which just cleared the FCC!) and while we applaud the amazing finger dancing choreography, we just don't get it. Sure, fingers dancing on ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
Aside from the 4G WiMax hotspot, one of the other cool new features of the Sprint Evo 4G is honest-to-goodness two-way video chat, with Qik serving it all up. And it worked fairly well in the de...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
Sprint. Simultaneous voice and data. Two things that, until now, have never gone together. But with the HTC Evo 4G (we've mentioned you can get it June 4 for $199, right?), it's finally a r...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
The good news: Tech Crunch found that USB tethering and the ability to serve as a WiFi hotspot will be built into Android 2.2, aka Froyo. The bad news: Don't count on all carriers leav...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
When we first saw the Sprint Evo 4G at CTIA a couple months ago, we didn't get a good look at the software because, well, it wasn't ready. But that was some 60 days ago, and it's time to take it for ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 13, 2010
It sure appears that the HTC EVO 4G will be a hot number, and much like the Droid Incredible supplies might get low. Unless you're the type that likes to camp out at the Sprint store on the night befo...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 12, 2010
OK, now that the Sprint Evo 4G pricing is official and all, let's break it down, all official-like.$199 for the phone, after the usual two-year contract.$69.99 a month for the Everything Data plan.$10...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 12, 2010
That's right, folks, we're in the Big Apple at Sprint's Evo 4G pre-launch party. They're tying it in with the upcoming Jake Gyllenhaal movie "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," and w...
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by Jared DiPane
May 12, 2010
Just a few months ago Google added Tim Bray to their team as an Android Advocate, and today Erick Tseng has announced he will be leaving Google and Android and joining forces with Facebook. For those ...
