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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2010
We've seen facial recognition before on Android, but this is borderline ridiculous. In a prototype app from The Astonishing Tribe -- the behind-the-scenes maker of some of the coolest UIs out there -...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 24, 2010
Everybody loves free apps. We definitely don't mind paying for premium, high-quality applications (the developers deserve it!) but there are few things that beat a wide selection of quality, free appl...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 24, 2010
It's no secret that Google and China are having some differences. The crux of the disagreement is China's notoriously stringent censorship of the web and we definitely applaud Google for refusin...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2010
It's always fun to have smart people hack away at old phones, sometimes cool things can happen. Case in point: the folks at xda-developers have gotten Android 2.1 (yeah, that's 2.1) onto 4 old W...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2010
There are whispers that the first device to introduce the newly formed Skype and Verizon partnership will be the Saygus Vphone. We know the Vphone, it's the device that offered video calling (wh...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 23, 2010
The fellas over at Gizmodo have reported the findings of DisplayMates' Nexus One versus iPhone 3GS Shootout and the results aren’t what anyone expected. The display on the Nexus One that...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
There's been absolutely no doubt that Android's usage share has skyrocketed in the last year, and here's another example. Gartner released figures today that show a 3.4 percentage point climb over...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
We're not even a full week removed from Mobile World Congress, and already the rumors are starting to fly regarding U.S. availability of the HTC Legend and Desire, which were unveiled there. Sai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
We had plenty of travel time en route to Mobile World Congress and spent a good chunk of it playing with the various keyboards available for Android phones. Of course, one of the front-runners is Bett...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
Slacker Radio today released Version 2.0.40, bringing with it the much-anticipated station caching. In other words, it's all the same Slacker Radio you've always enjoyed for free, no-Internet connecti...
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by Jeremy
Feb 23, 2010
From the Forums is a great way for you, our readers, to see the hottest topics being discussed. But you must be a registered member and becoming a member is a simple process. So if you have...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 22, 2010
The Motorola Devour is slated to release this week so to whet your appetite, Motorola has just posted a video demo of this Android-powered, Motoblur-running device. A lot of the stuff we see in...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 22, 2010
The WSJ is reporting that Motorola is looking to add Motoblur, its custom UI for Android, onto Motorola set-top boxes, better known as DVRs. Considering that many set-top boxes have been looking...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 22, 2010
The just announced Acer Liquid e, which is really just an original Liquid with Android 2.1, has found a home in Canada. Rogers has just announced that they'll be bringing the Acer Liquid e to th...
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by Dieter Bohn
Feb 21, 2010
Video hands-on of the new Sense UI running on the Nexus One Sprint releasing WiMAX device, could be the HTC Supersonic ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 21, 2010
The rumors are true. Flash 10.1 is in the ROM that was ported from the HTC Desire to the Nexus One. And it works ... OK, it's not great. But remember that this is an unofficial ROM, and things are li...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 20, 2010
When HTC announced the Desire last week at Mobile World Congress, it basically was billed as the Nexus One, with Sense (and a track pad to boot). But those of us with Nexus Ones knew it would on...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 20, 2010
Here we go, folks. The first round of a new day in the life of HTC's Sense user interface. In Part 1 of our review, we take a look at setting up your phone for the first time, including the new "...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 20, 2010
Here's another one from (not so) deep in our Mobile World Congress stash -- video of the Motorola Cliq XT (aka the Quench outside the United States). Like we said in our first hands-on: If you're loo...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
We don't know how many times we've searched far and wide for the TV remote and wish that we could just use our Droid as a remote control. We're talking about hundreds of times here. Luckily, Verizon i...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
After spending some time with the Palm Pre in the Smartphone Round Robin, we became quite smitten with the form factor. The vertical slider is rather unique in the smartphone industry and it's s...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
Google just announced a new Android application: Google Shopper. It basically combines Google Googles and voice search to deliver a neat little shopping tool in a Googlefied way. You can choose...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 19, 2010
We continue to wait for the Android 2.1 update to come to the Samsung Moment, but there is still a maintenance fix rolling out. If you gone to a Sprint Store to do it, you can now install it yourself...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 19, 2010
Garmin-Asus was showing off the nuvifone A50 at Mobile World Congress, and we took it out for a spin. It's a 3.5-inch (320x480) device running Android 1.6 but is completely skinned. It's being ...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
It looks like Sprint is planning on launching their first WiMAX equipped phone by this summer. Speaking with Forbes, Sprint said that they're launching a WiMAX device in the first half of this year. R...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
If you're into packing all sorts of things into tiny spaces, this little bit of news is right up your alley. SK Telecom showed off a prototype called Android SIM that would combine a processor, m...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
Looks like T-Mobile is starting to push out a minor update to both the Motorola Cliq and the Samsung Behold 2. Motorola had previously confirmed that an update would be coming to the Cliq this w...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 18, 2010
Google Voice is awesome, we can tell you that much. We'll leave it to Google to fully explain what Google Voice is. So if you ever wanted to know what exactly Google Voice is, Google just releas...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 18, 2010
AT&T just announced what we already expected, that the Motorola Backflip will become the first Android device on the AT&T network. The Backflip will be available in AT&T stores and on...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 18, 2010
A few days ago, Best Buy started taking pre-orders for the Motorola Devour without announcing how much it'll exactly cost. Now we know. According to the Best Buy price tag above, the Devour will run f...
