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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 19, 2012
We've seen a couple new Ice Cream Sandwich builds leaked out for the Sprint Epic 4G Touch, and that makes us happy. It means someone is hard at work making this happen, nobody has forgotte...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 19, 2012
I'm 6 feet, 8 inches tall. For our metric friends, that's 203 centimeters. I have, on more than one occasion, been called the tallest blogger in the world. (And may well be.) I can palm a ba...
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by Android Central
Feb 19, 2012
Following is a gallery of the LG Optimus Vu, a 5-inch Android smartphone with a 4:3 display.
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by Android Central
Feb 19, 2012
LG Optimus Vu specs as we know so far. (Will be updated.)
Key Specifications:
Chipset: 1.5GHz Dual-Core Processor
Display: 5-inch (1024x768) IPS Display
Memory...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 19, 2012
LG has made the Optimus Vu official, announcing the 5-inch phone on their Korean Newsroom site early this AM. Running Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and packing a 5.0-inch display with a 4:3 aspec...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 19, 2012
The the Samsung Galaxy Note is finally available in the United States, hitting Best Buy and AT&T's websites right this second, and brick-and-mortar stores just as soon as the sun rises. (And...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 18, 2012
It won't officially be released until February 19, but the AT&T version of the Samsung Galaxy Note has already had a rooted kernel built for it. The kernel also has init.d support so c...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 18, 2012
Update: Because so many people are just starting to get the update (thanks for the e-mails, everybody!), we're going to bump this post -- something we try to avoid doing for obvious reasons.
Or...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 18, 2012
Since we started doing our polls each weeknight, the most popular requested subject from you guys was about root. People want to know who is rooting their phones, and why they're doing it....
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 17, 2012
A few hours ago we brought you news about an update in the works for the Motorola Droid X, and now Verizon has posted the change log to tell us just what the update entails. It's not a ver...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
Word on the street is that Motorola's getting ready for another one of its "soak tests," this time on the venerable Droid X. No real details yet on what it could be, and we're not ...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 17, 2012
What we have here folks is a good old spoonful of rumor. Simon Hardy, a reader over at Coolsmartphone found himself presented with this image for completing a market research survey for Or...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
We're sitting here smiling because the Samsung Continuum is in the midst of receiving not one, but two updates that end with the phone being upgraded to Android 2.2. Yes. We're excited about...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 17, 2012
HTC sends word via its official Facebook page that in addition to the handful of phones already announced, Verizon's Rhyme, Droid Incredible 2 and Thunderbolt will be getting the latest version ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2012
If you've got a Sprint Nexus S 4G and have been waiting on pins and needles for your Android 4.X Ice Cream Sandwich update that supposedly was dropping Feb. 16, it's time to get some sleep. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 17, 2012
SwiftKey, the Android keyboard replacement that can just about read minds, has passed a pretty significant milestone -- 5,000,000 downloads. Just as impressive, over 1,000,000 users have perso...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 17, 2012
With the pre-Mobile World Congress rumor season in full swing, today sees the emergence of yet another purported device, spec list and image. This time it's the "Motorola Atrix 3", whi...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2012
The past seven days has seen a flurry of information on HTC's upcoming flagship device, expected to be unveiled in just over a week at Mobile World Congress. It's already been reported that ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 16, 2012
There are lots of ways share information between your Android smartphone and a device like a smart TV or computer, but the folks at Clik have just made it easier than ever. They're the same peop...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 16, 2012
And how we, the users, still need to take responsibility
There's been a lot of news lately about a lapse in either security or judgment -- both, really -- at Apple that allows iOS applicatio...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 16, 2012
U.S. Cellular has slowly been unveiling its 4G LTE plans, and now it's announced some of new markets, along with Mobile HotSpot availability.
The additional markets include select cities in ...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2012
Yesterday we learned that HTC's flagship Endeavor and mid-range Ville are likely to be marketed as the HTC One X and One S respectively. Today brings the news that they may be joined by one m...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Feb 16, 2012
A German court in Munich today announced that it has sided with Apple in the company's latest patent dispute with Motorola Mobility, which involves slide-to-unlock gestures. Of the...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Feb 16, 2012
Sony Corporation announced today that the transaction to buy out Ericsson's 50 percent share in Sony Ericsson was completed yesterday, February 15. The announcement marks the culmin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 16, 2012
ZOMG A STORY ABOUT JELLY BEAN! But here's the thing. It's out of our favorite (not really) Taiwanese manufacturer rag, Digitimes. It's also as obvious as it is ridiculous. Here's the...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 16, 2012
It won't surprise anyone to learn that quad-core smartphones based on NVIDIA's Tegra 3 chip will be on show at Mobile World Congress at the end of the month. But NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsung Huang h...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 16, 2012
We saw a good look at the latest high-end phone with a physical keyboard today in the Droid 4 review. The keyboard looks pretty damn good, and Phil seems impressed with it. Those of us w...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 15, 2012
HTC has turned on the Wayback Machine and is now offering a bootloader unlock solution for the Droid Eris, the HTC Hero, the HTC Legend, and the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and 4G flavors. It's a ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 15, 2012
It's been a couple weeks now since we brought you a leaked build of Android 4.0.4 for the Sprint Nexus S 4G. According to an internal screen shot sent to Android Police, we might finally...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 15, 2012
Anyone who saw Phil Nickinson's Google+ photo of the "gorgeous" red custom battery cover for the Galaxy Nexus may have felt some dismay. It was definitely different, somewhat unique bu...
