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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
So this thing hit our inbox, and Jerry and I are going back and forth on how much of a Photoshop job it might be. At first glance, you have what appears to be the upper housing of the HTC F...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
Pop quiz: What is 10.1 inches in diagonal, sports a Tegra 2 processor and Android's Honeycomb tablet OS, and is sitting in an Office Depot in Times Square? If you answered the Lenovo K1 IdeaPad, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 19, 2011
Lenovo has released the official press photos of the IdeaPad K1 Android tablet (pictured, left) and the ThinkPad Android tablet on their Picasa account. No details came with these, but we alread...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
Google's just unwrapped more three-dimensional buildings in a number of cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Singapore, Lisbon, Boulder (Colo.) and 11 cities in South Afri...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
One thing a 10-inch tablet is perfect for is playing Backgammon. If you've never played, it's an ancient game -- something like 5,000 years old, by some accounts that involves rolling dice and removin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 19, 2011
Blue Drone is a Bluetooth controlled R/C car that can be controlled by any Android device running Android 2.0 and higher. It's currently in its initial phase at Kickstarter, where the developer...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 18, 2011
Update: And Samsung's confirmed this one for us. It indeed has a micro SIM card.Now this is a bit interesting. According to this little tidbit that just hit our inbox, Verizon's upcomin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 18, 2011
Disney Publishing has released its first Android application, "Winnie the Pooh: What's a Bear to Do?". It's an interactive children's book, starring one of the most loved characters of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 18, 2011
Verizon's trickling out press releases all day, so we're updating as we get them.Verizon this morning dropped a few more details on the markets that are scheduled to see the LTE switch flipped on...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 18, 2011
HTC over the weekend released the source code for a trio of devices. The Desire Z and Incredible S saw the release of their Gingerbread maintenance updates, while the HTC Flyer 7-inch tablet say...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 17, 2011
The CyanogenMod user install base has hit the 500,000 mark, according to the stats released by the CM team. This is across all devices, and includes unofficial versions in the numbers. Som...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 16, 2011
We know, we know. Now that the Motorola Xoom's getting Android 3.2, everybody else wants in as well. Can't blame ya. And while the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer (read our full review) appears to...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Google was asked about the "patent situation" during Thursday's second-quarter earnings call. The "situation," of course, is that Google recently lost a bid for a major bunch of pa...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 14, 2011
The Google+ app has just received a pretty major update that brings bug fixes, some UI changes, and new features to Googles new social media venture. From the changelog in the Android Market:Cus...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Swiftkey X -- the latest generation in what has proven to be an excellent predictive-type keyboard for Android -- exits public beta status this morning and enters the Android Market as a full-fledged...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Take just about every feature from every streaming music service available, and you you get Spotify. But until today, those of us in the United States were left on the sidelines. No more. Spotify's n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 13, 2011
Way, way back in early June, US Cellular teased seven Android phones and tablets to be released by the end of the year. The breakdown went thusly:Three HTC devices -- two smartphones a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 13, 2011
It's been some six months since we first saw the Toshiba Thrive at CES. At the time, it didn't have a name, and it wasn't even a Honeycomb tablet -- more of a hardware prototype running Froyo. That a...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 13, 2011
With the new Sony S1 and S2 tablets set to hit the market soon, Sony has now teamed up with Adobe for a couple of things. The first, being the announcement that all Sony tablets will indeed support Ad...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 13, 2011
While Woot is currently offering the Motorola Xoom for $399 as a refurb, that will only last for a while. Future Shop locations across Canada have now started offering something a little more solid. R...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 13, 2011
Hey, all you IT types. You might recognize the Android-powered Cisco Cius tablet above -- we first told you about it more than a year ago. Today, Verizon has announced that it's putting its LTE&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 13, 2011
Not much to say here, folks. The venerable Motorola Xoom (32GB Wifi-only version) is just $399 today on Woot. It might not be the thinnest or lightest Honeycomb tablet, but for today, it's just a...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 12, 2011
The 9.4-inch Sony S1 just might be making its way into the hands of consumers in the UK as early as September 1. New rumors suggest that the Sony Centre stores across the pond will be training ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
The folks at Evernote have pushed out the Honeycomb version of their popular organization app to the Market, and it looks like it was well worth the wait. The big changes are rich text and check...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
The rumors that the next version of Honeycomb being right around the corner look to be true, as today Android Open-Source Project engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru has pushed the GPL portions of the 3.2 so...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 12, 2011
Harman International Industries -- the company behind such audio giants as Harman Kardon and JBL -- has announced it is supported the Android Open Accessory Protocol. That's the feature announced back...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 11, 2011
MIUI, a popular third-party ROM for Android devices, is now available as a stable version for the B&N Nook Color. It's worth noting that this is not part of the official MIUI proje...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 11, 2011
Here's an interesting addition coming to a future version of Android. Apps that don't properly scale up to Honeycomb tablets' greater resolution and larger screen sizes will be able to be zoomed in on...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 09, 2011
Look at what we have here, an update already for the yet to be released Toshiba Thrive, that a few lucky folks have been able to land their hands on. While there is no detailed break down of the updat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 08, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingCan't wait to get your hands on the Toshiba Thrive? You're not alone. Android Central Forums member illwood has his already and has given it a proper tablet-on-carp...
