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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 18, 2013
A quick heads up for those of you who own the Verizon Galaxy Home Button, erm, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 -- a software update is currently coming down the pike. We don't know exactly what's in v...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 18, 2013
Let us turn now to the other Carbon app for Android (no, not that one -- this one), which today has seen its second beta release. This Carbon serves as a way to back up your app and, perhaps more im...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 18, 2013
The Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 2 actually started pushing a few days ago, but today Samsung's giving us the full details on the updates. They're length...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 18, 2013
Thing 1: CES postmortum
Keeping CES in perspective
Every Android Central CES video in one convenient post
NVIDIA News Roundup from CES
Mitts on with the almighty Android o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 17, 2013
Developer, after months of silence: 'We're back ... we're listening'
You're going to meet the following sentences with a great deal of skepticism. And you should. For it'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 17, 2013
What's the price for nostalgia? If you're a child of the '80s, $2.99 and 24 megabytes will get you Lode Runner Classic from Tozai. For those three bucks you get 150 levels, a pair of gam...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2013
T-Mobile just hit us up with some new info regarding the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7. Here 'tis:
Nexus 4: Availability has been expanded to additional retail stores (so call yours to check), and...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2013
Sprint Epic 4G Touch, T-Mobile Galaxy Note 2 getting fixes so far
When word dropped in December about an exploit to the kernel used with some Samsung Exynos chipsets, Sasmung promised an up...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2013
We've heard from a few folks this morning saying that Google Now apparent has gone quiet, refusing to verbally answer any of the usual questions. We're seeing it, too. Asking "What...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 15, 2013
Good news for those of you with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Not only do you have a pretty good tablet with pretty great stylus (excuse us -- "S Pen) interaction, today you're getting an u...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 15, 2013
Because think of all those AdSense dollars that would otherwise be going to waste if someone didn't aggregate this week's already overhyped Lance Armstrong news.
It's in Google Play if ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 15, 2013
Like horror movies, zombies, puzzle games and first-person shooters? They're all rolled into "In Darkness" on Android. For $1 you're set loose in a dungeon sort of place, with a ha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 14, 2013
Well, you can't say they didn't give it a good run. A couple years after they first got hitched, Target and Radio Shack have called it quits in the mobile business, with their divorce taking...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 14, 2013
Deep links and even embedding panoramas can be done, but it takes a few steps
I might have mentioned once or twice how Photo Sphere is one of my favorite features of Android 4.2 on the Nexus 4. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 14, 2013
From the developer behind the needs-no-introduction Rom Manager comes a new backup solution that not only syncs apps between devices -- it brings the app data long for the ride as well. Carbon (yes,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 13, 2013
Price, not performance, is the key spec for this Nexus 7 lookalike
ASUS has announced a 7-inch budget Android tablet, dubbed the MeMO Pad. At first glance it looks, physically, a bit lik...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 13, 2013
So much is a given in the smartphone business. Another product cycle begins, and we'll see new hardware. Refined software. Improved user interfaces. It'll happen, just like clockwork. Those ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 12, 2013
That's it. Same old picture from Building 44 in Mountain View. No cool picture of yours truly on the Las Vegas strip. No shot from the CES floor, or with a stack full of chips. Just the same ol&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 11, 2013
Here's a small but really cool customization for app developers that Google just announced: You can now build the Google Play badges (you see them whenever we write about an app) in 47 languages...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 11, 2013
Here's a cool little crowd-sourced project from the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma. (Boomer Sooner!) The "Precipitation Near the Ground" project (aka ...
