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by Alex Dobie
Nov 05, 2012
Today marks the fifth birthday of the organization that made Android possible -- the Open Handset Alliance. On Nov. 5, 2007, Google, T-Mobile, HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung and others joined forces and a...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 05, 2012
Samsung could be planning a major overhaul of its brand and marketing efforts ahead of CES 2013, if reports from Australian outlet ChannelNews are to be believed. The site reports via sources in Asi...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 05, 2012
Samsung has already provided a wealth of software upgrades for the original Galaxy Note, which first shipped just over a year ago on Android 2.3-based firmware. Now signs seem to point towards the O...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 03, 2012
It's Nexus week, and over the past seven days we've seen plenty of Google's new Nexus devices -- the Nexus 4 phone, the Nexus 10 tablet and the refreshed 32GB/3G Nexus 7. Nexus 4 and 10 ...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 03, 2012
Hold your horses -- the Nexus 7 doesn't have Android 4.2 just yet. But no-one seems to have told UK retailer HMV, which is putting out newspaper ads for the new 32GB version of Google's tabl...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 03, 2012
Earlier in the week Apple was rebuked by a UK court of appeal for publishing a "non-compliant" statement about Samsung's Galaxy Tabs not infringing, but willfully copying the iPad. The...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 02, 2012
The Nexus 4 is finally officially official -- a new LG-built Nexus device sporting a quad-core Snapdragon S4 chip and a unique chassis design. The full review's coming soon, but in the meantime,...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 02, 2012
You could be forgiven for not remembering the HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa. HTC's first-gen Facebook phones failed to make much of an impact when they were released in mid-2011. But apparently ...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
Panasonic may have all but pulled out of the European smartphone market, but that hasn't stopped it pushing out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for its ill-fated Eluga. The Eluga, which saw a lim...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
Updates are now pushing out for two major Google apps on the Google Play Store. First up is Google Chrome, the de facto default browser for Android 4.0 and above. ARM-based devices are updated to Ch...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
Using a skinned version of Android? You’re already up-to-date on 4.1.
We’re not huge proponents of using the term “skin” to describe the manufacturer customizations put o...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
The CyanogenMod team has announced that as of the latest round of nightly builds, CyanogenMod 10 will include a new file manager app. The CM File Manager, developed by Jorge Ruesga, c...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
Vodafone UK and Huawei have begun pushing out an update to Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich for the budget-friendly Ascend G300. The update is available as an over-the-air download, but Voda advises...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
Apple given 48 hours to correct statement on its UK site
When Apple issued its legally-mandated statement, indicating that Samsung had not copied the iPad in its Android tablet range, we specula...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
Virgin Media is one of the smaller players in the UK mobile space, but that hasn't stopped it from seeking to compete in an increasingly data-focused market.
Today the company has started offerin...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 01, 2012
Samsung has announced that its miniaturized, mid-range handset, the Galaxy S3 mini, will be making its way to British shored from next Thursday, Nov. 8. In its announcement today, Samsung also reveals...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 31, 2012
Update: After 15 minutes of misery, it seems we're now able to access Google services once again.
Google is in the midsts of a bit of an outage, with Talk, Drive, Calendar, Google+, the Play St...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 31, 2012
The story of Verizon and HTC’s Droid DNA has led us from a nameless blurry-cam, through rumors of an “HTC DLX” to clear photos of the actual device and news of what appears to be t...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 31, 2012
UK retailers PC World and Currys is now offering the 32GB Nexus 7 for sale. The stores, which are both part of the Dixons group, are selling the new Nexus 7 model for £199 inc. VAT, matching G...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 31, 2012
After unceremoniously leaking its LG Nexus 4 product page last week, UK retailer Carphone Warehouse is once again showing the handset as available for pre-order. This time the expected del...
