All Posts by jerry hildenbrand
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 05, 2011
Motorola and Google made the Xoom with an unlockable boot loader (thanks for that!), so it's great news when the hacking community has a way to roll things back to stock. You never know when you...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 04, 2011
Google is a software giant, and many of us user their proprietary applications on our Android phone. With good reason -- apps like Gmail, Androidify, and YouTube absolutely rock on an Android de...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 02, 2011
Someone contacted Android Police with a list of applications that contain malicious code to root your device, and this has resulted in Google using the kill-switch and pulling 21 applications fr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2011
Symantec has uncovered yet another trojan horse in a pirated Android app. This time around it's the "Android.Pjapps" trojan, and you can find it in modified versions of the Steamy Window app...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2011
The Atrix 4G is the hot new dual-core smartphone from Motorola and AT&T, you know, that one with the cool docks. Both the phone itself and the technology behind the Webtop docking stat...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2011
Online reseller MobileCity has put up a placeholder page for the T-Mobile bound LG G-Slate, with a price tag of $699 for the 4G version. That's far less than the rumored $1200 that was floating ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2011
Man, I love these little Optimus One phones. When you put Android on great entry-level hardware and price it accordingly, a couple things happen. They get pretty damn popular, and develope...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2011
T-Mobile has announced that as of May 31, 2011, the Danger service (Andy Rubin's former baby now owned by Microsoft) will no longer be available for T-Mobile Sidekick users. Have no fear, becaus...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 28, 2011
Changes in the Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread source will allow applications to take screenshots without rooting your phone. We've always been able to take screenshots using the SDK and the ddms util...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 28, 2011
Motorola Mobility chairman Sanjay Jha announced at an investor relations conference this morning that starting this June, all future Motorola high-end smartphones will include Webtop. Webtop so ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 28, 2011
Gingerbread (the Android 2.3.2 version) has been leaked for the Samsung Galaxy S i9000. Users at XDA Developers are saying that it includes Touchwiz 4, and download mode is still available. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 27, 2011
This week's ROM Review brings two Android staples together -- the HTC Droid Incredible and CyanogenMod. These two go together like peanut butter and jelly -- each makes a good thing better. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 25, 2011
Yes, everyone is waiting for the HTC Thunderbolt. It has to be one of the most anticipated releases in recent Android history, and a lot of potential buyers are getting a bit...antsy. Andr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 25, 2011
A new twist on the "find my phone" genera of apps comes out today from Lookout Labs called Plan B. If the name didn't give it away, it's an application that tracks your phone that is i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 25, 2011
Yes, you read that right -- The Samsung Vibrant now has its very own CyanogenMod 7 (official) test release. It's clearly labeled as a TEST RELEASE, so don't expect miracles just yet, but fi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 24, 2011
We all breathed a collective sigh of relief when we learned that Motorola provided the Xoom with an unlockable bootloader, giving developers and hackers easy access to the hardware. And since ma...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 24, 2011
We've had a couple reports of the latest Gmail update no longer appearing in the Market, and now we have a reason why. It seems that users who were still using a 2.2 version of Gmail and updated...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 24, 2011
The Android 2.3.3 (GRI40 for those keeping score at home) OTA update for the Samsung Nexus S has started to roll out, but there's no need to wait -- it's a breeze to manually install. Think of i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 24, 2011
An AT&T-3G version of the Samsung Nexus S has been rumored for a while now, but while poking around at Google's Android Open Source Project git repository I noticed one of the changes made for 2.3...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 24, 2011
LG Electronics has issued a press release announcing that pre-sales for the Optimus Pad (check out our hands-on) will begin on March 15 for NTT DOCOMO customers in Japan. The tablet has bee...
