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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 15, 2010
Ah, the Motorola Backflip. An odd little phone with a keyboard that flips up under the screen, and a trackpad on the back. Strange, to say the least. But, oddly enough, it works. At least until ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 15, 2010
HTC has made available the user guide for the Legend, which now appears to be exclusive on Vodafone for the time being. And for your guys and gals in the U.S., this user guide may be as close as you g...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 14, 2010
It's that time of week again: We want to know what your favorite music player is for Android. Is it the stock app? Something else? Or do you prefer the streaming power of Rhapsody, Slacker or Pandora...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2010
Ask us when the Motorola Droid is getting its long overdue (but not yet late) Android 2.1 update, and we'll tell you unequivocally, "Don't know. Soon." Officially, Motorola says it's "...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2010
Well how about that. Looks like Verizon has updated its Nexus One listing in the Equipment Guide, fixing some of those bullet points that didn't quite add up.Gone is the reference to HTC's Sense user ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2010
Hardware news Inventor of the cell phone gave up his iPhone for a Motorola Droid Hands-on with the Motorola Devour, with Android 1.6 and Motoblur Android sees huge growth through Jan. (wh...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2010
AND ... WE'RE DONE! Winner will be receive an e-mail shortly.We found a $150 Best Buy gift card under a stack of phones and decided it'd be better off in your hands. (We'd probably just spen...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2010
If you're the type of person who's into Android source code -- and let's face it, you probably are -- then you should know that Motorola's had the source for the Backflip available for a week now. Now...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2010
Good news for those of you in the UK who are waiting for the HTC Desire and HTC Legend to be released on Vodafone: It's now "Coming soon," as in April. We know that, 'cau...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2010
Far be it from us to say we told you so, but, well, we told you so. Here's confirmation, plain and simple, that the Google Nexus One on Verizon will not be sold in stores and instead will only be avai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2010
We asked for your favorite Android Twitter client, and you answered. Boy, did you ever answer. So, after wading through more than 300 responses, here are your five favorite apps that keep you tweetin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2010
Opera Mini 5 beta hit the Android Market this morning, and we've been putting it through its paces. It's important to remember that this is Opera Mini, not the Opera Mobile we saw at Mobile World Con...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2010
This is another one of those deals that's likely to raise a few eyebrows, or at least produce some unwarranted exclamation points. The long and short of it is that Microsoft and Motorola have come to ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2010
We're getting word that T-Mobile G1 users have been getting OTA updates over the past couple of days, but alas it's not "THE BIG ONE" to Android 2.0 or 2.1. Instead, it looks like...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2010
One of the first questions we get from new Android users is "Great phone. Now how do I get my music on it?" And one of the first answers we give is "doubleTwist." The free softwar...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2010
As if Android needed yet another endorsement, it turns out that Martin Cooper -- the inventor of the cellular telephone who pretty much is responsible for all of us being here at this fine Web site t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2010
Take a look at the latest smartphone usage numbers from Comscore, and you're likely to do a double-take -- Android increased by 4.3 percentage points from November '09 through January 2010 over the th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2010
There are upwards of 20,000 apps in the Android Market. Some good, some not so good, and many are flat-out great. So what do your favorite Smartphone Experts editors have on their Android phone...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2010
Stories have been going around that a botnet was being spread by the HTC Magic on Vodafone. Specifically, it was Panda Security that sounded the alarm after they plugged in said Android pho...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2010
You know all those stories about developers getting free Android phones this conference or another? Our pal Rene Ritchie (of TiPB) is at GDC in San Francisco and got to witness the carnage in person. ...
