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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 28, 2010
It's hardly shocking, but HTC's new Sense user interface (read our review here) has been ported onto the Motorola Droid. It's still a little buggy, but damned if its not the same ROM (more or less) t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 28, 2010
There's somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 applications in the Android Market. And every day we get e-mail after e-mail asking "What's the best app for this?" and "What's the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2010
Nope, Android fans, the T-Mobile G1 isn't getting the almighty Android 2.1 update (or 2.0 for that matter) just yet. Instead, you can look forward to one of those lovely "maintenance updates...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
The Firefox for Mobile folks teased us today with a couple more pics of the browser on Android phones. There's the shot of it above that they posted on their Facebook page, and they also linked to ano...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
Forget Flash. Who needs Farmville? Here's the only gaming anybody really cares about: Quake III on the Motorola Droid. And after the break, we show you how to do it and have video of the game in...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
So that maintenance update that's been rolling out for the Motorola Cliq on T-Mobile? Stay away. Stay far away. Basically it borks the phone pretty good, from keyboard issues to text message...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
Don't want to get anybody's hopes up yet, but a CDMA version of the Nexus One has made its way through the Federal Communications Commission. Does that mean we're going to get the Nexus One on Sp...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
Good news for our pals in the United Kingdom: The HTC Desire is coming your way in a month. T-Mobile UK tweeted this morning:The Desire will be available on the 26th of March. Thanks for all...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 25, 2010
Yeah, we noticed. And seeing as how gmail is kind of the linchpin for any good Android experience, it's the sort of thing that we notice pretty quickly. But at least things are getting back to normal...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 25, 2010
Look for this to get yanked down anytime now, but what you see above looks to be an HTC phone of unknown make, likely either the Supersonic or Incredible, depending on which way the wind is blowi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 25, 2010
BryonP points out in our forums that Best Buy Mobile is shipping the Verizon Motorola Devour on Feb. 25 ... which is today. You can snag it for $99.99 after the usual new activation/rebates/first-born...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2010
We got a decent look at the upcoming Motorola Cliq XT at Mobile World Congress, but we didn't dive too far into the software on the phone. (Something about thousands of people buzzing around you...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2010
We've watched with interest as enterprising coders have found ways to make Google Voice even smarter by including location with the service. Basically, it knows where you are and knows not to ring, s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2010
There's little doubt that the HTC Incredible was at least being tested on Verizon -- we've already seen it with Verizon branding as it booted up. Now it's appeared in Verizon's inventory system,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2010
We've seen facial recognition before on Android, but this is borderline ridiculous. In a prototype app from The Astonishing Tribe -- the behind-the-scenes maker of some of the coolest UIs out there -...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
Android 1.6 and up: For those of you with Android phones looking for some sound prescription drug information, the popular Epocrates service is now available in a beta app. Clinical content isn'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
There's been absolutely no doubt that Android's usage share has skyrocketed in the last year, and here's another example. Gartner released figures today that show a 3.4 percentage point climb over...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
We're not even a full week removed from Mobile World Congress, and already the rumors are starting to fly regarding U.S. availability of the HTC Legend and Desire, which were unveiled there. Sai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
We had plenty of travel time en route to Mobile World Congress and spent a good chunk of it playing with the various keyboards available for Android phones. Of course, one of the front-runners is Bett...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
Slacker Radio today released Version 2.0.40, bringing with it the much-anticipated station caching. In other words, it's all the same Slacker Radio you've always enjoyed for free, no-Internet connecti...
