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by Phil Nickinson
May 04, 2010
If you're looking for some protection for your new Verizon HTC Droid Incredible, look no further than the SPE Top Case. It sports a large magnetic flap and sturdy leather belt clip for easy ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 04, 2010
T-Mobile today introduced the myTouch 3G Slide, bringing a horizontal slider keyboard to the popular device. The myTouch 3G Slide runs Android 2.1 on a 3.4-inch HVGA touchscreen. It's less t...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2010
LG finally has launched its Ally-Iron Man 2 microsite, and we get better look at the upcoming Android phone that may or may not make its way onto Verizon in the coming weeks. We're dealing with a 3.2-...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2010
It's been a little less than a month since the Android developer site released its last version numbers, and we already have another update. As of the two weeks ending May 3, some 32.4 percent of Andr...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2010
We've all had a nice, long weekend with Verizon's HTC Droid Incredible. Let's take a gander in the forums, shall we, and see what's leading the discussion: First and foremost is battery life. Ti...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2010
That's right, folks, the Mint personal finance app [market link] is finally available for Android. For the uninitiated, Mint plugs into your bank accounts (kind of like Microsoft Money did back in th...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2010
A cryptic but overly long press release this morning confirmed that the LG Ally is, in fact, a horizontal slider with Android, and is promotionally tied to the "Iron Man 2" movie, two t...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2010
This is it, everybody. We had to whittle down more than three dozen entries to 15 finalists. And it wasn't easy. Watch all of the videos after the break, and then vote for your favorite. We'll announ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2010
HTC late last week released its kernel for the Droid Incredible (along with the Eris and Legend) giving chefs another platform on which to cook customs ROMs. That said, we're still waiting on th...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 02, 2010
Do not try this at home. For that matter, it hurts just looking at it. But sure enough, it's a Verizon HTC Droid Incredible getting coins thrown at it and keys dragged across the screen. Basical...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 02, 2010
This blurry little picture of the Sprint HTC Evo 4G, allegedly in a Sprint store in Central Florida, means one of two things: Either we're still hurting from last night, or the Evo 4G's actually ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 01, 2010
Looks like there's pretty good demand for the Verizon HTC Droid Incredible. Big Red's website now lists the Android smartphone as "shipping by May 14." That could mean anytime bef...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 01, 2010
OK, folks. The Android Central Win Phil's (and Dieter's) Nexus Ones contest is closed, and after the break we have another great round of entries. And we've got one more batch after this. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 01, 2010
This is it, folks, the final batch of entries. And we ended up with 40 submissions. Suffice it to say, you all rock. Here's where we go from here. With so many entries, we're going to have to pare th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 30, 2010
You know how these Android 2.1 updates go -- you'll get it when you get it. But this Sprint screen leaked at XDA Developers points to the Samsung Moment getting Eclair today -- which is growing m...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 30, 2010
Phil's mic was way hot throughout the podcast. Sorry about that, everybody. We'll do better next week. Top o' the news - HTC Droid Incredible is unleashed! Droid Incredible ava...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 30, 2010
Want more on the LG Ally for Verizon? We've got it. It's in a commercial for "Iron Man 2," and it's clearly running Android. That keyboard looks pretty darn usable, but the D-pad ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 30, 2010
Android 2.1+ Two weeks ago, Twitter announced it was developing its own official Android app. Today, that client was released. You can find it now in the Android Market. [link] There's been a bit of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 30, 2010
Looks like the maintenance update that was being tested on the Cliq XT is now being rolled out to everybody. It's in two parts, so you'll need to do both of them. The update brings you fixes to:I...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 30, 2010
Good news for those of you who just have to be able to install applications to the SD card. Google -- which said in January that this would be addressed -- has officially marked the issue (1151, if yo...