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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. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2010
We're well into our review of the Motorola Devour (check out our initial hands-on), but we wanted to take a station break to mention how to get at the battery and microSD card. Because the Devou...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2010
Chances are if you've been hanging around Android for a while you've run across the Pure series of widgets. There's Pure calendar, Pure messenger and now, Pure music.The widget works with the stock An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2010
If you're in the market for an HTC Droid Eris on Verizon, you might want to hold off for a few weeks. BerryScoop has it on good authority that the HTC Incredible is going to replace the Droi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2010
The folks at Otterbox -- makers of some of the most rough-and-tumble cases out there -- just released a pair of cases for the HTC Droid Eris. And we're giving away 10 cases -- five from the Commuter ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2010
For those of you who are into putting custom ROMs on your Nexus One (and with as painless as it is, there's really no reason not to, right?), know that there's a new build in the wild. Redmond Pie br...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2010
Attention, people of Canada: The Samsung Galaxy Spica and its 3.2-inch, 320x480 screen pushing Android 1.5 (it'll be upgraded to 2.1 at some point) is now available on the Rogers network. It'll ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2010
On the heels of Goldman Sachs cutting its sales forecast for the Nexus One -- which at the time of this writing is easily one of the top five phones HTC-manufactured phones available -- we're already ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2010
Not much to say about the video that follows (after the break) other than somebody has an HTC Supersonic and wanted the rest of us to know it. That's it. You see it appears to have a dual flash...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2010
So by uploading your little "Google is Evil" manifesto to YouTube which is ... wait for it ... owned by Google, you're saying what? Cute picture, though. Video after the break. [via Walt Mo...
