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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 23, 2010
Got a look at a pretty cool (and brand new) backing skin for the Droid last night at the Showstoppers event, part of CTIA here in Las Vegas. It attaches directly to the battery cover and base...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 23, 2010
Sprint this morning announced a slew of new cities on its schedule for 4G expansion as it expects to cover 120 million people with WiMax by the end of the year. The new cities are: Cincinnati ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 22, 2010
Sure, you think your network's good. But just how good is it? Root Wireless is looking to answer that and crowdsource the nation's cellular network, at that. Today it released a free beta application ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 22, 2010
On the eve of CTIA (translated: While we're all on planes headed to Las Vegas), Motorola announced the Motorola i1 (aka the Opus One), bringing you the very first push-to-talk Android-powered smartpho...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 22, 2010
Laptop Mag's Smartphone March Madness continues, and the Nexus One's taking on the Palm Pre. Seriously, folks, get over there and make this a no-contest, m'kay? [Laptop Mags]...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 22, 2010
We're headed back to Las Vegas this morning for the CTIA Wireless convention, the third of the year's major smartphone trade shows. (See also CES and Mobile World Congress.)What do we expect? Som...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2010
Five columns of apps, all nice and organized. That's one more column than on the stock Nexus One ROM. Necessary? Heck, no. But that's what makes it cool. [XDA Developers]...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2010
What started as a rant from the less-than-Google-friendly Boy Genius Report is slowly starting to become a thing. We're talking about the screen on the latest batch of Google Nexus Ones, whose o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2010
The NCAA Tournament streaming on the Nexus One? A nice reminder -- in case you forgot -- that we're still awaiting Adobe Flash 10.1 on our Android phones. [via JK on the Run]...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2010
Yeah, that's pretty impossible to read. Fortunately we're trained in the art of squint-eyed-reading, so we'll translate. The gist of it is that Android 2.1 indeed is coming to the Sprint Moment ...
Android Central Podcast
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2010
Top o' the news Motorola Droid OTA update DELAYED! Hardware news AT&T, Rogers get their own 3G-compatible Nexus One (finally!) Sprint getting a Nexus One, too Verizon updates (erm, fixes) Nexus...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2010
And so, we wait. But all hope is not lost, as Verizon told Phone Scoop yesterday that the update isn't delayed and is rolling out as planned, with the small, initial batch pushed out."The An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2010
Any Motorola Droid owners out there looking for a direction to which some frustration needs to be channeled? We present comments today from Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein, who had some things to say ab...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2010
The guys at Android and Me caught up with Sling at the GDGT Live event at SXSW in Austin, Texas, recently and managed to pin down what may well prove to be one of the most anticipated apps on the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2010
Whether it's streaming Internet radio or keeping as much of your music collection as you can on a microSD card, you gotta admit there are some great ways to keep the tunes flowing on your Android pho...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2010
Android 1.6+ If you're into Google Buzz but have wanted to be able to post text and photos from your Android home screen, you're now in luck. Google's made a Buzz widget available in the Android Mark...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2010
Call it incredible, but the HTC Incredible, which we've already seen in Verizon's inventory system as well as in four different shades of leakage, is now said to be ready for launch in just two s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2010
It's officially bad news for that Motorola Droid Android 2.1 update, folks. BGR snagged a shot that looks like the same internals that we've been seeing. And this one's not welcome. "The OTA...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2010
The Motorola Droid's Android 2.1 update should be pushed out to the first 1,000 guinea pigs lucky users anytime now. Sing out if you've got it (we'll know if you're lying!) and be sure to post your t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2010
Fring (Market link), the popular all-encompassing VOIP/chat/Skype/all-things-communications app, just updated its Android application, bringing a new look and new features.High up on everybody's wish ...