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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 04, 2010
The June 30 edition of the Sprint Playbook has made its way into the civilian world (brought to you by SDX Developers), and the Epic 4G (see our hands-on) is the big story, naturally. There's rea...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 03, 2010
Looks like the Motorola Charm -- that square QWERTY-keyboard guy with Motoblur -- is going to be a back-to-school special for this fall, going for free on T-Mobile, according to this promo sent ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 03, 2010
With 160,000 activations a day, there's a huge number of people waiting for the HTC Sense UI version of Froyo to show up. I know all of us here sure are. Usually, we have to pass on the random s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 03, 2010
Here at Android Central, we love the whole idea of using voice commands to make our phones work for us. In the smartphone world, Vlingo is pretty well-known, with apps on multiple platforms, and...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 02, 2010
Many of us have been anxiously awaiting Adobe AIR -- which we demoed back at Mobile World Congress -- to be made available on Android so we could see some of our favorite PC and Mac applications on ou...
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by afazel
Jul 02, 2010
Android 2.1 usage is up from our last count 16 days ago to 53.1 percent of all Android devices. The numbers are based on the devices that access the Android Market, which should be just about eve...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 02, 2010
In a day and age where nearly everyone carries credit or debit cards, sometimes finding someone to buy items in cash can be a bit difficult. Google Checkout has announced that you will now be able to ...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 02, 2010
Are you one of the lucky ones who actually has a Droid Incredible, or one of the ones who has yet to switch your order to the Droid X because you had faith in the device? Well, reports from Droid-Life...
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by Adam Sawyer
Jul 02, 2010
The brainiacs at MIT are known for being good with numbers, but this goes a little bit past that. The scientists have figured out how to use a kind of holographic refraction light science which allow...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 02, 2010
Good news for our friends in the great white north. Bell Mobility will be carrying the Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant. Bell has no new details on their landing page, so we can only assume that t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 02, 2010
Samsung Galaxy S event in New York Hands-on with the Epic 4GGaming demo on the Epic 4GHands-on with the FascinateHands-on with the T-Mobile VibrantHands-on with the AT&T CaptivateYes, the Sa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 02, 2010
We try not to do too many smartphone destruction stories around here, but this one was too cool not to. AC Forums users tyler0630 tells the tale of his Droid Incredible, which slipped the surly ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 02, 2010
The death of Google's phone store was a bit of a shock when was announced back in May. Well, OK. It was a shock to those of us who know and love the Nexus One. But that's a lot of what the problem was...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 02, 2010
Qualcomm (the company that builds processors used in many Android phones) has released an open source 2D/3D Linux kernel driver for the OpenGL ES GPU core on the Snapdragon processor. In non-gee...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 01, 2010
Froyo madness never ends. It seems that a new Android 2.2 OTA update is being pushed out for both AT&T and T-Mobile Nexus Ones today. We don't have a lot of detail yet (we haven't even...
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by Adam Sawyer
Jul 01, 2010
If you’re a Yahoo! user, you’ve probably been wondering when they would release their own official software for your Android phone. Well, folks, the time has come. Yahoo! today introdu...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
New York Times columnist extraordinaire David Pogue's given the Droid X for a spin, and in turn he's spun-off a bit about the phone's keyboards. It has a multitouch keyboard by default -- I...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
We hear ya. You have questions about the Motorola Droid X on Verizon. And we've got answers. Our full review is coming (we promise), but in the meantime whet your appetite with some Q&A ...
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by Adam Sawyer
Jul 01, 2010
How’s your aim? Everybody’s favorite chicken-slinging game is on its way to the Android market sometime this summer. Basically, it’s a test of physics, as the point of the g...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
Just a reminder, folks, that you can pre-order the T-Mobile Vibrant -- its version of the Galaxy S -- starting today at Radio Shack. Fork over $199 (along with two years of your contract life), and y...
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by Dallin Hampton
Jul 01, 2010
Just a few weeks ago Google’s Voice Search added a handful of languages and now they've added Korean to the mix. Perfect timing since the Nexus One launching on KT in Korea which is shipping wit...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
See here! If you have a hankering for some square Android action on T-Mobile, the upcoming Motorola Charm (aka the Basil) appears to be going for $149.99 after contract, or thereabouts. (If you c...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
Samsung week continues. To recap, the Galaxy S has been announced for the four major U.S. carriers -- Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular, too. Now add Cellular South to that lis...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
Android remains the No. 2 smartphone operating system worldwide AdMob -- the company that serves up a good many of the ads you see in mobile applications (about 23,000) and that was bought by Google ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 01, 2010
Maybe an actual Sprint Epic 4G hands-on isn't your thing. (What's wrong with you?) Maybe you're the type who prefers to see the phone in all its computer-generated glory. Fine. We've got you covered ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 30, 2010
If you use a custom ROM on your Android phone, you should know about CyanogenMod. If you don't, go hit Google now, then come right back. (pretty freakin' sweet, huh?) With the drop of the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 30, 2010
We've talked with HTC some more about this week's OTA update for the Evo 4G that brought some improvements to most, and bricks to a scant few. Here's where we stand:If your update went just fine ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 30, 2010
The good news: An update is rolling out the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 as we speak. The bad news: Nope, it's still stuck on Android 1.6. Here's what you are getting, though:This update focuses...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 30, 2010
Read the fine print :) . This is supposedly a full page ad in the New York Times (can any readers verify?) for the new Motorola Droid X, that lets you know you're free to hold the phone any way ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 30, 2010
The Bodyguardz Protective Skin for your Sprint Evo 4G's 4.3 inches of glass definitely brings the protection. Many of us (myself included) do not like a case interfering with the pocketability o...
