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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
We got our first look at the Samsung Galaxy S and its gorgeous (indoors, anyway) Super AMOLED screen at CTIA in March. And Sammy was showing it off again this week at Google IO. Not much els...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
There's a bit of a fuss going on at the moment about a slew of new HTC code names. Engadget spilled the beans about the Glacier, LED and Vision -- and that's about all we know. The Vision ap...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
Get a bunch of execs on stage -- Micrososoft, Google, Apple, whomever -- and people are going to try and cause trouble. Same goes for the Android team at Google IO. Asked to compare the Android "...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
See here! There's the Bump contact-sharing Android application. And it's just like it sounds: Bump your phone against another with the app, and it shares the info. Oh, and see that iPhone coweri...
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by Casey Chan
May 21, 2010
First things first, these screen shots are really easy to fake. Ridiculously easy. With that out of the way, it looks like a settings screen shot is showing a T-Mobile Motorola Cliq running Andr...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
Good news, everyone! We found our first giveaway item for this week's podcast. (Here's another contender.) But you'll have to be there live to win. Join us at 7 p.m. EDT / 4 p.m. PDT at androidce...
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by Jared DiPane
May 21, 2010
Google I/O started off a little slow on Wednesday, but boy did Thursday take over, with the announcement of Android 2.2 -- Froyo -- and Google TV. Here's what we've posted thus far. And while we're h...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
I'm pretty sure I could probably fly myself home after spending a few minutes with Laminar Research's X-Plane Android flight simulator (this is no mere "app"), which we toyed around wi...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
So what, exactly, killed off the Google phone store? We had a couple really good questions during this afternoon's Q&A regarding the death of the web distribution model, and what happened with the...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
First question out of the gate today for the Android leadership at Google IO was about everybody's favorite subject: fragmentation. And VP of engineering Andy Rubin put things in ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
A small programming note, people: Due to our regularly scheduled Android Central Podcast falling smack in the middle of Google IO/cross-country travel, we're going to push it back a day this wee...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
You guys keep asking, and here's the official answer: Android 2.2 -- Froyo -- is trickling out in the SDK now, but it's going to be a few weeks before we see it on phones en masse. That doesn't m...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We heard a bit of talk about Hulu this morning in all the Google TV hooplah. And it was reiterated later that the usual rule applies: Google TV has all the Flash it needs to watch Hulu. The...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
Adobe has released a lengthy piece about Flash 10.1 coming on Froyo. Here are the highlights: Battery and power: We added a new capability called instance management to intelligently load ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
Flash is coming big on Android, and it's coming big on Google TV. And Adobe's singing from the rooftops:With support for Flash Player 10.1, Google TV customers have access to the full web. This includ...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 20, 2010
The Froyo craziness continues - Google as already released the Software Development Kit for Android 2.2.If you're an Android developer, go on over to the Android Developer site to get your downlo...
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by Dieter Bohn
May 20, 2010
Google is currently showing off some amazing Android Marketplace improvements right now. You can now browse the Android Market from your desktop and send apps and music directly to your device o...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We're back for Day 2 of Google IO at Moscone West in San Francisco. And today's the day, folks. We should see Froyo. We should see Flash. And we're bringing it all to you after the break.
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by Cory Streater
May 20, 2010
Google is showing off some numbers today: 100,000 devices sold a day, the number two smartphone in the US after BlackBerry, over 1 billion miles navigated with Google Navigator, 28 OEMs, 48 cou...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We're going to get the skinny on the Froyo version of Android here in a few short hours. But news about Gingerbread (actual version number is yet unknown) is already trickling out. During Wednesday's ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
Hot on the heels of the news this week that the Chevy Volt is getting Google Maps support comes our hands-on with the upgraded Android app. You'll remember much of this from our hands-on at CES ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
Take a glass case. Fill it with a boatload of Android phones, tablets and MIDs. Stick it in the middle of a conference full of Android faithful. What do you get? A neon-green siren that beckoned even...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
The Android Amazon Kindle app: Coming this summer. The Android Amazon Kindle hands-on video: Coming right now, after the break. It's not a bad little app. Download and read ebooks righ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
What!?!?!?! No Froyo? No Android 2.2? No Flash? Sorry, folks, the first day of Google I/O is a slight snoozer as far as hard Android news is concerned. (Don't worry, it's coming on Thursday....
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
Sure, HTML5 is important and all -- but let's face it, most of us are more concerned with the end result. And one of the more impressive things we saw at this morning's keynote was Sports Illustrated'...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
We're live at the Google IO keynote at Moscone West in San Francisco, where we expect to see the latest version of Android -- called Froyo -- announced any second now. We hope. Only one way to fi...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
Google co-founder gets a day's life out of his Android battery, and he thinks you should, too. Speaking at Google's Zeitgeist forum (alongside CEO Eric Schmidt), Page said poorly written third-party a...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
How about another story about just how quickly Android's going? According to analyst Gartner, Android had a 1.9 percent worldwide smartphone market share in the first quarter of 2009. Fast forward to ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
If you weren't quite up to installing the leaked Android 2.1 update for the Sprint HTC Hero, fair not -- it's now all official and everything on Sprint's Web site, sort of. It's listed as being r...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 19, 2010
Blogger and Tech Lead of Mozilla's mobile devices team Stuart Parmenter has slipped out a new pre-alpha build for Android 2.x users. He still warns that it's likely to be very buggy and isn't ev...
