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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 02, 2010
Now that Apple's lawsuit against HTC is all of six hours or so old, it's time to reflect at what exactly has happened. And we can sum it up in the following sentence: Apple has filed a patent infringe...
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by Jeremy
Mar 02, 2010
Once again Android Central has teamed up with LevelUp Studio, the developer of the ever popular Beautiful Widgets, for a giveaway of its latest application. We will be giving away 10 FREE copies...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 02, 2010
As we all watch the Android OS become more and more popular, and the Marketplace continue to grow, it is always nice to hear about success stories from the developers who dedicate their time and effor...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 02, 2010
The popular Web-based Twitter client HootSuite was released for Android this morning, and it's already proving itself to be a top-tier application. If you're already signed up with HootSuite, you can...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 02, 2010
Apple today filed a lawsuit against HTC, claiming the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer infringed on 20 patents. CEO Steve Jobs, in a news release, said:“We can sit by and watch competitors...
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by ericatomars06
Mar 02, 2010
So it seems the unleashing of Android Tablets has began. This one come from the CeBIT trade show in Germany, showing off HiVison which is a Chinese PC maker 7-inch Android Tablet. While it's not the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 01, 2010
It'll be a cold day in hell before you catch an executive talking bad about their product. Case in point: Google CFO Patrick Pichette, who was talking up the Nexus One at the Morgan Stanley Techn...
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by ericatomars06
Feb 28, 2010
We've got some good news and some bad news about those waiting to receive Adobe Flash 10.1. The good news is that it's expected to be released on Android phones coming "mid year". &nbs...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 28, 2010
There's somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 applications in the Android Market. And every day we get e-mail after e-mail asking "What's the best app for this?" and "What's the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2010
Nope, Android fans, the T-Mobile G1 isn't getting the almighty Android 2.1 update (or 2.0 for that matter) just yet. Instead, you can look forward to one of those lovely "maintenance updates...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
The Firefox for Mobile folks teased us today with a couple more pics of the browser on Android phones. There's the shot of it above that they posted on their Facebook page, and they also linked to ano...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
Forget Flash. Who needs Farmville? Here's the only gaming anybody really cares about: Quake III on the Motorola Droid. And after the break, we show you how to do it and have video of the game in...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 26, 2010
Myxer, which delivers mobile entertainment such as videos, ringtones, wallpapers, etc. to mobile devices has come up with some fun and interesting statistics that give more info about Android. F...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
So that maintenance update that's been rolling out for the Motorola Cliq on T-Mobile? Stay away. Stay far away. Basically it borks the phone pretty good, from keyboard issues to text message...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
Don't want to get anybody's hopes up yet, but a CDMA version of the Nexus One has made its way through the Federal Communications Commission. Does that mean we're going to get the Nexus One on Sp...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2010
Good news for our pals in the United Kingdom: The HTC Desire is coming your way in a month. T-Mobile UK tweeted this morning:The Desire will be available on the 26th of March. Thanks for all...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 25, 2010
Hm, maybe those Droid commercials chastising "princess phones" really worked. According to an AdMob opt-in survey, 73% of Android users are male, that's nearly three-fourths of al...
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by Jared DiPane
Feb 25, 2010
After Adobe's first video of Flash 10.1 running on the Nexus One, it seems as though the focus was placed on the battery meter and its apparent drain during the video, instead of the Flash 10.1 and al...
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by Jared DiPane
Feb 24, 2010
Always on the go? Wishing there was a simple solution that met all your needs to sync files remotely between your Android device and your computer? Odds are you have already stumbled across SugarSync,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2010
There's little doubt that the HTC Incredible was at least being tested on Verizon -- we've already seen it with Verizon branding as it booted up. Now it's appeared in Verizon's inventory system,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2010
We've seen facial recognition before on Android, but this is borderline ridiculous. In a prototype app from The Astonishing Tribe -- the behind-the-scenes maker of some of the coolest UIs out there -...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
Android 1.6 and up: For those of you with Android phones looking for some sound prescription drug information, the popular Epocrates service is now available in a beta app. Clinical content isn'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
There's been absolutely no doubt that Android's usage share has skyrocketed in the last year, and here's another example. Gartner released figures today that show a 3.4 percentage point climb over...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
We're not even a full week removed from Mobile World Congress, and already the rumors are starting to fly regarding U.S. availability of the HTC Legend and Desire, which were unveiled there. Sai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
We had plenty of travel time en route to Mobile World Congress and spent a good chunk of it playing with the various keyboards available for Android phones. Of course, one of the front-runners is Bett...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 22, 2010
When HTC used Mobile World Congress to announce a pair of new Android phones, it also took the opportunity to unveil the all-new Sense user interface. The new Sense is rolling out first to the Europe...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 22, 2010
If you're into the latest location-based, social-networking check-in styled type 'game', you're in luck. Gowalla has just finished a beta app for Android and is asking you, our faithful readers, to gi...
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by Jeremy
Feb 22, 2010
In search of the ultimate sports portal available in the Android Market? Look no further than SportsTap which happens to be completely free and is compatible with any Android device. Sport...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
We don't know how many times we've searched far and wide for the TV remote and wish that we could just use our Droid as a remote control. We're talking about hundreds of times here. Luckily, Verizon i...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
After spending some time with the Palm Pre in the Smartphone Round Robin, we became quite smitten with the form factor. The vertical slider is rather unique in the smartphone industry and it's s...
