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by Casey Chan
Feb 04, 2010
This is incredibly odd. China Mobile's Ophone platform, which is based off Android, just received an update from 1.5 to 2.0. That's great because it gives Ophone users new features like voice re...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 04, 2010
Say hello to the Samsung SHW-M100S, Samsung's latest Android smartphone and their first to run Android 2.1. This puppy looks to be a good one with a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, 800 MHz processor, 5...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Feb 03, 2010
Another day, another Twitter client. this time around we're taking a look at Twicca, which currently is in open beta and available for free in the Android Market. Twicca is a no-frills client. You se...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 03, 2010
Android devices all have large, clear screens that are amazingly video-friendly. Sure, the Nexus One and Droid took it to the next level but for the most part, Android screens have been pretty ...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 03, 2010
Like we said before, it's going to take some time before Fennec aka Firefox Mobile actually gets on Android. But at least it looks like porting Fennec over to Android is progressing rather nicely--the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 02, 2010
For you WordPress blogging hounds out there, an official open-source Android app has just hit the Market. You'll need to be running WordPress 2.7 or higher on the back end. From there, you j...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 02, 2010
Because the Android Lock Screen is just so fun and cool (and it is fun and cool), some iPhone developers have ported a similar lock screen system onto the iPhone. Yep, that ol' enter a number c...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 01, 2010
You gotta love how how one of the greatest challenges in Windows Mobile these days is to get Android running on WinMo devices. And the latest subject: The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. It's nowhere n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 01, 2010
Coming soon (and it took this long?): The official Android Mini Collectibles Series 01. Brought to you by artist Andrew Bell and Google, Series 1 will feature a dozen designs of everybody's favorite ...
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by Jeremy
Feb 01, 2010
As a special thanks to all of our readers and forum members, Android Central has teamed up with LevelUpStudio to give away 10 FREE copies of its very Beautiful Widgets. If you want in on the ac...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 01, 2010
Ah, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. How we once loved you so much. The latest news regarding the Xperia X10 is that it'll be available on T-Mobile Germany in April. Yes, all the way out in April. That c...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 01, 2010
It looks like what we once knew as the Samsung Galaxy Spica will actually be released as the Samsung Galaxy Portal in the UK. T-Mobile UK will be the lucky ones to carry this middling Android de...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 29, 2010
Because we were all clamoring for a successor to the original Samsung Galaxy, it looks like Samsung has decided to come out with a Samsung Galaxy 2. Okay, to be fair the Galaxy was a pretty good...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 28, 2010
When your iPhone-loving friends question whether there are any decent games on your Android phone, just show them this video. (Thanks to everyone who sent this in.)
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 28, 2010
Want a 10-inch tablet with a big black bezel for $500, all without that Apple/AT&T baggage? MSI has one in works, says Digitimes, source of all things sometimes true. The as-yet unannounced and un...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 28, 2010
Ah, Blackberry. If you think about it, Blackberry is the last of the "old guard" of smartphones still standing. Palm rebooted with webOS and Windows Mobile is looking to do the same wi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 27, 2010
Finally, it's over with. Apple announced the iPad, a 9.7-inch (diagonal) tablet that essentially is a giant iPhone, only without voice calls. And without a camera. We're nowhere near ready to pass fi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 27, 2010
Sure, we're all about to turn our attention to what we expect to be the Apple Tablet (check out TiPB's meta-liveblog), there's still plenty of Android-powered tablet love to go around. And above is t...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 27, 2010
We already knew that Motorola had spent a boatload of money to air an ad during the Super Bowl (Go Saints!), but what would they be advertising? We're leaning towards the Backflip. The Backflip was a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 26, 2010
Sorry, folks. Looks like you're not going to be buying the Google Nexus One at Wally World anytime soon. Despite still having it listed on its "Let's Talk" wireless retail site (albeit as &...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 26, 2010
We've spent some time with the Nokia N900, and we can tell you that it's simply a beast of a device. Big, powerful, and made strictly for landscape usage--the N900 oozes power. Maemo (the OS beh...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 26, 2010
Um, wow. After making a big deal about the new Google Phone Store and how it could potentially change everything, could the Nexus One just fall back into the typical way of smartphone life? As in, jus...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 26, 2010
This is obviously just a render, but the device in this render is reported to be the Motorola Motosplit, an Android-powered device that packs another funky form factor. Exact specifications are ...
Review
by Jeremy
Jan 25, 2010
If you have been searching for a great instant messaging client, we have good news for you — eBuddy for Android just may be what you have been looking for. We've searched long and hard for a q...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 25, 2010
Could the rumored myTouch Slide mark the end of the ridiculously successful Sidekick brand at T-Mobile? Well, rumors says yes. BGR is hearing that the upcoming myTouch Slide, a myTouch 3G succes...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 25, 2010
One of the weaker points of the Android platform (especially when compared to the iPhone), is the lack of high quality games. Considering the hardware of the high-end Android devices (such as th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 22, 2010
Sprint ROM cookers are foaming at the mouth this morning as HTC has released the source code for the Sprint Hero. That means better ROMs, built from the same zeros and ones as HTC. It likely won't co...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 22, 2010
We've known that the Nexus One will have some sort of accessories available, we just didn't know what exactly. However, it looks like a Nexus One Dock just got accidentally leaked via a YouTube ...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 22, 2010
Hey hey! Even though Google and China are having a little standoff, with Google even going as far as delaying 2 Android phones in China, it looks like the Lenovo LePhone will carry on business a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 21, 2010
Another quarterly report from AdMob, another major climb for Android. The Q4 2009 numbers show that AdMob (which serves mobile advertising) fed nearly twice as many Android devices in the United State...
