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by Jeremy
Dec 22, 2009
Maybe you are one of the many who does not have Google Navigation, or perhaps you simply want an alternative. Sygic Mobile Maps may be just what you are looking for. It is a polished turn-by-turn ...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 22, 2009
Google has an infamous saying, "Don't Be Evil" which is incredibly simple yet loaded with layers of meaning. Obviously, it's a dig at other companies who only make profit-based decisio...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 21, 2009
If you want to profess your love for the best open source smartphone OS on the market, what better way to do it than by wearing an Official Android T-Shirt? There are currently two styles: the o...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 21, 2009
To start the second week of the Smartphone Round Robin, we're taking a look at Palm's new webOS by way of the Pre and the Pixi. If you're unfamiliar with the story of Palm here's my quick summa...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 21, 2009
The Barnes & Noble Nook just received a software update that brings the firmware version up to 1.1. Basically, reboot your Nook to get the download to start or you can manually install...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 18, 2009
AdMob, a company that serves up ads for mobile devices, has released its November numbers. And things continue to look up for Android since October, as you can see from the chart above. Some interesti...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2009
We often lament the fact that the Android operating system is a wee bit fractured, with devices running on a number of versions. How bad is it, you ask?The Android Developers blog spells it out in the...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 17, 2009
So. Hm. Well, okay. We absolutely love that cute green robot of Android but we never thought that Android would actually power a real robot. Asus thinks differently, they're working with the Tai...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 16, 2009
What's great about the Smartphone Round Robin is that you get to see your own platform in the hands of other users, whom eventually point out weaknesses that you never thought of and offer persp...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 16, 2009
After a brief appearance, the Verizon BOGO deal (buy one get one free, for those who didn't know) is alive once again! You can get the Droid Eris for free once you buy either the Motorola Droid ...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 16, 2009
Oh boy, this is going to get good fast. You already knew that the Nook, Barnes and Noble's e-reader, had been rooted, right? Well, that was only step one. Some users at nookDevs are reporting th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2009
Sure, the Barnes & Noble Nook is cool and all (and even cooler now that it's been rooted). But who wants one screen when you can have two? (Why, that's twice as many!)Enter the Entourage Edge, whi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2009
Evernote -- the uber-popular note-taking application on Windows, Mac, BlackBerry, the Palm Pre and, of course, the iPhone and iPod Touch -- is now available on Android.In a nutshell, for those of you ...
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by Jeremy
Dec 15, 2009
If you are anything like us, you are a Twitter addict. When I picked up my Droid I needed a good Twitter application. The first thing I did was check our forums to find out what Twitte...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 14, 2009
Why, hello again Motorola Zeppelin. We've seen the back of you already, and now we finally get to see your front face. Not too shabby in our opinion, the contours of the Zeppelin, or XT800 as it...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 14, 2009
Previously rumored for release on February 10th, it looks like the highly anticipated Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 could beat that launch date by nearly a month. Play.com is pegging the release date...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 14, 2009
Oh yes. Leave it to the great minds in the Android dev community to already gain root access to the Nook. Meaning it's been hacked and ready to be unleashed. We're going to see some very cool us...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 14, 2009
Welcome back, to the land of sunshine and smartphone renders. Today we have another look at the HTC "Legend," which we first saw in that massive HTC leak a week ago. Now we have a much bette...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 13, 2009
Thank you Twitter. Or more specifically, thank you Cory O'Brien's Twitter for snapping a picture of the Nexus One aka Google Phone and posting it for all to see. The Nexus One (doesn't exactly r...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 12, 2009
What, thought we'd go the rest of the night without more Google phone rumors? Nahhhh. The Wall Street Journal — Apple's Google's PR company — says the fabled phone, now in the hands of a g...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 12, 2009
Good news for those of you who love video (we're told it's all the rage with the kids these days): Qik has officially released version 0.1.56, bringing 720x480-pixel recording to its Android app...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 12, 2009
Google addressed the recent news that Google employees were all given Google Phones, saying that it's actually a part of their product testing program called 'dogfooding' (from eating their own ...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 11, 2009
Remember the Android gaming platform, ODROID? It's now shipping to developers. Around 300 units have made their way to developers and we're hoping that it'll spur some major gaming development on tha...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 10, 2009
You know, we'd be ecstatic if the Galaxy was launched in the beginning of 2009 as opposed to the end of 2009 because there's just so many other Android devices to choose from. In any case, Bell ...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 10, 2009
Remember the Motorola Motus? Sure you do, it was Motorola's next Android device rumored to run Motoblur and have some interesting flip mechanism for the keyboard. More details are coming to ligh...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 09, 2009
Having not even finished rolling out the Android 2.0.1 OTA update for the Droid, BGR is hearing that there'll be another Droid-specific OTA update come late January 2010. Details are slim regard...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 09, 2009
Feel that? That's the Android Market growing right before our very eyes. After getting Yelp yesterday, Android will receive National Public Radio's NPR News app by the end of this month. The NPR...
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by Jeremy
Dec 08, 2009
Our lucky friends over at WMExperts have been testing Firefox Mobile Alpha 3, but we haven't had much hope for Android to get the Fennec browser. That is, until a recent Q&A with Madhava Enr...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 08, 2009
The New York Times recently covered the iPhone App Store, discussing the App Store's raging success and Apple's 'necessary evil' of a rejection process. Our good friend Rene over at the iPhone B...
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by Casey Chan
Dec 08, 2009
Google is rolling out 'Favorite Places on Google' which is essentially a program that'll send window decals to 100,000 local businesses in the US that have basically been the most searched on G...
