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by brian hart#ac
Mar 24, 2009
Dell is living proof that cramming Android into any old generic phone design is not enough to woo cellular providers. Consumers have become a fairly tech-savvy crowd and a nifty OS alone, l...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 23, 2009
There are reports that the Acer Android smartphone will be called the A1 and that it'll arrive in September. Not to be confused with the tangy steak sauce, the A1 has a certain ring to it that works o...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 19, 2009
Présentation vidéo du HTC Magic, le téléphone sous Google Android de SFR Some new Android features have been spotted and well, they look pretty darn sweet. First ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 18, 2009
China Mobile has a highly customized HTC Magic in the works loaded with custom firmware and TD-SCDMA capabilities (China's own network which should mean no Wi-Fi or 3G). If you take a look at th...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 18, 2009
This is how desperate us Android users are for news on upcoming Android devices. The ridiculously blurry, pixelated picture above? That's Samsung's first Android Smartphone. It was reportedly sh...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 17, 2009
One of the more under-the-radar features of Cupcake is the ability to add Live Folders to the home screen. Dieter got a look at it with the HTC Magic and thought it was neat-o and after seeing th...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 17, 2009
Okay. Since this limbo of will we, won't we get Cupcake is currently at a won't we, the next best thing has got to be watching Cupcake in all its glory on video. An Android Developer decided to play n...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 16, 2009
Sigh. This cat and mouse game between reports on when the Android Cupcake update is coming out and what T-Mobile is "officially" saying just doesn't seem to stop. Just when we thought ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 13, 2009
If you didn't cash in on the Amazon T-Mobile G1 deal, you're in luck. It's even cheaper at Costco. For only $79.99 you can get your hands on a T-Mobile G1! Yep, that's $100 off. Costco is offeri...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 13, 2009
Androinica reports that Google has updated their Google Image Search on Android devices. It's nicer, faster, and better suited for the mobile platform. They've even included filtering options wh...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 12, 2009
Oh yes. Cupcake rumors that we wish oh so much to be true are once again at the forefront of the discussion. This time Pocket-lint claims that T-Mobile representatives have confirmed that the C...
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by brian hart#ac
Mar 11, 2009
AxDroid - Android on Dell Axim x51v from Ertan D. on Vimeo.
Just because you CAN run Android on a Dell Axim x51v, should you? Although it doesn't seem to make much sense to run Android on an antiq...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 11, 2009
If you didn't know, we're pretty big Android guys here. Huge, in fact. But we also respect the iPhone and though we understand its pitfalls, we also do understand that the iPhone changed smartphones ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 11, 2009
Hmm. This sounds like it may work but we haven't tested it out yet.
Since the paid apps problem in Android Dev Phones was only semi-solved with the 1.1 update to Dev Phones, it looks like HTC has...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 10, 2009
A lot of people seem to think that Android isn't a big priority for Google, believing that any mobile smartphone platform is just as important to Google as Android. We obviously think different and ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 10, 2009
If you rock the Android Dev Phone you now have the right to be annoyed. Though Google just released a firmware update to your device which includes fixes for POP3 e-mail accounts, the alarm clock, G...
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by brian hart#ac
Mar 04, 2009
Evernote is a service that enables you to capture information, no matter where you are, what you are doing, and whether you have a smartphone or computer. Use software, browser plug-ins, and even your...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 04, 2009
Our sister site the iPhone Blog dug up a great graph that charts the usage of mobile web browsers. Unsurprisingly, they bragged about their iPhone dominating the market but it's interesting to note...
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by brian hart#ac
Mar 03, 2009
Although this is a video of a Nokia N800, which isn't even a smartphone, VMWare's MVP hypervisor virtual machine is enabling it to run both Windows and Android simultaneously. The virtual machine r...
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by brian hart#ac
Feb 27, 2009
It was only in late January that we got a look at General Mobile's DSTL1 Android phone, and it was also displayed at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Android users are anxious for more ...
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by brian hart#ac
Feb 27, 2009
Just a few days ago, we reported that those with Google Developer phones (unlocked, root access) would not be able to buy certain apps in the Android Market. It appears there were some teeth to this r...
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by brian hart#ac
Feb 25, 2009
Want to see what Android looks like on the Motorola Q form factor? How about a Treo Pro, or the anticipated Kogan Agora? Over at Tea Vui Huang's Android Page, you can grab these skins and even one for...
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by brian hart#ac
Feb 25, 2009
Google's Android and the Symbian Foundation recently traded jabs over who is more "open" and who is just talking the talk, but not walking the walk. Symbian Foundation director Lee Williams was quoted...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 24, 2009
Currently, AT&T is conspicuously missing in the Open Handset Alliance which is particularly damaging considering how large the AT&T network is. Android is reaching less customers because of...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2009
You know how we said there wouldn't be as many non-sensical, egregiously overpriced apps like "I am Rich" on Android Market as there is in the App Store? Well, we were wrong. Instead of the $1000 a...
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by brian hart#ac
Feb 23, 2009
With Android-based netbooks being a possibility in the near future, it may come as no surprise that Asus is working on a low-cost laptop powered by Google's Android OS. Asus introduced the popular Ee...
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by brian hart#ac
Feb 23, 2009
It seems that the Google Android OS, the platform touted as being open for all, is a little less open for some than others. If you own an unlocked developer G1 Android phone, even those received by Go...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2009
There's a pretty good article over at GigaOM that touches on the Open vs Closed argument of technology. Specifically, it pits Android and iPhone against each other because of the obvious contrastin...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2009
Remember Huawei's Android Phone at MWC? It was shrouded in mystery because though it was on display, it was merely a non-working prototype. We had originally reported that Huawei expected to releas...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 23, 2009
Raise your hand if you heard this before. Company X announces multiple Android Devices, said Android Devices will ship in 2nd half 2009. Yeap. We're going down the all too familiar road, this time ...
