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by Casey Chan
Apr 20, 2009
During Google's Q1 Investor's Conference, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on record of saying:"Overall, it looks like Android is going to have a very strong year," New announcements of Andro...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 17, 2009
You lucky folks across the pond! Vodafone UK has just made the HTC Magic available for pre-order for the low, low price of FREE (with a monthly plan, of course). The HTC Magic is expected to be ...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 17, 2009
Can't wait for Google to release the Cupcake Update? Yeah, us neither. Luckily, we have some pretty genius minds out there in the developer community and one of them (haykuro) has gotten the HTC Magic...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 16, 2009
The news that Samsung is preparing three Android Devices for the European Market in 2009 isn't that much of a stretch because we're already anticipating three devices from Samsung stateside...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 16, 2009
Leave it to the kids at Stanford to cook up a new smartphone OS for mobile devices AND try to port it over to the T-Mobile G1. Even though we're Android-focused here at Android Central we c...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 15, 2009
Along with some sweet changes and new features in Android 1.5 there are some changes to the UI framework that may affect some applications. In fact, Android 1.5 brings a new default look to the overal...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 15, 2009
We're kind of aware of Samsung's Android plans which will focus more on Android itself than Google. But we're still not exactly sure what the hardware will look like and this S8000 dubbed the 'c...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 14, 2009
Google has just announced an "Early Look" SDK for Android 1.5 which is based off the much ballyhooed Cupcake development branch. Android 1.5 packs a lot of goodies such as APIs for soft keyb...
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by brian hart#ac
Apr 13, 2009
Elan Microelectronics, a small Taiwanese outfit that recently made news for suing Apple for copyright infringement over their multi-touch technology, recently release the above video demonstrating mul...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 13, 2009
Want more news of a "planned" Android device with little to no details? Well you got it! The Bluetooth SIG group have registered the HTC Fiesta which is a handheld phone (pre...
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by brian hart#ac
Apr 10, 2009
Have you had a chance to check out Google's web app for Gmail and Calendar on your Android device lately? Google is touting it as "a new and improved experience when you access Gmail and Calendar...
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by brian hart#ac
Apr 09, 2009
Demonstrating that the old adage "beauty is only skin deep" is true, we've learned that the sleek, full touchscreen Huawei G7000 is running a propriety OS rather than Google's And...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 09, 2009
We've detailed the Lenovo Ophone before on Android Central and damn, if it ain't sexy. We've been drooling over the images of the Ophone since it was first leaked but now we get to see it in act...
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by brian hart#ac
Apr 07, 2009
Amico is a Taiwanese firm that was sporting their new Android handset at CTIA this week, and it looks like a pretty decent phone with some good specs. Although it's been whisked back to the work...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 06, 2009
The NYT is reporting that T-Mobile has plans to make a Tablet-styled Device AND a home phone for next year (2010) and that both of those devices will run Android. Wow. We're not getting more Andr...
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by brian hart#ac
Apr 06, 2009
According to T-Mobile USA, G1 Android users downloaded an average of at least 40 applications for their phones while iPhone users averaged about 37 apps. There is no data as to retention of apps - G1 ...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 03, 2009
In the same article where Samsung revealed their plans for Android, they dropped a very interesting nugget regarding the status of Android. Samsung gave a clear distinction between the Android O...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 03, 2009
Dieter already gave Documents To Go and Roadsync a hands on back at MWC and we all came away pretty impressed. Now, you'll be able to get to see for yourself how great DataViz is because it's be...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 03, 2009
We've been speculating for months, trying to determine what Samsung's plans for Android were. We thought we would see something at MWC, wrong. We finally caught a blurrycam pixelated image of th...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 02, 2009
Remember how we told you that Google was banning all tethering applications from Android Market and didn't look so "open" while doing so? Well, we might have spoke too soon. Google has...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 02, 2009
According to reports, Germany and Austria's Android Users can now download paid apps in Android Market. We've had paid applications for a while now here in the States but now you guys get to enj...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 01, 2009
You could make an argument that the two biggest technology stories of 2008 was Android and netbooks. Android is a potential game-changer in both the wireless world and the mobile industry as a w...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 01, 2009
We had previously pegged the release date of the HTC Magic on Vodafone UK around April but new reports are pushing the date back to May 1st. So in a month's time you can expect the Second Android...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 31, 2009
We had originally reported back in February that the mysterious Huawei Android Device would launch in Q3 2009. Well, reports are again popping up that Huawei is planning to launch their dev...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 31, 2009
Uh oh. Is this a sign of Google turning all evil and Apple on us by banning applications from Android Market? Because according to a developer for the application WiFi Tether for Root Users, the...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 30, 2009
As much as we love Android Market, we know it has some weaknesses. The categories could be a bit more specific, the reviews could still be better, and well, the search feature needs to be more e...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 26, 2009
It looks like China Unicom may have scored a coup against bigger rival China Mobile. They just might be the carrier in China that will launch the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) and the iPhone. Tak...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 26, 2009
Score one for the Android user, kind of. BSQUARE has announced that they'll be porting Flash over to Android for a "global tier-1 carrier". Their words, not ours. We're going to g...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 25, 2009
Amazingly (or predictably?), Android has already made its mark on the mobile market. In only a few months time, Android has managed to build up 5% of the US smartphone web traffic.This could be ...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 24, 2009
So when you're a relatively successful smartphone with a relatively catchy name, what do you do? Well brand it and expand it, duh! We're getting reports that the Samsung Omnia, currently a Windows Mob...
