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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2010
Having taken this picture at the Las Vegas Convention Center, I can assure you that the robot didn't flinch. And Kevin's knee healed after a few months. [via]...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 08, 2010
Whole mess 'o phones at CTIAVerizon announces the Droid Pro (updated with specs)Hands-on with the Motorola Droid Pro [video]; Update: More video, more featuresVerizon announces the Motorola Citrus (up...
Review
by Dieter Bohn
Oct 08, 2010
The Desire HD. File this one under "things we'd love to see in the United States," which is another way of saying "We'd like to see AT&T offer some seriously high-end Android...
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by Dieter Bohn
Oct 07, 2010
Of the set of new phones Motorola announced for AT&T, the Motorola Bravo is probably the best. The Bravo's specs are basically the new de-facto standard for mid-range Android phones: Androi...
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by Dieter Bohn
Oct 07, 2010
You can call the Sanyo Zio low-end, you can call it a remarkably good phone for $99, you can call it retro what with the trackball ...just don't call it Zay-Oh or Zee-Oh. It's pronounced Zai-Oh...
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by Dieter Bohn
Oct 07, 2010
The LG Optimus T is coming to T-Mobile for the holidays to provide featurephone users reason to upgrade. We have something very similar to Sprint's LG Optimus S here, though with T-Mobile you g...
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by Dieter Bohn
Oct 07, 2010
The top of Sprint's three CTIA Sprint ID phones is most definitely the Samsung Transform. For us it's sort of the spiritual successor to the Samsung Moment, but don't let that association mar y...
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by Dieter Bohn
Oct 07, 2010
You can think of the Motorola Flipout and Motorola Flipside as companion devices for AT&T - both are aimed squarely at upgrading featurephone users into Android-land by wooing them wit...
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by Dieter Bohn
Oct 06, 2010
The Motorola Defy is a semi-ruggedized Android smartphone that is the latest in a long line of Oprah-giveaways. What you've got is a 3.1" touchscreen behind scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass...
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by Dieter Bohn
Oct 06, 2010
Take a gander at the Motorola Citrus, Verizon and Moto's plan for the aspirational, new-to-smartphones user. It has a small, almost cute form-factor that more than a few people have likened to ...
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by Dieter Bohn
Oct 06, 2010
The LG Optimus S is the cheapest of the new Sprint ID phones, clocking in at a price usually reserved for blowout: $49.99 after rebate. For that price you're looking at Android 2.2, 3G mob...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 06, 2010
We've live at Sprint's press conference (2 p.m. PDT/5 p.m. EDT) at CTIA at the beautiful Moscone West in San Francisco. We're expecting a whole lot of 4G trumpeting, and rumor has it we're abou...
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by Dallin Hampton
May 31, 2010
The Samsung i897 -- better known to you as the Samsung Galaxy S -- looks like it's well on its way to AT&T, thanks to a recent leak. Some of the hardware specs confirmed by the source is that the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 06, 2010
Welcome to the party, Cricket Wireless. Phone Arena got their hands on a presentation brochure showcasing Cricket's upcoming line-up for 2010, and it looks like it will be a good year for subscr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 30, 2010
Cellular technology can be broken down into two basic categories – GSM and CDMA. Both work well and provide the same function, but are different enough that they aren’t interchangea...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 28, 2010
How dominant was Android last week at CTIA? As you can see in the picture above, it drove our pal CrackBerry Kevin to violence. Indeed, our favorite operating system was front and center in Las Vegas...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 28, 2010
Here's one more from our CTIA pile -- the Kyocera Zio M6000. It's got Android 1.6 running atop a Qualcomm MSM7627 processor, a 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen at 480x800, full H.264 playback, a 1130mAh batt...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 27, 2010
You crazy kids can have your newfangled openGL 3D games -- I'm going back to 1985 to play some Oregon Trail and shoot me some squirrel. We sat down with developer Gameloft for a few minutes at ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 26, 2010
To say Samsung went all out with its announcement of the Galaxy S (see our initial hands-on and software walkthrough) would be an understatement, first with the tease at the Day 1 keynote, then ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 26, 2010
If you go to the movies a lot, you need to check out Android's Fandango app. Or at least check out our video of it at CTIA after the break. Trailers, theater info and more, all there on you...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 26, 2010
The folks from Rhapsody walk us through their Android application, currently in beta. It will be moving to a public beta starting April 4. Check out our hands-on after the break.
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 25, 2010
Samsung has put together highlights of the unveiling and official presentation of the Galaxy S this week at CTIA in Las Vegas. We were there for the keynote announcement with J.K. Shin as well as the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 25, 2010
Sat down for a few minutes with the folks from Blockbuster during CTIA in Las Vegas to take a look at their Android app. Check it out after the break.
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2010
Sure, you might have used the Swype keyboard for Android or Windows Mobile smartphones. But have you really used Swype? We sat down with Mike and Aaron for a few minutes and had them put the popular ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2010
We took you on a quick tour of the Samsung Galaxy S hardware -- now let's spend a few more minutes and look at the software. When Samsung talks about "Smart Life," they mean it, bringi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2010
OK, OK. We got it. You guys still have plenty of (very good!) questions regarding the Sprint Evo 4G. So let's make things easier on everybody and get them all in one place. What else do you...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2010
AndroidCentral: Hands-on with the Motorola i1 iDEN Android phone on Sprint AndroidCentral: Finger-on with the 32GB Sandisk microSD card AndroidCentral: Hands-on (mostly) with the new AT&T Android...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2010
We must say, there's something kind of cool -- and, yes, very nerdy -- about holding this much memory on your fingertip. But there it is, the recently announced 32GB microSD card from Sandisk. In...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2010
The good news is that those of you who have to have Nextel's push-to-talk service and have been dying for an Android phone can now have it in the Motorola i1. Otherwise, there's not a whole lot to ge...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 24, 2010
It was a long and hard first day at CTIA, with the announcement of a couple of stellar Android phone, and the return of Dell to the U.S. smartphone area. That brings us to the Dell Aero, which was an...
