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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 07, 2012
We're headed to sunny San Diego this week -- one of my new favorite cities -- for the fall CTIA event. The past several years it's been called CTIA "Enterprise and Applications," w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 30, 2012
Ahhhhhh, fall. The temperatures finally are starting to drop. Football is in full swing. And the Android crazies are out in force.
It's kind of a weird time for product cycles, right? Most...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 23, 2012
What do you do if you're a company with some good products, but pretty much zero mind share? If you're LG, you pack up a handful of journalists and bring 'em to Seoul for a week-long med...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 16, 2012
Phil has vacated his desk for the week, and I've snuck in to fiddle with his radio, adjust his chair, and change all his bookmarks. They're big shoes to fill, but Alex and I can handle it.&n...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 09, 2012
Woke up this morning to the first hints of fall here in Northwest Florida. Don't worry, that'll change soon enough -- 90 degrees and high humidity likely isn't going anywhere just yet. B...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 03, 2012
So today's the Labor Day holiday here in the states, which I'm told celebrates people who work by giving them a day off. It's also the unofficial end of summer (though here in Florida, t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 26, 2012
I'm supposed to take this more personally, I've been told. I'm supposed to hate Apple and what it's litigious self with every fiber of my being. I'm supposed to cry in my beer fo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 19, 2012
No rest for the weary, so here are a few quick hits to start the week:
Developers rock: A late-night quip on Google+ about how there are some good Android apps with horrible scrolling has tu...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 12, 2012
Some quick hits for this fine Sunday morning:
Worlds collide: Warning - shameless familial promotion ahead. My wife's Sunday column in this week's Pensacola News Journal is...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 05, 2012
It's been in with the "old" and out with the new for me this week. The Samsung Galaxy S3 review units are going back, and I've put my AT&T SIM back in the HTC One X. It'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 29, 2012
That's what's left of Manitoba's finest city. OK, not really, but I did spend much of last week in Winnipeg, in a series of well-caffeinated meetings with three other Mobile Nations edit...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 22, 2012
Hey there, everybody! Took a week off from this column last week, as my fingers (and the rest of my body) could hardly move after installing some hardwood floors. Don't let those TV shows fool y...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 08, 2012
That headline's been written for a week now, but it's certainly taken on new meaning in the past few days. With the announcement of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and a preview release coming out o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 02, 2012
Hey, look at that. We've survived another edition of the Google I/O developer conference. I always feel a little out of place here, though. I'm a journalist, not a developer. And while most ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 24, 2012
We're two days away from heading out to the Google IO developer conference in San Francisco. But no rest for the wicked. It's a working weekend. And that means one thing: A notes column!
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 17, 2012
I'd wondered how long it'd take before I ended up linking to my wife from this space. That time has come.
Today, as hopefully you've remembered, is Father's Day. I've got two da...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 10, 2012
When your fair city finds itself getting more than a foot of rain in less than a day, there's no escaping that sense of helplessness. There's not a damn thing you can do, and that's not ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 03, 2012
Checking in from a couple days of R&R in New York City. It isn't often that I get time to do any tourist-type stuff here, let alone with my lovely bride. But I managed to sneak in a few thou...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 27, 2012
We can be completely honest here, right? With all the phones that tend to come across our desks, things can, on occasion, become a bit of a grind, especially when you've reviewed the fifth or si...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2012
No patents. No petitions. No bootloaders. No multitasking. No customs delays. See y'all next week.
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2012
Two thirds of these guys busted their butts at CTIA in New Orleans. One of them was not me.
Another CTIA has come and gone. I'm not usually one to gripe about the pace of a show, given that at...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 06, 2012
The Samsung Galaxy S III event has come and gone. Some say that's true about the phone as well, that it's so disappointing it's done before ever getting off the ground. Of course, many o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 29, 2012
It's another working weekend. Time for some quick hits:
If I wasn't over the Samsung Galaxy S3 fakes, leaks and fake leaks, I certainly am now. Alex and I will be at the event o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2012
Welcome, ladies and germs, to Android Central v3.0.
What you see before you here is the third major iteration of the design of the best damn Android website in the world, bar none. Born of some inc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 15, 2012
One of our greatest features at Android Central is the Android Dictionary, an ever-evolving list of frequently used terms. But did you know there's a second, secret blogging dictionary? Here&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 08, 2012
Exciting times, folks. I'm writing this from somewhere over New York and Pennsylvania and Maryland and Virginia, on the way home from the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE event, and recuperated from the 3 ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 01, 2012
It's another working weekend. Yeah, that's two in a row. For now, some more random thoughts:
Go download the Android Central Forums app right this second! Don't read the rest of ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 18, 2012
Let's talk tablets.
Specifically, let's talk Nexus tablets. Forget, for the moment, that as yet there's no such thing as a Nexus tablet. And I'm willing to bet that if Google actual...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2012
It was a question I knew I'd get this week. Wasn't sure when, and I wasn't exactly sure what the ramifications would be.
"I have 4G now?!?!?!"
That was a text from...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2012
Welcome to Barcelona and Mobile World Congress. And things are already pretty insane. And we're not just talking tapas here. Though if you want to talk tapas, I can go on for days. And if his...
