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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2011
For those of you waiting to get your hands on CyanogenMod 7 (aka Gingerbread), nightly builds have finally (we say that with a smile) started up for the phones supported by the community project. Bui...
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by Sean Brunett
Jan 14, 2011
It has been long rumored that Google will release a cloud-based music service that will integrate with Android, with Google having showed off a preview last year at its Google IO dev conference.&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 14, 2011
There's been much hubbub made this week over a study by Computer World that tracks which phones have been upgraded to Froyo, and how long it took them to receive the update. Here's a little secret tho...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 13, 2011
A recent FCC filing for what seems to be an updated model of Samsung's Nexus S has given some credibility to the possible existence of Android 2.4. Engadget recently noticed the listing fo...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 12, 2011
Yeah, you'll need to take this one with a big grain of salt as some of these rumors have been floating around for a whole now but with that said and out of the way. New information is suggesting that ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 10, 2011
Are you a Samsung Nexus S owner who has been experiencing random reboots during calls? If so, you'll be pleased to know that Google has now been able to replicate the issue and is working with Samsung...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 09, 2011
YouTube link for mobile viewingBack in December when the Gingerbread SDK was released, some folks found an interesting file hidden deep within. While we still don't claim to understand this...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 08, 2011
Engadget scored a lengthy interview with Matias Duarte, Google's Director of User Experience and the man behind much of the UI direction of Android 2.3 Gingerbread and 3.0 Honeycomb. ...
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by Android Central
Jan 06, 2011
Operating System: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)Processor: 1 GHz MSM8255 Snapdragon (Scorpion)Display: 4.2-inch 'Reality Display'Camera: 8 MP with 720p video recordingHDMI outMemory: 512 MB internal ...
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by Android Central
Jan 06, 2011
Operating System: Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)Processor: 1 GHz QualcommDisplay: 4.2-inch 'Reality Display'Camera: 8 MP with 720p video recordingHDMI outMemory: 512 MB internal phone memory, 8 GB mi...
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by Kyle Gibb
Jan 06, 2011
Google barely got done launching Android 2.3 Gingerbread and already 2.4 is being caught on camera. Dutch tech site Tweakers got to play with an Xperia Arc and were surprised to find 2.4 listed ...
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by Sean Brunett
Jan 04, 2011
Near Field Communication is a feature of Android OS that arrived with Gingerbread (2.3). The practicality of NFC in our day-to-day lives is still to be questioned, but it undoubtedly represents a uniq...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 01, 2011
Google's latest developer phone brings Android 2.3 Gingerbread and new hardware, but is it the right choice for the average consumer?One of the biggest gripes many of us have about Android is the way ...
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by Jared DiPane
Dec 30, 2010
If you have held on strong to your HTC Droid Eris, and not lost hope even with the lack of official updates you will rejoice to know that custom ROM developer punk.kaos has brought a sweet t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 22, 2010
On any phone without a physical set of keys, the on-screen keyboard is one of the most important parts of the operating system. Android has a leg-up over other platforms here, as third-party rep...
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by Sean Brunett
Dec 22, 2010
Samsung's Nexus S is now available to purchase from the Carphone Warehouse. Customers considering the "Pure Google" experience can get one for £429 sans contract and free with a variet...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 21, 2010
Another new feature to Gingerbread is Near Field Communications (NFC). It's a fancy term for wireless communication between things that touch each other. You've probably seen this with you...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2010
Gingerbread on the Droid Incredible? Don't sound so surprised. Now that the source code has been made publicly available, everyone and their mother (hi, Mom!) is compiling a beta build for their favor...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 20, 2010
OMG! The Nexus One will get its over-the-air Gingerbread update in a few weeks, according to the GoogleNexus Twitter account. In a few weeks?!?!? That means we should repeatedly hit the software updat...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2010
One of the big changes in Gingerbread is the inclusion of a full Internet calling stack in the Android operating system. This means that you can make and receive voice calls over 3G (or 4G or an...
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by Jared DiPane
Dec 19, 2010
With the recent release of the Android 2.3 source code to the Android Open Source Project, we have seen many different ROM's surface for devices based on this 2.3 code. It can be a bit of a strug...
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by Jesse Potter
Dec 18, 2010
Whenever a new version of Android is released, one thing you can always count on is the developer community hacking it onto as many devices as they can. Using the kernel and system image from th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2010
Now that the Android 2.3 code has been made available as part of the Android Open Source Project, we knew it would just be a matter of time before we get it on devices other than the Nexus S. First u...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2010
For your folks who like to compile and run your own ROMs straight from the source (and who doesn't?), know that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread source code is being pushed to the Android Open Source ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2010
Nexus S is released Nexus S Hands-on Photo Gallery; Update: VideoNexus S available online now (with free shipping); stores open at 8 a.m.Nexus S rooted (to nobody's surprise)How to unlock the Nexus S ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 17, 2010
As we slowly tear into everything new about the Nexus S and Gingerbread, we're sure to come across a slew of little things that add to Android. Macro mode with a decent camera is one of them. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2010
Excellent news, folks. The bootloader on the Samsung Nexus S (watch our hands-on video) can be unlocked just as the Nexus One's was. Gandalf44 in the Android Central Forums reminds us of the instructi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 15, 2010
While we still don't have a definite date, Googler Jean-Baptiste Queru lets us know that we'll be seeing Gingerbread in the AOSP tree soon after the Nexus S ships. My geeky side is all tingly, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 14, 2010
There's a lot of new, behind-the-scenes goodness going on in Gingerbread, and not all of it was made with the end user in mind. One of the new APIs, "StrictMode," is built for Android ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 13, 2010
In an almost overlooked note on the Android Developers Blog, Tim Bray lets us know that starting with the Nexus S and Gingerbread, some Android devices will be moving from the YAFFS file system to the...
