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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
Oh ... You mean that Froyo sculpture? Here it is, folks. Froyo. With mixed nuts and berries. Video after the break, at least until YouTube pulls it. [YouTube] Thanks, dion!
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by Phil Nickinson
May 13, 2010
A senior Android software engineer is leaving the Android team, hot on the heels of senior project manager Erik Tseng's announcement that he's going to Facebook. Cedric Buest is headed to Linked In a...
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by Jared DiPane
May 12, 2010
Just a few months ago Google added Tim Bray to their team as an Android Advocate, and today Erick Tseng has announced he will be leaving Google and Android and joining forces with Facebook. For those ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 11, 2010
It should come as little surprise that Google's working on its own tablet because, well, we've told you as much. (Plus there's the Dell, HTC, Toshiba and Samsung variety rumors floating around out the...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 11, 2010
We'd love to take all of you with us next week to the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, but you know how much it costs to check luggage these days. The good news is we'll be there to...
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by Casey Chan
May 11, 2010
We know Adobe is giving its employees Android phones in a form of "dogfooding" for Flash on mobile. We know that Flash is coming in Android 2.2 Froyo. We also believe that Android 2.2...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 10, 2010
It's hardly surprising at this point, but the Nexus One apparently is a no-go on Sprint, a little less than two months after its "we're getting it, too!" announcement. Consumer Products rep...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 06, 2010
Android 1.6+ We were there in February in Barcelona when Google first demonstrated the language translation power of Google Goggles. [Market link] Today, it's gotten even better. Version 1.1 brings t...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 05, 2010
If you own a Google Nexus One, check your inboxes, folks. We're getting reports in the forums about Google sending out e-mails alerting that too much tax was paid, and a refund is on the way. FWIW: Lo...
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by Casey Chan
May 05, 2010
While the lot of us were playing with our new Droid Incredibles and getting a crash course on all things Android this past weekend, Google's Android team was throwing a party for itself--complete...
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by Adam Sawyer
May 05, 2010
Ever done a search on Google only to be directed to web pages created in 2002? A little outdated, if you ask me. Google has remedied this by implementing some new search tools for your desktop PC and ...
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by Adam Sawyer
May 05, 2010
Good news for all you bookworms: Google recently announced it will be plunging into the e-book market as early as this summer. It will be implementing some snazzy new book-search softw...
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by Casey Chan
May 04, 2010
Bumptop, a 3D desktop manager that's been implemented in Windows 7 and OS X, has just been bought out by the Google. Bumptop was a ridiculously slick experience that beautifies and changes the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 01, 2010
OK, folks. The Android Central Win Phil's (and Dieter's) Nexus Ones contest is closed, and after the break we have another great round of entries. And we've got one more batch after this.
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by Phil Nickinson
May 01, 2010
This is it, folks, the final batch of entries. And we ended up with 40 submissions. Suffice it to say, you all rock. Here's where we go from here. With so many entries, we're going to have to pare th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 30, 2010
Android 2.1+ Two weeks ago, Twitter announced it was developing its own official Android app. Today, that client was released. You can find it now in the Android Market. [link] There's been a bit of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 30, 2010
Good news for those of you who just have to be able to install applications to the SD card. Google -- which said in January that this would be addressed -- has officially marked the issue (1151, if yo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 28, 2010
Google just made a fairly major tweak to its mobile image search. As you can see above, a web-based image search now looks and feels almost like it's being done natively, on your Android phone. Thumbn...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 28, 2010
I keep thinking entries will wind down as we reach the end of this contest, but you guys keep sending in more and more epic videos. The latest batch (and it's not the last batch) comprises robots, ele...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 28, 2010
Google is making its mobile search even better by introducing Place Pages for Mobile. Place Pages for Mobile allows Android (and iPhone) users to find details of restaurants, businesses, etc. in one ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 27, 2010
Why, hello there, little HTC Android phone with a nice, fat keyboard. We've been waiting for one of you guys for quite some time now. That's right, it's a new (and probably) Android device going...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 27, 2010
Andy Rubin, VP of engineering for Google and one of the chiefs behind Android smartphones, just slipped a little bombshell into an interview with the New York Times' Bits blog. In it he says that Flas...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 27, 2010
Played around a little bit over the weekend with renting a movie on YouTube. And when I say "played around," I mean clicked about three times and had "Reservoir Dogs" availab...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 27, 2010
AdMob, which serves up many (for 18,000 sites and apps, it says) of those little ads you see in Android applications, has released its March findings. The bullet points:Of smartphones in the United St...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 26, 2010
Oh, my. Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, here you go. As Dieter mentions above (you did watch the video first, right?), we're now giving away TWO T-Mobile Nexus Ones. An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 26, 2010
We hear you, folks. The Verizon HTC Droid Incredible that you all pre-ordered over the weekend are shipping now (if you're not one of the uber-lucky folks who have gotten yours already, that is)....
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 26, 2010
What's better than giving away a Verizon HTC Droid Incredible? Giving away two Verizon HTC Droid Incredibles. That's right, we're upping the ante in advance of this week's launch. Here's th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 26, 2010
The saga of the Android 2.1 upgrades continues, with Motorola Europe posting on its Facebook page that the upgrade for the Milestone has been delayed. "We regret to say the UK 2.1 update has su...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 26, 2010
And in slightly less unhappy Nexus One news, it's now available for pre-order on Vodafone in the U.K. -- free if you shell out for a monthly plan that costs at least £35. We're also being told ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 26, 2010
Sorry, folks, but I'm gonna have to say I told you so here. (See podcast Episode 9.) Google apparently put an end to the Verizon Nexus One, slipping it into an official Nexus One blog post "updat...
