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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...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 25, 2010
At this point, you're either in the Verizon Droid Incredible camp, or the Sprint Evo 4G. And both are stellar HTC Android smartphones. But the latter has a few extra bells and whistles up its sl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 25, 2010
If you have an old iPhone 2G laying around (and chances are if you do have one, it's laying around, right?) and want to run Android on it like we saw the other day, instructions are now available. It'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2010
Androlib unofficially has the Android Market surpassing 50,000 applications, quite a leap from the 38,000 figure Google used last week during its first-quarter earnings call. In fact, when we asked Go...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2010
Despite our seemingly endless coverage of the Verizon Droid Incredible, you guys and gals have had plenty of questions. And most of them were pretty good. After the break, we answer a smatt...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2010
A few of you have asked about graphics benchmarking on the Verizon Droid Incredible, so here you go. It's right up there with the Google Nexus One, and it should be. In other news, that Gundam's ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 23, 2010
So I'm going through all of your questions about the Verizon Droid Incredible, and a good number of you are asking about being able to disable Sense on the phone. Quick show of hands: Who prefers wha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 22, 2010
Good news, for those of you with the T-Mobile version of the Google Nexus One: Google's found the problem with spotty 3G coverage. And the problem is ... you. In an update this week in the Google...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 22, 2010
It's been a not-so-secret bug that not all apps in the Android Market have been available on all handsets. And it's been particularly egregious on the HTC Legend, with such apps as Google Goggle...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
Seems like only yesterday that we were asking "What else could we see in an Android phone?" We also were asking "Seriously? This is the best Dell can do?" Looks like...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
There's been a little bit of confusion regarding some of the specs of the Verizon Droid Incredible. Let's clear up on of them. On every info sheet we've received, ROM -- aka the place to whi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
I've said it before and I'll say it again: We have the coolest readers on the Internet. Better than PreCentral, better than TiPB, better than CrackBerry, even, and them's big words.Anyhoo, after...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
Sure enough, the Verizon Droid Incredible (you might have seen a story or two about it here), by some strange act of fate, is being shipped early to a few disbelieving customers who pre-ordered on Mon...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
Good news for our friends in the United Kingdom -- you finally can make your way throughout her majesty's land using Google Maps Navigation. Which comes in handy when airports shut down thanks to Ice...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 21, 2010
HTC actually introduced new copy-and-paste features in the new version of Sense way back at Mobile World Congress, but let's take a look at it here on the Verizon Droid Incredible. You can select one...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 20, 2010
We know. Somehow, after digesting all of your Verizon HTC Droid Incredible coverage, you still have questions. And we've got answers. So head on into the Android Central Forums, see what others a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 20, 2010
CNN app for Android smartphonesCNN app for Android tablets The HTC Evo 4G is the first Android smartphone to take advantage of Sprint's WiMax 4G network, and CNN Money has taken a look ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 20, 2010
This is really quite sad, actually. It goes like this: A political satire app feature the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore -- the first such award for an online jour...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 20, 2010
The Sprint HTC Evo 4G is set for its big coming-out party on May 12 in New York City. And as with the Evo's cousin, the Windows Mobile-powered HD2, it looks like movies are going to play a big pa...
