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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2011
A few of you have asked to see the boot animation on the HTC Thunderbolt, so here it is. But it's what's inside the phone when you open the battery cover that was a cool little surprise. The mot...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 03, 2011
The managing director of a Korean consumer electronics firm has told PC Magazine that the next version of Android, nicknamed "Honeycomb," will need a dual-core ARM-9 processor to run &q...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Dec 29, 2010
By now, we are all aware of the GPS issues that have plagued the Galaxy S series of phones since release. In that time, several supposed fixes have emerged, including one directly from Samsung. How e...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2010
What do you get when you have a power button, front-facing camera, speaker grille and battery door slot? A close-up of a smartphone, that's for sure, which is just what showed up in our inbox. And th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 20, 2010
It's pretty much been the worst kept secret of the month, but now Verizon's gone and made it official on Twitter -- LTE devices will be shown at CES. OK, it's really not that much of a secret since Ve...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 04, 2010
That little bitty phone you see in that big meaty paw is the new Motorola Charm from T-Mobile. The form factor is a first for Android, and one many of us (myself included) have been looking forw...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 30, 2010
Time to revisit an old friend, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. It's not often that you'll see us review the same phone twice, but this time we're making an exception. With the huge U.S. subs...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 25, 2010
The Talon hard shell case is a very slim and attractive way to protect your Evo 4G. Machined from a single piece of metal hard plastic, the Talon case fits snugly, yet is easy to put o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 18, 2010
It's not sugar and spice, and everything nice, but sometimes resistors and IC's and ribbon cables are better anyway. Ifixit has gotten their hands on a Dell Streak, and what you see is the resul...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Aug 05, 2010
The Mobi Products Clip Pouch is a no-frills way to protect your Droid X. The pouch is made out of a soft nylon that's stitched together and fits the biggest of Android smartphones. There's a Vel...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 28, 2010
LG is slated to release three new Android phones in the near future but sadly, none of them are currently coming to the US. The first two, the LU2300 and the SU950/KU9500, are very interesting. ...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 27, 2010
Could that weird Motorola Android device we saw last week actually be the Motorola MT820 pictured above? The button arrangement is different but the transparent flip screen, camera placement, and...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 21, 2010
This is getting confusing. First, the Xperia X10 wasn't going to get multitouch because the hardware wasn't capable. Then we heard that the Xperia X10 would receive multitouch in a software update. An...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 20, 2010
Though the above picture of a Motorola Android device looks innocent enough, don't be fooled--it's a flip phone. And yes, leave it to Motorola to cook up some interesting form factors for Android. Aft...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 06, 2010
We just reported on the LG Aloha and now we have some speculative pictures that point this South Korean LG LU2300 Android device (pictured above) as the actual Aloha. Remember, the Aloha is purp...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 02, 2010
Ho ho! Look what we have here! According to mobileSyrup, the Xperia X10 (yes, the phone that was supposed to launch last year) is supposed to hit Rogers in Canada in two weeks' time. As the rumor goes...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 30, 2010
We're all familiar with the saga of the Xperia X10, how we were once so very excited for the phone to release and to, well, have it never release and have it just disappoint us at every corner i...
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by Casey Chan
Mar 04, 2010
So for reasons that currently escape us, Samsung has decided to release a commercial showcasing the Samsung Behold II--yep, that middling Android 1.5, TouchWiz UI running phone that never picke...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
After spending some time with the Palm Pre in the Smartphone Round Robin, we became quite smitten with the form factor. The vertical slider is rather unique in the smartphone industry and it's s...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 19, 2010
It looks like Sprint is planning on launching their first WiMAX equipped phone by this summer. Speaking with Forbes, Sprint said that they're launching a WiMAX device in the first half of this year. R...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 18, 2010
According to Sydsvenskan.se, Sony Ericsson turned down the opportunity to build the Nexus One. We knew that Sony Ericsson didn't want to sell their phones through google.com/phone, but to turn d...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 18, 2010
General Mobile, the maker of the dual-sim DSTL1 if you didn't know, showcased a few Android devices at MWC. The wonderful thing is that they're all beautifully designed and come with more than capable...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 16, 2010
Huawei, which may be an unfamiliar company to most, has actually grown quite familiar with Android. They've released Android devices before and at MWC, they'll be showcasing four more Android ph...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 15, 2010
We're not sure how many times a device can 'leak' before getting officially announced but the HTC Legend & HTC Desire (formerly known as the Bravo) both seem to be going for the record here....
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by Casey Chan
Feb 15, 2010
Here's the thing: the Acer Liquid e seems to be nearly the same phone as the original Acer Liquid. The only difference we could spot is that the Acer Liquid e will run Android 2.1 (yay!) instead of An...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 12, 2010
And now we get reminded why we had so much faith in the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. The Xperia X10's Camera has facial recognition software that enables the camera to identify faces within pictur...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 11, 2010
We've known that Acer has been planning to release more Android devices this year but nothing has come out until now. Say hello to the Acer E110, Acer's latest Android phone. There's not much we...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 11, 2010
Not as crazy as it sounds. It looks there's now a way to enable USB Host mode on the Motorola Droid. In a nutshell, this is the first step towards using a USB memory stick or printer right from ...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 04, 2010
Say hello to the Samsung SHW-M100S, Samsung's latest Android smartphone and their first to run Android 2.1. This puppy looks to be a good one with a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, 800 MHz processor, 5...
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by Casey Chan
Feb 04, 2010
The myTouch 3G as we know is getting phased out. But it's not for the rumored myTouch Slide but actually for the myTouch 3G Version 1.2 which adds a 3.5mm headset jack (much needed!). Accessorie...
