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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 09, 2012
Check out our Chrome for Android Walkthrough!
The race for the best mobile browser is just about dead even. Android's browser has certainly competed with its Webkit cousin in mobile Safari f...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 07, 2012
Our comrades CrackBerry Kevin and Android Central's own Richard Devine are in Amsterdam this week for BlackBerry's DevCon Europe, and once again new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has brought u...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 06, 2012
NPD recently released some interesting data regarding U.S. smartphone sales in the last quarter. While iPhones dominated as the top choices by model, with the Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy S 4G tak...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 30, 2012
Android's No. 1, apparently, when it comes to No. 1 and No. 2. That's right, a survey of 1,000 Americans by marketing agency 11mark has found that Android users are more likely to pick up th...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jan 25, 2012
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Wildly popular "tower offense" game Anomaly Warzone Earth HD is now available for a cool $4 in the Android Market. A long-time iOS staple, the title picke...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2012
The Korea Herald today is reporting that the unlocking mechanism on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is not the subject of a new legal complaint filed by Apple.
The Galaxy Nexus was first named as a target...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 24, 2012
We've talked before about what it takes for an app to truly be a competitor to Apple's Siri.
It needs to be easily accessible, and launch quickly. Very quickly.
It needs ...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 17, 2012
Even though many people still relate Apple's early success to Steve Wozniak, the tables have turned and it has been uncovered that he prefers Android to iOS now. If you remember Woz landed a Sam...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 05, 2012
Look, we know how you feel about Apple. We know how you feel about iOS. We get it. We really do. But we also want you to keep your friends close, and your frenemies closer. And so we're tickled pi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2011
Analytics firm ComScore just released a new batch of numbers, showing Android extending its lead over, well, everybody in the United States for September through November of 2011.
Out of the 91.4 m...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Dec 09, 2011
Google has improved searching for movies and theaters through your mobile browser by implementing a new interractive "ribbon" at the top of search results. Now, by searching "mov...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Dec 07, 2011
SoundTracking, an iOS user favorite that impressed our friends over at TiPb, is now available on Android. SoundTracking is reminiscent of Foursquare for music: ID a song you're listening to or t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 01, 2011
Around here we don't judge people for their choice of smartphone OS. We might point and snicker, but it's all in fun. Having said that, there are more than a few people making th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2011
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There are a few things a voice-recognition app needs to do well to be successful -- and must do extremely well if it wants to call itself a competitor to Apple'...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 28, 2011
Read our Galaxy Nexus Review!
Take the two top smartphones available today and put them side by side, and you have what we present before you here -- the iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 15, 2011
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 02, 2011
Rut ro, Raggy. The iOS -- and therefore the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch -- just got itself a native Gmail app, straight from Google itself. That means proper Gmail on iOS, in its own applicati...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 29, 2011
Let’s not mince words here: This “Android and iPhone Update History” chart is not a good chart. Oh, it’s a pretty chart, to be sure artfully illustrated and researched. But t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 21, 2011
T-Mobile still doesn't have an iPhone, in case you didn't know. (A fact we're perfectly OK with.) But it does have yet another news release explaining why. Apparently Apple won't mak...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 12, 2011
We're an equal opportunity group of people here. We know that a good many of you are curious exactly what the new iOS 5 update brings to the table -- and we're OK with that. I wa...
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by Joshua Munoz
Oct 10, 2011
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I get to play a lot of games as I'm looking for the best stuff to show you guys and gals. Most of the time I find pretty good stuff. Occasionally though, I come ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 04, 2011
(Ed. note: Rex Manning Day is still in effect. But now that the iPhone's coming to Sprint, we need to care about it a little.)
Today was the big day if you are an Apple fan. The folks in ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 27, 2011
Tech Armageddon continues, and now the ITC (International Trade Commission) will be launching an investigation against Apple Computer Corp. over disputes brought by HTC earlier this year. Tech...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 27, 2011
As expected, the Android train keeps steamrolling along. Nielsen's numbers for smartphone platform purchases in the past 90 days show users picking Android 56 percent of the time, which is...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Aug 30, 2011
ComScore has released its latest round of data, which tracks the smartphone market during the months of May, June, and July of 2011. During this time period, 82.2 million Americans owned a smart...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 19, 2011
Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe in Zune Mobile Nations 5: A wedding and a funeral Phil, Kevin, Derek, Dan, Georgia, and Rene talk HP dumping...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jul 28, 2011
Android is the top operating system in the United States, according to June data just released by Nielsen. Android hold a 39 percent share of the U.S. smartphone market, with iOS coming in second with...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 25, 2011
One of the best things about being the big brother to PreCentral.net is that we get to read headlines like "Roger McNamee is our Hero" and "McNamee and Rubinstein ham it up" and ...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 18, 2011
The U.S. Army is just about finished with a six-week experiment in which it took iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 devices into the field to see which of the operating systems best suits its needs. Out...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Jul 07, 2011
EA Mobile demoed Scrabble for Android recently at EA's summer press conference. The popular vocabulary game is set to release next week on Android for the first time. Wordsmiths will be able to ...
