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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2012
Flipboard is finally coming to Android. Well, sort of. Flipboard is coming to Android on the Galaxy S III. Exclusively on the Galaxy S III, we're told, at least for some amount of time, tho...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 27, 2012
After we got wind that Bluestacks was going to be releasing a beta soon, we could only wait with bated breath at what exciting new enhancements would be dropped on us come unveiling time. Final...
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by Android Central
Mar 07, 2012
Google Currents so far has survived the Google Play rebranding. (Play Currents?) So now's as good a time as any to check in and see how it's doing. And at the time of this writing, Android C...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2012
Welcome to Barcelona and Mobile World Congress. And things are already pretty insane. And we're not just talking tapas here. Though if you want to talk tapas, I can go on for days. And if his...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 12, 2012
Hell of a week, eh? We saw the rise of Chrome for Android, and Google Wallet hit a couple of potholes -- but nothing we're really worried about -- but some of the coolest news out of Mountain Vi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 01, 2012
Google today has updated a couple of its apps -- Chrome to Phone and Google Docs.
Chrome to Phone, which was rolled out alongside Android 2.2 Froyo in 2010, is a slick little service that lets you ...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 13, 2012
British tabloid newspaper The Sun has decided to head down the digital route, with the arrival of its very own subscription-based Android application.
The premise is quite promising if you...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 13, 2012
We've got three days down, and CES 2012 is slowly winding down. We've seen a number of new devices, heard a lot of promising news from folks like Intel, and had time with some awesome ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 10, 2012
Verizon has been rolling out quite a few exclusive deals today and their latest announcement brings a long-time iOS app to select Verizon wireless Android devices, namely -- the Samsung Galaxy Tab 1...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 08, 2011
Download Android Central on Google Currents now!
Now that Google's announced its Currents project, it's time to let you in on a little secret.
It's pretty darn awesome.
We've been...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 08, 2011
Download Android Central on Google Currents now!
Google today has finally unwrapped its long-rumored news magazine competitor to Flipboard on iOS. Called Currents and available on Android smartp...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 10, 2011
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Taptu, the folks behind the popular news reader that lets you "DJ" your news, has announced thre...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 09, 2011
Send me a picture of a fan's render of an unannounced phone, and you're likely to get a snide reply that, no, it's not news, not official, and we should all take a breath. What you see a...
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by Chris Parsons
Oct 06, 2011
While many have been making use of the Taptu application available in the Android Market, the folks from Barnes & Noble and Taptu have npw annaounced the availability of Taptu on the NOOK Color....
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2011
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Swissinfo.ch has a new Android app out (news and the like). And to celebrate, it's released the above video, which we're still trying to wrap our heads arou...
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by Joshua Munoz
Sep 23, 2011
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Seems like everyone's trying to get into the grassroots, local news movements as of late and Meporter is the latest to enter the fray. The idea behind it makes ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 15, 2011
If there's ever an app I'm always willing to try out, it's a new newsreader. And today we bring you Flud News (or FLUD News) for Android. It's a graphically intensive newsreader, with story thumbnai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 10, 2011
The rumors are running rampant as to what Thursday's "major news announcement" from HTC CEO Peter Chou will be. Bootloader unlocking? No. Honeycomb tablets? No....
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 24, 2011
Television Verizon's tiered data pricing ends - WCPO-TV On the Nook Color with KWGN-TV in Denver Newspaper/online Quoted in the Palm Beach Post on voicemail hackingQuoted on ABCNews.com on the ...
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by Joshua Munoz
Jul 14, 2011
If any of you are as gung-ho about saving money as I am, I'm sure you've heard about dealnews. Their slogan is "Where every day is Black Friday" and as such, they 're constantly trying ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 07, 2011
Last May we saw the release of News360 for Honeycomb devices, and today they have released the version for the smaller screen. In a nutshell, News360 is a news aggregator app with over 4,000 glo...
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by Jason Bauman
Jun 14, 2011
News apps and RSS readers are a dime a dozen. While the content and interface can vary from app to app, the basics are essentially the same. You choose your news sources and interesting topics, and l...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 10, 2011
Android users had to wait quite a while for the official BBC Android app to arrive, when it did -- it was only made available in UK respectively. Now, BBC has taken their offerings Global by making th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 08, 2011
Taptu has updated its popular Android app to version 1.5 with a handful of new features that will make users old and new pretty happy. Having fully supported Honeycomb since version 1.4, now the...
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by Kurt Schutte
Jun 07, 2011
All right everyone, we've finally got it -- Sprint gave the HTC EVO 3D an official release date! Now, depending on who you are or where you go, both the day you can obtain this black slab of 3D, dual-...
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by Jason Bauman
Jun 03, 2011
After Twitter and Gmail, Read it Later is the application I use most on my phone and I'm completely addicted to it. If you haven't heard of the app before, Read it Later is a app that lets...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 26, 2011
The Wall Street Journal Android app is heavy on news — as long as you're a member of the club Fans of the Wall Street Journal -- WSJ is what the kids call it these days -- take note: an An...
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by Alex Dobie
May 25, 2011
Following on from the BBC iPlayer app launched on Android a few months ago, the Beeb has today released an official BBC News application for users of Android 1.6 and above in the UK. ...
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by Joshua Munoz
May 13, 2011
Google is introducing a new, browser-based feature for everyone who reads news using a mobile device. The service is called "News near you" and it's accessible if you direct your mobile brow...
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by Sean Brunett
May 01, 2011
It was a busy week in the Android world and here at Android Central as we got ahold of a variety of new devices, two of which have been officially released. The Droid Incredible 2 and the Casio G'zOne...
