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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 08, 2013
Keeping track of the names and numbers can be quite the task. How do you tackle it?
Your contacts, and keeping the list of them safe and sound, is a pretty big deal for some of us. I've got ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 26, 2013
T-Mobile threw a whole lot of stuff at us when they unveiled their new "UnCarrier" Simple-Choice pricing models. While we're mostly excited to see a release date for the Galaxy S4, and...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 05, 2013
In 2012, it was hard to compete with Samsung's $12 Billion electronics marketing budget. Even Apple has felt the pinch from Samsung's marketing department. They figured out that building the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 30, 2013
It's not every day that a major tech company reinvents itself like RIM has done. With Android and iOS gobbling up damn near all of the mobile market, RIM saw it was time to shift gears and deliv...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 26, 2012
We've seen a couple phones from HTC with a 1080p screen; namely the Droid DNA and J Butterfly, and have rumors of similar phones coming from Sony and LG. Clearly, someone in charge of the secret...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 13, 2012
Unfortunately, "coming soon" is what most people saw when they went to order a new Nexus device. To put it gently, the launch was a bit of a fustercluck. We've been ranting about it, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 05, 2012
We're eight days away from seeing the new Nexus 4 go on sale at Google Play, and there's a lot of buzz about the value aspect of using it with inexpensive prepaid cellular service. We've...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 22, 2012
Google is "opening the playground" in just seven short days, and by now everyone thinks we know exactly what we're going to be seeing come October 29. I'll leave the editorial...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 15, 2012
With the holiday season creeping up on the western world, it's the time of year when many folks are looking at buying a new phone. A quick look at the numbers tells us that a whole bunch of thos...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 08, 2012
It's the time of year where all Android fans start to think about the next Nexus device. We're Android fans first and foremost around these parts, so we're right there with you all think...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 01, 2012
A few weeks back we asked everyone about dedicated cameras that run Android, like the Samsung Galaxy Camera or the Nikon CoolPix S800c. This time, we're going back to basics and talking about th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 17, 2012
When a new phone is released without NFC, there's a lot of wailing and teeth-gnashing on the Internet about how horrible it is that manufacturer X is silly for not including it. Some folks seem ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 10, 2012
Android is an open platform. Many folks mistakenly think this only refers to hacking, or source code, but the main part of being open means that you're free to install outside third-party s...
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by Chris Parsons
Sep 06, 2012
Now that Amazon has announced the Kindle Fire 2 and the Kindle Fire HD with some pretty interesting specs and price points, we've got to ask whether or not you're interested in either of the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 04, 2012
Android is a Linux OS -- just like countless other Linux OSs you use without knowing it every day with "not-smart" consumer electronic devices. Because it's easily scalable and si...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 31, 2012
You might have heard that Google is postponing the retail launch of the Nexus Q, and as compensation they are giving one to everyone who preordered for the low price of free. It's a shocker, and...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 24, 2012
Madfinger Games has caused quite a stir in the Android community today, when they blamed "unbelievably high" piracy rates for changing the cost of Dead Trigger from $0.99 to free. The...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 21, 2012
July 19, the day that all the early orders of the Nexus 7 were to ship, has come and gone. According to Google, everyone who ordered on or before July 11 should either have their tablet in their hot...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2012
We've seen two OTA updates that take away local search options, namely the Sprint Galaxy S III and the AT&T Galaxy S III. In case you've been hiding under a rock for the past month (and ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 10, 2012
Alex brings up a good point earlier today about Google not releasing a new version of Android this year. Jelly Bean brings a lot of under the hood changes, and it's highly possible that Google i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 19, 2012
Microsoft came back to life this evening, at least for a little bit. They showed off their latest idea, namely the Microsoft Surface, and have made a pretty big splash on the Interwebz. It's not...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 16, 2012
Pretty specific poll here tonight, but it had to be done. A lot of people are pretty unhappy about it, and it's a hot topic for discussion. Of course I'm talking about Verizon's newly-an...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 08, 2012
JD, a member of the weekly after-podcast hangout club, asks this one. We all were excited about live wallpapers when they came with along with 2.1, and have become pretty synonymous with Android. Th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 07, 2012
Google I/O starts in just 20 days, and it's time to begin all the speculation about what we expect to see. Rumors have a 7-inch tablet as a lock, and there's new Google TVs and Chromebooks t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 06, 2012
This one's for Dana (she loves the Samsung Galaxy S III in white), who wrote in and asked me to find out which color the Internet loves most -- Marble White or Pebble Blue. It's not very oft...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 25, 2012
If you're a Google+ user and reading this site, you probably checked out the big update to the Android app earlier this afternoon. We'd been waiting a couple weeks since a similar update wen...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 23, 2012
There's a neat discussion going on in the forums about the Samsung Galaxy S III, and how carriers will screw it up -- or not screw it up. To our pals in Europe and elsewhere who may not know, in...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 22, 2012
This one comes from Cory, who happens to be shopping for new car insurance. While deciding how much coverage he should buy, he brought up the question of other folks texting and driving. He is worri...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 17, 2012
We can't be sure that Google is really going to be selling what amounts to a Nexus line of devices, no matter how reputable the source. It's just too big of an idea to pretend to know all th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 06, 2012
You knew this was coming. In one hand you have the HTC One X. Tegra 3 or S4 Krait; 720p SLCD2 at 4.7-inches. Sense 4. The hotness. In the other hand, you have the Samsung Galaxy S III, the worl...
