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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 19, 2012
acr456 asks in the Android Central forums,
Hello, I am going to factory reset my phone. However, my question is, since this is a complete reset will it also rollback to the version of Andr...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 18, 2012
Update: More of the story is coming out, and we learn that Motorola was found not to infringe on eight other patents in the case. This verdict is currently under Presidential review, and will b...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 18, 2012
Can't say we're overly surprised to see this one, but it doesn't make it any less disappointing. Best Buy early today sent another e-mail to customers who preordered the HTC E...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 18, 2012
We're still waiting for word on when to expect the HTC EVO 4G LTE on the shelves at Sprint, but that wasn't enough to keep the RUU from leaking out. Football has posted the file up for the f...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 17, 2012
After yesterday's news of Verizon killing off unlimited data plans for grandfathered users, we were left with a lot of questions. That will happen when you don't get official word about chan...
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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 16, 2012
The confusion over the Sense 4 multitasking methods is about to come to an end, albeit in a way that many of you aren't going to like. While we were pretty confident that our investigation into ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 16, 2012
Verizon has plans to kill the current unlimited data add-on and force users to a shared pool of tiered data. Speaking at today's 40th annual J.P. Morgan Technology, Media, and Telecom conference...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 16, 2012
Sprint's community forums this morning have acknowledged that the EVO 4G LTE has been delayed, stuck in customs. It hasn't gone out and said that it won't be available for Friday mo...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 16, 2012
Update at 11:17 a.m. EDT: Just heard back from Sprint again, and it's still referring any questions to HTC.
The HTC EVO 4G LTE won't be available Friday, its scheduled launch day, the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 16, 2012
Remember back to Christmas, and we let you know that Sega and NVIDIA would be bringing an enhanced Tegra 3 version of Sonic 4: Episode II, and today is that day! If you thought Sega did a great job ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 16, 2012
A bit of a wet blanket has been tossed onto Google Music recently. We're not exactly sure when this policy went into effect (but we're pretty sure it's been a recent change), but you can...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 15, 2012
HTC this evening has confirmed in a statement to Android Central (and everybody else, we imagine) that importation of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE handsets have been delayed at the U.S. border b...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 15, 2012
There's been a bit of fuss over the way the HTC One X (and One XL) handles multitasking, with some folks saying the phone is broken when talking about the way it handles tasks in the background....
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 15, 2012
What would be better than a new Nexus phone each year? How about several Nexus devices, built by multiple manufacturers? According to the WSJ (and their confidential sources) that will become a real...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 15, 2012
Welcome to Part 3 of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus story -- the one where the latest Google reference phone makes its way to Sprint, ready to put the upcoming LTE network to the test. Sprint was kin...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 15, 2012
Motorola today announced the Motosmart Mix XT550, a China-bound for for "people who really care about music." The 4-inch Android 2.3 smartphone comes loaded with Dolby Mobile software, SRS...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2012
Spend even just a couple minutes with Machinarium, and two things are abundantly clear:
This quite possibly is the most visually stunning game I've ever played.
You're going to...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2012
In what either is good news for sales numbers or bad news for initial inventory numbers, the AT&T HTC One X currently is listed as "out of stock" on AT&T's website for both the...
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by Richard Devine
May 14, 2012
There's more to Android than high-end devices, as we take a look at Motorola's entry-level Motoluxe
On the European side of the Android world, Motorola hasn't really made the same im...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 13, 2012
The winner of this week's photo contest is templon, with his picture of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, taken with his Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The picture follows the rule of thirds, holds ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 13, 2012
Rumor has it that the next iPhone will eschew Google's Maps backend in favor of Apple's own. Rene over at iMore, who has a good handle on how the minds in Cupertino operate, has a great...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 12, 2012
HTC is pretty confident in the new camera they introduced in the One series. I have to be honest, they have good reason to be. The camera in the One S is downright spectacular, and really can replac...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 11, 2012
Just because it's not the latest hotness on the Android scene isn't a reason to let the Motorola Droid X2 wither and die on the vine, and Verizon has begun pushing out an update to Big ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 11, 2012
A couple weeks back we heard the founder of turntable.fm tell us the Android app was "coming soon", and it looks like today is the day. If you haven't played with turntable...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 11, 2012
If you were wondering about the EVO 4G LTE bootloader, or were a bit worried after learning that AT&T's decided to go back to its not-so-friendly ways, we're happy to tell you that...
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by n64kps
May 10, 2012
Here we see an image of what is claimed to be the Samsung SPH-L300 which, based on its product code, appears to be destined for Sprint in the near future and the folks over at BriefMobile ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 10, 2012
Verizon has pushed out a handful of press releases about LTE expansion, and if you live or play along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. you'll like the news. The LTE network is being expanded up ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 10, 2012
OK, folks. The Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE is in our hot little hands. We're on Day 1, and quite frankly we're already pretty impressed. Under the hood it's basically an HTC One X. But it'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 09, 2012
Another event is wound down, and like most electronic and wireless trade shows, it was just about all Android. We didn't see anything huge, HTC and Samsung had already presented their wares, but...
