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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
We got our first look at the Samsung Galaxy S and its gorgeous (indoors, anyway) Super AMOLED screen at CTIA in March. And Sammy was showing it off again this week at Google IO. Not much els...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
There's a bit of a fuss going on at the moment about a slew of new HTC code names. Engadget spilled the beans about the Glacier, LED and Vision -- and that's about all we know. The Vision ap...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
Get a bunch of execs on stage -- Micrososoft, Google, Apple, whomever -- and people are going to try and cause trouble. Same goes for the Android team at Google IO. Asked to compare the Android "...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 21, 2010
See here! There's the Bump contact-sharing Android application. And it's just like it sounds: Bump your phone against another with the app, and it shares the info. Oh, and see that iPhone coweri...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
So what, exactly, killed off the Google phone store? We had a couple really good questions during this afternoon's Q&A regarding the death of the web distribution model, and what happened with the...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
First question out of the gate today for the Android leadership at Google IO was about everybody's favorite subject: fragmentation. And VP of engineering Andy Rubin put things in ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
A small programming note, people: Due to our regularly scheduled Android Central Podcast falling smack in the middle of Google IO/cross-country travel, we're going to push it back a day this wee...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
You guys keep asking, and here's the official answer: Android 2.2 -- Froyo -- is trickling out in the SDK now, but it's going to be a few weeks before we see it on phones en masse. That doesn't m...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We first showed you the official Froyo sculpture a week ago, and here it is, finally on the Google campus. Yummy, eh? [Twitpic via @billnapier]...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
Adobe has released a lengthy piece about Flash 10.1 coming on Froyo. Here are the highlights: Battery and power: We added a new capability called instance management to intelligently load ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We're back for Day 2 of Google IO at Moscone West in San Francisco. And today's the day, folks. We should see Froyo. We should see Flash. And we're bringing it all to you after the break.
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
We're going to get the skinny on the Froyo version of Android here in a few short hours. But news about Gingerbread (actual version number is yet unknown) is already trickling out. During Wednesday's ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 20, 2010
Hot on the heels of the news this week that the Chevy Volt is getting Google Maps support comes our hands-on with the upgraded Android app. You'll remember much of this from our hands-on at CES ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
Take a glass case. Fill it with a boatload of Android phones, tablets and MIDs. Stick it in the middle of a conference full of Android faithful. What do you get? A neon-green siren that beckoned even...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
The Android Amazon Kindle app: Coming this summer. The Android Amazon Kindle hands-on video: Coming right now, after the break. It's not a bad little app. Download and read ebooks righ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
What!?!?!?! No Froyo? No Android 2.2? No Flash? Sorry, folks, the first day of Google I/O is a slight snoozer as far as hard Android news is concerned. (Don't worry, it's coming on Thursday....
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
Sure, HTML5 is important and all -- but let's face it, most of us are more concerned with the end result. And one of the more impressive things we saw at this morning's keynote was Sports Illustrated'...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
We're live at the Google IO keynote at Moscone West in San Francisco, where we expect to see the latest version of Android -- called Froyo -- announced any second now. We hope. Only one way to fi...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
How about another story about just how quickly Android's going? According to analyst Gartner, Android had a 1.9 percent worldwide smartphone market share in the first quarter of 2009. Fast forward to ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2010
If you weren't quite up to installing the leaked Android 2.1 update for the Sprint HTC Hero, fair not -- it's now all official and everything on Sprint's Web site, sort of. It's listed as being r...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 18, 2010
Here's the official Google I/O T-shirt -- and will you look at that, it's got some QR codes on it. Any attendees want to spill the beans as to what they link to? Update: Fine. Spoi...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 18, 2010
We're winging our way out to Google I/O development conference in San Francisco (follow us on Twitter for the inside scoop), where we'll spend a couple of days deep within the Google development commu...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 18, 2010
General Motors this morning announced it is adding even more Android to the upcoming Chevy Volt -- and we'll check it all out this week at Google IO. We've already seen the Chevy Volt app for Android...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
The latest numbers are in showing how many devices are using a given version of Android, and we're slowly but surely getting more and more on Android 2.1. Devices on the latest version of Android tick...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
What's better than one Android tablet on Verizon? How about tablet(s). Big Red CEO Lowell McAdam said as much over the weekend at the Reuters Global Technology Summit in New York. But befor...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
It's no great secret that Cox (as in Cox Cable) is working on on its own wireless service. And low and behold, it appears that Cox may have been using at least one Android phone for what likely is n...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
You didn't think we'd let the Sprint Evo 4G launch without giving one away, did you? Here's what you have to do to win the biggest, baddest Android smartphone from the biggest, baddest Android blog:Ju...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2010
HTC today announced the Wildfire (you might remember that name from a contest HTC ran), essentially the Desire squeezed down into a 3.2-inch screen, with a lower price the end result. (That's al...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2010
At this point, the Sprint Evo 4G has been handled every which way to Sunday -- not that it's some big secret or something. But there still are a few odds and ends to clean up. One of them is the reta...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 14, 2010
You wanted to manually update your Droid Eris to Android 2.1, and so you shall. Here's what you need to do:Download this file. (Thanks, AndIRC!)Copy it onto your SD card. Be sure not to put it in...
