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by Richard Devine
Jan 08, 2013
FM radio may not be top of the shopping list when shopping for a new smartphone, but nevertheless it's a feature many want to have. Sprint is jumping into the FM radio space having today annou...
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by James Richardson
Oct 30, 2012
ZTE has today announced that it is ranked as the 4th biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world as of Q3 2012, superseding HTC. Shipping 7.5 million handsets in a quarter is not to be sn...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 24, 2012
AT&T has released their Q3 earnings this morning, and among all the numbers they reported a "record sales quarter" for Android devices. Good news indeed, but we should still remember t...
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by Anndrew Vacca
May 09, 2012
Chinese manufacturer ZTE made a nice impression in New Orleans this year, bringing with them a host of high-end smartphones and tablets proving that they’re playing in the Android market for k...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 24, 2012
AT&T this morning announced its first-quarter 2012 earnings. The carrier sold a Q1 record 5.5 million smartphones -- 78 percent of them iPhones. That leaves 1.2 million Android and BlackBerry sm...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2012
Tripit easily is our favorite app for frequent travelers, and it's just gotten an pretty significant update for tablets as well as phones.
On the larger screens, there's a new layout that i...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 19, 2012
I'm 6 feet, 8 inches tall. For our metric friends, that's 203 centimeters. I have, on more than one occasion, been called the tallest blogger in the world. (And may well be.) I can palm a ba...
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by Sean Brunett
Jan 09, 2012
Huawei has announced two new smartphones, the Ascend P1 S and the Ascend P1. They will be unveiling them at CES at 8 a.m. PST (we'll be there live blogging!)
The Ascend P1 S will be the world&#...
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by Sean Brunett
Jan 05, 2012
Motorola Mobility has added two new smartphones to their lineup, the Motoluxe and the DEFY Mini. Both devices will come with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), but that's about all that they have in co...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Dec 12, 2011
Samsung announced today that it has reached a major milestone in global sales, with 300 million handsets sold in 2011. Driving the momentum, Samsung says, is its Galaxy S line, which includes the or...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 07, 2011
The fellows at Android Police have their hands on a couple new apps from the Ice Cream Sandwich build that's floating around out there (how 'bout a dump for the community, Mr. Anon?), and wi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 06, 2011
PR firm Phillips & Company has unveiled Blue Marble, a new service that will allow you to mark your roof with a giant QR code, snapping an aerial picture, then integrating it into Google Maps or...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 08, 2011
Microsoft this morning announced it has reached licensing agreements with Acer and Viewsonic over the companies' Android devices. Terms of either agreement were not announced, but Viewsonic will pay r...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 18, 2011
In a shocking development, HP has announced that they plan to discountinue operations for webOS devices, to include the TouchPad and webOS phones. This leaves Apple, RIM, and Microsoft as the sm...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 08, 2011
A couple of weeks ago, we saw a photo of part of the rumored HTC Ruby that displayed T-Mobile branding and evidence of the Android camera app. Now a picture has surfaced of the front of the device, wh...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 03, 2011
Huawei today announced the newest addition to its smartphone lineup with the Vision. It's a sleek device that actually closely resembles the Nexus S with its curved unibody construction. The phone wil...
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 06, 2011
The persistent rumors of an Android-powered “Facebook phone” culminated in the unveiling of the HTC ChaCha and its larger sibling, the Salsa, at Mobile World Congress back in February. Wi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 13, 2011
Look around. If you don't know someone like this, chances are it's you. Now go read the whole comic.Source: The Oatmeal...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2011
Regional carrier US Cellular has hardly been slacking in the Android department, recently adding the likes of the venerable HTC Merge to its stable. And it's just getting started. In a...
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by Alex Dobie
May 25, 2011
We spend a lot of time here on Android Central obsessing over the latest high-end, high-spec, high-price handsets -- devices aimed at nerds like us who crave shiny new toys every few months. But in t...
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by Sean Brunett
Apr 12, 2011
AT&T today announced two new Android smartphones that will represent affordable choices compared to some of their more recent high-end announcements.Both phones are essentially versions of the LG ...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 30, 2011
With the slew of new tablets hitting the market we're going to start seeing new case scenarios for those front and rear facing cameras. One of them being meetings and conferences on the go. In order ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 16, 2011
We're all still wrapping our heads around dual-core processors. So it only makes sense that Nvidia decided to drop the next next generation mobile processor on us at Mobile World Congress. Codenamed ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 04, 2011
Sony Ericsson hasn't even announced the Neo, but that didn't stop the good folks at Techradar from getting their hands on a unit. Formerly known by the name Hallon, the SE Neo is the Android ver...
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by Sean Brunett
Jan 02, 2011
Vizio, the company known for its TVs and Blu-Ray players, is set to unveil its first phone as well as a tablet, both to be based on Android. The phone is said to be called the Via Phone and will spo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 01, 2011
Verizon's New Year's resolution? Android LTE phones. And lookie at what just popped into its system -- SKUs for the HTC Thunderbolt (aka ADR6400) and that Samsung SCH-i520 LTE device, ...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Nov 18, 2010
The Wonderful Wizard of Woz, or simply, Steve Wozniak -- is at it again. This time only, he's talking Android and iOS. The co-founder of Apple was recently interviewed by De Telegraaf, a newspape...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 21, 2010
For most of us, the best part about having a smartphone is the applications. From its humble beginnings a year and a half ago, to today's 90,000-odd apps in more than 30 countries, the Android M...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 11, 2010
We've been hearing a lot about Firefox mobile the past couple of weeks, and now that it's officially available for beta testing, the Firefox mobile team at Mozilla needs you to test things out. ...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Sep 03, 2010
Now there is truly no reason as to why anyone can't enjoy a shiny new Android phone from Verizon. Big Red announced for the first time, consumers can subscribe to a prepaid monthly data plan for their...
