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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2012
Welcome to Readability for Android. So-called "read-it-later" apps have become a godsend for when you're short on time and even shorter on bandwidth. A couple clicks and webpages are s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 07, 2012
Unlike the Windows Phone SDK, the Android SDK works fairly well with the Windows 8 consumer preview. We know a lot of you folks want to be on the bleeding edge, and for Windows users that means inst...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2012
Our cousins at iMore.com have been killing the iPad (3/HD/new) coverage today. The long and short of it is you've got more powerful iPad with a killer resolution, and a bunch of other co...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 06, 2012
If you're an Android tablet owner, you'll likely have noticed that most banking apps out there haven't really been optimized for tablet usage. Looking to change that is Bank Of America, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 05, 2012
When Adobe said they wouldn't be developing Flash Player for Android to work with any new versions, they also promised to keep the current version up-to-date with critical fixes and security pat...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 05, 2012
We're all back home and settled in from Mobile World Congress, and it's time to kick off another weekly photo contest! The subject this week is something near and dear to my heart, and inspi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 05, 2012
Anyone doing development for Android (or any software platform) knows that good tools are the most important part of the whole process. We've seen that the Android team has been hard at work to ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 02, 2012
HTC has announced that they are opening up a bit more of the OpenSense SDK, and including APIs for Beats Audio, the Sense 4.0 lockscreen, Mobile device management, and the MediaLink HD system. This ...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 02, 2012
Just in case you're still not settled in with an Android tablet yet and don't really feel like forking over $500+ for a new one, if you hurry you can head on over to the 1Saleaday site and p...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2012
Kids love to play with our tablets. They're colorful, active, and entertaining -- exactly what a kid likes (no matter what age). But many of us don't feel comfortable letting our kids handle...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2012
Let's file this under "anything for a story about Android". The New York Times has decided that Android is also "vulnerable" to apps being able to see your pictures, just lik...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2012
If you've got a grandfathered unlimited data plan through AT&T, you're about to be throttled once you hit a 3GB ceiling per AT&T's new official policy. Users who consume 3GB of d...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
Things are winding down in Barcelona, the fellows are enjoying some of the local delicacies and getting ready for the trip home. But just because Mobile World Congress is finishing up doesn'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
There's an old letter being passed around today that provides Verizon's response to the FCC about locked bootloaders. Starting early this month, these letters began going out to anyone...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
Toshiba announced today that their new Excite 10 LE will be available for purchase starting March 6, and a starting price of $529. Billed as the world's thinnest and lightest 10-inch tablet (7.7...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
One of the highlights yesterday in Barcelona was Eric Schmidt's keynote address. Schmidt always entertains, and as former CEO and current chairman at Google we're usually listening when he s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 29, 2012
And here we have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 that looks more like a brother from another mother. It's a Galaxy Tab, all right. But the speakers have been brought out front -- basically it's the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 29, 2012
There are those who swear by the 10-inch tablet, and then there are those who say that the smaller size is the only way to go. Samsung's brought out new hardware for both, with the newly announ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 28, 2012
Day two of Mobile World Congress is in the bag, and it was another day filled with news from Barcelona about great Android-powered gadgets. I can't be the only one the sees phones and tablets an...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 28, 2012
We're live at the Eric Schmidt keynote at Mobile World Congress, and Hugo Barra, Director of Product Management, for Android, has announced that Chrome for Android Beta is now availabl...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 28, 2012
The ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity sees ASUS building on the Transformer Prime with a higher-resolution screen and a slightly redesigned chassis. Transformer Prime owners will already be familiar wit...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 28, 2012
Toshiba's been in the Android tablet space for about a year now. But let's just be completely honest here -- design wasn't exactly the shining feature you'd write home about in the o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 28, 2012
Phil, Dan, Alex, and Simon talk Mobile World Congress day one, including Nokia on both Windows Phone and Symbian (biggest. Camera. Phone. Ever.), Galaxy Note 10.1, the return of the Padphone, Hu...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 27, 2012
We grabbed a few hours sleep after yesterdays Android landslide, and got right back into full swing in Barcelona for the first official day of Mobile World Congress 2012. While all day yesterday was...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 27, 2012
I know a lot of you folks out there like games. I like them, too, and it's a big part of the reason I'm a fan of what NVIDIA has brought to Android with their Tegra chipsets. When you build ...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 27, 2012
Huawei have definitely hit the ground hard at Mobile World Congress. Following on the quad-core theme is their latest tablet offering, the Mediapad 10 FHD.
The aluminium unibodied Mediapad 10...
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by Brent Zaniewski
Feb 27, 2012
10.1-inch display
1920 x 1200 pixels
Capacitive touchscreen
Weight: 649g
9.9mm thin
1GB DDR2 RAM
Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Quad-core Nvidia Te...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 27, 2012
We dropped in to visit the folks at Acer and have a look at the Iconia A700, and it's impressive. The first thing you notice is how thin and light it is (9.9mm and 600grams, respectively), and t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
ASUS this morning at Mobile World Congress just dropped a bombshell of a tablet on us with its new Transformer Pad Infinity Series. The Transformer Pad Infinity Series 700 is going to leave you feel...
