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by Alex Dobie
Jan 26, 2012
The BBC has updated its BBC News app for Android with Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich tablet support. The app now offers a larger, split-screen view for tablets running Android 3.0 and above -- the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 25, 2012
The ZTE Optik just made an appearance in the latest issue of the Sprint Playbook, and it's coming in at the right price. Because Sprint is dropping their Wimax support and building out the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 25, 2012
Android application developers work hard and don't get nearly enough appreciation. As you see mentioned just about everywhere, it's the application support that makes or breaks a mobil...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2012
Acer's got a decent affordable Android tablet here, but the shortcuts are apparent
Meet the Acer Iconia Tab A200. We've seen a lot of Android tablets in the past year or so. A lot o...
Article
by Alex Dobie
Jan 25, 2012
Looks like AT&T is wasting no time bringing its version of the Samsung Galaxy Note to market. If the latest rumors from BGR are to be believed, the carrier plans to launch Samsung's 5.3-inch...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2012
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Google has announced that it is in the process of streamlining its privacy policy, combining more than 60 current documents for various products into one easy to re...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2012
The ASUS Transformer Prime is the first quad-core tablet, and users were a bit up in arms when it was discovered that the bootloader was locked. ASUS responded with an official statement that ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2012
Lookout has released a neat new application this morning -- Mobile Threat Tracker. What it does is tell you where and when users running Lookout have came across malware in their mobile device...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2012
You guys probably know this by now, but I was a fan of App Inventor. Watching my wife use it to create her own application just sucked me in, and I loved the whole idea of a way for anyone to ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 24, 2012
The folks at Dolphin Browser, one of the most popular third party browsers for Android devices, have unveiled two new add-ons today -- Skitch and Evernote. Both integrate seamlessly with the D...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 23, 2012
Google Music has been updated to version 4.1.512, bringing fixes to shuffle mode and fixes for folks using multiple Google accounts. The update looks to be across the board for all devices run...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 23, 2012
The folks from Notion Ink are once again getting their name out there. After having released an Alpha build of ICS for their original Adam series tablet, they teased a new upcoming device briefly bu...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 23, 2012
We're back for the second weekly Android Central photo contest, and this week's theme is transportation. Anything that you use to get from point A to point B is fair game (see our exam...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 23, 2012
The Pantech Element tablet and Burst smartphone made up a third of the half-dozen LTE devices that AT&T announced at its annual Developer Summit. And, now, they're available for purchase. Yo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 23, 2012
If you're an Android hacker or developer, you know about BusyBox. For the lay-people among us, it's a utility that extends the limited commands provided by the Android toolkit in the s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 22, 2012
The winner of this week's Android Central photo contest is Travis Detweiler with his picture of sunrise over Tampa Bay. Taken with his HTC EVO 3D while heading out into the gulf to catch a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 22, 2012
I'm a sucker for daily deals sites, and had to pass this one along. A 32GB Acer Iconia A500 (one of our top picks of last year) for just under $300 bucks is nothing to sneeze at. We ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 20, 2012
The Samsung Galaxy Note that we already know is coming to AT&T, has passed through the FCC. There's absolutely no surprises -- we see the 21Mbps UMTS/HSPA+, GSM 850/1900, and band...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 20, 2012
Who wouldn't want to save $510 on a HTC EVO View 4G Android tablet? That's what I thought, just about everyone loves to save money and 1SaleADay has it priced out at $229 for today only. You...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 20, 2012
What is the JIT? JIT stands for "Just In Time," and we use it to describe a Dalvik JIT compiler, which was added to Android with the 2.2 release. It compiles bytecode into nati...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 20, 2012
So a few quick thoughts on the Acer Iconia A200, now that's it's available in stores: Yeah, it's yet another dual-core 10.1-inch Android tablet. Yeah, there's a little more software ...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 20, 2012
Update: Watch our video hands-on!
As if deciding on an Android tablet wasn't hard enough now yet another one is available to make things harder. The Acer Iconia A200 is now available from Best ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 19, 2012
What is an IPS display? IPS stands for In-Plane Switching. It's commonly found in high-end monitors -- gaining mainstream notoriety in Apple's displays -- and has also found its way into tab...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 19, 2012
This is getting interesting. After the recent news that federal testing determined LightSquared's LTE network plans would never work without interfering with GPS (and a cease to any furthe...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 19, 2012
Amazon is pushing out Software Version 6.2.2 for the Kindle Fire over the air, and it's also available for manual installation. Here's what's new:
Enhances fluidity and performan...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2012
The ASUS Transformer Prime is getting another OTA this evening, and reports say that the GPS is working much better. If you recall, there has been issues surrounding the aluminum casing and GP...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2012
We were pretty sure that kicking off a weekly photo contest would be well received, but we had no idea it would be this well received. Combine our level of awesome with your level of awesome, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2012
AT&T has announced some changes to their data plan pricing. Starting January 22, new plans that offer more data, albeit at a slightly higher cost, go into effect for both smartphones and t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 18, 2012
As we first told you late last night, the Wifi-only version of the Motorola Xoom is in the midst of getting its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Motorola's just released the full changelog...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2012
Hacking. It means a lot of different things to different people, and to the public at large it conjures up imagery of evil people in exotic places. When we talk about hacking here at And...
