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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
So this thing hit our inbox, and Jerry and I are going back and forth on how much of a Photoshop job it might be. At first glance, you have what appears to be the upper housing of the HTC F...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
Pop quiz: What is 10.1 inches in diagonal, sports a Tegra 2 processor and Android's Honeycomb tablet OS, and is sitting in an Office Depot in Times Square? If you answered the Lenovo K1 IdeaPad, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 19, 2011
Lenovo has released the official press photos of the IdeaPad K1 Android tablet (pictured, left) and the ThinkPad Android tablet on their Picasa account. No details came with these, but we alread...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
Google's just unwrapped more three-dimensional buildings in a number of cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Singapore, Lisbon, Boulder (Colo.) and 11 cities in South Afri...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 19, 2011
It's been more than half a year since ComiXology hit beta status. And now, just in time for the San Diego Comic-Con, ComiXology is out of beta and bringing countless comics to your Android device. Th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 19, 2011
Box is offering prizes ranging from $25,000 to free HP TouchPads for the developers who can build the best 10 mobile apps. Between now and Sept. 9, Android, webOS, and iOS developers c...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 19, 2011
Blue Drone is a Bluetooth controlled R/C car that can be controlled by any Android device running Android 2.0 and higher. It's currently in its initial phase at Kickstarter, where the developer...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 18, 2011
Update: And Samsung's confirmed this one for us. It indeed has a micro SIM card.Now this is a bit interesting. According to this little tidbit that just hit our inbox, Verizon's upcomin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 18, 2011
Disney Publishing has released its first Android application, "Winnie the Pooh: What's a Bear to Do?". It's an interactive children's book, starring one of the most loved characters of...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 18, 2011
If you've been dying for a blueprint-esque look at HTC's upcoming 10-inch "Puccini" (that's a code name) Android tablet, look no further than the FCC, which has taking the HTC&nbs...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 18, 2011
HTC over the weekend released the source code for a trio of devices. The Desire Z and Incredible S saw the release of their Gingerbread maintenance updates, while the HTC Flyer 7-inch tablet say...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 16, 2011
We know, we know. Now that the Motorola Xoom's getting Android 3.2, everybody else wants in as well. Can't blame ya. And while the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer (read our full review) appears to...
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by Menno
Jul 15, 2011
One of the first apps I downloaded on my tablet was the TegraZone, a special app browser developed by NVIDIA to showcase applications that were optimized for its Tegra II chipset. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Google was asked about the "patent situation" during Thursday's second-quarter earnings call. The "situation," of course, is that Google recently lost a bid for a major bunch of pa...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 14, 2011
The Google+ app has just received a pretty major update that brings bug fixes, some UI changes, and new features to Googles new social media venture. From the changelog in the Android Market:Cus...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
Swiftkey X -- the latest generation in what has proven to be an excellent predictive-type keyboard for Android -- exits public beta status this morning and enters the Android Market as a full-fledged...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 13, 2011
It's been some six months since we first saw the Toshiba Thrive at CES. At the time, it didn't have a name, and it wasn't even a Honeycomb tablet -- more of a hardware prototype running Froyo. That a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 13, 2011
Not much to say here, folks. The venerable Motorola Xoom (32GB Wifi-only version) is just $399 today on Woot. It might not be the thinnest or lightest Honeycomb tablet, but for today, it's just a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
The folks at Evernote have pushed out the Honeycomb version of their popular organization app to the Market, and it looks like it was well worth the wait. The big changes are rich text and check...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 12, 2011
The rumors that the next version of Honeycomb being right around the corner look to be true, as today Android Open-Source Project engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru has pushed the GPL portions of the 3.2 so...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 11, 2011
MIUI, a popular third-party ROM for Android devices, is now available as a stable version for the B&N Nook Color. It's worth noting that this is not part of the official MIUI proje...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 09, 2011
We've all heard about bad apps that steal your valuable data and ship it off to the far east, and those discussions always end with one thing -- someone says you need to read an app's permissions befo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 08, 2011
So you just bought this great game from the Android Market, and notice it says you have to download another 600 jiggawatts of files to run it. Don't be alarmed or surprised, if you haven't seen ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 08, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingCan't wait to get your hands on the Toshiba Thrive? You're not alone. Android Central Forums member illwood has his already and has given it a proper tablet-on-carp...
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by Chris Parsons
Jul 08, 2011
Although Asus is still planning on following up its popular EeePad Transformer tablet with the Asus EeePad Slider, they've now gone ahead and let everyone know it will be arriving in the UK this...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 07, 2011
Welcome to another exciting edition of "Who's using which Android version!" -- the game show that takes a look at the various versions of Android floating around out in the world...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 06, 2011
Have an Acer Iconia Tab A500? Have an Acer Iconia Tab A500 that's not running Android 3.1? The wait should be short, as updates are rolling out now. We just got ours, and system update 4.010.08 i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 05, 2011
The Qualcomm roadmap for the next few years has leaked out, putting a time frame on the chips they announced last February. According to the leak, we should expect dual-core LTE, HSPA, and HSPA...
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by Andrew Melnizek
Jul 05, 2011
At the end of April, Sony made an official announcement revealing the long rumored S1 and S2 Honeycomb Android tablets. And since then, we haven't heard or seen anything from Sony on the two tab...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 05, 2011
Word on the street is that the Toshiba Thrive tablet has made its way into a few Best Buy stores over the weekend, ahead of its July 13 shipping date. And, sure enough, Android Central Forums member ...
