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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 23, 2012
Join me in congratulating the winner of last weeks photo contest, jumboadam. This picture of an old railing, taken with the Motorola Droid X, really captures the ideas of shape and texture, is nice ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 22, 2012
ASUS is in a bit of a pickle, but it's one that most manufacturers would love to be in. When designing the Transformer Pad TF300, they had to ask themselves how to refresh what has become an ico...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 20, 2012
Earlier, Phil talked a bit about the way mobile graphics are inching their way up towards full-blown console performance. NVIDIA, who is entrenched in gaming and graphic performance on all fronts, a...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 19, 2012
If you're looking to get into an Android tablet on the cheap then 1SaleADay may have just what you're looking for. Right now, you can pick a Acer ICONIA 7-Inch Tab for only $180. Spec wise, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 19, 2012
Verizon has released their first quarter 2012 earnings, and it looks like they're going to need some help carrying all that money. I'm no finance wizard (I can barely keep a checkbook balanc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 18, 2012
Motorola has announced that they will be shutting down ZumoDrive, effective June 1, 2012. We're not too surprised here, as when Motorola bought out Zecter (ZumoDrive's parent company) they w...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 18, 2012
The transformation of Read It Later to Pocket is complete, but a change of that size never comes easy. Behind the marketing team, the publicists, and the folks who count the beans you have the devel...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 17, 2012
Acer has unveiled their tablet Ice Cream Sandwich update plans, and the 7-inch A100 and the 10.1-inch A500 Tabs should start getting updates over-the-air on or about April 25 in Latin Amer...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 17, 2012
Acer has quietly made the Iconia Tab A510 available for immediate sale and shipping from their website this evening, ending what felt like the world's longest pre-order phase. $450 will get...
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by Joshua Munoz
Apr 17, 2012
Android Central's guide to the best Android applications
Behold, our updated list of the best Android apps around. It's our hand-picked list of the best Android applications around. T...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 17, 2012
The folks at Teamviewer have pushed out quite the update for their TeamViewer for Meetings app, bringing some minor bug fixes, full hardware acceleration for Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich ta...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 17, 2012
ASUS started sign-ups for the free GPS hardware thingy that should ease issues with location services on the Transformer Prime today. Right off the bat, I wanna say it was nice to see a company say ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 16, 2012
Sprint is pushing out a small update for the 7-inch ZTE Optik today, bringing a few welcome bug fixes to the tablet and some decent software enhancements. According to the official changelog, w...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 16, 2012
Last night's leak proved to be right on the money, as ASUS has made the Transformer Prime GPS add-on hardware available for registered owners today. In case you've not been following the sag...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 15, 2012
It's time to ask yourself a question: How badly do you need an official solution to the ASUS Transformer Prime's GPS woes? Landofdroid has snagged some pics of what they say will be the offi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 15, 2012
This past week we asked to see your vices -- the things you do even though you know you shouldn't. We all have them, and we got to see a bunch of them in the contest thread. Our winner for the w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 13, 2012
We can't all be at Coachella this weekend, which sucks. Hard. But that doesn't mean we're going to miss out on all the incredible music. Youtube again will be streaming more than 60 acts...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 13, 2012
We're about six-months in with the Amazon Kindle Fire, and we're wondering. We know that Amazon sold a good many Fires, and there's even a nice little support community for the 7-inch ta...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2012
jair asks in the Android Central forums:
Hello guys,
Today, April 12th around 1 p.m. CDT, I started getting this strange plus green symbol on my EVO 4G notifications bar (I will be attach...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2012
One of our biggest gripes about the Android Google+ app was that it didn't include a sexy web snippet when sharing a URL. With today's update, that has been addressed, and sharing web links ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2012
The folks at Canonical (the masterminds behind the Ubuntu Linux project) have been kicking around the idea of a mobile version of Ubuntu for about four years now. First hearing about it back in 2008...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 12, 2012
Google CEO Larry Page wandered into the touchy territory of Android tablets during this afternoon's investor conference call. That's, of course, relevant because while there are 5 bazillion&...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2012
There are two new games worth checking out in the Tegra Zone -- Demolition Inc. and Jett Tailfin Racers. Both look to offer hours of fun, with 3D graphics and effects you just won't se...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 12, 2012
7-inch for $250 on April 22, 10.1-inch for $450 on May 13
As you may remember, we got our first look at the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 at MWC in late February. The sligh...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2012
Since a few phones and tablets have been upgraded to (or shipped with) Ice Cream Sandwich, now is a good time to ask those who are using it what they think. We know, most devices don't have it y...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 11, 2012
The latest in the never-ending story of Android security is out, and this time it's talking about what an app can access if it declares no permissions. (To put it another way, what all an applic...
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by Jared DiPane
Apr 11, 2012
If you have been looking to get your hands on an Android tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich, but aren't fond of the price tags you'd been seeing, 1SaleADay has a good one in store for you. Fo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 10, 2012
There's a new GPS fix out there for Android devices (including a special build for the Transformer Prime) that promises to fix the issues many have been seeing with the location services from AS...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 10, 2012
Kelly writes,
HELP! While attempting to remove an email account from my phone I erased everything. Now all I get is the phone set up screen. Since I do not have a phone account I fear that ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 10, 2012
Toshiba this morning announced a trio of new tablets, ranging from 7.7 inches to 10.1 inches to a whopping 13.3 inches, all bearing the "Excite" name. (What you see in the picture above is...
