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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 18, 2012
The winner of this week's photo contest is Cody Griffith, who captured the full hipster spirit with his entry. Taken with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and using the Pixlr-o-matic app, he succe...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 17, 2012
Remember back before Christmas when Twitter redesigned their interface with new "discovery" oriented pages? Remember how it made finding DM's and mentions harder by burying them a leve...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 17, 2012
There's a lot of speculation about a Google branded tablet in the news recently, and we're all paying close attention to the rumors. A 7-inch tablet with decent internals, running IC...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Mar 16, 2012
Call of Duty fans have something to be excited for today, as T3 is reporting that a native tablet version of the ELITE mobile app is in the works. According to Activision Product Director Noah Helle...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 16, 2012
There's no doubt that today is iPad day, but if you're looking for an Android tablet, you could do worse than Sony's Tablet S, with its quirky "folded magazine" design. Today U...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 15, 2012
The Motorola XOOM 2 will be available in Brazil starting March 16. It's exactly the same tablet we've come to know and love over the past few months, only now it'll be in South America&#...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 15, 2012
In addition to updating its current G9 tablet line-up to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Archos has debuted two new "ICS" edition G9 Turbo tablets, with slightly different storage con...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 14, 2012
Here's a security and privacy tip that many of us forget about, yet is really easy to manage -- geo-location data in the pictures you take with your Android phone. Modern digital cameras that ha...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 14, 2012
Google has expanded their Google Offers service with 4 new cities and 11 new partners, bringing the totals to 30 deal partners in 40 cities. Users in Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, and Miami will no...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 14, 2012
Verizon today announced eight new locations that will be receiving its 4G LTE service starting March 15. They are:
Dothan and Enterprise, Ala.
Naples, Fla.
Greenville, N.C.
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 14, 2012
You might have noticed that we're going to talk a little extra about security and privacy this week here at Android Central. It's a discussion worth having. We've asked a few security an...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 13, 2012
The introduction of Android 4.0 on the ASUS Transformer TF101 looks like it didn't go as smoothly as what ASUS had hoped. Some folks in the Android Central forums had issues after instal...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2012
The T-Mobile G-Slate is in the midst of getting an OTA update to version 10p, which will bring security fixes, USB controller support, and a fix for an Android Market (Google Play?) update problem. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 13, 2012
Motorola this morning announced that its Xoom 2 tablet -- the 10.1-inch version, that is -- is now available in Israel. You can get it today on Cellcom and will hit Orange in the next few days. It l...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2012
OK guys and gals -- I'm doing a little leg work here for a project I have in the works. You might have seen my question on Google+ asking folks with a stock Android phone if they use a custom RO...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 12, 2012
The Honeycomb update for the Vizio VTAB1008 looks like it's rolling out a bit broader, bringing the VTab to version V.I.A. Plus 2.0 and Android version 3.2.1. We first heard it was slowly pushin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 12, 2012
With word that Instagram will soon be heading to Android, we all had better get ready for the invasion of photo filters and effects. It's not really new, we've been able to edit our pictures...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 12, 2012
Privacy is a hot subject across the Internet lately, and we think it's high time to dissect the mountains of information and pick out what's relevant amidst all the FUD and nonsense out ther...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 12, 2012
Motorola has updated their ICS "due date" page, and if you're in the U.S. you probably won't like the news very much. There are a few changes, and we see a few more devices slated ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 12, 2012
Readability is the latest app to address the double-edged sword that is the modern smartphone browser. When the iPhone arrived on the scene in mid-2007 it ushered in the era of (mostly) complete acc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 11, 2012
This week's Android Central photo contest winner is Nathan Stewart, who brings us this light and healthy plate that's as beautiful on our screen as it would be on our table. Nathan used the ...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 10, 2012
Your Android smartphone is your go-to device to keep current on just about everything, so it's no wonder that weather applications have become so popular. There's an abundance of weather app...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2012
Digitimes, the manufacturing rumormonger that everybody loves to source but nobody ever admits to actually believing (we're guilty of this as well), today says that the long-rumored but never su...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 09, 2012
Android app developers work hard. They deliver us a lot of good apps and we all love using them, and I think I speak for everyone when I say thanks to all the hard working folks who make our phones ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
There is no new "spill-proof" version of the Motorola XYBOARD. A marketing e-mail sent by Moto today has led some to believe that there's an new iteration of the tablet on the way. But...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 08, 2012
The Linux Foundation has announced four new members this week, including the familiar face of NVIDIA. As most of us here know, Android is based on the Linux kernel, and NVIDIA has become a major har...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 08, 2012
We've had a couple of days to settle in (and debate) the new Google Play branding that covers the old Android Market, Google Book, Google Music, and Google Movies content stores. We've also ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 07, 2012
With hundreds of thousands of apps in the Android Market Google Play, it can be hard to find the ones you need to try. That's where we come in, and I just found one that screams to be insta...
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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...
