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by Alex Dobie
Nov 14, 2012
Stronger text and improved kerning in the new version of Jelly Bean
Do things look a bit ... different ... since upgrading your Galaxy Nexus or Nexus 7 to Android 4.2? Turns out there's one ...
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by Simon Sage
Nov 07, 2012
Today Bell announced a handful of new unlimited talk and text plans for Canadians. Surprise! They're pretty much identical to the ones we've seen from Rogers, which have coincidentally also ...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 20, 2012
When Google+ launched last summer, users in India and the United States were able to interact with their circles via SMS, however other territories have so far been left out of the text-based fun. T...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 07, 2012
Google Voice just got itself a nice little update today, with a slew of improvements coming down the pike. They are:
Asynchronous SMS sending (offline queuing) Google says it works synchrono...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2012
Our pals at Borange today unleashed Textie for Android, bringing cross-platform text and picture messaging from the land of iOS (they've had something in the neighborhood of 1.6 million dow...
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by Simon Sage
Jan 12, 2012
I think we're all a bit curt with T-Mobile for announcing the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, but not actually having it here at CES 2012 for us to play with, but they did have something substantial ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 17, 2011
And in this corner of the LG U.S. National Texting Championship we have the brand-new LG DoublePlay on T-Mobile. Just announced, the Android 2.3 device features a 3.5-inch main display and 2-inch su...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 12, 2011
Last time we checked, the great thing about text messages was that they're simple, short and don't take much brain power to digest. Zlango goes a different direction. The SMS replacement ap...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 03, 2011
Speed texting has a new champion, and it all went down at the Big Android BBQ in Austin, TX this past weekend.
The keyboard app used in the contest was Swiftkey X and with it the winner, Rach...
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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
May 27, 2011
TouchType this morning announced Swiftkey X, the latest iteration of its on-screen keyboard which is now in public beta status. Long known for its word-prediction capability, Swiftkey's got a new loo...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 29, 2011
If you love using widgets and enjoy the look of a nice, simple, clean looking home screen you won’t want to delay the download of Minimalistic Text any further. This widget, which is really 11 d...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 19, 2011
Nuance maker of the awesome Dragon Dictation speech recognition suite of applications has opened the doors to their software for developers. Through their Nuance Mobile Developer Program they are now...
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by Jared DiPane
Apr 22, 2010
Open your text messages application on your Droid, and notice it's, well, empty? Apparently a new known issue that has been plaguing a group of Droids is this rather random deletion of your SMS and MM...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 05, 2010
Let's be honest here, texting through SMS and carriers is very convenient but it's nothing short of a complete rip off. What are they charging these days? A quarter per SMS?! That's why apps lik...
