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by Phil Nickinson
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Why do you hate Sense?
That's not a particularly inviting question. Hell, it's not even nice. But it's one I kept asking myself over the course of a week or so while writing our HTC One...
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by Phil Nickinson
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You say tomato, I say tomahto. You say potato, I say potahto. And that's where we stand on the state of Android, at least compared to Mark Spoonauer of Laptopmag. Mark, whose opinion we certainl...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
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A lot of work has gone into the UI for Ice Cream Sandwich, and Google has decided that manufacturers who want to have access to the Android Market will now have to let it shine -- the Holo theme, in...
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by Phil Nickinson
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Now that HTCDev.com is up and running, it's time to see what sort of secrets it holds. And Android Central reader Kevin's found this tasty little tidbit in the OpenSense documentation -- more of the S...
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Wanna see a neat, but mostly useless trick? Of course you do! Grab your rooted Honeycomb tablet and change the screen density past 170 and reboot. You'll be faced with what appears t...
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by Chris Parsons
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by Phil Nickinson
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by Phil Nickinson
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by Phil Nickinson
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
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by Phil Nickinson
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by Phil Nickinson
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We kind of have the feeling that we're going to be repeating this until we're blue in the face, so let's start now: The Motorola Droid X does not run Motoblur atop Android 2.1. Nor does it r...
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by Phil Nickinson
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It's not really a big stretch to come up with, but TechCrunch chief Michael Arrington says he has "multiple sources close to Google" who tell him the stock Android user interface will get a ...
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You might have heard us (erm, OK, me) gush on occasion about certain aspects of Palm's webOS user interface. Now let us (erm, me again) gush a little about Matias Duarte, who has left Palm and is now ...
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by Phil Nickinson
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This one's going to make a lot of you Android purists happy: Unlike on the Droid Incredible, you can run the stock Android 2.1 home screen on the Sprint Evo 4G, as our pal Andrew from Androinica sho...
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by Casey Chan
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Finally, after so many months in the dark, it looks like the T-Mobile myTouch 3G will get an update to Android 2.1. Hip hip hooray! According to Andrew Sherrard, T-Mobile's VP of Product Innovat...
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by Casey Chan
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Yikes. We're getting word that Motoblur has been down for a while now and that many devices are still affected. Specifically, it looks like the Happenings widget in Motoblur hasn't been updating...
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by Phil Nickinson
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It's hardly shocking, but HTC's new Sense user interface (read our review here) has been ported onto the Motorola Droid. It's still a little buggy, but damned if its not the same ROM (more or less) t...
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by Phil Nickinson
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Those of you who came to Android from Windows Mobile likely are familiar with SPB Mobile Shell. And the boys and girls from St. Petersburg are back with Version 5.0, which will be released ...
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by Phil Nickinson
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With HTC's announcement of the Legend and Desire comes a new and improved version of its Sense user interface.The biggest change is the addition of "Friendstream," HTC's new answer to socia...
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by Casey Chan
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Say hello to the Samsung SHW-M100S, Samsung's latest Android smartphone and their first to run Android 2.1. This puppy looks to be a good one with a 3.7-inch AMOLED screen, 800 MHz processor, 5...
