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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 11, 2013
Google has finally put the Nexus 4's official wireless charger on sale for $59.99, with a five-charger limit. The charger uses the Qi wireless technology, which juices up your phone without havi...
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by Richard Devine
Oct 24, 2012
AT&T has released their Q3 earnings this morning, and among all the numbers they reported a "record sales quarter" for Android devices. Good news indeed, but we should still remember t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2012
Two words that should never go together -- "charging" and "proprietary." But that might be what we see in the Samsung Galaxy S3 (or Galaxy S III, if you prefer), if a Korean publ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 23, 2011
Lenovo this morning announced a pretty cool option for its Android-based ThinkPad Tablet, adding the Qualcomm Gobi 3000 chipset so you can get online on any network in the world, be it GSM or CDMA. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 21, 2011
A quick jaunt across the Internet today and I see that Apple is pushing out working on yet another iOS 5 update to address battery life issues. On behalf of Android users and fans everywhere, ...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Oct 05, 2011
Verizon Wireless has released the official Android 2.3 build for the Casio G'zOne Commando, available via OTA update now. In addition to Gingerbread, software version C771M070 adds a number of p...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 26, 2011
Since we're talking about keeping your phones charged today, let's give away a pretty cool charging pad. Energizer's wireless inductive charging pad (read our full review here) lets you charge yo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 28, 2011
If you're up in the air anywhere near as much as we are, you've likely used Gogo Inflight to get online at 30,000 feet. We've long been awaiting a proper Android app, and it looks like we're closing i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
If you've got an HTC ThunderBolt on Verizon, chances are you spend a lot of time charging the thing. I will never again be plugging in my ThunderBolt, however. Picked up Verizon's wireless charg...
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by Joshua Munoz
May 24, 2011
Good news for Sonos owners out there, as today Sonos has officially launched the MOG music service on Sonos. After a short software update, you'll be able to tap into MOG's custom radio stations or 11...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 17, 2011
I can remember, on at least two occasions, my father greeting me with a foot-long drill bit and a wild look in his eye. This would have been in the mid-1980s or so, and we were running speaker cable ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 15, 2011
10 devices can use the Droid Charge mobile hot spotIn case you were wondering just how many devices can connect to the Droid Charge mobile hotspot, we now know, thanks to the leaked specs page. Verizo...
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by Jesse Potter
Jan 03, 2011
Quick show of hands: How many of you use some sort of photo hosting service to get your pictures off your Android device, rather than grabbing your USB cable and transferring them manually? ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 19, 2010
When we brought your the first pictures of a Cox HTC Hero back in May, we were expecting it to only be a test device -- it's not a young phone, after all. But Cox has just launched its wireless ...
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by Jared DiPane
Oct 09, 2010
We have previously seen Bluetooth keyboards paired with rooted devices, and all of that fun hackery, but this time we have a very simple, straightforward solution that can be used on a stock Android ...
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by afazel
Sep 06, 2010
For root users only! If you want to do some of the lower-level stuff with your Android phone, you're going to need ADB, which stands for Android Debug Bridge -- basically a way of connecting yo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 19, 2010
The HTC Droid Incredible on Verizon (read our review) appears to be slated for an official update to enable 802.11n Wifi -- that's the fast kind -- according to a filing Friday with the FCC. [vi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 10, 2010
So we've already taken a look at the strength of the Wifi signal on the Evo 4G. And that's important. You have to have a good connection to get anything done. But signal strength isn't everything. An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2010
It's no great secret that the Evo 4G doesn't do as well as other Android phones when it comes to holding a Wifi signal. In fact, we've got page after page in our forums of how displeased many of you ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 23, 2010
Internet tethering -- over USB and as a wireless hotspot -- is one of the bigger features built into Android 2.2 Froyo. And it's stupidly easy to set up and use. Just dive into the main wireless sett...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 17, 2010
Android phones are big on cloud computing, so you gotta stay connected. Smartphone geeks like to toss the word "tethering" around, but what exactly is it and how do you do it? Fo...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 18, 2009
As if it couldn't get any more interesting with a Google Phone, there's an updated report suggesting that the Google Phone may be a data only, VoIP device that does away with your usual voice pl...
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by Casey Chan
Oct 09, 2008
China's TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology just announced that they have finished developing a device prototype for Android. Though its unlikely to ship by the end of this year, early 2009 is...
