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by Kyle Gibb
Mar 21, 2011
Find the latest HTC ThunderBolt accessories
Many of us have been frustrated, to say the least, that there's no toggle switch to turn off the LTE radio in the HTC ThunderBolt like there i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2011
Ever wonder how much storage space is left on your phone or memory card for applications, pictures, music and video? It's pretty easy to check, actually. From the home screen, press the menu but...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 02, 2011
Find a cool app in the Android Market and want to share it with your friends? You can do it right from the Android Market app. Just scroll down a bit until you find the "Sharing" secti...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 01, 2011
There are a lot of terms and Android abbreviations out there -- so many that we don't blame if you you're sometimes left wondering what it is we're talking about. From ADB to OTA, from SDK to .apk, fr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 24, 2011
Whenever we talk updating our phones, we inevitably talk about "manual updates." And that leads to the inevitable questions, "Is it safe?" and "How do I do it?...
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by Kyle Gibb
Feb 18, 2011
Flash was included as a feature by default in Android 2.2 Froyo, but there are some phones that don't or can't support Flash. As a general rule of thumb anything that is "low-end" won't be...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 21, 2011
As Android gets more popular and mainstream, new users are coming out of the woodwork! I'm very happy to say that a portion of those users are running Linux on their desktops, and they're hungry...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 11, 2011
It's a question get all the time: "Is my phone rooted? How can I tell?" Maybe you picked up your new Android phone second-hand (it's a great way to save some cash, and there ...
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by Kyle Gibb
Dec 28, 2010
A great feature of Android is the ability to override many of the default applications for core features of the phones. You are free to pick Skyfire for browsing, DoubleTwist for music playing, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 25, 2010
So you just unwrapped our first Android phone, eh? Welcome to the world of smartphones. Whether you're upgrading from a feature phone, or switching to the greatest smartphone platform around, we know ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 09, 2010
Android 2.3 Gingerbread is out of the bag and eventually will make its way to phones. But many of you are still waiting on Froyo. And in the meantime, there can be a bit of confusion over which versi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 02, 2010
So you've got this snazzy new phone, with some snazzy "Super AMOLED" or "SLCD" or "AMOLED" or "LCD" screen -- or whatever the tech buzzword of the wee...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 29, 2010
Adding a signature to your e-mail -- especially when you're working from a smartphone -- can be either a badge of honor, or an excuse. (The joke goes that you can get away with typo after typo so long...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 24, 2010
Get it straight, folks: A Droid is the little mechanical creature from Star Wars, and the phone from Motorola. Android is the operating system. And Lloyd is the lovable-yet-mysterious fellow you'll s...
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by Jared DiPane
Nov 22, 2010
About a year ago the Motorola Droid was released, and many of us have held strong with it since then, but with all these new devices being released there is tons of temptations. As many of you know th...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 13, 2010
If your Android smartphone has a physical keyboard, it also has keyboard shortcuts. And these shortcuts are customizable. The picture on the left is what you see what you press the menu button once, ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 12, 2010
So you have your new shiny Galaxy Tab, and you want to root it. I like the way you think. The good news is that the days of SDK's, cryptic shell commands, and crazy Windows USB drivers are...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 12, 2010
Now that we're all getting our Samsung Galaxy Tabs, we're going to want to take a screen shot or two, right? And Sammy's made it easy for us. No rooting, no muss, no fuss.To take a screen shot on your...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 04, 2010
As North America prepares to "fall back" from Daylight Saving Time (and that's the correct name for it, by the way) at 2 a.m. local time Sunday morning, we need to make sure everything is re...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 03, 2010
Motorola has sent out the test version of the 2.1 update for the Backflip to a limited group of people. If you're not one of them, no worries -- the download is out there for the taking -- or a...
