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Archive for September, 2010

3D Android Phones and Tablets in 2H 2011… Oh, and NO GLASSES

3D Android Phones and Tablets in 2H 2011… Oh, and NO GLASSES

September 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

Earlier in the year some rumors were floating around that Motorola had a 3D phone in the works. Those rumors turned out to be a device with a transparent clamshell. However, things have changed significantly since then. A video from Netbooknews.com has surfaced with footage of a live, working prototype that at the time of [...]

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The Wetab: a German Ipad? So Close but So So far…

The Wetab: a German Ipad? So Close but So So far…

September 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

Display 11,6“ mit 1366 x 768 Pixeln, Farbe, Touchscreen Prozessor 1,66 GHz Intel Atom N450 Pineview-M Arbeitsspeicher 1 GB Speicher 16 / 32 GB, Erweiterung möglich mit SDHC Karten bis zu 32 GB Webcam ja (1,3 Megapixel) Peripherie 2 x USB integriert, Cardreader, Audioausgang, Standard SIM Card Slot, HDMI Java /Flash / Adobe AIR ja [...]

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RUMOR: Amazon building an Android App Store?

RUMOR: Amazon building an Android App Store?

September 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

The rumor has been working overtime since a post at Androidcommunity.com was brought to light. Amazon could very well have something huge in the works but on the same token, it could be a false alarm and be an over analyzed forum thread. The post refers to an email that a developer received from Amazon [...]

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ROM Manager brings Web Connect feature.

ROM Manager brings Web Connect feature.

September 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

This one is for all you current rooted phone users or possibly any people who want to step up to the rooting plate. The maker of the famous ROM manager Koushik Dutta has added a feature called Web Connect so if you see any particular kernel, rom or application that the makers of which support Web Connect then [...]

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Michael Dell Shows His Looking Glass Tablet

Michael Dell Shows His Looking Glass Tablet

September 27, 2010 | Comments (1)

Last Week, we only heard that Michael Dell mentioned his 7″ tablet, that apparently was the upcoming Looking Glass tablet based on Android – version unknown yet. Today, we have the video in which he presents it briefly, and some pictures of it.

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Droidthing.com bring help to those Choosing a New Android SmartPhone

Droidthing.com bring help to those Choosing a New Android SmartPhone

September 27, 2010 | Comments (1)

Droidthing.com is a site thats sole purpose is to make your phone buying choice easier. With all the Android devices available out there it can sometimes be difficult to know what phones have what feature? and for how much? And what carrier? etc. Droidthing offers your an extensive range of feature options to choose from [...]

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More Countries for Paid Android Apps

More Countries for Paid Android Apps

September 27, 2010 | Comments (1)

The Android Market team recently alerted Android developers that they will be including paid android apps support for additional countries in the oncoming weeks. No details were provided on exactly which countries Google will be added the support to, but it is still a good sign that Google is finally addressing one of the bigger complaints about [...]

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G2 Update, Pre-Orders Shipping Soon, Wi-Fi Calling Supported but No Tethering

G2 Update, Pre-Orders Shipping Soon, Wi-Fi Calling Supported but No Tethering

September 27, 2010 | Comments (0)

There are leaks out there that show that pre-orders will start being shipped out soon in the next 7 business days. This could mean the G2 is going to launch very soon. This is going to be exciting news for those of you who like the T-mobile network, and also love the fact that they’re [...]

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Sony launching the World’s First Google TV on October 12th

Sony launching the World’s First Google TV on October 12th

September 27, 2010 | Comments (3)

It is only a matter of time before Google TV arrives and Sony is prepared to lead the way. Since it is nearly October as it is, it doesn’t seem likely that Google TV will get its “official” launch this month. Google’s time frame was pretty accurate indicating that we would see Google TV arrive [...]

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Grab Your Motorola XT720 Android Smartphone at Wind Mobile Canada

Grab Your Motorola XT720 Android Smartphone at Wind Mobile Canada

September 27, 2010 | Comments (1)

Wind Mobile just got their most advanced Android phone yet, and you can get it unlocked for only $450 or $430. So what do you get for this price besides not requiring a 3 year contract? Motorola XT720 includes: – Android 2.1 – 8MP camera with auto focus, face recognition, image stabilization – Xenon flash [...]

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Huge potential for Pre-Paid Android

Huge potential for Pre-Paid Android

September 27, 2010 | Comments (1)

In recent weeks, the temperature in the smartphone arena has been on the rise. There has been as much attention on the performance of new devices as on budget friendly deals all over the market. Telstra, an Australian telco company, has been offering the HTC Wildfire as a pre-paid device at $349. If you have [...]

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Bugless beast V0.5 is finally here!

Bugless beast V0.5 is finally here!

September 26, 2010 | Comments (1)

After a long hiatus, Peter Alfonso returns with an update to the popular Droid 1 rom “Bugless Beast”A few bugs have be taken out as well as a couple of new features Android users are going to appreciate. *NOTE*: Rooting your Droid, if not savy in this area could ruin your phone, leaving it incapable [...]

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Survey Says Android Tablets are the Next Big Thing?

Survey Says Android Tablets are the Next Big Thing?

September 26, 2010 | Comments (3)

Zogby recently conducted a survey on Tablets. The survey found that 23% of Americans would readily switch from their laptops to a tablet. Even those who don’t own an Android phone stated that they would purchase an Android based tablet; in order to raise awareness and for education purposes. One in four stated that they [...]

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Launch Party Store List for the Motorola R2-D2

Launch Party Store List for the Motorola R2-D2

September 26, 2010 | Comments (1)

Well here it is people, the Motorola R2-D2 Droid 2 launch party store list.  This is for all you Star Wars and Android fans to get down to your nearest store, don a bagel hair do or hairy suit and get ya limited edition phone release on. I gotta say this phone does make me [...]

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Motorola Charm Android Smartphone Review: Not So Charming After All

Motorola Charm Android Smartphone Review: Not So Charming After All

September 25, 2010 | Comments (2)

Introduction Today we take a look at the Motorola charm and this is the latest in the motoblur series from Motorola that has a unique design for android.  It has the blackberry styled form factor with qwerty keyboard on the front.  Is a truly unique design to android which I expect to be the first [...]

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Get to the Sidelines – NFL Mobile – Android App Review

Get to the Sidelines – NFL Mobile – Android App Review

September 25, 2010 | Comments (5)

App Name: NFL Mobile by Verizon Wireless Description: Exclusive mobile coverage of the NFL only from Verizon: LIVE audio broadcast of every NFL game, breaking news, Fantasy Player Tracker, game alerts and much more all FREE for the season. How it works: NFL Mobile is a exclusive Verizon app since Verizon signed a 4 year [...]

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Tegra Will Soon Dominate the Mobile Chips Market

Tegra Will Soon Dominate the Mobile Chips Market

September 25, 2010 | Comments (1)

Nvidia’s CEO has confirmed that some of their biggest partners are Samsung, Motorola and LG. We already knew about LG, but we only had some very weak rumors that Motorola and Samsung might also support Tegra 2 in the future. This confirmation and the fact that he also stated that Motorola is an old partner, [...]

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World Round Up – Leak Special – Plus Flipout reaches Europe – Tab Price in OZ – Froyo Desire UK

World Round Up – Leak Special – Plus Flipout reaches Europe – Tab Price in OZ – Froyo Desire UK

September 24, 2010 | Comments (2)

Leaks galore The internet has made it very difficult to keep information secret and leaks have become a common part of the modern news landscape. Leaks are also a fantastic way to generate free publicity. Stick the word ‘leak’ into a story and more people will read it. Want people to take your information seriously? [...]

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Kindle for Android update brings voice search and cool integration

Kindle for Android update brings voice search and cool integration

September 24, 2010 | Comments (4)

Now available in the market is an updated version of Amazon’s Kindle for Android app. The latest update brings with it voice and text searches, support for highlights and annotations, integration with Shelfari (a social networking site utilizing books) and even sports inter-device synchronization so you can keep your Android phone in sync with your [...]

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Android T-Mobile G2 Benchmark Scores!!!

Android T-Mobile G2 Benchmark Scores!!!

September 24, 2010 | Comments (3)

The G2 went on pre-order recently to current T-Mobile customers. There are many people already waiting to get this phone to see how good it performs to the rest of the android family of devices. Some people are already knocking it because of the 800 MHz Processor, but here is a video of the benchmark that was [...]

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Dell Can’t Resist Android. Wants to Make Google TV’s

Dell Can’t Resist Android. Wants to Make Google TV’s

September 24, 2010 | Comments (2)

It seems to me that companies are a lot faster to spot opportunities these days, even companies you probably wouldn’t expect much innovation from. Dell is starting to surprise people not only with announced Android smartphones and tablets, but now it wants to surprise us with Google TV’s as well. Dell wants to bring Youtube, [...]

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Cyanogen Brings Support To More Android Devices…

Cyanogen Brings Support To More Android Devices…

September 24, 2010 | Comments (3)

Team Douche might have been a bit quiet on their CM6 developments since their recent launch of CyanogenMod 6 , but we all know that  they haven’t been really working for Andtoid. Steve Kondik a.k.a. “Cyanogen” himself – updated the general public on their roadmap a few days ago. It that we will be jumping straight to [...]

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Sprint and Verizon could follow in AT&T’s Footsteps with Tiered Data Plans

Sprint and Verizon could follow in AT&T’s Footsteps with Tiered Data Plans

September 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

Back in June, AT&T did a way with their unlimited data plan and decided to offer tiered data plans, one with a cap of 200MB and another with a 2GB cap. The question is now, will the other carriers follow suit? Recently, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, stated that: We’re not ruling out metered pricing,” “Tiered [...]

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Desire HD ported to Desire, Droid and Evo!

Desire HD ported to Desire, Droid and Evo!

September 24, 2010 | Comments (2)

We all remember a few days ago the excitement as the HTC Desire HD was leaked.. now to even greater news for Desire, Droid Incredible and Evo Owners. The new HTC Sense and its speedy wake up have been ported to 3 devices, as some modifications still need a little tweaking the ports are a [...]

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ADWLauncher with Sense Appeal!

ADWLauncher with Sense Appeal!

September 24, 2010 | Comments (2)

HTC Sense is known as one of the nicest UI interfaces on smart phones. XDA member JAguirre1231 has brought HTC’s Sense onto ADWlauncher with some modification making “sense” onto it. As some may know with android platforms to have a nice setup, themes, etc.. you will need to have your phone rooted. While android roms may [...]

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SE XPERIA X10: 2.1 Update Delayed a Month

SE XPERIA X10: 2.1 Update Delayed a Month

September 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

Bad news, Sony-Ericsson XPERIA X10 owners (and that includes the X10 mini and X10 mini-pro).  That Android OS 2.1 (Eclair) update you were promised at the end of this month?  Not happening now. While all the hot smartphones are gearing up for an update to Froyo (version 2.2 of the operating system), you’ve been stuck [...]

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R2-D2 Droid Dummy Unit photos smuggled out of Verizon Store

R2-D2 Droid Dummy Unit photos smuggled out of Verizon Store

September 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

Looks as someone has been smuggling photo’s of the New R2-D2 Droid 2 Dummy phones, out of Verizon Outlet’s. We have no proof, as of yet, that it was indeed Han Solo and No, you can’t have a ride in the Millennium Falcon. There seems to be alot of people that stand by the original [...]

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WIND Mobile Motorola XT720 makes an appearance

WIND Mobile Motorola XT720 makes an appearance

September 24, 2010 | Comments (2)

The Motorola Milestone XT720 for Wind is rumored to be released today for $450. By the looks of these picture’s, this looks like a very nice smartphone and from the specs, it is quite capable of doing whatever it is that you might need it to do. The Motorola Milestone XT720 comes pre-installed with Android [...]

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Marvell Announces Their New Triple Core Chip

Marvell Announces Their New Triple Core Chip

September 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

Marvell announced their upcoming SoC that has 3 cores, 2 for high performance and 1.5 Ghz each, and one that has much lower clock frequency, and is used for low performance tasks. Another surprise is that their CPU will be paired with a GPU that goes to 200 million triangles, which is more than double [...]

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Motorola Flipout back in the news!

Motorola Flipout back in the news!

September 24, 2010 | Comments (0)

Recently the Motorola Flipout was M.I.A.on its scheduled release date. Later corporate- owned retail stores were order to destroy the literature they received for the device. Now, this Flipout is back in the news as Motorola announces that the Motorola Flipout is “expected to be available in the US before the holiday season.” Motorola hasn’t [...]

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Leak: T-Mobile Optimus has Wi-Fi Calling?  Kineto’s UMA app involved?

Leak: T-Mobile Optimus has Wi-Fi Calling? Kineto’s UMA app involved?

September 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

So it looks like at least one of LG’s newly announced Optimus line is landing on T-Mobile, confirming at least the brand name on last week’s leaked inventory list .  The handset in the above leaked T-Mobile material (courtesy of TmoNews) is the Optimus One or LG-P500.  Interesting that T-Mobile has dropped the One designation [...]

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In action, Custom AOSP Rom on Motorola Droid x

In action, Custom AOSP Rom on Motorola Droid x

September 24, 2010 | Comments (0)

The previously unhackable droid had been hacked. The Motorola droid X in the video below is not running the standart Motorola droid blur. It is running a custom AOSP ROM. Although it is still buggy, the boot loader is still locked and no custom keernel is seen, this is a promising progress.

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Verizon LG Ally Gets Much Needed Update

Verizon LG Ally Gets Much Needed Update

September 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

There has been a good number of updates for various Android devices in the recent quarter and now you can add the LG Ally to that list because it didn’t want to be left out. The  mid-range Android Verizon device started receiving a maintenance update last Friday, around Sept. 17. If you have an ally and your [...]

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Leak: Vodafone Desire HD, 359 euros on Contract

Leak: Vodafone Desire HD, 359 euros on Contract

September 24, 2010 | Comments (1)

Planning on one of those hot new HTC Desire HD smartphones?  Balking at the unlocked price and hoping the carrier will help subsidize it?  Android Central has a leaked price from a contact at Vodafone, and getting one under contract isn’t going to be cheap. Yes, that’s going to run you €359 on a Vodafone [...]

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Nexus One gets new 2.2.1 Update, get it here!

Nexus One gets new 2.2.1 Update, get it here!

September 24, 2010 | Comments (2)

Nexus One’s everywhere just started receiving OTA updates, but for those of you who can’t wait the update can be manually installed. Some N1 owners seem to be having problems using their alternate keyboards. However, a quick reinstall seems to fix the problem. It isn’t completely clear what this update has changed yet but it’s [...]

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