If you sell Verizon smartphones, chances are you’re well on your way to being properly trained up on the Motorola Droid Bionic. And we’ve gotten a sneak peak at the training, which we’ll share with you here. There aren’t many surprises — it’ll have all the usual accessories and Webtop dock — it’ll even come [...]
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Plus, a recap of the U.S. launch event So here’s your obligatory shot of the three U.S. versions (so far) of the Samsung Galaxy S II. We crawled all over these guys at the U.S. launch event, and they’re definitely lookers. We could ask you which one you like the best, or which one you think [...]
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Sony will officially join the Android tablet fray this fall, with its unique Tablet S and Tablet P devices, running Android 3.1 Honeycomb. The electronics giant has announced that the wedge-shaped Tablet S (left) will ship starting September, with the dual-screened Tablet P following in November. The Tablet S will be available with between 16 and 32GB of internal storage, and [...]
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David Pena (aka. TheFilmJunkee) It’s slapstick time at AndroidSPIN as we welcome our latest member of the AndroidSPIN team. It’s not a normal occurence to write an article introducing a new member of the team, but David Pena who runs his own Movie show on YouTube is going to bring some special insanity to the [...]
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The HTC Runnymede has been revealed as one of the first phones to come out of the agreement between HTC and Beats by Dr. Dre. This one has a whopping 4.7-inch display. I remember earlier in the year, everyone was saying that 4-inches is the sweet spot, but now that seems small. Here is a [...]
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If you are familiar with how Verizon does their Droid phones launches, you may know that they usually activate the @DroidLanding Twitter account and add the new phone to the list of their devices. This is exactly what happened last night, The DroidDoes.com web page has been updated with a ‘locked’ video about the Droid [...]
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The Marbians by Nordisk Film Games Publishing has released a free version of their addictive little physics puzzle game which will bring a total of 16 levels for you to play. That isn’t all the update brings though and tablet players now have full tablet support as well. Read more… … Continue Reading Here The [...]
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Sony Ericsson has unveiled the latest addition to its 2011 Xperia line — the Xperia Arc S, which builds on its previous flagship device by bumping its CPU speed from 1.0 to 1.4 GHz, a change SE says will deliver “up to 25% faster” entertainment experiences. The Arc S includes the same 8.1-megapixel Exmor R camera sensor [...]
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The US Department of Justice has finally weighed in on the AT&T, T-Mobile merger. They are not happy and words such as antitrust are being thrown around. A report out of Bloomberg today states that the DOJ has filed to block the AT&T accusation of T-Mobile, stating that the deal would “substantially lessen competition and ”AT&Ts elimination of T-Mobile [...]
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Late last month rumors of the Motorola Dinara surfaced and we’ve been waiting to get our hands on the device ever since. In addition, there are major talks regarding the device’s rumored 13-megapixel sensor. The picture above was produced from the handset and according to our friends over at Pocket Now, it’s a 4000 x [...]
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The Honeycomb 3.2 SDK component is now available for download along with an update to the SDK tools, Compatibility Package, and a new Android NDK. The new features included with 3.2 are optimizations for a wider range of tablets, compatibility zoom for fixed-sized tablets, media sync from an SD card, and an extended API for [...]
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Yesterday was the official announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S II for the U.S., but to me it is already old news because the anticipation of the Nexus Prime is really heating up. Earlier this week we reported that it may land on Verizon as the DROID Prime. This one has a model number of [...]
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Before I start I’ll say I wrote this quickly during my lunch. There’s probably typos, I’m sure I missed points I wanted to talk about, and I’m pretty sure my opinion is on shaky ground in some places. Hopefully I can shore up a defense and play my chess game in the comments. I’ll start [...]
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Back in March, AT&T announced their plan to acquire T-Mobile USA, which spurred vehement opposition. Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint, didn’t hesitate to let everyone know he thought it was a terrible idea. T-Mobile customers voiced their concerns, which stemmed from their dislike of AT&T. Well, T-Mobile customers and Hesse may have just gained [...]
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It has been a long wait for the LG Thrill 4G (Optimus 3D). For those of you on AT&T yearning for a 3D phone, you can finally grab one this Sunday, September 4th for .99 (with a 2-year contract) through AT&T stores or online. We have also told you that Radio Shack and Target will [...]
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AT&T announced today that they will be releasing HTC’s first Honeycomb tablet, the Jetstream which was also known as the HTC Puccini. It is also AT&T first LTE tablet on an LTE network that we have yet to experience. Check out the full list of features: LTE (700/AWS) HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS (850/1900/2100 MHz) EDGE/GPRS (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) Android [...]
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This is perhaps the biggest move in this case yet. The United States government (Department of Justice, to be exact) has reportedly filed to block AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile for billion, citing anti-trust laws being violated as AT&T would be taking substantial competition off the market. "AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced [...]
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We’ve been hearing rumors about a 10-inch HTC tablet codenamed Puccini for nearly three months now, and AT&T have finally taken the wraps off of this Honeycomb 3.1 tablet, revealing its official name, price, and availability. The tablet will be known as the HTC Jetstream and will run on Ma Bell’s brand-spankin’-new LTE network, sporting [...]
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Most of you may not know, because it’s not in my bio here, but I have drawn since near birth. Ok, thats a slight exaggeration but not by much. There were very few times between the age of 5 and 30 where I didn’t have a pad and pencil in my hand. Before I went [...]
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Apparently the U.S. government is not in agreement with the AT&T purchase of T-Mobile as it has filed court papers in Washington to block the billion merger. According to the U.S. government is would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market. The U.S. is seeking a declaration that AT&T’s takeover of T-Mobile would violate U.S [...]
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So far Mozilla hasn’t had much success with their Firefox Mobile for Android. But from what we see today, things may be about to change soon. Mozilla is previewing their new UI for the tablet version of Firefox Mobile, which looks exactly how a tablet browser should look like. Let’s see why I think it’s [...]
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The IFA ball has already begun rolling with Sony taking to the stage two days ahead of the event. Today, they announced that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S will debut this October. Details are a bit scant at this moment as they chose to focus only on its “Reality Display” and the many entertainment [...]
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Today Sony has officially announced and unveiled both the Sony Tablet S as well as the popular Sony Tablet P. Until now these were known as the S1 and S2 but recently earned official names. We told you about the Sony S2 clamshell being named the Tablet P earlier this week and now that Sony [...]
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After plenty of awesome Sony commercials the time has finally come for Sony to release their much hyped Android Honeycomb tablets. After just recently been officially named the Sony Tablet S and Tablet P they are now ready to rock. Today Sony has announced both the Tablet S and P devices and luckily I’ve been [...]
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Repeat after us: I must protect my screen. I must protect my screen. And the Aug.31 Deal of the Day brings a two-pack of custom-fit screen protectors for the Motorola Atrix 4G. These are the most basic form of protection you can have for your smartphone. And there’s really no excuse for having a chunk taken out [...]
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What- A free phone!- That’s right, folks. We’ve partnered up with Samsung to give one of our lucky readers a free Verizon Droid charge! The rules are pretty simple: Follow TalkAndroid on Twitter Reply to this forum thread telling us why you want / deserve this phone And that’s it! We’ll be picking a winner [...]
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How about some Android domination news for today- The latest ComScore smartphone market share data for the U.S. is in, and guess who’s still on top- If you guessed Android, then you win a pat on the back . In the 3 month average ending July 2011 vs the 3 month average ending April 2011, [...]
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Out of all the old school games you’ve played, chances are you’ve had a run-in with Boulder Dash. If you haven’t, then you missed out. Good news though if you did miss out, you will get a second chance to play this old school addictive game thanks to Herocraft. Read more… … Continue Reading Here [...]
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This is the announcement we’ve all been waiting for – availability of HTC’s first Android 3.0+ tablet. It’s being called the HTC Jetstream and is the “Puccini” that we’ve been talking about for so long. It’s a 10.1 inch Honeycomb tablet with a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, Scribe support (the pen is available free on [...]
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AT&T has announced that it has scored the exclusive on the new HTC Jetstream tablet. The new tablet will be the first 4G LTE and HSPA+ tablet on the market. The Jetstream will hit AT&T on September 4 and will be the first tablet available in the US that has Android 3.1 Honeycomb onboard. The [...]
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AT&T has finally unwrapped HTC’s first Honeycomb tablet — the 10.1-inch Jetstream. This puppy’s been leaked every which way to Sunday, and specs are largely as we’ve previously seen. Here’s the breakdown: LTE (700/AWS)HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS (850/1900/2100 MHz)EDGE/GPRS (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)Android 3.1 (Honeycomb)HTC Sense™ UX for tabletsDisplay: 10.1” WXGA HD screenProcessor: Third-generation Snapdragon 1.5GHz dual-core processorCamera: Front Facing [...]
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Is everyone ready for some football- With the long strike I still can’t believe football is actually going to happen. The good news is we don’t have to wait until September 8th for a little pigskin. Electronic Arts just released Madden NFL 12 in the Android Market. Here are the features noted on the app [...]
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AndroidAppReviewer | Aug 31, 2011 | Comments 1 The Jelly Wars Android App by Star Arcade is a multiplayer, online shooter game similar to Goobers vs Boogers. The first time you play this game you have the option of either logging in with your FaceBook account or creating a star account. The star account is [...]
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The folks at Metago have announced that they have reached 15 million downloads in the Android market. Being one of the oldest (and one of the best) file managers on Android, we can’t exactly say we didn’t expect to hear this bit of news sooner or later. We’re not sure if Metago includes devices that [...]
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Looks like accessory vendors have already gotten word about HTC’s newest, biggest (maybe not), baddest smartphone coming – the HTC Holiday A black silicon case for the phone has appeared on eBay well ahead of any official announcement. If for some reason you expect to get this phone when it comes out (before even knowing [...]
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