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Facebook Updated to 1.5

Leave a Comment Posted by on Tuesday, December 14, 2010

It seems the Facebook for Android application has finally become all-encompassing, with the long-awaited features of chat and push notification finally making their way onto the Android platform. This is certainly a welcome addition to the Android application, as the lack of these features have been a gripe of many Android users for a long [...]

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Android Market Update Coming Soon

Leave a Comment Posted by on Sunday, December 12, 2010

On Dec. 10th Android Developer Blog announced that Android Market engineering team has been working hard to improve the Android Market experience for users and the developers. The Android Market engineering team has been hard at work on improving the Android Market experience for users and developers. Today, I’m pleased to announce a significant update [...]

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Another Look at the New Google Maps for Mobile 5 on the Nexus S

Leave a Comment Posted by on Saturday, December 11, 2010

Google’s Andy Rubin showed off the new Google Maps for Mobile 5 running on his Motorola Honeycomb tablet and said it would be coming to the Android Market in a matter of days, but we have yet to see the upgrade roll out yet. The brief demo we saw showed off the 3D maps and [...]

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Android 2.3 Has NO Minimum Processor Requirement

Leave a Comment Posted by on Friday, December 10, 2010

Yesterday a curious customer asked LG if his Optimus One would be receiving Android 2.3 and got the response that “Gingerbread requires 1 GHz processor”. Several sites took the quote and started reporting that Gingerbread has a CPU requirement, but once again Dan Morrill was quick to respond. LG incorrectly states on Facebook that Gingerbread [...]

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Android 2.2 OTA Update for HTC Legend to Begin Today

Leave a Comment Posted by on Thursday, December 9, 2010

With all this news about android 2.3, let’s not forget that most Android users still waiting for their Android 2.2 update to hit their phones.  But if you own the HTC Legend, it looks like your wait if finally over.  HTC UK has just posted an update to their Facebook page, indicating that Froyo for [...]

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Manually Install Froyo on the Samsung Epic 4G

Leave a Comment Posted by on Thursday, December 9, 2010

Over the weekend it was discovered that Android 2.2 was available for the Samsung Epic 4G, but a post on the official Sprint forums says it is only a test build. They warn users not to flash any update files that come from 3rd party developer sites, but the test Android 2.2 build (DK28) is [...]

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UPDATE: Nexus S: No microSD Card Slot, Samsung not the NFC Chip Provider, Best Buy Landing Page Live

Leave a Comment Posted by on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

It’s easy to get excited and overjoyed with all of the Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Nexus S news going out today, but we don’t want to flood our front page with it all. (And I’m sure you won’t want to see it all day, as well.) Here are but a few of the stories that [...]

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Rumor: Nexus S Headed to Verizon with 4G?

Leave a Comment Posted by on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The rumor has it that NEW Nexus S might be headed to VZW. We aren’t sure yet but this is what we have so far on the Nexus S + Verizon 4G rumor: I usually try not to get too excited about rumors, but as a Verizon customer who is eagerly awaiting my first 4G [...]

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Gingerbread headed to ‘a Number of’ HTC Devices

2 Comments Posted by on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

We all been hearing about Gingerbread for the last few month. I’m happy to say that it’s finally here. Yes! Gingerbread is finally here. We all know that Gingerbread is here, but one of the biggest remaining questions is which current generation phones will receive the treasured OS update down the line. When TechRadar confronted [...]

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Motorola and Verizon Score Gingerbread Exclusive

Leave a Comment Posted by on Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Just like last year, Motorola and Verizon will launch a Droid phone for the holiday shopping season that will be the first device to feature a new version of Android. Motorola is ultra secretive when it comes to big product launches so I might have a few details that are slightly off, but they have [...]

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