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February, 2010 Articles

What Android Phones Will Get Flash 10.1?

by Rob Jackson on February 27th, 2010

The entire Android-loving public has been waiting for Flash 10.1 support on our beloved Android phones like the Droid and the Nexus One. Some lucky users of select handsets like the HTC Hero and Motorola Devour are graced with Flash Lite, but that has its fair share of limitations. So as we desperately wait for [...]

CDMA Nexus One Passes FCC

by Rob Jackson on February 27th, 2010

Lending more credibility to the potential March 23rd launch of Verizon’s Nexus One is the fact that it has recently passed the FCC – or at least a Verizon compatible version has passed. Tremendously good news for non-hardware-keyboard fans waiting on Big Red to release the current beast of the bots. If it all comes [...]

Male Android Cheapskates To Dominate Mobile Market

by Rob Jackson on February 27th, 2010

Check out the latest Admob reports and a few glaring characteristics will jump out at you – we’ll point them out so you don’t have to sift through the entire report: (1) Android users love their free apps (2) The Market has a lot of Mandroids browsing And this is exactly what Android’s detractors would [...]

Android Virtual Doorman Hackery

by Rob Jackson on February 27th, 2010

You don’t need to be rich to enjoy the finer things in life – like a doorman at your place of work to allow employees in and keep the riff raff out… you just need some Android-coding computer geeks, a Linksys router, and a little creativity: I could try to explain the entire process to [...]

Verizon Nexus One Coming March 23rd?

by Rob Jackson on February 27th, 2010

If Neowin really does have an inside connection with a Google employee who really does know the release date of Verizon’s Nexus One then mark it on your calendar: March 23rd. Directly from their site: Verizon will introduce the Nexus One on the day the International CTIA wireless show begins in the US. It’s not [...]

Last Chance: Nexus One Video Contest!

by Rob Jackson on February 26th, 2010

There are only a few more days left to enter your video in the Nexus One Video Contest. Once it officially becomes the month of March on the East Coast USA, we’ll no longer be taking submissions. Thus far we’ve got about 40 entries, so if you can make us laugh or entertain us you’ve [...]

HTC Incredible On Video!

by Rob Jackson on February 25th, 2010

The folks at AndroidForums are at it again, this time doing a little detective work to connect a Flickr account to a twitter account to a YouTube account that revealed the following a video which forum members are speculating is the HTC Incredible: What do you think? Head on over to AndroidForums and join in [...]

Motorola Devour Review

by Rob Jackson on February 25th, 2010

Until I held the Motorola Devour in my hands, I assumed it would be a lighter, more plasticky version of the Motorola Droid with weaker specs but a better keyboard. As you’ll learn in this review, my perception gradually quickly changed. It’s difficult to review the Devour on it’s own merits when it has the [...]

Galaxy Spica Gets Android 2.1!

by Anthony Perez on February 25th, 2010

It’s too bad no carriers in the U.S. carry the Samsung I5700 Spica since there has just been a leak; thanks to Mad Ramblings Spica owners can install an Android 2.1 ROM! Some of the features of the ROM are the features we all want to see like the live wallpapers and Google Maps 4.0. [...]

HTC Legend Clears The FCC

by Anthony Perez on February 25th, 2010

The other day we saw the HTC Legend hit Amazon’s virtual store. Now, it has passed through the FCC and  will be coming to Sprint here in the U.S.  If you have not seen the specs make sure you check them out. Although there hasn’t been any other photos of the Legend, I found a [...]

HTC Incredible Now In Verizon’s Inventory System

by Anthony Perez on February 25th, 2010

The HTC Incredible has been popping up all over the place with various sneak peak photos and specs. We told you back in December that it would be launching on Big Red so it is no surprise that it is now popping up in Verizon’s inventory. Although there is no official launch date, the fact [...]

From The Motorola Devour To You

by Rob Jackson on February 24th, 2010

I’m writing this post from the Motorola Devour. To write a review of worthwhile substance you have to know the subject matter and in this instance I get a lot of hands on time with the keyboard. I was expecting a lot out of this keyboard and at first was a bit disappointed but there [...]

Facial Regonition App Recognizr Coming Soon

by Anthony Perez on February 24th, 2010

The Astonishing Tribe has been developing a new augmented reality application for mobile devices. They built a software application called Recognizr that allows your phone to see who a person is and what social networking they are connected to. It will also link whoever it sees back to your address book profile and will display [...]

Motorola Quench Announced On Brazil’s TIM Network

by Anthony Perez on February 24th, 2010

The Motorola Quench / Cliq XT that was announced at this year’s MWC will soon be available in Brazil via TIM. Currently, the Quench will be the first device without a physical keyboard to launch with MotoBlur. If you missed the specs the first time, the Quench is rockin: 3.1 inch HVGA touchscreen display Accelerometer [...]

Acer beTouch E110 Passes Through FCC

by Anthony Perez on February 24th, 2010

We already told you about the Acer beTouch E110, and now we are pleased to announce that it has just been approved by the FCC and is capable of launching on AT&T’s 3G network. However, just because it is capable of running on AT&T’s network here in the U.S. – does not mean that it [...]

Vodafone HTC Magic Getting 2.0!

by Anthony Perez on February 24th, 2010

Good news for everyone rocking a Vodafone HTC Magic – it has been confirmed by Vodafone that there will be an update to Android 2.0. YAY! Although an exact launch date has not yet been officially announced, I would speculate that it will be at some point during Q1.. as there are several other long [...]

Blapkmarket: Gone, For Now, But Not Forgotten

by Anthony Perez on February 24th, 2010

If you are unfamiliar, Jesusxxx has been maintaining a black market for pirated Android applications until recently, when he received an email from his host that he was being shut down. His blapkmarket provided a place where you could obtain free applications that would normally cost money in the Android Market. Although this type of [...]

Quake 3 Successfully Ported To Android 2.0 Devices

by Anthony Perez on February 24th, 2010

If your a gamer and remember the good old days when Quake on your PC was the epitome of gaming, then here is some of the best Android news yet!  A user by the name of Thunderbird2k has succesfully ported Quake 3 to his Motorola Milestone. As of now, it is optimized to play on [...]

GoGear Connect: Android Media Player From Phillips Coming In July

by Rob Jackson on February 24th, 2010

First of all, yes – there are portable media players besides the iPod. Second of all, Phillips is the manufacturer of some devices in this class, most recently the GoGear Muse. At a media event, the company just announced that it would make an Android version of this media player called the GoGear Connect and [...]

Google Execs Convicted, Guilty Of Something They Didn’t Do

by Rob Jackson on February 24th, 2010

This may not be directly Android-related but it has far-reaching implications in the overall condition/state of the tech world. A few teenagers in Italy uploaded a video of themselves abusing an Autistic boy to Google Video (shortly before they bought YouTube). The boys were identified through the video and sentenced to community service, but Google [...]