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October, 2010 Articles

Nexus Two Launching Alongside Gingerbread in Time for the Holidays?

by Kevin Krause on October 26th, 2010

An interesting report has surfaced from London-based business paper City A.M. that claims the followup to the Nexus One — what very well could be dubbed the Nexus Two — will be released through an exclusive deal with Carphone Warehouse in the UK as the second Google-branded Android handset. This comes as a new but [...]

Motorola Updates Media Link Software for Improved PC to Android Syncing

by Kevin Krause on October 26th, 2010

The need for a slick and useful desktop application for syncing up your Android phone with stored media files on your PC is one of the biggest weak points for the Android platform. DoubleTwist does a pretty excellent job, but for those who haven’t taken to the program in possession of a Motorola Android handset, [...]

TELUS Updates to HTC Hero to Android 2.1, HTC Desire Gets OTA Update to Froyo

by Kevin Krause on October 26th, 2010

TELUS isn’t skimping on the firmware updates today with new Android software going out to both the HTC Desire and HTC Hero. Let’s start with the Hero, a phone that has has a long path to Android 2.1, and while most carriers around the world have made the update available at this point, some owners [...]

Would-Be CherryPad Owners Left Wondering ‘Where Is My Tablet?’

by Kevin Krause on October 26th, 2010

When CherryPal unveiled their low-cost yet potentially not half bad CherryPad for the cost of $188 back in September, you can imagine quite a few people jumped in on the pre-order with the promise their new tablet would ship out right around October 15th. Fast forward to the last week of October and those who [...]

Nimbuzz Pulls Skype Support Effective October 31st

by Kevin Krause on October 26th, 2010

Looks like this Halloween the folks at Nimbuzz are giving us a trick rather than a treat. OK, that’s not fair. It would actually be the folks at Skype providing us with the trick, as they continued their mandate to remove their VoIP and messaging services from all third party applications with the request that [...]

Google’s Nexus One Forum Going Read-Only on November 1

by Kevin Krause on October 26th, 2010

The march towards the dark abyss continues for the Nexus One as Google has just announced that their official Nexus One forum will be switching to read-only starting November 1st. All current topics and discussion will be archived for the benefit of those with N1 questions and concerns, but if you have any pressing issues [...]

Updated Froyo YouTube App Ported to Android 2.1

by Kevin Krause on October 26th, 2010

As part of a commitment to increasing the portability and customization of Android, Google has been moving down the path towards removing core applications and moving them to the Android Market. One of the first apps to do this is YouTube, which recently saw a brand new “Gingerbread” version released via the Android Market. The [...]

T-Mobile to Offer Tethering Plan for $14.99 Starting November 3rd

by Kevin Krause on October 26th, 2010

When you run out to grab up the new T-Mobile MyTouch come November 3rd you can expect a new option to be available for that two-year contract. T-Mobile will begin offering their “Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing Add-On” at a cost of $14.99 a month on top of a data plan of $19.95 per month or [...]

Google Makes the Best Mobile Operating System Again, Says Another 300,000 Votes

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

It looks like someone didn’t take too kindly to what appeared to be rigged voting in Wall Street Journal’s poll yesterday asking “who makes the best mobile operating system?” After Google seemed to get ahead of the pack after at least 9,000 legitimate votes, Windows fan sites have been rallying up to take them down [...]

PBA Bowling 2 Now in the Android Market

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

Bowling fans, you’ll be happy to know that PBA Bowling 2 – an authentic 3D bowling game from Concrete Software – has just been released into the Android market. The game features real players who’ve participated in the PBA such as Ray Williams Jr. and Chris Barnes and includes a nice selection of venues in [...]

Phan Giveaway: Isotoner smarTouch Gloves

by Rob Jackson on October 26th, 2010

Ever tried to use your Android Phone with gloves on in the cold weather? It usually ends in one of two ways… (1) Total failbot, or (2) Successful but with freezing cold hands because you gave up and took your gloves off. Unless of course you’ve got Isotoner smarTouch gloves. With a conductive thread embroidered on [...]

Despite Legal Woes, Failed 12-inch JooJoo Tablet Re-envisioned with Android

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know about this “JooJoo” tablet until today. According to the light bit of research I did before writing this post, it sounds like this thing was supposed to be the “tablet of tablets,” for its time. It seemingly had everything everyone wanted: social networking, amazing web-browsing capabilities, and a gorgeous [...]

HTC Incredible “HD” Launching November 23rd? [RUMOR]

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

Take this one lightly, guys, but new rumors suggest that a phone by the name of the HTC Incredible HD – what we suppose could be the 4.3-inch HTC device headed for Verizon – will be coming to Big Red on November 23rd. That’s just two days ahead of America’s biggest shopping day, if you [...]

Reckless Racing Back in the Market, Was Pulled Due to Pirates Causing Server Issues

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

Damn you, pirates! Polarbit – the developers responsible for Reckless Racing for iOS and Android – recently had to pull their application from the Android market. It’s since gone back live. We’d wondered why it was even pulled in the first place – just as many of you did – and the answer is because [...]

HTC Knight Actually Called the HTC Speedy, Launching January 6th?

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

Just a day removed from the original rumor and before we can even get information on the device itself, the HTC Knight that was uncovered the other day seems to have gotten a name change. BGR‘s been tipped with an internal screenshot of Sprint’s for an accessory for the phone – a blue/black phone cover [...]

Is Google Instant Showing up for You?

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

We’ve been hearing reports that Google Instant is – once again – showing up for people who visit the mobile version of Google.com on their Android handsets. We saw this happen right after instant was launched for desktops, but it has since faded away. The selection of devices the “Instant” option is appearing on seems [...]

PopCap: We’re Still Working on Android Games

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

PopCap’s long pledged to bring their mobile offerings to the Android market, but as of today, their commitments have still gone unfilled. After letting loose news that they’d already launched Bejeweled for Windows Phone 7 – which has no phones on the market to date – they apparently received a lot of flack from their [...]

Frostwire for Android Market Available Today for Free, $4.99

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

Back in June, we learned Frostwire would be bringing an Android app to the market as they’d entered alpha testing. We got a pretty good look at it back then, but we haven’t kept up with ongoing developments since. Before, it was said that this app would only allow peer-to-peer file transfers between people on [...]

Skype, NFL Mobile, V Cast Video Not Available at Launch for Verizon Galaxy Tab

by Quentyn Kennemer on October 26th, 2010

Depending on who you are, this is good and bad news. Let’s get the news out there first: Verizon supposedly won’t be offering a few of their staple apps for the Galaxy Tab at launch. The collection includes Skype Mobile – a once-Verizon exclusive – NFL Mobile, and V Cast Videos. It’s obviously bad news [...]

T-Mobile G2 vs Samsung Epic 4G

by Tyler Miller on October 25th, 2010

This square off comes from cnet, pitting two hot phones from two separate carriers and manufacturers head-to-head in a knock-em-down drag-out too-many-hyphens battle-royale. The fight is clean and a winner declared. Who will it be? [via @tmobile | Fight brought to you by cnet]