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December, 2010 Articles

Kindle Books Ready for Your NookColor

by Tyler Miller on December 29th, 2010 13 Comments

I have to admit, the NookColor is going from “another eReader” to “full fledged tablet” at a rather astounding rate. The NookColor is now able to utilize the Kindle app available in the Android Market after you have completed the rooting process. Wonderfully enough, that’s not all. This process also gives you access to GMail, [...]

Sony Lines Up LG, Sues

by Tyler Miller on December 29th, 2010 10 Comments

What kind of week would it be without someone suing someone else for anything? A slow one, that’s what kind. Sony decided it was offended by LG and launched a lawsuit yesterday against Lucky Goldstar in the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California. The suit targets two U.S. based subsidiaries of LG: [...]

Intex Readying to Launch $120 Android Device

by Tyler Miller on December 29th, 2010 9 Comments

India based handset manufacturer, Intex, has plans to launch an Android device for the budget conscious in February. Ringing in at 5,500 rupees ($120US), this FroYo handset should be a great way to get into the Android club without hoping the landlord forgets to collect rent. Naturally, anyone looking to scoop up this phone shouldn’t [...]

Updates on Playstation App

by Tyler Miller on December 29th, 2010 19 Comments

A couple of weeks back we got initial word to expect a Playstation app for Android. It would initially launch for Europe only but eventually it would make its way elsewhere. After the rumored Christmas launch came and went we were left sulking for more information, or at least I was. Now we are getting [...]

Motorola CLIQ 2 Pictures Sneak Out

by Tyler Miller on December 29th, 2010 32 Comments

And guess what, it looks just like the CLIQ. Nothing about this device should make anyone want to pull an Eric Cartman and freeze yourself on top of a snowy mountain in anticipation of this device; if you do, you deserve what you get. I suppose they put some honeycombish lines on the keyboard, but [...]

Mystery XPERIA

by Tyler Miller on December 29th, 2010 7 Comments

Hot off of a Chinese forum, and probably a counterfeit factory, are a few pictures of a mystery Sony Ericsson XPERIA device. The post has a total of three images, two of which are Quadrant scores. If the Chrome translator is worth its weight in salt this device will have a 1GHZ processor, with a [...]

Radio Shack Ad Depicts EVO Shift 4G at $150

by Tyler Miller on December 29th, 2010 10 Comments

On Monday we saw a shot of the EVO Shift 4G for $150 in the Best Buy system, now we are allegedly seeing some double confirmation in a Radio Shack ad, depicted above. We’re still hoping for a January ninth launch of this Sense device. Android Central has the full page ad. If you’re interested, [...]

CM7 Alpha Goes myTouch 4G

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 14 Comments

The CM7 alpha train just keeps rolling along, it has now made its way to T-Mobile’s myTouch 4G. Naturally, the Alpha state means that one should only flash this out of absolute curiosity, play around then flash back to the original ROM; or have two myTouch 4Gs laying around. XDA member, option94, compiled this one [...]

DROID Life Nabs Some Shots of HTC Thunderbolt

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 78 Comments

DROID Life got some exclusive shots of the much hyped HTC Thunderbolt. I wont lie, she’s a good looking device. And you can bet good money that this will be one of the top talks of CES this year. I wont bore you with everything you’ve already read about this device; but it is fairly [...]

North American Desire HD Passes Through FCC

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 13 Comments

Eight days ago MobileSyrup treated us to an image of the Desire HD with a Telus Logo on the boot screen. Now Engadget has dug up the FCC filing HTC put in for this device. Adding these two bits together and we have some potentially great news for Telus users. Expect this device to be [...]

AndroLib.com: Estimated 103 App Downloads Per Second

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 13 Comments

AndroLib.com keeps a running counter on their stats page, estimating the number of downloads the Android Market receives per second. If you watch the counter it works out to just above 103 downloads every second. An impressive count on its own; but if we play with numbers and assume that there are exactly 200k apps [...]

Moto Cliq 2 and Dell Streak Getting a January 19th Launch on T-Mobile?

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 20 Comments

For those of you waiting for either of these devices, you may have just received your “save the date”. TmoNews was tipped off to these two dates, which line up nicely with T-Mobile’s typical Wednesday launch as well as following CES. We had a pretty good idea that the Dell Streak 7 would be heading [...]

[Updated]HTC Desire Getting Software Update

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 16 Comments

HTC didn’t want you to feel left out in the cold when the Desire Z and Desire HD received software updates, Desire users. They’ll be sending out a software update just for you as well. Like your cousins, this is not Gingerbeard; sorry if we got your hopes up. You can patiently wait for your [...]

Cowon Officializes D3 Plenue

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 10 Comments

Cowon has made their Android powered D3 Plenue, a personal media player, official. Expect the following from this device: 8, 16 or 32GB options Eclair 3.7″ AMOLED display 1080p video playback WiFi Bluetooth microSD slot FM radio Claims of VoIP No official launch date has been set and availability will only be in South Korea, [...]

“XPERIA Play” Launching in the Spring?

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 13 Comments

The device that started its life in the rumor mill as a PSP running Android and has slowly migrated to an Android device that only looks like a PSP may see a launch this spring. At this point any launch date is pure speculation as Anyano Higuchi, Sony spokesperson said: “The report isn’t based on [...]

Fascinate Listed With FroYo

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 38 Comments

This is either a sly hint at things to come, or an over zealous website team; chances are, it’s the latter. Samsung’s website is listing Big Red’s Galaxy S, the Fascinate, as being a 2.2 powered device. While the initial page for the Fascinate will correctly identify the Android version as 2.1, clicking through “See [...]

Galaxy S Successor Heading to MWC

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 67 Comments

Samsung is wasting no time in looking beyond CES and has announced plans to unveil the next generation of Galaxy devices at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress in February. A Korean newspaper, Chosunilbo, had a small bit that stated Samsung will be in attendance with its new device that has a series of hardware upgrades including [...]

Android’s Next Gen Music App Leaks

by Tyler Miller on December 28th, 2010 31 Comments

The part of the Android experience that needed the most help, the music player, has just received a make over. Adding a clean new user interface and some extra pizzazz, including wireless syncing and streaming from your desktop. And, of course, XDA has your back on this one. Member johnnie93 has “sources” and is willing [...]

Logitech Asked by Google to Delay GTV Production? False.

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010 15 Comments

Looks like the rumors surrounding Google’s request to halt Google TV production until they could work on software updates are not true. VP of Logitech’s corporate communications, Nancy Morrison says that Logitech “has not been asked by Google to suspend production of its Google TV products”. She goes on to say such a delay would [...]

Signup for HTC Thunderbolt Goes Live

by Tyler Miller on December 27th, 2010 39 Comments

Last week, I caught some flak for being skeptical about a site that may or may not have been an officially sanctioned website promising information about an upcoming HTC 4G device. It was legitimate, but that doesn’t mean I have to forgive it for being so half-assed. Thankfully, we can move past that as HTC [...]