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December, 2010 Articles

World’s Largest Nexus S

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

A Best Buy down in San Carlos, California is hosting the worlds largest Nexus S. While it’s really a big screen hooked up to a normal Nexus S, the touchscreen is fully functional, albeit a little terrible. Don’t expect to be able to carry this one around in your pocket, or in hand for that [...]

Firefox 4 Beta 3 Ready

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

For those of you who are into Firefox, Beta 3 has made its way into the public ready for Beta’ing. Quite a few changes and addtitions have made its way into this version, including: Android Improved support for Android keyboards, both hardware and on-screen New Android-style menus Fixed a bug in opening links from other [...]

DROID 2 Global Getting an OTA

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

The DROID 2 Global will be receiving a software update, bringing its version number up to 2.4.330. Minor software tweaks and also some bug fixes are what are to be expected. Device now prepends 011 to Country Code to send SMS messages. Device no longer indicates “No Service” after powering up. Device no longer resets [...]

T-Mobile: We’ve got stuff for CES, too!

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

This entire week, a good chunk of my time has been devoted to CES and the LTE goodies that Verizon, Motorola, Samsung and HTC will be unveiling. But they aren’t the only players in the game. T-Mobile wants to talk about their plans to upgrade their HSPA+ network to HSPA+42, on top of next years [...]

Condensing the Market Changes Into One, Easy to Read, E-Mail

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

We just received an e-mail from Google that sums up the changes that have been happening in the Market over the past few weeks. The majority of information has been widely disseminated and discussed in gory length(15 minute refund window), but let’s just get it all out on a single page. Hello, We’re writing to [...]

Samsung Galaxy Tab Review

by Kevin Krause on December 23rd, 2010

Let’s just get it out of the way: the Samsung Galaxy Tab is the first Android tablet worth anyone’s money. It really is, but whether or not you should spend the money on it is the real question. With a 7-inch screen, 1GHz Hummingbird processor, front and rear cameras, the Galaxy Tab promises a lot, [...]

Line Between “PSPhone” and Playstation Grows Thicker

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

As the days go by it’s becoming more and more clear that Sony may be attempting to keep what has been unofficially dubbed the “PSPhone” and the Playstation brand, in general, two very distinct products that are related to each other only in parent company. Tuesday we discussed the possibility of the device being named [...]

DROID PRO Getting OTA

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

Verizon’s DROID PRO is getting a software OTA bumping its version up to 2.26.60. A series of improvements have been made to the device who’s goal it is to get Blackberry users see the light. Among the updates you can expect to see: Improved audio on voice calls Improved stability and performance User interface display [...]

Android 3.0 Being Released in March?

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

A small tid bit of information was dug up from an article having seemingly nothing to do Android 3.0 itself. MSI and a few other companies were discussing what their companies had in store for 2011 when this little nugget of information was read: On the other hand, MSI is set to display its 10-inch [...]

HTC Teasing Us Again? Bring Your Grains of Salt

by Tyler Miller on December 23rd, 2010

From the first glance it looks like HTC is continuing to build up the hype towards some mystery device we are hoping to have revealed January 6th. But on closer inspection things just don’t want to add up. For starters, the site is hosted on http://m.us.2mymob.com/htc. I did a quick whois on this domain, it [...]

AT&T Customers Now Have Carrier Billing Option in the Market

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

Good news, AT&T customers! You’ve just joined T-Mobile in the “bill my carrier account” club for your Market purchases. Hopefully this will alleviate some of the hangups customers have with attaching a credit card to any sort of account. Naturally this could very well be a double edged sword. I’m talking to you awesome parents [...]

Glimpse of Samsung LTE Device Surfaces

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

Egg on my face, I went from Motorola gets first crack to let’s see what HTC has to offer and now it’s who will win the race to be the first LTE device? Gizmodo just received yet another screenshot of a potential Verizon LTE handset, this one hails from Samsung: According to Gizmodo’s tipster and [...]

Logitech Revue Review

by Kevin Krause on December 22nd, 2010

Let me tell you a little story. Way back when Google first unveiled Google TV I felt drawn to it in a way that I generally don’t feel about new technology platforms. Even sensing that it might be a bit too ahead of its time and therefor a big flop, I knew I wanted to [...]

GTV Prepping to Receive Updates

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

We just received an e-mail from Google regarding Google TV and and some sweet updates they are getting ready to unleash. 1. Netflix – A totally revamped UI for Netflix on Google TV makes it easier to browse and watch movies and TV shows in Netflix’s streaming catalogue. 2. Dual View – Watch TV and [...]

Nexus S Gets Its First OTA

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

Well that didn’t take long, did it? Less than a week after launch the Nexus S has received its first OTA update. The XDA forums are abuzz trying to figure out just what was updated or fixed. As soon as we can discern what is going on, we’ll let you know! Update: XDA member Mighty07 [...]

Andy in Space: The (Partially) Full Story

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

A little over a week ago we mentioned that Andy tried to get his Astronaut Wings, he didn’t quite make it; but that doesn’t mean what was going on wasn’t awesome. Quite the opposite. Phandroid just received an email giving us a much better glimpse into what went down. Very cool, definitely worth the 1:44 [...]

Devicescape and MetroPCS Team Up to Spread Internet Traffic

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

MetroPCS announced they are teaming up with Devicescape to create a software solution to alleviate strain on MetroPCS’ network caused by increased data usage. The Android based software solution allows for seamless transition from cellular data to various Devicescape WiFi hotspots. With the increase in congestion on cellular networks, thanks Android, and the increasing rollout [...]

HTC’s 4G LTE Phone

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

Yesterday I may have jumped the gun a little. I told you all that Motorola will get first crack at launching an LTE device on Verizon’s network. We could play with words and say that “device” doesn’t necessarily mean “handset” and Motorola could still take first place with their inevitable tablet, but let’s just remove [...]

Swiss Broadcasting Corporation Launches Ad for iPad App, Sneaks in Andy

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation just launched an iPad application that highlights various articles, photos and videos. To help get the ball rolling, they created an advertisement. The ad details the story of William Tell and the famous shooting of an Apple off of his son’s head. What we are all treated to is a quick [...]

Instagram Looking to Migrate to Android

by Tyler Miller on December 22nd, 2010

The popular iOS application, Instagram, has just milestoned at 1 million users after only three months of availability, and it’s looking for a change in scenery with an expansion into Android. It took only a week to get 100,000 users. To compare numbers it took Foursquare a year to reach one million and Twitter lallygagged [...]