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January, 2011 Articles

LG Optimus 2X Up for Pre-Order in Denmark, €483 Contract-Free, Ships February 25

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

The LG Optimus 2X is now available for pre-order for Denmark through online retailer Ellos. The price of 3,599 Danish kroner comes in a bit lower than the expected €550. After conversions the Danish pre-order price works out to about €484 or $653. Those looking to pre-order can expect the 2X to ship right around [...]

MasterCard Helps You Find the Closes Cash Machine with ATM Hunter for Android

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

Aside from sounding like a neo-futuristic epic about the human resistance’s last stand against evil, sentient money machines, ATM Hunter is also a new app for Android from MasterCard that allows users to track down the closest cash dispensing kiosk no matter where they are. The app has been available on both iPhone and BlackBerry, [...]

Froyo Now on Over Half of all Android Handsets, Gingerbread Makes an Appearance on Platform Versions Chart

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

It was brought to our attention that haven’t taken a look at the Android Platform Versions pie chart in a good while, so seeing as Gingerbread is on the scene and has had some time to settle, here it is. While we can still number the total versions of Android represented at five, the good [...]

Dungeon Defenders Gets an Update, Price Drop to Go with it

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

Trendy Entertainment has just released a major patch for their Unreal Engine-based Dungeon Defenders for Android. Dungeon Defenders v2.0 brings a pretty hefty list of new features, content, and bug fixes to the full 3D gaming experience, the biggest of which being direct cross-platform gameplay between Android and iOS. The full list: New Features: Chase [...]

LG G-Slate to Feature 3D Display and 3D Recording? [Whacky Rumor Wednesday]

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

The LG G-Slate was announced for T-Mobile back at CES, but with no demos proper or any hands-on time (the tablet passed through the conference like a ship in the night) little is actually known about the tablet other than 4G support (in the US at least) and Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Enter LG France, who [...]

Current TV Posts a Handful of User Created Galaxy Tab Ads

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

The Al Gore-led Current TV is a channel driven by user content, right down to the very ads they play. A recent call for “Viewer Created Ad Messages” went out for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and the results are in. While 22 videos made it through as finalists, six were selected to air during the [...]

RealPlayer for Android Updated with UI Overhaul

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

RealPlayer, a company that used to be engrained in the very fabric of the web when it came to playing back audio and video, has fallen a bit off the map lately. Their recently released Android app isn’t necessarily creating and big splashes, but they have taken the critique and criticism to heart and put [...]

New CherryPad to Rise in Price with Addition of 1GHz CPU, 7-inch Capacitive Touchscreen

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

Just about the only thing the original CherryPad had going for it was its price tag set below $200. For that price you got just about what you paid for, so complaining about it was a futile exercise. Or was it? Specs are starting to leak on the followup to the CherryPad, and while it [...]

An Eerily Familiar Samsung Phone Passes the FCC, Is it the Vibrant 4G for T-Mobile?

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

The Samsung SGH-T959V just made its way through the FCC, and if we had to bet the farm on it we’d say this device is almost definitely the Vibrant 4G slated for T-Mobile. The outline looks all too familiar, and the model number matches the original Vibrant’s SGH-T959 rather closely. Throw ins AWS support, a [...]

Samsung Website Teaser Hints at Galaxy S2 for MWC 2011

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

The very same teaser site that dangled the original Samsung Galaxy S before our eyes is at it again, this time promising the “next evolution in Samsung Mobile” at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The site also gives a few other little quotables, including “Evolution is fate” and “something big is coming.” We [...]

HTC ThunderBolt to Feature Simultaneous Voice and Data in LTE Coverage, More Evidence it Could Launch Last Week of February along with Samsung’s 4G LTE Smartphone

by Kevin Krause on January 19th, 2011

While we can’t say the same for Verizon’s shiny new iPhone, it looks like the HTC Thunderbolt will be on of the first devices on Big Red’s network to support simultaneous voice and data. The fact seemed to be overlooked when the training documents first showed up yesterday. It was revealed at CES that certain [...]

Apple COO Tim Cook Says Android Tablets are ‘Bizarre’

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

Just because Steve Jobs is take a leave of absence for his health doesn’t mean COO and acting head of Apple Tim Cook doesn’t want to have a go at it. In an earning call today Cook discussed his feelings about the iPad’s competition, knocking Windows tablets for being “big, heavy, and expensive” and called [...]

SeamlessWeb Hits Android for all Your Delivery and Takeout Needs

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

When getting off the couch is just a bit too much work, as long as your phone is within reach you don’t have to go hungry. Now ordering food is easier than ever thanks to SeamlessWeb, now available on the Android Market. Currently only available in 14 cities, the nation’s leading online food ordering service [...]

Another Samsung S5830 Galaxy Ace Shot Reaches the ‘Nets

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

While most — if not all — the information we could learn about the Samsung S5830 before MWC in Barcelona was revealed yesterday, the phone that will be called the Ace or Cooper depending on where you buy it has yet again been captured on camera. The shot doesn’t do anything to tell us more [...]

Why We Aren’t Running a Story on the Claim that Carriers Are Refusing to Pay Samsung for Android 2.2 Updates

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

For the past two or three days the fine readers of this site have been bombarding us with a link to a certain post on XDA pertaining to the Android 2.2 updates for US Samsung Galaxy S devices. If you want to read it, feel free to head over to XDA’s forums and check it [...]

T-Pain’s Own Nappy Boy Entertainment Presents Booty Symphony for Android

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

Here is another story you guys can whine “slow news day?” about. T-Pain, the fine purveyor of all things auto-tune, and his Nappy Boy Entertainment have just launched a new Android app called Booty Symphony. What exactly is a Booty Symphony? I’m not quite sure, and the internationally-clad ladies in the below video aren’t doing [...]

Don’t Panic! Lost Cricket Android Costume Has Been Found

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

Yesterday came the tragic tale that the Cricket crew had managed to lose a six foot tall Android costume that they valued at $4,500 right off the back of a pickup truck. But this story has no sad ending, our big Android friend has been recovered after spending the evening out in the elements next [...]

‘New Every Two’ Officially Done at Verizon

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

We all knew it was coming, but an update to Verizon’s official FAQ has sounded the final death knell for the ‘New Every Two’ program allowing customers to upgrade their handset at a discounted cost every two years. New lines and new customers will, as of now, not be eligible for discounted upgrades every two [...]

LG: Smartphones with 3D Displays are Coming, Optimus 2X Headed to Australia this Spring

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

A pair of mostly unrelated LG stories here: During CES the Korean phone maker showed off a bit of functional glasses-free 3D technology housed in a non-functional smartphone casing. The 4.3-inch LCD display uses applied parallax barrier technology to create its 3D effect, and could be making its way to a working handset shortly, says [...]

Aldiko eReader Updated to Version 2.0

by Kevin Krause on January 18th, 2011

While Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and the more recent Google Books eat up most of the limelight when it comes to eReading on your Android, Aldiko is one app that has been chugging along and doing its thing for a little while now that hasn’t received quite as much attention. The eReader for everyone else, [...]