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Even with existing and upcoming mobile payment solutions, PayPal, is making easier than ever by integrating NFC into its mobile app for Android devices. Whether you like it or not, NFC will eventually be everywhere and smartphones will be its first stop. The video below shows just how simple PayPal has made it to send…
If you have been waiting for a NVIDIA Tegra 2-toting Android handset for the Sprint network, your wait is coming to an end. Today Sprint officially announced the Motorola Photon 4G, which will arrive on store shelves on July 31st for $199 on a new two-year contract. The Photon 4G features a 4.3 inch qHD…
If you haven’t noticed, megapixel count in mobile phones aren’t everything and the iPhone 4’s 5 megapixel camera has put most Android phones with 8 megapixel cameras to shame. Enter the myTouch 4G Slide, which HTC is saying has the most advanced camera to date on a mobile phone. Well, we put the to hot…
In its short lifespan, the Android OS has gone from a tiny blip on the radar to the most used mobile operating system in the world. The OS itself is growing like wildfire and while iOS still holds the largest amount of applications in the mobile space, Android certainly isn’t in short supply. I’ve owned…
While I love the uber-popular custom Android ROM, CyanogenMod, I loved the option to easily take a screenshot with my G2X before I jumped out of the stock software. Well, the CM7 team is finally bringing native screenshots to the next build of the ROM and you can grab it now from the nightly builds…
Google recently released the most up to date Android version stats for the last two weeks ending on July 5th, and while there are now a few new API levels to look at, the report remains largely the same from previous months. While Android 2.2 Froyo remains the most used version of the OS, Gingerbread…
Unfulfilled promises are Motorola’s specialty. From never mentioning the name MotoBlur again to shipping handsets with unlocked bootloaders, Motorola’s wrap isn’t the shiniest of Android’s manufacturers. Case in point, the Motorola Droid 3 that launched yesterday does indeed ship with a locked bootloader, making custom ROMs a no go for the time being. Although Motorola…
If you’re not completely in love with the built-in voice actions that Google provides for your Android handset, you’re probably using Vlingo right now. This voice control application is one of the best alternatives you can find today and it recently got the bump to version 3.0. So what’s different in Vlingo 3.0, you ask?…
Whether you like it or not Verizon’s tiered data plans are now in place for new customers and there’s little you can do about it. To help customers monitor their data usage Verizon will not begin to send free texts messages after a user passes a certain amount of data used. Verizon will now begin…
The first dual-core LTE handset for Verizon has been spotted with a new design that’s certainly more appealing than its previous clunky hardware we saw earlier this year. Oddly enough, the Droid Bionic’s redesign is so drastic it looks as if Motorola has just repackaged the handset into another existing design, which looks somewhat similar…