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Android wasn’t much of a focus on Google’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call, as there were bigger fish to fry, but there were a few interesting nuggets along the way. At the end of 2010, search on mobile devices grew four times more than the previous year. That’s good news indeed, but it was Android devices…
We’ve seen the Desire get its HD sequel and we were pretty impressed, but it looks like HTC just isn’t through with their Desire line just yet. The picture above may actually be what will be the HTC Desire 2. What basically looks like a black Nexus One with a front-facing camera, the Desire 2…
After rumors and leaks coming down the pipe for some time now, T-Mobile has officially announced their Samsung Vibrant successor, the Galaxy S 4G. So what’s this thing do that the original Vibrant can not? Well, for starters, the Galaxy S 4G supports Magenta’s 4G HSPA+ network. And, the handset ships with Android 2.2 Froyo…
It’s about that time folks – the time to run down the Top 10 tablets that we’re expecting to see in 2011. Now that the flood gates on this year’s wave of high-powered tablets aimed at the heart of Apple’s iPad, we know more about what 2011 will bring us in the tablet space. We…
The headline says it all, folks. Or does it? A recent study shows that users with the little green robot on their phones are more likely to upgrade to another Android device than an iPhone user is to upgrade to another iPhone. This may come as a surprise to some, but when you think about…
We’ve seen this fanboy war go back and forth for some time now. As Android grows, more and more of these users are gaining a large disdain for the iPhone, and Apple, in general. Apple fans return with their rebuttals, and the cycle goes on. This won’t stop anytime soon, but at least one Android…
Verizon’s 2nd Galaxy S phone, the Samsung Continuum, is one of the more unique Android handsets out there due to its secondary “ticker” display. It still has all of the innards that make up most Galaxy S devices, but is shrinking the primary display just to add a smaller secondary display worth it? Verizon Samsung…
CyanogenMod nightlies have returned, and this time around they are packing Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. Announced just yesterday, I loaded the CyanogenMod RC0 on my T-Mobile G2 as soon as I saw it, and I’m liking what I see. Nightlies ceased being published around the time the Android 2.3 Gingerbread source code was dropped, presumably…
T-Mobile just dropped the price of the G2 to the low, low price of FREE – as a web-only discount, that is. If you’re in the market for one of the nicest phones that T-Mobile offers, then you can’t beat one that’s free! While the G2 is a step down in the specs-arena from the…
The only mention-worthy Android Honeycomb tablet that’s headed to the US and is not the Motorola Xoom has got to be the upcoming T-Mobile LG G-Slate. Made by LG, the G-Slate will be the first 4G Honeycomb tablet to become available, and Magenta just put up an information page up for the device, in case…