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Netflix product developer Greg Peters confirmed on Friday that Netflix streaming will come to select Android handsets in early 2011. In a lengthy blog post, Peters discusses Android and the problems Netflix has encountered while trying to develop a version of its popular streaming application for this mobile platform. According to Peters, Netflix has struggled…
Best Buy Mobile usually always has great deals for phones, and Black Friday ensures the same great deals. The day after Thanksgiving, Best Buy will be selling a couple of Android handsets for only a dollar on a new two-year contract, as well as discounting the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Funny enough, as good as this…
One of the newest kids on the block, the HTC Desire HD, is an Android-powered force to be reckoned with. It’s the phone that the EVO wishes it could be. Today while fiddling around with the thing, I received a notification that a system update was available for it. The update is rather small, and…
Oh man, talk about something that’s painful to watch. The folks over at EZ Grill have put together a viral video to show off its BBQ and it decided to do a torture test of the Apple iPhone 4, the HTC Surround and the T-Mobile G2. This is painful for me because these are all…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is now available on Verizon, so you can get your Android-tablet backed by Big Red’s 3G network. Interestingly enough, Verizon is not offering a subsidy on the Samsung Galaxy Tab even if you sign a new, two-year data contract. The 7-inch Android tablet will cost $599 with or without a data…
While you probably already know that the next major version of the Android operating system, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, could launch at any moment now, Google Mobile just solidified this fact. According to a recent tweet, @GoogleMobile had this to say, “Our cafes are baking something sweet.” The picture above was attached to this tweet. So…
Man, first Videotron launches as the only carrier in Canada to subsidize the Nexus One, and then brings the XT720 Motoroi to North America, and now they’re the first to snag this entry-level Motorola Spice that landed in Brazil last month. In the same breath, Videotron also temporarily went live with the same LG dLite…
According to an anonymous source of FrAndroid, someone has come out and given some clarifications on the specifications of the upcoming/rumored Samsung Galaxy S 2. The American code name for the GS2 is the Samsung Elite, and may hilariously enough be called the Dwarf in Europe, but maybe that’s just a bad Google Translation. If…
The popular BlackBerry application, Tether, is now available for Android handsets. Formerly known asTetherBerry, Tether lets you share your mobile broadband connection with your laptop. The application installs a conduit on your laptop that connects to the tethering application on your handset. The two work together to make the install and configuration drop dead easy. Speeds…
Every time we see something from The Astonishing Tribe, or TAT, we immediately want it, and then find out that it will not be released on the Android Market. This time around, however, TAT is offering up three new live wallpapers on the Android Market. The only problem is that I definitely don’t want any…