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After spending some time at the FCC, the Sony Ericsson X8 is now shipping alongside the eco-friendly Cedar. The two were announced together about four months ago to little fanfare, but maybe they’ll get a bit more lovin’ once they’re actually in stores. SE is toting the X8 as their most affordable Android phone to…
The brains behind Android, Mr. Andy Rubin himself, sat down recently to talk about the Google mobile operating system. He spoke to PCMag about carrier and OEM involvement of the creation of Android handsets, and the best features of the OS, and a small snippet of Gingerbread. Very small. When asked about his favorite features…
You may not remember it but Google offers free directory assistance with its Goog-411 offering but the search giant said it is hanging up on the service to focus on voice recognition technology for Android. In a blog post, the company said that Goog-411 will shut down on November 12 of this year. Our success…
Adobe AIR for Android has just been announced, and it looks like users will have a lot of new apps and features to look forward to. Android devs can now use ActionScript 3, or AS3, to create apps that run as native Android apps. Naturally, all of these apps can be made available to the…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is set to hit all four carriers by the holidays, according to the Korean manufacturer, and it looks like some models are getting pricing and launch details leaked. While the timing has made most of us curious, the pricing is really what we’re after since this Android tablet is considered a…
Motorola fans might have noticed the Droid 2 Global quickie on the website yesterday before it was pulled by the folks in charge. The quick appearance gave us a glimpse at the specs for the new Droid handset, however, and it doesn’t look like much of a slouch. In addition to global calling capabilities, this…
When I think Yahoo! Messanger, I think old people who can’t be bothered with keeping up with the times, or Asians. Anyway, it doesn’t matter if you’re a senior citizen or that your most prized possession is a rice cooker to enjoy the fact that Yahoo! is going to introduce their Messanger client for both…
Mozilla is in weird position. Two years ago everyone loved them and their browser and if you didn’t use Firefox then people looked at you like you were a 40 year old man dressing up as 13 year girl eating an ice cream cone in the middle of a winter snow storm. But then Google…
After the updated iPhone app, Waze is following up with a new Android client which now too comes with driving groups support. There are already more than 5,000 groups to choose from (created by the iPhone users) as well as the option to create your own driving group. In addition, Waze 2.0 for Android also…
The T-Mobile G2 is one of the hottest handsets to land in the hands of Android fans over the past few weeks. That is quite an honor when you consider all the new Android handsets that were recently introduced at CTIA. All was milk and honey with the G2 until an insidious self-repair mechanism was discovered…