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[2 Sep 2010 | View Comments | ]

At the IFA con­sumer elec­tron­ics show in Berlin, Ger­many, Sam­sung made their long-awaited Android tablet offi­cial. The Galaxy Tab sports a 7 inch touch­screen dis­play with a res­o­lu­tion of 1024 x 600. Inside, the Tab runs on a Cor­tex A8 1 GHz proces­sor with 512 MB of RAM on Android 2.2. In terms of storage, […]

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[31 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Seen above is the suc­ces­sor the T-Mobile G1, the G2. The G1 was the very first Android phone ever released, so it makes sense for the G1’s replace­ment to pack the same type of inno­va­tion as its lit­tle brother. It looks like the G2 will be run­ning stock Android 2.2 — with­out any HTC Sense. Cur­rently, the phone […]

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[30 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Hey look, what do we have here, com­plete details about the next Android smart­phone launch­ing on Big Red. The Sam­sung Fas­ci­nate is the last phone in the Galaxy S Series to be released in the US. AFter the Sam­sung launches the Fas­ci­nate, they will have com­pleted  launch­ing phones on every major car­rier in the US. All of the Fascinate’s […]

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[18 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Today, the Sim­Flecks Team had the oppor­tu­nity to unbox the Droid 2. Check out the video after the break:

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[13 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

We know that you are already enjoy­ing some Android Froyo sweet­ness on your orig­i­nal Droid. (If not, you can install man­u­ally here.) But Ver­i­zon just issued a state­ment con­firm­ing that another OTA update will be com­ing soon to add Adobe Flash Player to your phone. When you installed Android 2.2, you might have won­dered where exactly […]

TweetDeck beta for Android now available

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[12 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Today, it was announced that Tweet­Deck was releas­ing their Android app into beta test­ing via their web­site. Over a year ago, spec­u­la­tion started to form as to whether Tweet­Deck was in the process of devel­op­ing an app for Android, and now we can see what the app will look like. While the amount of Twit­ter apps on the […]

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[12 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Chrome to Phone is def­i­nitely a fea­ture that has been around, and was announced way back in May with Froyo, but today Chrome to Phone became an offi­cial Android app. Chrome to Phone is essen­tially a plug-in for your Chrome browser that lets you send links instantly to your Android 2.2 phone. With cer­tain web­sites, your Android […]

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[12 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Today, Google Mobile announced their lat­est app for Android, Voice Actions. Voice Actions lets you send text mes­sages, send an email, find music on the web, and a lot more. Alto­gether, there are 12 voice actions for Android, plus the nor­mal Google search. The voice actions are pretty intu­itive, and it doesn’t take long to learn all […]

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[11 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Tonight, Sprint finally released the infor­ma­tion for their next 4G phone, the Sam­sung Galaxy vari­ant, the Sam­sung Epic. The phone will be avail­able Tues­day, August 31st for $249 (after $150 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate). No pre-order option now, but Sprint is tak­ing reser­va­tions this Fri­day for the Sam­sung Epic. The phone will ship with […]

Android, Breaking News »

[10 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

After leak­ing all over the web for the last 2 months, the Droid 2 has finally been offi­cially announced by the folks at Ver­i­zon Wire­less and Motorola. The Droid 2 fea­tures a redesigned key­board with big­ger keys and the newest Android OS 2.2 (FroYo). Ver­i­zon is also includ­ing a mobile hotspot fea­ture, the same type of application […]

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[3 Aug 2010 | View Comments | ]

Wait­ing for a OTA update to save the day for all those Droid own­ers? Well keep wait­ing. But if you’re inter­ested in installing Froyo man­u­ally, feel free to help your­self. The offi­cial file from Google’s servers are ready for down­load and install. How­ever, if you rooted your phone and are not on stock 2.1, then you’re […]

Android, E-Readers »

[22 Jul 2010 | View Comments | ]

You know that we love the Nook, and Android devices, so nat­u­rally a Nook Android App would be a per­fect addi­tion to Android devices run­ning soft­ware 1.6 and higher. With Android phones becom­ing even big­ger by the minute, (Evo, Droid X, Dell Streak) eBook read­ing will even­tu­ally become more enjoy­able on these big­ger screens. One […]