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Tonight on the Android Guys Thursday Night Droid-cast stream, (wow that is a mouthful) #36 (wait wasn't #36... Read More »
Archive for January 2011
Samsung S5830 Headed to MWC?
We've gotten a few leaked images of yet another Samsung Galaxy S device. It's the S5830, and word has it that we'll see it at Mobile World Congress next month. Read More »
Five Reasons Why the EVO Shift 4G is Not Just a “Smaller EVO With a Keyboard”
Sprint began airing a revised "Accolades" commercial this week, featuring a brief mention of the new EVO Shift... Read More »
GameTanium to Debut Games on Demand Service for Android
Gamesbeat, a publication of venturebeat.com is reporting today that there is a new subscription game service coming to... Read More »
The Android Community Means Nothing Apparently
To T-Mobile and Samsung that is. Before I launch into my textual rant that has loving become known... Read More »
Samsung Creates Mini-Site for Galaxy Player 50, Says it’s “Made for Heroes” [VIDEO]
Samsung has created an entire mini-site for their new Android 2.1-based Galaxy Player 50. As some of you know, the first Android powered MP3 device is now making its way across the UK, after which we hope to see it come stateside. The site gives visitors everything they need to know about the MP3 player, including a bunch of related videos. Read More »
Virgin Mobile Latest to Hang Up on Unlimited Data
Virgin Mobile has become the latest company to say good-bye to unlimited data plans. Effective February 15th, users on the pre-paid network will find their normal data transfer capped at 5GB with any overages resulting in much slower speeds. It's essentially the same model that T-Mobile employs and, really, should be no problem for a majority of users. Read More »
Sprint’s Galaxy Tab Gets Trimmed Down to $299 with Contract
Sprint recently shaved $100 of the price of their Galaxy Tab where they now list it at $299.99 with a two-year agreement. That's a considerable chunk of money for a device that's but a few months old. There are plenty of reasons as to why Sprint and Samsung might be dropping the price. Read More »
Millennial Media Reports Findings on Android Growth
Mobile advertising platform, Millennial Media released some interesting market analysis today, showing that Android has surpassed the iPhone on their ad network in terms of ad impressions and overall revenue. This info can be taken as as indicator as to the continued growth of the Android OS, always good news for people like us! Read More »
Tweetcaster Lets You Tell Tweeters to Zip It
With Tivo, I almost never watch live TV, delaying even big games and season finales so that I can skip the ads. But since I always have one eye on Twitter, occasionally a surprise is spoiled when I see someone tweet who's watching in real time. Handmark's Twitter client Tweetcaster has added a feature that will help solve that problem. Read More »
YouTube App Adds Music Videos, Pre-Roll Ads
Google's YouTube team announced Wednesday that a new set of music videos from the likes of Lady Gaga, Bob Dylan, and Kanye West, is now available to those using the latest version of the YouTube app, which requires Android 2.2 or higher. Previously, from major-music-label-backed video distributor VEVO, whose YouTube videos all include a short pre-roll VEVO branding ad, were not available via the app. Based on statements later in the announcement, it sounds like enabling those pre-roll ads was the key to adding VEVO's content to the app Read More »
Intercept to Get Froyo in a Few Months (Virgin Mobile)
Well, at least this Samsung phone is getting updated to Froyo. Pre-paid wireless provider Virgin Mobile announced via Twitter that the Intercept, an 800 Mhz landscape slider that launched at Target stores last fall, will be upgraded to Android 2.2 "sometime this spring." Read More »
ABBYY Releases ‘Business Card Reader’ on Android
ABBYY, a key player in the fields of document recognition and linguistic technologies, announced they've brought their popular Business Card Reader app to Android. Much like its Symbian and iOS counterparts, the app lets use transfer information from business cards directly to the phone's contacts. Read More »
Google Translate Adds “Conversation Mode”
Since it debuted a year ago, Google Translate has been one of those apps that seems a little like magic, especially to those of us who grew up reading about the Babel fish in Douglas Adams' novels. Google has just released a new version of the app that takes us a step closer to having a Babel fish in the ear. Read More »
Acer Liquid Mini Passes FCC, AT&T-Bound?
The Acer Liquid Mini has just passed FCC certification, and it's using AT&T's 3G bands. Of course, this doesn't confirm that the Mini will be on AT&T, but I wouldn't bet on it going anywhere else. Read More »
