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AGTN Tonight: Kevin Purdy, a Give-Away, and You!
Dear listeners, you complete us. So tune in tonight at 10PM Eastern, 7PM Pacific, for the Android Guys Thursday Night podcast, this week with special guest Kevin Purdy of Lifehacker. We’ll talk to Kevin about a book he’s working on, The Complete Guide to Android. You may …
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Google Will Announce Market Enhancements Tomorrow
We’ve been wondering all day what Google will be announcing tomorrow, and we now have enough hints to make a fairly confident prediction: they will be announcing enhancements to the Android Market. First, one of our readers tipped us off to the fact that a couple changes …
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First Look at New HTC/Verizon World Phone
AndroidGuys.com has just received exclusive photos of a new HTC Android phone that will not be released by Verizon til 2011. The Verizon-branded prototype also included a Vodaphone SIM card, indicating that it will run on both CDMA and GSM networks.
Click through for specs and more photos!
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Wallpaper Apps Exonerated, Google Posts Guidelines (UPDATED)
Last week, we were among dozens of media outlets that reported that sketchy wallpaper apps were sending your personal data to servers in China. It turns out, those claims were greatly exaggerated, and after removing the apps from the Market to investigate, Google has now …
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Is Google Selling Out Net Neutrality? (UPDATED)
Google has long championed the ideals of Net Neutrality: the idea that users should have equal access to the internet, and that ISPs (and the government) should not prioritize some traffic over other traffic. But the New York Times is reporting that Google is currently …
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Nearly Two Thirds of Android Users on 2.1 or Above
The now familiar Platform Version Chart has been updated at the Android Developers site, and for the period ending August 2, it shows nearly 2/3 of users on 2.1 or 2.2. Android 2.1 accounts for 59.7%, and 2.2 for 4.5%. Together, that’s 64.2%. With the …
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200,000 Android Activations Every Day
Remember how exciting it was, at the beginning of the year, to hear that 60,000 new Android phones were being activated each day? Then at Google I/O in May, Vic Gundotra announced it was up to 100,000 a day. And then not long after, that …
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Rdio Out of Beta, Offering Free Trials
When we mentioned Rdio a couple weeks ago, it was in closed beta, with invites few and far between. The social music services is now out of beta and open to anyone in the U.S. and Canada: exciting news for those of us in the …
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(UPDATED) Sorting Out Changes to the Android Developer Agreement
Update: A kindly developer who remembers the details of the previous version of the agreement has corrected us on several points. See below. As we reported on Saturday, Android developers have been notified of an updated version of the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement. We …
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A Spammer Responds: “We Will Flood the Android Market”
When we reported on AppBrain’s claim that 6,000 spam apps from three developers had disappeared from the Market, we naturally wanted to confirm whether Google had in fact removed them, or if the developers had done so themselves. We haven’t heard anything from Google, but …
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App Review: Ratio
Ratio, a great app for anyone who likes to cook, was for quite a while one of the few things I was jealous of on the iPhone platform. No more: it’s now available for Android. One of my other hobbies, besides Android enthusiasm, is cooking, …
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More Payment Options for the Android Market
In a short post on the Android Developers Blog, Google’s Tim Bray mentions that the Android team is working on “introducing new payment options” for the Android Market. Based on the portions of the Developer Agreement that are changing, it sounds like the change will involve …
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Android Market Will Hit 100,000 Apps This Month
The graph speaks for itself. According to Android Market web interface AndroLib.com, the Android Market now offers users more than 90,000 apps, and is on pace to end the month in six figures. It will reach this milestone several months shy of its second birthday. …
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Take the Paid App Pledge!
Android users get a bad rap. They say we expect apps to be free, that we won’t pay for apps like users of other platforms will, and that consequently it’s not worth developers’ time to work on Android apps. Let’s prove ‘em wrong. Here’s an …
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