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Android Market – New Countries
After allowing developers from more countries to sell apps, Google said that they would give access to paid apps to users from more countries. Well, it happened yesterday, now paid apps are available in: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, …
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Paid Apps soon available in More Countries
As you might know, you can buy Paid apps in the Market only if you are located in a country from a list of only the few available. Well, the Android Market Team just sent an email to all the developers to let them know …
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Impressions on the HTC London Event
As you heard by now, HTC has announced in London two new phones, the Desire HD and Desire Z (“z” or “zee”, you can say both apparently). The sexy handsets will be available from most European carriers starting around mid-October. While we don’t have a …
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Manage a Nexus One with Broken Power Button [Updated]
Google’s Nexus One has been, or still is for some users, one of the best Android handset available. However it is far from being the perfect device we would all want to own. They have been reports of problems with the 3G signal, the quality and …
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Android Piracy Heat Map
We have heard and reported that piracy is an ongoing and growing problem on Android. One new study from KeyesLabs, the developers behind Screebl Pro and AAL (an open source Automatic Application Licensing), brings us a new perspective on the issue.
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Analysis of the Android Trojan
Jon Oberheide, the security expert who managed to get his hands on the first trojan for Android, has published an analysis of the code that gives us a better idea of the risk. The APK clearly states that the application is requesting permissions to send …
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Geeks’Phone’s CCR Program: a Real Open Source Phone
Each time a new Android phone is released, groups of power users will try to improve it by digging into Android source code and by cooking ROMs. The path they choose is not easy: They have to do guesswork or reverse engineering and often they …
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Alcatel OT-980 Launching in France for Budget-Minded Consumers
French website SmartPhoneFrance (In English via Google Translate) managed to get a preview unit of the upcoming Alcatel OT-980. This phone is an entry level that was first unveiled at MWC last February and will be available later this summer in France. The major difference between …
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App Inventor for Android
Google just released App Inventor for Android, a web based application builder that will help aspiring young developers create Android applications with just few drags and drops and no need to learn Java or type one line of code. There are plenty of tutorials and …
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Android SDK Updated
Google announced on the Android Developers blog that the Android 2.2 SDK has been updated to match the most recent system image that was pushed to the Nexus One (FRF91). In the post, Android SDK Tech Lead Xavier Ducrohet says: As you may have noticed, the source code …
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HTC Announced Release of 2.1 for GSM Hero
The long, way too long, wait for HTC GSM Hero users should be over soon. HTC Taiwan announced the release of 2.1 for this phone via their Plurk account. So… it should start today. The CDMA version got the update just a couple of weeks ago …
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Exploded Andy T-shirts or Poster
Looking to add another Android-related t-shirt to your complete collection from Android Swag? You’ll want to check out what graphic artist Garry Booth has created. He has a designed a shirt that gives a beautiful exploded view of our beloved Andy the robot. You can get …
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Pre-Alpha Test This: Firefox for Android
Are you excited by the long awaited release of Fennec (Firefox for mobile devices) on Android? Then, good news, you can now download and install pre-Alpha nightly builds! As outlined in the Mozilla wiki, the app is at a very early stage of development and still …
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WeFi Report on Wi-Fi Usage
WeFi, which bills itself as “the world’s largest free Wi-Fi network,” gathered data during Q1 2010 from users of their app from over 220 countries and territories. It includes data from laptop, netbook, Symbian and Android devices (all the platforms on which the WeFi app is available). …
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