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[Tecca] Get to Know Your Android OS: A Visual Candyland Chart of Android OS Sweetness
With Android moving so fast and all the different OS iterations roaming around, the average user can easily become confused. Most of the time the average consumer/user hasn’t the slightest clue that different Android OS versions even exist (or that their phone OS is called …
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Verizon LTE Coming to 28 New Markets This Week
Verizon will be expanding its blazing fast LTE network to an additional 28 markets this week making it available to a total of 102 cities across the country. Verizon’s LTE rollout is as impressively quick as the network itself and they are well on their …
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Oceanhouse Media Brings Award Winning Children’s Book “Leo the Lightning Bug” to Android
If you have children, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Oceanhouse Media. They are the leading publishers of interactive children’s book apps, such as the award winning Dr. Seuss book apps that many of us have come to love. Their high quality, interactive apps …
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According to Nielsen Research, Games Most Popular Mobile App Category in US
All your smartphone are belong to us! Apparently no one is using their smartphone to be productive, they just want to play games!
According to Nielsen research, games continue to be the most popular app category while productivity apps find themselves on the lower rungs of the ladder. This of course doesn’t surprise me one bit, what does surprise me is the fact that 93% of the people downloading games are actually willing to pay for them! Hear that developers? You’re more likely to get paid off of games vs. any other category. Chop, chop, start churning out those games!
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Consumers Getting Nearly $900 in Free Apps Per Year Via Amazon Free App of the Day
We’re always hearing (mostly by competitors) about how “fragmentation” is hurting Android, but in reality, it’s this “fragmentation” that is providing vast choices to the Android consumer. One of those “choices” happens to be Amazon’s App Store. In the beginning, many Android users were wondering where the Amazon App Store would fit in and whether or not another “App Store” was necessary. Then Amazon announced its promotional “Free App of the Day” and Android users began taking notice. Before you knew it, everyone and their mother was downloading the Amazon App Store just so they could get the “Free App of the Day.” It’s now almost the only reason why anyone even uses the Amazon App Store and it’s this very mentality which prompted Android Tapp and its parent company AsSeenOnPhone Inc. to begin analyzing the Amazon App Store and its “Free App of the Day” program.
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Qualcomm 2011/2012 Roadmap Makes Brief Apperance
A leaked Qualcomm roadmap highlighting future chipsets and their possible release times made a brief appearance before ultimately being pulled. As with all leaked documents, things are subject to change so try not to take this information as “absolute truth” if you know what I mean. According to the leaked roadmap we can expect the dual-core, LTE, HSPA, and HSPA+ chips by the end of Q4 2011. These chips will be clocked at about 1.5 and 1.7 GHz and will feature an Adreno 225 GPU.
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OfficeMax Mobile Print Center: On-the-go Printing Made Easy
OfficeMax aims to make my life a tad bit easier thanks to their newly released Print Center app. With OfficeMax Print Center, I can upload, customize and schedule just about any document or image to be printed and picked up at any of OfficeMax’s 900+ ImPress® Print Centers.
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Taiwan Slaps Google With $1 Million NT Fine
It would seem that Taiwan, like most Android users, disagrees heavily with Google’s 15-minute app refund policy. In fact, they have deemed it unlawful and have slapped Google with a hefty fine (US$345,500) for not complying with a June 4th request to revise their app sales and service provisions.
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Doodle Grub Snakes its Way Into the Android Market
A cute and colorful adaptation of the classic “Snake” game has slithered its way to Android thanks to the guys over at Pixowl Inc. Originally developed for iOS, Doodle Grub’s popularity encouraged its developers to bring the game to other platforms such as Android and …
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HTC Glamor Spotted in the Closet, Possibly a Cross Dressing HTC Bliss?
Anyone remember that rumor about HTC’s female-centric experiment codenamed “Bliss?” Well, it seems that another female-based HTC phone has been spotted hanging in a closet, which gives us the hint of a female target audience. Anyway, not much (if anything) is known about this “glamorous” device, …
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Tears for Tiers: A Look Inside Verizon’s Imminent Tiered Data Pricing
I’m sure by now you’ve heard about Verizon’s plan to adopt tiered data pricing. The blogs have been buzzing about it, readers have been flaming about it, and trolls… well… they’ve been trolling about it. I can’t say I’m surprised about the move, considering I’ve been a guinea pig to corporate greed for many years now. I’m often asking myself: “Why do I allow these companies to continually rip me off?” And, like most people, I just sit there and take it. Sure, we’ll complain about it, but do we ever do anything about it? I mean, if Verizon is such a bastardization of a company, why don’t we just switch carriers?
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Best Buy Announces its Music Cloud Service
Thanks to Best Buy, Android users now have yet another metaphor wielding service in which to upload their music libraries to. Introducing “Best Buy Music Cloud,” a cross-platform music service that allows Android, Apple (no premium service for you), and Blackberry users access to their digital music collection on-the-go.
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[PSA] Lookout Identifies New Android Trojan, GGTracker – Mimics Android Market
Lookout, the #1 security app for Android, has identified a new Trojan, this time affecting Android users in the U.S. This new threat called “GGTracker” misleads users via in-app advertisements that prompt users to download seemingly legitimate applications from a fake (but convincing) Android Market. …
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