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MouthOff for Android Arrives
Popular iPhone “game” MouthOff has made its way over to Android. With MouthOff, users can hold their handset in front of your mouth and sing, talk, yell, or laugh to get the animated mouth to work.  The app mouths move in real-time by using sound …
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ARM Making It Easier to Develop, Deploy ‘droid Devices
Open Handset Alliance member ARM, has created the Android Solutions Center to help make it easier for other companies to build Android-based handsets and devices. There over 35 members involved in the ARM Connected Community working to bring about Android gadgets, including Archos, Texas Instruments, …
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Flurry Pegs Droid Sales at 250,000 in First Week
We previously reported that first weekend sales figures for Verizon’s Droid were somewhere in the 100,000 units ballpark. Those figures were based on an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech Inc.’s estimates. Is there anything to substantiate that claim? As it turns out, there is one report …
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Diagnosing Sporadic Errors
Face it: apps are bound to break in the field. Learn some tips for dealing with remote crashes in today’s episode of Building ‘Droids!
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Thank You Verizon But “No Cigar”
Just to put disclaimer first: I wanted Droid! I dreamed about it! I was totally in love with Verizon’s ad. It was exciting, it was all good. But as often happens with online affairs the love fest was cut short when reality showed up her …
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Zii Optimized Android Handset to Debut in December
Creative Technology’s Zii endeavor appears to be picking up steam and Android looks to be an integral part of its future. After starting out with the ZiiEGG back in the summer, Creative has expanded to other devices like the MediaBook. According to a website Creative …
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Audio Issues Plaguing Droid Owners
We’ve seen a few reports of Droid owners experiencing audio issues with ringers and sms volume over the last few days. Apparently, it’s not something isolated to a select few users and affects people in different ways. The most common problem can be described as …
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Sprint Working on “Maintenance Release” for Hero
Those of you who own the Sprint Hero will be happy to know that a maintenance release for Android is in the works. While it’s not an upgrade to 1.6 or 2.0, it’s essentially a patch update to fix those pesky SMS issues. According to …
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Leaving T-Mobile Behind for Verizon Droid
Anyone following the invasion of the Droid can see a plethora of reviews on PhoneDog, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report among others. So I will spare you the redundancy since those guys do reviews for a living and are much better at it than I. What …
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February Release for Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
The sexiest Android handset we’ve seen so far it the Xperia X10 from Sony Ericsson. Officially announced only days ago, we’re anxious to find out three things – Who is going to carry it? When is it coming out? And most importantly, how much? Well, …
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Can Hardware Keep Up With Android?
Since the G1 rolled out a year ago, there’s one question that continues to burn the cilia of my ear. “Does the phone lag?” Why does this bother me so much? It seems like a fair question, doesn’t it? Does it lag? Well, why should …
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T-Mobile Rounds out 2009 with 4th Android Handset – Behold II Announced
T-Mobile USA has officially announced their 4th Android handset as the Samsung Behold II. A touch-only device, the Behold II is both Android-based and TouchWiz interface. Starting November 18th, the phone goes on sale online and at T-Mobile stores nationwide, the phone will drop at …
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Google Pushes Source Code for Android 2.0 – Developers Push it to G1 Within Hours
Android 2.0 SDK has been available for a few weeks now, but the source code has been held hostage. The word around the campfire is that Google hasn’t been too forthcoming with it. Most handset manufacturers have been stuck messing with Android 1.6 instead. No …
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Duarlander Promises Consistent Android Experiences
The issue of Android fragmentation is a legitimate one but has a much greater effect on developers than consumers. We, as consumers, want your app to work on our phone, period. Your job as a developer is to insure that it does just that. And …
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Book of Phone Wars 1:1
A recent article detailing the release of the Droid included this sentence. So, at midnight last night, the world experienced Android 2.0 for the very first time. And the world was happy. The last sentence had a very Biblical tone or maybe I just read …
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