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A Poor Man’s App Store?
A year ago, as awesome as Android 1.0 was, it had a whole lot of warts. Today, with much better hardware running Android 2.0, the wider geek world is coming around to recognize Android’s potential. But in a recent TechCrunch post, Jason Kincaid pointed out …
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iPhone or Droid? [COMIC]
This one’s so much better than the last one I posted (see Darth Droid Meets the iPhone). Hope you enjoy it! Oh, and if you haven’t already, you should totally add xkcd.com to your list of frequently visited sites. It’s nothing short of pure awesomeness. …
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Droid Eris Commercial – Verizon Still Taking Shots at Apple’s 3G Network [VIDEO]
Not to be deterred by a lawsuit, Verizon is still going hard on Apple for their network, or lack thereof. The most recent example come from a commercial featuring the Droid Eris handset. Android aside, the spot is a rather clever one. The iPhone arrives …
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“I Know I Missed the iPhone, but Now I’m Taking my ‘Droid and Going Home!”
Yesterday I was watching football when I started to see a really good commercial, talking about everything the iPhone ISN’T. I was sitting there saying, hey, all that stuff sounds like Android! Then at the end of the commercial, I see droiddoes.com. I then think …
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The Last Shall Be First, and all that Jazz
In my daily inbox, I get tech updates from around the globe. I enjoy seeing the different trends and like to read what people think about the new stuff that is coming out. This morning when I opened my email I had a message from …
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A Familiar Situation
I write this today at the very real risk of further exposing my age. I’ve already divulged in articles past that I worked with Novell in the 90′s and have a lego-loving nine year old but this may serve to better pinpoint the number of …
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Don’t Hold Your Breath…
..because I don’t think we will ever see Google itself manufacture a handset for Android. One of the pieces of buzz right now is how people are wishing that Google would be like Apple and create a piece of hardware that will run the Android …
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Confessions of an AndroidGuy
Hi, my name is Sam and I am an AndroidGuy. As reported last week, I received a shiny, black HTC myTouch 3G yesterday in the mail and it already has Cyanogen’s 4.0.1. I started with 4.0.4 but for some reason the phone would not fully …
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Why My G1 Qualifies as a “Smartbook”
My T-Mobile G1 is already a smartbook, is it not? Let me explain. I can surf the web, check e-mail, download and listen to podcasts, keep up with facebook/Twitter friends, use a variety of instant message clients, use Gmail as a word processor (in a …
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Who Has Best Google Voice Experience?
Rafe Needleman of cnet/Buzz Out Loud fame has put together a little head-to-head comparison for phones that run Google Voice. Guess who came out on top? To be fair, there are really only two platforms that have official Google Voice apps – BlackBerry and Android. …
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Gmail Experience Improves for Android, Adds a Floaty Bar
The guys behind the Google Mobile team have made some nice improvements to the Gmail experience for both Android and iPhone. The subtle enhancements come in the form of faster loading and offline reading and composition but the best part is the “floaty bar” that …
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Loopt Now Available in the Android Market (PRESS RELEASE)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Dec. 11, 2008 – Looptâ, an interoperable social mapping and communication service, announced that its service is launching today to consumers through the Android Market, Google’s new mobile application store. Loopt users can share their location between carrier networks with fellow …
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AdWords Features Now Available for Android Specific Searches
Have you done a Google search on your G1 lately? Did you notice the first two results? They’re sponsored links, which means someone is putting up some money via AdWords, to get you to click on their page. This weeks sees the annoucement of new …
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Android on iPhone is One, Giant Step Closer
Thanks to the guys over at blog.iphone-dev.org, Android is moving ever so close to being run on the iPhone. Yesterday saw them announcing that they’ve reverse engineered the iPhone and first generation iPods to run Linux. The official announcement was the basis for a new …
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Google Launches its Voice-Based Search on iPhone, G1 Must Wait
Google has done it again! They’ve launched a voice based search for the iPhone and the free app is rumoured to be available on the App store, at least some time soon. Maybe today.  The engineers at Google have added the voice recognition technology …
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