Category Archives: Android

Amazon’s Android tablet is coming soon

By doris | Published: September 24, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The news that Amazon is building its own Android-based tablet has been an open secret for months. Next week, the mythical device is likely to be unleashed. Amazon’s (AMZN, Fortune 500) PR firm sent an invitation to journalists midday Friday announcing a press conference in New York [...]

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4G Android phone for under $100

By doris | Published: September 22, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com For Android users and those who are ready to jump ship (or jump into) the Google mobile operating system at 4G speeds, there’s a relatively low-cost smartphone coming your way: the under-$100 Pantech Breakout. Coming out Thursday (Sept.22), it’ll be available through Verizon Wireless for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate [...]

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How to get an iTunes-like experience on Android

By doris | Published: September 19, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com If you used to use an iPod Touch for all of your music, but have an Android phone, maybe you’d like to carry only one device. With your iPod, you can just use iTunes to sync, organize and manage music, but there’s no one app that lets you manage everything on [...]

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iPhone again No. 1 in customer satisfaction: J.D. Power

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com For the sixth straight time in three years, Apple’s iPhone ranks highest in customer satisfaction for smartphones, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ 2011 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study. HTC, maker of both Android and Windows smartphones, is second. When it comes to more traditional cellphones, or feature phones, Samsung [...]

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Motorola Droid Bionic available Sept. 8

By doris | Published: September 2, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com Motorola’s Droid Bionic — the company’s “Ironman” of Androids — will be available Sept. 8 from Verizon Wireless. It’s the carrier’s first 4G phone with a powerful dual-core processor. Although Verizon’s high-speed LTE 4G network has not yet rolled out across the whole nation, it already has 4G phones from LG, [...]

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Aging PC giants see the writing on the wall

By doris | Published: July 25, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley’s old guard is waking up to the fact that the era of consumer PC may be in its twilight, accelerating the need to invest and adapt to rapidly changing tastes. This week’s earnings from the giants of technology had one thing in common: they underscored yet [...]

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Android loses ground to iPhone, gains in malware threats

By doris | Published: June 21, 2011

Full Story at Android apps.com Now that Verizon’s (VZ) able to sell the iPhone, is Android’s market share suffering? A chart released from Needham’s Charlie Wolf demonstrates “The Verizon iPhone Effect,” noting Apple’s (AAPL) share of the US smartphone market gaining 12.3 percentage points to nearly 30 percentage in March, while Android’s share fell to [...]

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Nielsen: Androids are the big data hogs

By doris | Published: June 8, 2011

Full Story at cnn.com (CNN) — The days of unlimited mobile data plans are waning, as Verizon follows AT&T in reportedly moving toward tiered plans that charge users based on how much data they use. So if new research from Nielsen is correct, Android users might eventually encounter some bill shock. Nielsen analyzed nearly 65,000 [...]

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T-Mobile Will Offer Low-Cost Samsung Smartphones

By doris | Published: June 2, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com T-Mobile is rolling out two new Android-powered Samsung smartphones, the Exhibit 4G and the Gravity SMART, with post-rebate prices of less than $100 with a new two-year contract. While AT&T previewed a $70 Android-based Crossover smartphone on Tuesday, that offering is from Pantech — a brand name unfamiliar to many U.S.

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Jenga tops Android Games of the Week

By doris | Published: May 30, 2011

Full Story at  Androidapps.com More great games have found their way onto Android this week, proving once again that the OS is finally becoming an excellent source for quality titles. From the Xperia Play-specific Backbreaker 2: Vengeance, to the Tegra-powered Riptide GP, this week’s best Android games will keep you busy with their eye-popping graphics [...]

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Meet the all-new Nook

By doris | Published: May 25, 2011

Full Story at tech.Fortune.cnn.com FORTUNE — Just seven months after it announced its Android-based Nook Color tablet, Barnes and Noble (BKS) unveiled a major hardware update to the original e-ink-based Nook e-reader that cuts down on bulk, weight, and physical buttons. Available for pre-order immediately and shipping on or around June 10 for $139, the [...]

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AT&T removes Android app restrictions

By doris | Published: May 21, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (WIRED) — After years of restrictions, AT&T will now allow Android smartphone customers to install applications downloaded outside the official Android Market. The recently launched Samsung Infuse is the first of AT&T’s phones capable of installing apps from outside sources, including unofficial app stores or web links, a process called sideloading.

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