[Weekend Poll] In A Perfect World, Who Would Manufacture The Next Nexus Phone?
This is the latest in our Weekend Poll series. For last week’s, see Will You Buy Magazines From The Play Store? Google usually releases a new Nexus phone in Q4, and we’re already firmly into Q3 –...
View Article[Deal Alert] Acer Iconia Tab A700 On Sale For Just $430, Full HD Screen And...
The Acer Iconia A700 may offer mediocre performance when compared to the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700), but it’s also normally $50 cheaper than the TF700 – to those on a budget, that may be a...
View ArticleZTE Flash Details Leaked: Packs LTE And Today’s Flagship Specs, Coming To...
As we’ve seen occasionally in the past, ZTE is capable of producing a genuinely impressive budget phone. It looks like they’re coming up to bat again, because some purported specs for an upcoming...
View Article[Weekend Poll] What Is Your Preferred Tablet Screen Size?
This is the latest in our Weekend Poll series. For last week’s, see In A Perfect World, Who Would Manufacture The Next Nexus Phone? Back in November – in the early days of true Android tablets – we...
View ArticleSamsung Starts Production Of New High-Speed Embedded Flash Storage
One complaint many people have had (particularly with Asus tablets) is that the performance of the embedded storage is just plain bad. So I ran some storage benchmarks (2 apps, 13 metrics) on 11...
View ArticleGlu Mobile Purchases Gamespy, Looks To Beef Up Multiplayer And Social Support
Just about everyone who has played a PC game in the past dozen years has probably heard of (and possibly used) GameSpy. The service, formerly owned by IGN, has been a major player in the...
View ArticleGameloft Releases Monster Life: Raise Cute Paper Monsters, Build A Kingdom,...
Gamefactory Gameloft is back with another new game, and this time it’s a papercraft game in which you nurture, build, and develop a kingdom of adorable little monsters. It’s a game that falls solidly...
View ArticleAmerican Red Cross Releases Second App Following First Aid – This One...
Just under two months ago, the American Red Cross released a genuinely impressive app called First Aid. As you’d guess from the name, it’s an app dedicated to helping you through medical emergencies;...
View ArticleOfficial Twitpic App Released For Android, Helps You Photograph Your, Like,...
Though the service’s popularity has been waning since competitors sprang up (and Twitter itself jumped in the game), Twitpic remains a major host for images on Twitter. They’re not going down without...
View Article[Weekend Poll] If Your Device Had Google Wallet Support, Would You Use The...
It’s no secret that Google Wallet got off to an extremely rough start. The service was announced nearly a year ago to a mild amount of fanfare, then almost immediately started hitting barrier after...
View ArticleCombine 3G/4G And WiFi To Download (And Destroy Your Data Cap) Faster Than Ever
For most people, you can probably pull a 3G/4G connection of a few megs. Alternatively, if you’re somewhere with WiFi (such as at home), you can probably pull a few more megs. But the two are mutually...
View ArticleOUYA Android Console Raises $8.6 Million On Kickstarter In Just Under A Month
For the past month or so, you can hardly go to any tech-related corner of the internet without running into something on OUYA (pronounced “OOO-yah”), an impressive little Android-powered console. With...
View Article[Giveaway] Win 1 Of 10 Licenses To Essentials Of Android Application...
I’ve written more than a few of these giveaways for products covering just about every aspect of Android development, and written by dozens of authors. But this one… well, this is special, because...
View ArticleCyanogen Mod 9.0 Stable Released For 21 Devices And Counting
CyanogenMod is a pretty big deal in the Android modding world, and there’s a good reason for that: it’s fast, lean, well-featured, and supports a ton of devices that manufacturers have abandoned. When...
View ArticleWebMD Releases Android App For Expecting And New Parents: WebMD Baby
Having a baby is a huge task, and anyone who has been there can attest to the fact that there is a ton you have to do ahead of time to prepare – and many times more to keep up with after. Thankfully,...
View Article[Weekend Poll] On Average, How Many Apps Do You Purchase Per Month?
This is the latest in our Weekend Poll. For last week’s, see If Your Device Had Google Wallet Support, Would You Use The Service? We’ve heard developers gripe that paid apps are very rarely successful...
View ArticleGoogorola, Phase 1: Trim Product Lines And 20% Of Workforce, Focus On Making...
Just three short months ago, China approved of Google’s purchase of Motorola, effectively finalizing the deal. Apparently neither company is looking to waste any time, as Motorola’s new Google-driven...
View ArticlePantech Marauder Review: “Budget” Isn’t Such A Bad Place To Be
While everyone loves to gush over flagship phones, the truth of the matter is that for many customers, cheaper phones – be they last-gen’s flagships or this-gen’s budget devices – are the route of...
View ArticleXiaomi Phone 2 Announced, Packs Quad-Core S4 CPU, 4.3″ 720p Display, MIUI,...
Chinese company Xiaomi (known for their popular ROM MIUI) has just announced a new phone, and this one looks to be every bit as impressive today as the original was when it was announced a year ago....
View Article[Weekend Poll] Is Your Primary Android Device Rooted?
This is the latest in our Weekend Poll series. For last week’s, see On Average, How Many Apps Do You Purchase Per Month? Look around the web and it seems like whenever anyone has a “how can I make my...
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