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10 Apps to Think Twice About Buying

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10 Apps to Think Twice About Buying

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Since the Android Market began letting developers cash in on their creations, worthy paid apps have slowly trickled onto G1’s across the U.S and U.K. However, quite a few Android apps are decent but not worth…

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SlideMe: an interesting Android Market alternative

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SlideMe: an interesting Android Market alternative

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Earlier this month, I posed this question: should Android developers form their own app store as an alternative to the Android Market? It turns out they already did with SlideME.org, though not to address my or…

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Rumor: Vodafone to make the HTC Magic available May 1

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Rumor: Vodafone to make the HTC Magic available May 1

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According to yet another Android related rumor, it looks like Vodafone has plans to launch the HTC Magic on May 1. The details that come along with this report are pretty light. So far, it has been mentioned that t…

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Huawei’s Android phone (once again) rumored for a Q3 2009 T-Mobile release

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Huawei’s Android phone (once again) rumored for a Q3 2009 T-Mobile release

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The rumors surrounding the upcoming availability of the Huawei phone have been circulating for several months now, in fact we already mentioned it way back in February. However it seems that this is one rumor t…

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Is Google pulling all tethering apps from the Android Market?

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Is Google pulling all tethering apps from the Android Market?

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Google seems to have made a move similar to Apple when it comes to the availability of tethering applications and has begun removing them from the Android Market. This news comes courtesy of the developer behin…

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BarTor torrent app comes out of beta

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BarTor torrent app comes out of beta

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BarTor, the app that was formerly know as ScanTorrent has come out of beta and is officially available in the Android Market. Like we mentioned a few weeks back, ScanTorrent BarTor is a torrent application that…

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Diotek brings handwriting recognition to Android

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Diotek brings handwriting recognition to Android

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Korean software company, Diotek has recently announced a handwriting recognition app for Android. The app, which seems to go by the name of DioPen for HTC appears to more interesting and proof-of-concept as o…

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Android team wants to improve Android Market

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Android team wants to improve Android Market

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The Android team hears your cries and shares your desire to improve the Android Market. Responding to a post in an Android discussion group, Google’s Dan Morrill said that engineers are exploring ways to enh…

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BuddyMob being tweaked for better communication

Android Apps

BuddyMob being tweaked for better communication

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Social networking mega-app BuddyMob is being tweaked to improve its performance on Android. Belgian-based Kiboo is enhancing and adding several BuddyMob features to improve the app that combines several s…

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Apps: Ex Reversi brings classic game to Android

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Apps: Ex Reversi brings classic game to Android

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Cronus Crown has released Ex Reversi, a Google Android version of a board game with nearly 230 years of history. The object of the game is to take an assigned color on a two-sided disk – one side light, the other d…

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Macrospecs release FriendMobilizer, a Facebook app for Android

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Macrospecs release FriendMobilizer, a Facebook app for Android

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Facebook access has just been made a little easier on Android thanks to the recent release of FriendMobilizer. The app, which is made available my Macrospecs “puts Facebook into the palm of your hand.&#…

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KTF in talks with Samsung, LG to develop Android-based handsets for Korea

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KTF in talks with Samsung, LG to develop Android-based handsets for Korea

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Previously we have seen reports that KTF was looking to launch an Android handset in Korea sometime in 2009, of course, initially there was very little information. Thankfully we now able to add a little more in…

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Latest HTC Magic rumor is suggesting a May release in Denmark

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Latest HTC Magic rumor is suggesting a May release in Denmark

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This latest bit is being placed firmly in the rumor bin, however some recent reports are suggesting that the HTC Magic will soon be available in Denmark. According to a story on mobil.nu, “reliable sourc…

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Archos to release their Android-based tablet in July?

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Archos to release their Android-based tablet in July?

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We have already heard that Archos is planning to release an Android-based Internet tablet sometime this year, and now some more details are beginning to surface. The good news here is that, while we still do not…

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HTC Magic/Sapphire cleared by FCC

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HTC Magic/Sapphire cleared by FCC

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Confirming what we all suspected, the HTC Magic (Sapphire) has been spotted with T-Mobile branding and approved by the FCC. The second HTC Android phone cleared the hurdles of the FCC approval process, which a…

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