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Android Apps

Android Apps Alert #62: Facial Recognition and Food Finding edition

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The Android Market is home to tens of thousands of apps. Your Android phone or tablet barely holds a fraction of a percentage of those apps, and you won’t need or want to have that many. That’s why Androinica.…

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Android Tricks

How to disable ads in the Android notifications menu

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A slowly growing number of Android app developers  have chosen to adopt AirPush, an advertising system that places ads in the Android notification window. I won’t get into a long-winded argument abou…

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Samsung Tablets

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Unboxing: questions, anyone?

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has technically been in my possession since May, but I never wrote a review on the limited edition Tab 10.1 because that wasn’t the version that would arrive in stores. That and…

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Motorola

Motorola Photon: Sprint gets its own Atrix that’s laptop-ready

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Were you one of the many people intrigued by the Motorola Atrix 4G but less-enthused about the network that carried it? Well, maybe the Motorola Photon, heading to Sprint this summer, is the device for you. Spri…

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Android Apps

Google working on its own BBM clone for Android [Rumor]

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Following Apple’s promise to deliver an iOS 5 messaging platform that mirrors the functionality of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been hard at work doing t…

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Android Phones

What’s your dream Android? Tell us and win an Android collectible [Contests]

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Since April 2011, new emails have touched off moments of pandemonium at Androinica HQ. I have five – count ‘em, five – Android phones linked to the same Gmail account, so hearing them all pla…

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Samsung

Samsung Galaxy S2 coming to Verizon in July [Supposedly]

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Update: Just like I suspected, the person quoted in this article misspoke. The Galaxy S II is NOT coming to Verizon next month and the company has no comment on when or if it will arrive. Here’s the article a…

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Entertainment

Voloco Android app leads cyborg band, mixes Auto Tune and Vocoder settings

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Have you ever had dreams of fronting your own band composed of robots? One man made that dream a reality by hacking together some interesting controls and developing an Android app that allows him to change his p…

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Travel

Google Maps Android app adds live schedule for mass transit in select cities

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Barely two weeks ago, Google updated its Google Maps Android app to make it easier to locate nearby transit stations and get direction. Clearly that wasn’t an advanced enough to satisfy the always-busy…

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Android OS

Does this Android app work on my phone? Android Market website quickly says Yes or No.

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There are few things on Android more frustrating than looking for the hot new Android app, only to discover that it is not compatible with your particular device. The Android Market now provides a quick confirm…

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T-Mobile

T-Mobile G2 on its way out. What’s going to replace it? [RUMOR]

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The T-Mobile G2 debuted in 2010 as a unique Android device. It had a strong processor, ran stock Android, and sported a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Anyone who wants those features may soon have to look elsewhere…

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Sony Ericsson

Verizon Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Review: Gaming God or Clunky Cell Phone?

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The beauty of Android smartphones, aside from offering an unmatched level of choice, is that they can replace the primary function of other devices. An Android smartphone is as much MP3 player and alarm clock a…

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Carriers

Cricket Expands its Smartphone Line up with the Samsung Indulge

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Cricket for the past few months has made valid strides in ramping up its Android phone line up. Today, Cricket Wireless (a subsidiary of Leap Wireless) announced its new offering, the Samsung Indulge. The Indu…

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Android

Android vs. iOS: Why the “Simpsons did it” argument means nothing [OPINION]

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South Park character Butters became a supervillain named Professor Chaos, determined to bring havoc on his snowy little town. The only problem was that every diabolic scheme he could think of had already been…

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Tablets

ViewSonic Targets eReaders with its New Android Tablet, ViewBook 730

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Today, Viewsonic announced the release of its 7 inch ViewBook 730 Android tablet. The ViewBook 730 isn’t exactly game changing, but it’s a product in the multi-purpose eReader/tablet cate…

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