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Entertainment

Creationary: A fun LEGO game on your phone

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You’ve played Pictionary, right? The legendary boardgame where you have to guess what your teammate is drawing. Well Lego, as part of their new board game series have decided to release Creationary as an And…

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Productivity

Do It (Tomorrow): A To Do App Done Right

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If there’s one thing that has annoyed me about pretty much every to-do list application available for Android it’s their complexity. To-do lists are basic in nature so why complicate an applicat…

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Android Phones

Motorola XPRT: Sprint’s Own Droid Pro [Review]

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It seems like the wars between the major cell phone companies are always crossing borders. We often get an Android device that looks oddly like an iPhone, or a new Blackberry that borrows some design features fr…

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Motorola

Is this the Droid HD, Motorola’s next high-end Android phone?

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The Motorola Droid Bionic has the distinction of being the highest-powered and most-talked-about phone in Motorola’s pipeline. But how long will the Droid Bionic be able to say that with the Droid HD cl…

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HTC

HTC Ruby will be dubbed HTC Amaze 4G instead [Rumor]

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What was once known as the HTC Ruby, will be officially dubbed HTC Amaze 4G for its release on USA carrier T-Mobile, and could very well be released right alongside the Samsung Hercules relatively soon. B…

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Android App Reviews

Busuu – New languages can be fun, interesting, and wrought with payments [App Review]

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Busuu is a language learning app which helps users dive right into a multitude of languages with a nice interface. The app certainly won’t replace classes, but it’s a good start for learning a few o…

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Carriers

Are good phones more important than good customer service?

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T-Mobile USA routinely gets rated as the top carrier when it comes to customer satisfaction of in-store purchases. JD Power & Associates has awarded T-Mo top ratings for as long as I can remember; yet, T-Mo…

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Android Games

Bord: Turn your phone into a chalkboard [App Reviews]

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The Android Market is full of applications for kids ranging from puzzles to interactive learning games. Obviously the developers are aware that not many toddlers have Android smartphones so they aim them at t…

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Android Games

Minecraft for Android now available for Xperia Play, other Androids to follow

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Minecraft is addictive; or so I’ve been told by the many people who play the game. I can’t afford to add another game to drain my limited hours in the day, so I haven’t tested the waters yet. Tho…

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Android App Reviews

AnimGIF sets any animated .GIF as your live wallpaper [App Reviews]

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I recently discovered the joy and unfettered awesomeness that is the cinematic gif. Soon after, I started wishing that there was a way to set some of these images as my live wallpaper. So imagine how happy I was to…

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Android App Reviews

LinkedIn does a major redesign of Android app [I'd hire it]

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Looking for a job? That seems to be the thing to do these days, so why not join popular business and networking site LinkedIn? The good folks at LinkedIn even went through the trouble of completely overhauling th…

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Android Phones

MIUI gets official, will power Xiaomi Phone

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MIUI started off as a hacked version of Android that merged elements of a few Android UI flavors with an Apple-like sense of design. Today, it’s on more than half a million rooted Android phones, and is hea…

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Samsung

Samsung hires CyanogenMod founder; CyanogenMod will continue on

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While the tech community was still buzzing from the news that Google plans to acquire Motorola for $12.5 billion, another important but less expensive business relationship was revealed last night. Steve Ko…

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Android App Reviews

FLUD news reader comes to Android in style [App Reviews]

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Android is not starved for options when it comes to news readers, but it certainly never hurts to have another. The latest news and RSS reader, FLUD, has arrived for Android after starring on iPhones previously…

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Android OS

Fusion Garage delivers new Android-based tablet and phone to rebound from JooJoo

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Fusion Garage failed miserably with JooJoo,the almost-named “Crunchpad” tablet before a dispute with TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington forced a name change. The JooJoo was trashed with…

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