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Android Games

Capcom Street Fighter Android game coming soon to LG Android phone

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Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, and those other classic Capcom characters will bring their decades of fighting experience to Android later this. LG announced today that it has obtained an three-month-long exclusive for…

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Android Hacks

CM7 update adds WiFi, sound and Android Market support to the TouchPad

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Well, it looks like the brilliant minds over at CyanogenMod have delivered its latest CM7 update, which adds WiFi, sound and limited Android Market support. This news comes after the IDC’s report of sta…

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Android App Reviews

Android Apps Alert #73: 10 Interesting Recent Android Apps

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Let’s just get down to it: there are a lot of Android apps and not enough time in the day to grab them all. That doesn’t mean  there’s no fun in trying. Each week, Androinica.com recaps the lat…

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Android Apps

Sinister Planet developer talks about Amazon app store and Android game development

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In what I hope will be the first of many Android developer interviews, I nabbed Kevin Baker, the developer of Sinister Planet, on Google+ for a discussion on his experiences with Android. Kevin Baker is a 42-yea…

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Android App Reviews

Cheetah Sync delivers simple, stellar 2-way sync for Android and computers

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Finding a good sync tool for Android is not easy. Many have come but few have managed to stay and please everyone. A new Android app known as Cheetah Sync has a nice chance of succeeding where others have failed. Ch…

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Android App Reviews

fring turns group video chat feature into an interested-based “Playgrounds” app

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I’ve seen many Google+ users ask when the Google+ Android app would support Hangouts, and my guess is that it’s not high on the priority list for now. That doesn’t mean that users have to wait…

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AT&T

AT&T vs. Verizon 4G LTE battle begins this Sunday

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AT&T has been advertising “4G” since 2010, but the HSPA+ speeds available on AT&T’s phones were well short of what most would consider to be next generation. Beginning Sunday, Se…

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Android App Reviews

SpeechTrans – A dream app for international travelers [App Review]

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One of the most wished-for devices is a universal translator. It could make talking to someone in another language far more convenient than using a translator or staring at each other using awkward, broken phr…

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Tools

Google Goggles adds optional auto-search feature from new images

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Have you ever taken a picture and wished that you could immediately have that image used for a Google Goggles search? Me neither, but Google has made that a feature so you might as well see if it was worth the develo…

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Tablets

IDC: Android’s tablet growth stalled by $99 Touchpad [duh]

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Research company IDC thinks retail demand will cool on Android tablets. After previously saying that Android ships 34 percent of the available tablets on the market, IDC thinks Android will drop to 23 percent…

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HTC

HTC Sensation XE will be first Beats Audio Android phone

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HTC’s investment in Beats Audio will have its first byproduct in the HTC Sensation XE. As the name implies, the SXE is an upgraded version of the HTC Sensation, which was already a pretty nice phone. This t…

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Lifestyle

Zombies, Run! will bring motivational story to your morning jog next year [Kickstarter]

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I’ve lost track of the number of running apps available on Android, so it’s always refreshing when one of them does something to stand out from the pack. An upcoming app known as Zombies, Run! does j…

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Android App Reviews

8pen Wordcup is a clever game that tricks you into relearning to type [Game Reviews]

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8pen never caught on as an alternative Android keyboard. The gesture-based keyboard market was rich with alternatives like Swype and SlideIt, all of which were much easier to use than the gestures required fo…

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Android

Europe’s top markets see Android usage nearly triple in one year

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In July 2010, Android phones accounted for only 6 percent of smartphones in the five leading European markets (EU5). By July 2011, Android had risen to 22.3 percent of the phones used in France, Germany, Italy,…

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Entertainment

OrbLive enables streaming video, including Hulu and Netflix, to Android phones

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Orb is finally making its way to Android. Yes, the company previously had some support for accessing locally-stored videos and photos on Android, but the main draw of the app – the ability to stream on-de…

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