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Google Android is king; sales of Android devices 6 times more than last year

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It’s really no surprise when we see the numbers of the latest Android sales and market share. The Android platform has made itself the King of the mobile OS market in a few short years. Even coming a tad bit l…

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Google Android

Android vulnerability affects 99.7% of Android devices on the market

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A team of German researchers has just discovered that around 99.7% of Android devices on the market today have a security vulnerability. This vulnerability happens over unencrypted networks where the devic…

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Google Android

Google accosts us with Android stats at Google I/O 2011

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Well, well, well, it’s Google I/O time and with that comes some crazy stats about Google’s growth over the year. Most importantly, Android has grown to be the one of the most dominate smartphone op…

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Google Android

Android location data is anonymous and held only one week according to Google

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With the current iPhone location data debacle that hit the tech sites and even the mainstream news within the last couple weeks, the US Congress has decided to ask some questions about how the big mobile players…

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Free apps

Epistle brings plain text, Dropbox syncing goodness to Android [Android App Reviews]

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With so many note-taking applications in the Android Market, it has to be pretty difficult to stand out at all. Most new note-taking apps take the high road of trying to pack a ton of features into the app (think Ex…

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Lifestyle

Social discovery app “Tagged” comes to Android this week

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Just about every one loves a little social networking in their lives, right? Well, if you are tired of Facebook and Twitter and hopefully have also moved on from MySpace, then maybe the network Tagged is what you…

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Fanboy/girl alert: new Android mini-collectibles design teasers from DYZPlastic

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You are only a true Android fanboy if you have at least one Android plastic figurine sitting on your desk. If you haven’t heard about or seen the Android mini-collectibles that DYZPlastic came out with la…

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Motorola

Motorola says the inevitable, older devices won’t receive new Android updates

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Earlier today Motorola made the announcement that four of their last-gen Android devices will no longer be receiving Android updates, essentially being “stuck” with their current Android bui…

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Android Hacks

Dell Streak 5 gets a rough port of Honeycomb

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There were a lot of jokes about just how big the Dell Streak was when first announced, mostly because it was a phone. Well, with a newly ported version of Honeycomb to the Streak 5 it looks like we now how have a mini-…

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HTC

Best Buy to have “retail exclusive” on the HTC Thunderbolt launching mid February

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If the iPhone 4 on Verizon disappoints you with its lack of 4G or if you are just a strict Android fanboy with a hint of early adopter in you, then the release of the first LTE phone, the HTC Thunderbolt, will definit…

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Sprint

Sprint Galaxy Tab gets an OTA maintenance update EA24

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Well, it isn’t the Honeycomb update that you may be looking for, but Sprint has just announced that their Galaxy Tab is receiving a quick OTA maintenance update as we speak. The details are sor t of boring r…

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Dell

Dell Venue comes to the US with a $499.99 “unlocked” price tag

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If you have followed any of my posts, or even some of Andrew’s, you may know that I am obsessed with BlackBerry or Palm Pre style form factor. When I heard that Dell was making the Dell Venue for Android and it…

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Android Devices

“Forking” be damned, crude smartphone support found in Android 3.0 Honeycomb emulator

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If you were worried about what Android version your device was going to get after Gingerbread 2.3 and believed the hype that Android 3.0 was for dual-core, tablets only, it looks like there is some evidence to th…

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Honeycomb update for Notion Ink Adam in the works

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It is amazing what Notion Ink has done over the past year. Introducing and showing off a “dream tablet” running a customized version of Android and then actually bringing the thing to market.…

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Motorola

Rumor: Motorola “Daytona” coming to Verizon as the DROID X2, sportinq dual-core Tegra 2

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I have to admit, Verizon did a heck of a job introducing some hot new 4G Android devices at CES that will be coming this year. But if you remember correctly, Motorola’s Sanjay Jha felt that there would be com…

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