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Apple needs to open sharing APIs instead of integrating individual services

Ios When Apple announced iOS 5, they announced there were 200 new features and many much-needed improvements brought to the company's popular operating system. Among many other things, the ability to access the camera through the lock screen...

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Is the iPhone on Cricket enough to make you go prepaid?

Ios As postpaid services become ever-more-expensive, cheaper alternatives are beginning to look increasingly enticing. The prices of many prepaid services are nearly half of what you would pay with one of the four major nationwide carriers for...

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Should Apple retire the 30-pin dock connector for future iDevices?

Ios Rumors of the upcoming iPhone are currently running amok. They will continue to swell, expectations will grow and concepts will saturate headlines until Tim Cook (or possibly Ashton Kutcher ... or a Steve Jobs hologram) takes the stage and...

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Are you watching more video content from your smartphone?

Android Of the many things smartphones can do, one thing they do best is give users access to rich media content from virtually anywhere in the world – provided the carrier offers sufficient service. The vast majority of pocket-sized computers are...

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Ingenious knickknacks like these are why I love Kickstarter so much

Android Over time, the popularization and advancement of mobile technology has warranted the creation of some pretty unique attachments and accessories. Just to name a few, companies have created pocket-sized Bluetooth keyboards, interchangeable...

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Do we really need 1080p displays on smartphones?

Android Before Apple released the iPhone 4 with the LG-made Retina Display, smartphone display pixel densities were one of the less important features of a phone. Then, it was all about processor speed, memory, storage space and camera quality....

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Zuckerberg, stick to software because nobody wants a Facebook phone

Android Back in September of 2010, we heard the very first inkling of a rumor that social media giant Facebook would be ponying up and building their own mobile operating system and a budget-friendly phone. Not long after the rumor started,...

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How mobile technology has made me more productive

Android My life is almost entirely consumed by mobile technology. In everything I do, pocket-sized technology is there to make my life easier, to make remembering and getting things done in a timely manner more manageable. It wasn't always this...

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It's not going to be easy, but I'm phasing out carrier texting

Android One of my primary tools for communicating with people I know personally (read: the people I know IRL and not just online) is simple message service – better known as SMS or text messaging. Whether I have a quick question or want to carry...

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Why I prefer the iPhone for listening to music

Android A few months back, I explained that I carry two phones every day. I always have an Android phone on hand, and most of the time, I carry an iPhone as my secondary device. Between the two, there are specific tasks I prefer to handle with...

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Are you getting excited for Project Glass?

Android Early last month, following rumors of fueling loads of cash in various R&D projects around wearable computing, Google announced one of the most intriguing projects it has taken on of late: Project Glass. To be worn on the head like (or as)...

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I hope Jelly Bean brings more focus on webtop functionality

Android Smartphones are incredible machines. Broken down, they are essentially all of the technology of your home computer (plus a decent camera and touchscreen), crammed into a pocket-sized device. And while that's great from a portability...

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I haven't had the urge to root my HTC One X yet

Android I've had the HTC One X for going on three weeks now. I bought it on launch day, May 6, and have been using it as my primary device ever since. It has become my go-to device for streaming Spotify, texting, browsing the Web, tweeting, etc....

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Are your bad cell phone habits getting worse?

Android Cell phones are the most integrated pieces of technology in our lives. We use them night and day to work, document our every move through social media and to stay in touch with loved ones. But the constant, always-on connectivity and all...

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Kiip's reward-based mobile ads may change mobile advertising forever

Android Advertising is the way of the media world, and especially the way of the Web. Without advertisements, Facebook would never have become what it is today, and the online world would be a totally different place. Most people in this industry...

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What I hope to come from Google's completed acquisition of Motorola

Android Last August, Google surprised us all by proposing to buy Motorola Mobility for a cool $12.5 billion. It wasn't immediately apparent what Google's true intentions were at the time, though we figured Moto's 17,000 or so mobile-based patents...

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It is unacceptable for Motorola to not update the DROID 3 and DROID X2 to Android 4.0

Android While software updates have always been a low point for the Android platform, Google has continually been working to improve its problem areas with each and every update. Last year, they teamed up with their partner manufacturers and...

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Can the sender of a text message be liable for a texting while driving accident?

Lifestyle The point has been made a million times and will likely be made a million more. Texting while driving is dangerous. Studies show it, fatal crashes prove it and state laws (at least in 19 states) ban it; yet drivers continue to put...

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Chameleon is what Android tablet interfaces should have looked like all along

Android When Google decided to officially support tablets with its Android operating system, they also decided to temporarily fork the platform to support both phones and tablets separately. The idea behind this was to create an optimized...

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My mobile gaming habits have almost completely stopped

Android Just two months ago, I was a mobile gaming fiend. At any given time, you probably could have found me tucked away in the back corner at a local Starbucks squeezing in some hardcore mobile gaming between articles. Google had been running a...

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Would you consider switching to pre-paid to save money?

4g A few of my recent articles have been about the overall increase in the cost of owning a smartphone. The pocket-sized computers themselves are perpetually being improved, yielding a higher average price tag; new networks are continually...

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Would you still own an iDevice if you couldn't jailbreak it?

Ios Much like rooting, loading custom ROMs and kernels and hacking devices is increasingly popular in the Android development community, jailbreaking is the way of iDevice owners who aim to get a little added functionality out of their device....

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Are you willing to pay more to get the plan and device you want?

4g As interest in the smartphone industry grows, owning one and paying for the service is becoming more and more expensive. New, data-optimized wireless networks are rapidly being built and expanded to accommodate for the millions of new data...

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Some features I would like to see in the Jelly Bean update

Android Another year, another Android version. In mid-2010, Android godfather Andy Rubin told us that software updates would be coming once per year, slowing things down a bit from the breakneck pace updates were being churned out before. Neither...

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Does the multitasking 'issue' on the One X bother you?

Android HTC's One devices have been recipients of a lot of love from consumers and reviewers alike since we first saw them in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. I reviewed the HTC One X from AT&T yesterday and had mostly great things to say about...

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Google, please let there be multiple Nexus devices for Jelly Bean

Android Typically, when we tech people think of the term "Nexus", we think of a single device and a single manufacturer for each major iteration of Android. The first Nexus, the Nexus One, was an in-between device for Eclair (2.0 and 2.1) and...

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What will you do once you lose unlimited data forever?

4g For six or seven years now, my family and I have had multiple smartphones with unlimited data plans. We originally switched to smartphones during the days of Alltel and were unexpectedly and reluctantly scooped up by Verizon Wireless in...

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HTC One X Written Review by Taylor

Android After a week and a half of using the HTC One X as my primary device, I am confident in saying it is the most refined Android phone we here at PhoneDog have come across to date. HTC promised to bring quality over quantity in 2012 and they...

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Verizon needs a One, not another DROID

Android Three of the nation's four largest wireless providers either already offer or will soon offer a version of HTC’s new One series. AT&T launched the One X last Sunday; T-Mobile now sells the One S; and beginning Friday, Sprint will offer the...

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Should walking and texting be illegal?

Lifestyle Walking while texting is dangerous. At least that's what an ABC News implies the law enforcement in Fort Lee, New Jersey would have its citizens believe. “It’s a big distraction. Pedestrians aren’t watching where they are going and they...

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