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John's Motorola Droid review

Android Overview What's good: Android 2.0 with Google Navigation; 3.7" WVGA capacitive display at 480 X 854 is visually stunning and sensitive to the touch; 5 MP cam has dual LED flash; 3.5 mm audio jack; browser handles HTML5 and...

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What up, Droid?

Android Things have gotten so crazy in the word of Android over the last month or two that it can be difficult at times to simply keep up with a single day's news. And while Aaron, Adriana, Noah, and now Sydney have got you covered on the...

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Samsung Behold 2: John's unboxing and hands-on

Unboxing Well, I'm not a big fan of the plastic panel on the front... or it is real brushed metal? Wait, no... it's plastic... right? I'm kinda wishing the entire casing was made of metal, but the phone feels pretty decent anyhow. Is it...

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HTC Eris: John's unboxing and first impressions

First Impressions I have to admit that I wasn't very excited about this phone. I had reviewed the European Hero and Sprint's CDMA version, and a proximity sensor - although nice - wasn't the bump in specs I was hoping for in this renamed Hero. But it is a...

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Motorola Droid: What about my media?

Android If you just bought a Droid and it's your first Android device, you're probably still busy getting used to the interface, setting up all of your email accounts, calendars, and the like, and possibly looking for replacements for all those...

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John's Samsung Omnia HD i8910 review

Cell Phone Reviews Overview What's good: the 3.7" AMOLED touch-screen at 360 x 640 pixels looks fantastic; the 8 MP cam is probably the best I've used on a phone - for still photos and video, which are easily shared; 3.5mm audio jack doubles as...

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John unboxes the Samsung Moment (Sprint)

Unboxing Here she is; Sprint's vanilla Android alternative to the Hero. With a full hardware QWERTY, an 800 MHz processor, and a luscious AMOLED display, I'd say Moment is a good contender. I'll be passing this one along to Noah very soon so stay...

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Motorola DEXT available for order in UK

Android The European version of the Motorola Cliq, DEXT, is available for order at a site called Phones4U , and will ship October 9th on Orange. As can be seen at the site and in the screen shots below, there are plenty of plan contracts to...

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Archos 5 pre-sale at BestBuy.com

Android Here they are : priced at $299, $379, $399, and $499, the Android-powered line of Archos 5 Internet Media Tablets. Outfitted, respectively, with 16, 32, 160, and 500 GB of storage. There's only a difference in $20 between 32 GB and 160...

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John's Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Black review

Cell Phone Reviews Overview What's good: great looks; 3.2 MP auto-focus cam; MMS; Wi-Fi; Bluetooth, FM radio; accelerometer; proximity sensor; resistive touch screen is pretty sensitive; under $300; cool new home screen; a great little media player. ...

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Tubaloo: Android VoIP via 3G

Android Amidst the storm of debates surrounding the FCC's investigation of Apple's refusal to allow Google Voice into the Apple App Store and the befuddlement over the tech giant's acceptance of the Vonage client, a small Chilean company...

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A look at Tubaloo for Android

Android If you missed it, be sure to check out my post, Tubaloo: Android VoIP via 3G . There you'll find more general information about the app and a quick bit of context. I heard about Tubaloo several months ago, but it wasn't until just...

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Samsung's WEP470 and 870 bluetooth headsets

Bluetooth Over the past couple of weeks, I have been bouncing back and forth between Samsung's new WEP470 bluetooth earpiece ($39.99), and their WEP870 ($89.99). I did not get a chance to check out the middle child - the WEP850, which runs $69.99,...

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T-Mobile roadmap shows Cliq and Huawei

Android For those who have been following Cliq news, this newly leaked rodmap from a T-Mo insider doesn't look quite right. It indicates that the phone will be selling in November, but another credible leak already set the pre-order start date...

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myTouch 3G: T-Mo's big push

Post They launched it with skydivers . They advertized it with icons . Now, T-Mo is pushing the myTouch with...Oprah? Yup. Check out the screenshot below of T-Mobile's site and you'll see a blurb reminding you to watch Oprah's 24th season...

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LG's "FameUS" contest: vote on music videos

Post Tied in to the marketing for the September 25th release of Fame - a movie based on the early 80s television series and long-standing Broadway musical - LG has launched a website where you can upload your own Fame-inspired music videos...

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Get Hero, skip the mail-in rebate

Android EDIT: This rumor has been confirmed . ______________________________ If you are a hard-core PhoneDogger, or have stumbled onto a few select posts, you know that I'm fond of whining about mail-in rebates. In the past, my experience is...

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Check out the new Android Market

Videos It looks like the carousel functions differently, but at least there's Top Paid, Top Free, and Just in. According to the Android Devloper's website , there are some new categories as well. But here's the best part (in my estimation):...

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Video of Sprint's Hero

Videos Here it is, folks.

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Sprint announces Hero to devs

Android No more guessing - at least on the network. The chin is another story, but someone who *really* knows what they're talking about mentioned that the leaked Hero images purported to depict a modified Sprint version are likely accurate....

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How to save with T-Mobile

Business And Money I'm always looking for a discount on my cell phone service. It's a big part of my life, and represents a pretty large chunk of my monthly pie. So when I heard about a couple of opportunities for taking some cash back from T-Mo, I figured...

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Kindling the Jaunty Jackalope

Post I'm not savvy enough to attend O'Reilly Media's annual hacker event, Foo Camp , but I'm geeky enough to appreciate some of what goes on there. And while I understand the terms used in the quote under this snap, the process is nothing I...

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A truckload of Android news

Android Am I ever glad we're getting an Android sub-site together. There's just no other way to properly deal with days like today, when there's enough juicy dirt to cover the front page if each item were posted individually. Not to mention to...

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Uffda! Odd and Even pack your pages

Opera Odd and Even Johansen, that is. The Norweigian brothers are hard at work compressing data so that Opera 10 goes super fast. Server-side compression, resizable tab bar, thumbnail previews of tab content, bookmark sync across all Opera...

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Nokia's next conquest

Business And Money While T-Mobile is making commercials with celebrities like Catherine Zeta-Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Phil Jackson and Jesse James in a quest for their own PR makeover, Nokia is hiring stars and creative types for behind-the-scenes work;...

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Motorola Sholes coming to VZW, and soon

Post You'll have to excuse the delay in my posting this, Android lovers. I've been tied up with other, somewhat related, work. Better late than never though, right? On the 23rd, BGR published some screenshots from a Verizon insider that...

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Tracking a phantom pulse

Android Yesterday I posted on the FCC's approval of a Huawei device refered to in the application materials as "Model Number:T-Mobile Pulse/Pulse/U8220." The phone, which has a flat edge on top and bottom (first image below), is also stamped...

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Android app: BFF Photo for Facebook

Android Carmen Delessio of Talking Android is back. Hot on the heels of his Amazon SimpleDB work comes BFF Photo: an Android app for viewing and uploading Facebook photos and videos. I don't have a phone to test it on right now, but it doesn't...

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Glass: the ultra-smart phone for your desktop

Android Do you use your cell phone to look up numbers you want to dial on the office phone? Do you prepare for a call by bringing up account information, a client's purchase history, or case data on your computer? What about conference calls? Some...

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Does QVGA spell "faceplant" for Android phones?

Android Let me take you back to January 16th, 2009. People around the world were disappointed when it was announced that their pre-orders for the affordable, GSM-unlocked, Kogan Agora cell phone could not be honored. Just thirteen days before...

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