The fence and the squirrel. Part 2

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For those of you that missed it, last week I was asking everyone to recommend me a phone for AT&T that did not suck balls (for more info on ball sucking see the iPhone.)  This will be a continuing series that details my quest for a new handset, from research all the way through to the personalization of whatever phone I end up with while taking in feedback and comments to help steer my decision making.   To let you guys see how things are going, I’m doing my first spread on a phone I’m considering and why.  I mentioned the First Else phone in the last post so let’s put a face on it and explain why this may be my next phone.

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Sirius XM App for Android

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Yesterday Sirius XM Radio announced that their new Android application will be available for free. Currently Sirius XM is offering a free 7 day trial of their Premium Online Service with the download of the app. Sirius XM provides users with over 120 channels of exclusive sports, talk, entertainment, news, comedy and commercial-free music over cellular and … Read more

AT&T to Sell Decent Android Phone

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According to the AndroidGuy’s anonymous tipster, the Samsung i897, an Android 2.1 device rocking some decent specs, is on its way to AT&T’s shelves, though this hasn’t been confirmed by AT&T. Details of the phone are murky but it may have a 4″ AMOLED display, a 5mp camera and a Snapdragon processor, presumably 1GHz. They … Read more

Say It Ain’t So Google

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As I wrote about the other week, Google’s been under a lot of heat for collecting too much wifi data when wardriving around in their Street View cars to amass their database of wifi fingerprints in order to figure out where people are for both the benefit of their consumers and advertisers without having to … Read more

Nightly Roundup Of WP7 Apps

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Man these things are everywhere!:) Got a few for you tonight. I’m starting with my favorite. It’s called PriceCheck and was written for Imagine Cup 2010. Based on your location it will give you price checks (including bar code scanning and checking the web), gas prices, restaurants and even store those club card codes. Slick … Read more

12 Essential Android Games

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MSNBC put together a list of what they call 12 essential Android games. Without ruining the whole thing for you, here’s brief recap of the list: Speed Forge 3D (free) is a futuristic racing game. ToonWarz ($4) is a first person shooter. Robo Defense (free/$3 depending on the version) is a tower defense game. Bonsai … Read more

World Cup 2010 WM App Available

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For those of you into soccer (futbol – whatev) you have a few options to track the World Cup. Of course, drinking heavily and never leaving pubs. That’s great if your lifestyle affords it. Otherwise you need to use websites to get your info…unless you’re willing to part with $3 to have a decent app. … Read more

DroppedBoxx Free DropBox Alternative For WM

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For those of you who live for DropBox but can’t bring yourself to pay for CloudFiles there’s a new beta DropBox app on XDA from d1k_is which is in beta and free. Features (Currently) Login (of course) Browse Dropbox files and folders Download Files Download then email Upload files Take photo and upload Delete Dropbox … Read more

Arknoid For WP7 Was Done Right

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A port of Arknoid (Brick Breaker) called XNArknoid has been made available (including the source code). The reason it’s significant is because we’ve been talking about Silverlight apps a lot recently. This is actually written in XNA – the code used for Xbox games. The dev clearly knows what he’s doing. Arknoid cannot be done … Read more