Google and Android

T-Mobile is pushing out Vibrant OTA Updates

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We recently saw that AT&T was sending out an OTA Update for the Captivate which had a lot of discussion on whether or not it actually fixed the GPS Issue. Samsung confirmed it but many users were still reporting painfully slow GPS Lock times. It looks like now that T-Mobile is finally going to start … Read more

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Crackle Launches First Full-Length Movie and Television Service for Android

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Wow that’s a long title but I wanted to get that out of the way. Crackle lets Android users stream full-length, unedited movies and television series over wifi and 3G. They also have some original series. The Crackle app is available as a free download offering access to the network’s roster of original programming and … Read more

Droid Pro is Coming to Verizon

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It’s nice to see a ‘professional’ phone coming that uses the Android operating system. Most of the phones out there today aren’t exactly business oriented, but this the Droid Pro is. It’s got a 1ghz CPU along with a nice qwerty keyboard and it even comes with 2gigs ram inside and 2gig externally. There’s no word on price but somehow I don’t think it will be cheap..

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Droid Pro Announced – Froyo In A Blackberry Style

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I saw the press release and just kept doing a double take. Yup, that’s a full QWERTY keyboard right there and it’s not sliding out. I sort of appreciate it after seeing such an extreme move away from physical keyboards. So what does it offer? 3.1” screen; 1ghz processor; 4gb memory (2gb internal, 2gb removable)  … Read more

HTC EVO Awarded Popular Mechanic’s Breakthrough Award

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Popular Mechanic gives out awards for cell phones? Go figure. Anyway, today they’ve announced that a (there’s more than one winner for different categories) Breakthrough Award was given to the HTC EVO. “Breakthrough Awards recognizing the innovators and products poised to change the world in the fields of technology, medicine, aviation, environmental engineering and more. … Read more

Bloomberg Releases an Android Application

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People in finance love and need Bloomberg on their mobile devices. You’d swear that it was tech news or something important. Anyway, for those of you in finance, Bloomberg has now expanded to Android (so that makes iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Nokia and Android as available mobile platforms). On Android you can have news and stocks … Read more

PSA: Android Apps Collect Your Personal Data – A Must Watch Video

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Every time you install an application on Android you’re prompted with a warning about the access that you are granting the application. And from the first app you install on Android you’re conditioned to just hit ‘accept’ because even the must mundane apps provide you with warnings about your location, gps, personal info, etc. You … Read more

How Popular Is The iPhone? Android? Like Pretty Graphics?

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Bill Shrink put together a graphic that goes through the popularity of the various OSes out there and reminds us that the iPhone is not the only phone out there. It also goes through the likelihood to stick with your platform and app sales. Of course, this stuff changes by the minutes, but it’s still … Read more