Archives for "February, 2011"
Motorola Has More Webtop-Friendly Smartphones on the Way [Blips]
Motorola says all future “high performance” Android smartphones will dock with their webtop devices in the same manner as the Atrix. Is this the future of the Netbook? [Engadget] More »
The Android Apps Everyone Should Have February 2011 [Apps]
It’s that time of the month again, which is to say it’s time to clean up our list of the absolute best Android apps. What new apps will show up? Which apps get the boot? More »
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LG expects to offer at least a one-level upgrade for all Optimus smartphones
How do you know if your brand new Android phone will ever be updated? Google continues to push out a major new version of Android every six months, but there is no way of telling (and no guarantee) that your device will ever receive a newer firmware than what it came with out of the box.
History has shown us that the best selling Android phones are the most likely to get software updates while the flops get left behind. But how can a new user predict which models will sell well and thus get updates?
LG is hoping to…
RIM Rep Promises Android Apps for PlayBook [Video]
An unreleased video (above) from the Mobile World Congress earlier this month apparently contains footage of a RIM representative claiming that the PlayBook will “support Android apps when we …
HTC Incredible 2 makes its first appearance in Verizon’s internal system
The HTC Incredible 2 has just been spotted in Verizon’s internal system almost a year to the day after its predecessor. Before you get too excited, assuming you are prone to getting excited about the Incredible 2, keep in mind that the original Incredible didn’t launch for a little over two months after it made its first appearance in a similar screenshot.
It’s a safe bet that the Incredible 2 will at least borrow quite a bit from the already announced Incredible S, but whether it is in fact a carbon copy remains to…
Hashable arrives on Android, tracks your real world interactions
Over the past few months I’ve been curiously tinkering with Hashable, a interesting new tool for managing who you’re meeting with and introducing. The service allows you to log real world interactions in a number of ways. Android users could log a connection with a specifically crafted tweet, by sending an email, or by entering the meeting manually on the Hashable website. Starting today, you can log interactions with a beautifully styled native Android app.
The idea behind Hashable, while a bit tough to explain, is a totally solid one. Instead of fumbling with a stack of business cards, you…
This Week’s Best Apps [Video]
In this week’s app roundup: cows, herded (and not abducted); Adult Swim, mobilized; DSLRs, controlled remotely; birds, trained to fly; cocktails, mixed; flights, found; cook books, brought daz…
Google Mobile Now Lets You Filter Out Closed Businesses [Genius]
It’s late. You’re out. You’re hungry. You want tacos. You don’twant to find a place with Google Mobile, only to discover it’s closed for the night. Luckily, iPhone and Android users can now fi…
Download Android 2.3.3 for the Nexus One and Nexus S Right Now [Android]
The technilogically-savvy bunch over at the XDA Developers forums have uncovered and made available the Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 update for Nexus One and Nexus S phones. That means if you have either of those devices, you don’t…
Beluga, a cross-platform chat application with style
I guess I should start the review by disclosing that I’ve never even seen BBM. As many of you know, BBM is short for BlackBerry Messenger. It’s supposedly one of the best features BlackBerry offers. I know this not because anyone I know actually owns a BlackBerry, but because of all the comments I see online from ex-BlackBerry users. It seems to be the one feature they actually miss.
It also seems to be the one feature developers seem interested in building on, as we’ve seen a total outbreak of Android apps claiming to be “like BBM for iPhone and…
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