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Other-Korean Company LG is Getting Into Android Tablets Too

LG is working on an Android tablet due out by the end of the year, which will come up next to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab which has already seen a bunch of leaked photos and info hit the web. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-the-samsung-galaxy-tab-tablet-caught-on-video-5564760 LG’s will launch later than Samsung’s tablet, sometime in the fourth quarter compared to their mate-up-the-road’s…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Week’s Best Apps

This week’s best apps!? You must mean the week’s best iPhone apps, right? Nope, from here on out it’s just the very best apps, every week, for iPhone, Android, and iPad. If you want to read this in one very, very long post, click here. In fact, I’d recommend it. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-apps-5578615 iPhone LandFormer: Puzzle games…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Google Music Launching Alongside Android 3.0 This Fall/Winter

According to Android product manager Gaurav Jain, Google Music will be launched concurrently with Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) at the end of this year. Presumably just in time to battle iTunes Live. https://gizmodo.com/itunes-newest-competition-may-be-called-google-music-5555858 Apple and Google’s race to stream content from the cloud has never really been a question of if so much as of when,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Droid Incredible to Get Slighty More Incredible With 720p Video Update

HTC’s Droid Incredible is soon to receive an update adding a couple of new features—most notably an upgrade to its video recording tool which adds support for saving movies at 720p resolution. The update also lets the Incredible function as a 3G mobile hotspot. These discoveries come courtesy of an HTC-branded review phone loaned to…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Android Gingerbread Rumors Dismissed By Google on Twitter

Our heads went all dizzy when we heard that the minimum required specs for Android 3.0 Gingerbread phones was to be a 1GHz processor, and 512MB of RAM. But now the rumormongerer has clarified they’re only “recommended.” UPDATE https://gizmodo.com/rumor-android-3-0-gingerbread-out-october-for-highe-5576478 Today, the man who first brought us those heady specs has tweeted a clarification, based on…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Yahoo Mail, Messenger and Search Apps Come to Android

Google Yahoo has just released a Gmail Yahoo Mail app for Android, along with Google Talk Yahoo Messenger and Google Search Yahoo Search apps. Godspeed on the enemy’s turf, Yahoo. [Yahoo via Talk Android]

Tech News Mark Wilson

HTC HD2 Shown Running Android, Looking Like an EVO Doppelganger

There definitely won’t be an official Android version of HTC’s WinMo-running HD2, but the chaps at HTC Linux have finally released an Android 2.1 build for the WinMo-running largescreen, with a fully-working touchscreen. https://gizmodo.com/no-android-version-of-htc-hd2-after-all-5392526 It’s a dual-booting release, meaning it also loads the Ubuntu Linux flavor ‘Karmic Koala,’ and Windows Mobile 6.5 with HTC’s Sense…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Only Time You’re Ever Allowed To Say Android Is Ballin’

New start-up Gearbox looks to combine two of man’s most innate pleasures: playing with balls and playing with gadgets. They envision their Android-controlled spheres facing off in games of golf and curling; I envision driving cats absolutely crazy. [FastCompany] P.S. That’s a knock on “ballin’,” not Android!

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Android App Tells You If Your Fruit Loops Are Safe To Eat

Kellog’s [sic] Recalled Products is a new Android app. It lets you scan the barcodes on Kellogg’s items, with the results compared against a recalled products database—so you know what’s edible and what may contain traces of glass/metal/human skin. It exists because Kellogg’s recently released a product recall for a wide range of its cereal…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Rumor: Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) Out October, For Higher-Specced Phones

The rumored HTC Vision has kept me very entertained with stories of it running Android 3.0, with a slide-out keyboard and dual-core processor. It sounds like a fantasy-phone, but could be real, judging by these latest Gingerbread rumors. Mobile-review.com’s Eldar Murtazin has a reputation for scoops and leaks, and while he only revealed the details…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Samsung Confirms That All Galaxy S Devices Will Get Android 2.2

Good news for the folks interested in a Galaxy S device but not satisfied with Android 2.1! According to Samsung’s official Twitter account, the devices will be updated to Android 2.2 later on: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-smartphone-is-the-first-step-in-samsun-5500164 Galaxy S phones will come with Android 2.1 and be upgradeable to Android 2.2 which will support Adobe Flash 10.1 Of…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Cisco’s Android Tablet Wants to Be the iPad For Suits

The iPad is a content-driven machine. That’s what it does best, and that’s what it’s used for. The Cisco Cius, on the other hand, wants to be the consummate professional’s tablet. But what’s a business-minded tablet do differently? Cisco seems to be hanging its hat on HD videoconferencing, in particular, with a front-facing camera that…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How Google’s Failing the Android App Market

DVD Jon, the reverse engineer who decrypted DVDs for the masses and liberated iTunes with DoubleTwist, is worried about the Android Market. There’s too much junk, he says, and Google needs to follow Apple’s lead to clean it up. https://gizmodo.com/a-look-at-doubletwist-dvd-jon-s-file-swapping-media-pl-5161477 That might seem like a surprising notion coming from someone famous (or infamous, depending on…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Idiot-Proof Guide to Rooting the HTC Evo

Why hack your Evo? Free Wi-Fi tethering and plenty of other benefits. OK, but how hard is it? Not too bad with the help of a few apps. This step-by-step, “idiot-proof” guide from Android Forums will hold your hand, gently. https://lifehacker.com/five-great-reasons-to-root-your-android-phone-5342237 by TheBiles In this guide, I will provide a way for you to backup…

Tech News Android Forums

Customizable Super Mario Live Wallpaper For Android

This might just qualify as the most wonderful thing I’ve seen all day: A customizable Super Mario live wallpaper for Android devices. It works on Android 2.1 (and up) and looks crazy fun. Check out the video and you’ll see. You can download the wallpaper over at XDA-developers, but I’d suggest being kind and tossing…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

AT&T and T-Mobile Nexus One Devices Getting OTA Froyo Updates Right Now?

We’re getting reports that some Nexus One owners have received an over-the-air Froyo update (Build FRF85B) through AT&T. Have any of you received yours? [Thanks, Steve!] Update: We’re hearing that several T-Mobile Nexus One owners have received the same update over-the-air as well. Hurrah! [Thanks, Christian!]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Google Docs Viewer for iPhone, iPad and Android, Oh Yes

The Google experience on phones just got more complete with a new mobile version of Google Docs viewer. It supports file types like .docx, so you can read documents attached to emails without downloading them. [Google]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Kindle for Android Is Here, At Last

One of the last major apps I’ve been waiting for on Android is finally here: Kindle. It syncs all of your Kindle books, as you’d expect, though it’s missing features like full text search and in-app purchasing. [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/free-kindle-app-coming-to-android-devices-this-summer-5541265 Free Kindle for Android App Now Available Amazon’s selection of free Kindle apps expands today to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Droid 2 Launching With Android 2.2 on August 23rd?

According to the folks over at Android and Me, the surprisingly Droid-like Droid 2 will launch on August 23rd. The reason for the wait? So it can be the first phone shipping with Android 2.2 out of the box. https://gizmodo.com/droid-2-versus-droid-in-hands-on-benchmark-video-5568720 While Droid X will be launching more than a month earlier (July 15th) with Android…

Tech News Brian Barrett

HTC EVO 4G Receives OTA Update 1.47.651.1 (For Improving Wi-Fi?)

EVO 4G owners are seeing update 1.47.651.1 appear on their phones, which we heard about last week. It’s not a biggie by the sounds of it, instead rumored to contain 802.11n Wi-Fi support and fix a couple of bugs. https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-getting-minor-software-update-next-week-5571829 Do let us know how you get on, EVO 4G owners—and if it does fix…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Other-Korean Company LG is Getting Into Android Tablets Too

This Week’s Best Apps

Google Music Launching Alongside Android 3.0 This Fall/Winter

Droid Incredible to Get Slighty More Incredible With 720p Video Update

Android Gingerbread Rumors Dismissed By Google on Twitter

Yahoo Mail, Messenger and Search Apps Come to Android

HTC HD2 Shown Running Android, Looking Like an EVO Doppelganger

The Only Time You’re Ever Allowed To Say Android Is Ballin’

Android App Tells You If Your Fruit Loops Are Safe To Eat

Rumor: Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) Out October, For Higher-Specced Phones

Samsung Confirms That All Galaxy S Devices Will Get Android 2.2

Cisco’s Android Tablet Wants to Be the iPad For Suits

How Google’s Failing the Android App Market

Idiot-Proof Guide to Rooting the HTC Evo

Customizable Super Mario Live Wallpaper For Android

AT&T and T-Mobile Nexus One Devices Getting OTA Froyo Updates Right Now?

Google Docs Viewer for iPhone, iPad and Android, Oh Yes

Kindle for Android Is Here, At Last

Droid 2 Launching With Android 2.2 on August 23rd?

HTC EVO 4G Receives OTA Update 1.47.651.1 (For Improving Wi-Fi?)

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