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Motorola Atrix 4G Coming ON 22 February

February 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Motorola’s upcoming Tegra 2 powered 4G capable smartphone, the Atrix 4G is all set to arrive in stores across the US on February 22, 2011. AT&T has confirmed that the device would arrive on its stores across the country for…

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Google Reader For Android Gets Updated

February 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

If you happen to be a news freak like me, there is high chance that you might have used Google Reader for aggregating all news and RSS feeds at one convenient location. Google Reader was available in its desktop format…

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How To Put Android 2.3 Gingerbread On The Motorola Milestone [Video]

February 18, 2011 0 Ricky

All the Motorola milestone users have not yet received the Android 2.2 Froyo update, which was scheduled this January, it’s high time the users root their phone as I am sure the Milestone users won’t be seeing any Gingerbread upgrade…

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Ingredients of Android Ice Cream Revealed. Will Be A Combination Of Gingerbread And Honeycomb

February 17, 2011 0 Ricky

We have been wondering from the day Honeycomb was announced, whether it will will be seen on Mobile phones or not and now with Eric Schmidt’s announcement that the next iteration of Android will start with an ‘I’ and will…

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Nexus S Suffers From Data Signal Loss. Google Promises Fix

February 16, 2011 0 Rahul S

The Nexus S, ever since its launch seems to have been jinxed and plagued with issues. Things started off with the random reboot bug that caused the phone to reboot multiple times in the course of a day. This issue…

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Motorola Xoom or Samsung’s 10″ Tab, Matching iPad Sales Is Tough

February 15, 2011 5 Annkur

Google is now entering the tablet market with Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb. Top gadget makers like Samsung, Motorola, HTC, Toshiba and LG are making tablets that would run the tablet build of Android. The Motorola Xoom even won the best…

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HTC Wildfire S: New Low End Android Handset Arrives

February 15, 2011 6 Rahul S

HTC has along with the HTC Desire S and the Incredible S also announced the launch of its new low end offering in the form of the HTC Wildfire S. A successor to the existing Wildfire, the device features an…

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MWC 2011: HTC Desire S Announced

February 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

HTC has taken covers of the successor to the HTC Desire by announcing the Desire S along with two other handsets at the ongoing MWC at Barcelona, Spain. The Desire S features a 3.7 inch display – the same size…

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HTC Refreshes Phone Line Up: Launches Incredible S

February 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

HTC seems to be in the mood to announce a bunch of new launches at the ongoing MWC it seems. To start off the proceedings, it has announced its first Android Tablet in the form of the HTC Flyer –…

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YouTube Ties Up With LG For User Generated 3D Content

February 14, 2011 0 Rahul S

LG has announced that it has tied up with YouTube so that users of its upcoming 3D enabled smartphone, the Optimus 3D would be able to upload 3D content from their phones, directly on to YouTube.  Until now, 3D videos…

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LG Announces Android Powered Optimus 3D, Optimus Pad Prior To MWC

February 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the MWC is to start officially on 14 Feb, manufacturers like LG and Samsung seem to be too impatient and have already announced their line up for the show there. LG’s line up is pretty interesting thanks to its…

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Viewsonic Launches Dual SIM Android Smartphone, 10 inch Tablet

February 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

On the eve of this year’s MWC, Viewsonic has announced the launch of two its most anticipated devices in the European market. The devices in question are the new Dual-SIM Android Smartphone, the V350 and the latest entry to the…

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[Rumor] Blackberry Playbook Maybe Able To Run Android Apps

February 11, 2011 0 Ricky

We have heard that Research In Motion has been trying to run  Android applications on its tablet, the Blackberry Playbook. RIM earlier tried to use third-party software that would allow the tablet to run Android applications, but failed to do…

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Sentio UI For Android

February 11, 2011 0 Ricky

Android allows customization to the core and that includes customizing even your home screens and you have many options of home screens to choose from, there is Launcher Pro, Open Home, ADW and many others and now Sentio is trying…

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Did Stephen Elop Force Nokia-WP7 Deal?

February 11, 2011 2 Annkur

Nokia is marrying Microsoft and the world isn’t happy. A huge backlash is expected over the blogosphere, editorials over editorials telling whats wrong with Nokia would be the flavor for days to come and we are still to digest what…

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Twitter 2.0 For Android Arrives

February 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

Twitter has just released new version of the official Android Twitter client with a host of feature updates and bugfixes. The application, available for most Android devices running OS 2.1 and above is claimed to be much faster than the…

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Evernote for Android updated to 2.6

February 10, 2011 0 Anupama

Evernote, one of our favourite note making apps has just released an update for its Android version. The updated app, Evernote 2.6, comes with three major additions, the snippet view, notebook stacks and edit styled notes. The snippet view very…

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Check Root Access, There Is An Application For That Too!

February 10, 2011 0 Ricky

There are many methods of checking whether you have root access or not. Sometimes, after following some rooting procedure we always check whether we did it properly and whether we have root access. What I normally do is to download…

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Android 2.3.3 SDK Now Out, NFC APIs Renewed

February 10, 2011 0 Ricky

Android 2.3.3 SDK with API Level 10 was released yesterday and is now available for download for all the developers out there. It is just a small feature release which introduces a few new APIS and renew some old APIs…

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Now Non-Android Phones Can Run Android Apps Using Myriad’s Alien Dalvik

February 10, 2011 0 Ricky

Myriad is one of the members of the Open Handset Alliance and have been working on Android since the start and have recorded about 3.7 billion applications on various different phones. Myriad Group today announced the launch of its Alien…

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GeeksPhone Zero Video out!

February 10, 2011 0 Ricky

GeeksPhone a Spanish manufacturer that most of the people have not heard about. It’s a manufacturer which makes fully open, out of the box rooted Android phones. No specs of their new device GeeksPhone zero has been released but we…

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[How to] Force Desktop Version Of Any Website On Stock Android Browser

February 9, 2011 1 Ricky

Many people including us are very uncomfortable with the Mobile view of any website, we always prefer a full desktop view and the stock android browser does not allow that for some websites, but we figured out a way to…

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SwiftKey gears up for Honeycomb

February 9, 2011 0 Ricky

Touchtype has officially announced that it will be launching the tablet version of its SwiftKey keyboard. The new keyboard has been optimized specially for Honeycomb with the help from Google and Motorola and it also matches the holographic design of…

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India gets its first Gingerbread phone, the OliveSmart, for less than Rs 20,000

February 9, 2011 0 Nimish

Even as our resident Android specialist Ricky Droid highlighted rumours that some manufacturers are sidestepping the Android 2.3 update and heading straight to version 2.4, Olive Telecom has released India’s first phone running Android 2.3, or Gingerbread as it is…

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Google To Move Directly To Android 2.4 In April

February 9, 2011 0 Ricky

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) was released back in December and as of now, there is only the Nexus S running this version of the OS with no update yet for Nexus One or any other devices in sight. Google had said…

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Nokia, RIM lose ground as Samsung, HTC advance: IDC Q4 2010 report

February 7, 2011 0 Nimish

In what seems to be yet another sign of the old order changing and giving way to new players in the mobile phone market,  IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker’s round-up of the fourth quarter of 2010, has shown Nokia…

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VLC Player Coming Soon On Android

February 7, 2011 0 Ricky

VLC has been the best media player on both Windows and Linux for a very long time. Naturally, we were excited about the release of VLC for iPad and expected the android version to come out soon, but it has been…

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The PS phone is official – Sony E shows off Xperia Play in Super Bowl ad!

February 7, 2011 0 Nimish

We have been hearing rumours about its existence for weeks and even expressed our cynicism about it, but we – and the world – got official confirmation of the existence of a PlayStation phone. And it could not have come…

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Official Blogger App Hits Android Market

February 6, 2011 0 Ricky

Google has finally realized that an android application is necessary for its own blogging service, Blogger. Blogging services like WordPress already have their own official application from a very long time and it was sad to see that Google did…

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Olive to launch first Indian HSPA+ smartphone – do we smell Gingerbread?

February 4, 2011 2 Nimish

We have received an invite from the folks at Olive Telecom, asking us to “witness the launch of the first Indian HSPA+  smartphone” in Delhi on February 9. First, let us get the jargon out of the way and clarify…

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AT&T announces pre-order for Moto Atrix, laptop dock costs as much as an iPad

February 3, 2011 0 Nimish

Arguably the most talked-about phone at the recent CES 2011 event, the Motorola Atrix 4G, now has a price tag. AT&T has announced in a press release that the phone will be available on pre-order from February 13, and will…

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Dell Brings Venue (Android) & Venue Pro (WP7) to India

February 3, 2011 1 Annkur

Another Windows Phone 7 comes to India in the form of the Dell Venue Pro, and tagging along is the Android powered Venue! Both these phones have a similar built with a 4.1″ AMOLED screen, however the Venue Pro adds…

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Android Market Webstore Out, Over the Air Love, Fills A *Big* Gap

February 2, 2011 0 Annkur

It was just yesterday that we published our Android app, and I was pulling my hairs on the bad Android Market structure. And just 24 hours later, here comes the new Android Market Web store announced at the Android event…

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Android Market Webstore Out, Fills A Gap

February 2, 2011 0 Annkur

It was just yesterday that we published our Android app and I was pulling my hairs on the bad Android Market structure. And just 24 hours later, here comes the new Android Market Webstore announced at the Android event by…

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SlideIT Keyboard updated to 3.0, Test Video

February 2, 2011 0 Ricky

SlideIT keyboard has been around in the android market for quite some time now, when we had first used this stock keyboard replacement application, it lagged terribly too much, and it had many features missing. Just recently SlideIT received a…

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SlideIT Keyboard updated to 3.0, Test Video

February 2, 2011 0 Ricky

SlideIT keyboard has been around in the android market for quite some time now, when we had first used this stock keyboard replacement application, it lagged very much and it had many features missing. Just recently SlideIT received a major update,…

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Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) To Be Previewed Today!

February 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

So, the day is finally here. In a few hours from now, Google would finally preview the much awaited Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). This latest version of Android OS, designed specifically for tablets would obviously be Google’s main tool to compete…

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Firefox For Android Arrives: Touted To Be The Fastest Yet

February 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

Mozilla has announced  the release of its current beta version of Firefox 4 browser for devices running Android and Maemo. The browser is claimed to be the fastest mobile version of the browser yet and gets much faster start up…

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First build of OnlyGizmos App out in the Android Market – Grab it!

February 1, 2011 4 Hamster

Android phones have been the latest boom around the globe, and we want to stay in touch while you are on the go. Hence, we have made an extremely easy app, and we would love to know – What is…

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Now anyone can create an Android app – just use AppsGeyser

January 31, 2011 0 Nimish

Creating apps for Android just got a whole lot easier, thanks to an online service called AppsGeyser. You do not need to do any coding whatsoever, just enter some information in an online form, and you can have an Android…