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Sep

Dual-Mode Android HTC Slider Coming To Verizon

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in HTC, News, Verizon Wireless

Thanks to the FCC, we now have pictures and details on a new dual-band Android device for Verizon. It looks pretty similarly-proportioned to Samsung's Epic 4G, and that may not necessarily be a bad thing. The details we have at the moment:

4" Screen
Both CDMA and GSM radios on-board (EV-DO Rev. A, also)
802.11 b/g/n
Slide-out four row QWERTY keyboard
Dark silver body, keyboard backing is bright red with black keys

The device (the "PD42100" - catchy) is also rumored to have a 1.2 GHz CPU. Thus far nobody has been able to confirm or deny that though, so take it with a grain of salt.

Sep

Official CNET News App Lands In The Android Market

Posted by Brad Ganley in Applications, News

The official app for one of the most popular and trusted tech news websites on the internet, CNET.com, has made its grand entrance into the Android Market a few days ago. The app's layout is clean and easy to navigate, thanks to the crafty hands of Treemo Labs' Ian Clifton who CNET/CBS hired to develop the project.

The CNET Experience

The CNET News app has a whole lot of great features that you would expect from such a popular website as well as a few really cool features you probably weren't expecting. Let's take a closer look, shall we?

Sep

HTC Peep And Friend Stream Get Their Groove Back

Posted by Brad Ganley in HTC, News

According to HTC's official Twitter account, Twitter and the manufacturer have ironed out the bugs that were created when Twitter changed its authorization system a few days ago and broke both Peep and Friend Stream logins:

I have tested it on my EVO and can confirm that it is working properly. I'm not sure how such a major screwup could have fallen through the cracks at HTC, but let's hope it won't happen again.

Sep

No Flash On The iPhone? Motorola Has A Droid 2 Ad For That

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Droid 2, Froyo 2.2, Motorola, News, Verizon Wireless

Fun and advertising rarely come together...unless, of course, Motorola and Verizon's Droid ad campaign is involved. First it was iDon't, then it was DroidDoes, and now it's a series of newspaper ads, the first of which poked fun at the iPhone 4's external antenna and the latest of which takes a jab at Apple's war on Flash.

As the above newspaper ad shows, it turns out more people than just us Android nerds care about Adobe Flash (or at least, that's what Motorola would like us to believe). Personally, we're just happy our FroYo-loaded phones allow us to spend all day watching South Park without even leaving our couches.

Sep

Samsung Galaxy Tab Rooted A Month Before Launch

Posted by Brad Ganley in Galaxy Tab, News, Samsung

This article mentions rooting and flashing of custom ROMs. If you’re unfamiliar with some of the terms, hit up our primers here:

The Galaxy Tab: It has been hyped as the first serious Android tablet. It is now seriously rooted.

Sera-Apps, the group responsible for cracking the Motorola Milestone wide-open, have been up to their antics again. This time, they've set their crosshairs on the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The result? Headshot. Even though the device is not set to launch for about another month, you can rest assured that your warranty won't even have enough time to start feeling safe.

Sep

Angry Birds Beta For Android Is Here - Download It From The Market

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Games, News

Angry Birds, one of the top selling games for the iPhone, hit the Anroid Market this morning.

Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, promised an off-Market beta earlier this week, but got so much positive response that it decided a Lite Beta version in the Market was actually a much better idea. In fact, the Android launch is turning out to be so popular that Rovio's own servers are are too overloaded to handle all the traffic.

Gameplay

The premise behind the game is simple - you use a sling and launch angry, bickering, round birds at pigs cowardly sitting in their forts.

Sep

Samsung Galaxy Tab To Launch On O2 For €99 With Contract, €799 Without?

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Galaxy Tab, News, O2, Samsung

It's clear from what other reviewers think as well as the specifications Samsung's released so far that the Galaxy Tab will be the Android tablet to get at the time of its launch (which, mind you, has still not been announced). Unfortunately, there are still a few things that could go wrong, not the least of which is pricing. Today, it would appear that mystery has been debunked by a recent tweet from German carrier O2 as well as the latest round of rumors.

Having a hard time reading that? Here's the English translation:

http://bit.ly/aKVatr Samsung Galaxy Tab - Yes we can!

Sep

Verizon To Release Samsung Fascinate September 9 For $200 On Contract, Buy One Get Any Free

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Fascinate, News, Verizon Wireless

Not a bad news day for a Friday, eh? Android Central just got an awesome tip (and accompanying blurrycam photo from the Verizon system) which seems to confirm the rumored launch details of the Samsung Fascinate. Namely, the device will be launching 9/9 with new-contract pricing of $200. Better still, it'll be buy-one-get-any (BOGA) - in other words, it looks like you can actually get two Fascinate's for $200. Not a bad deal at all.

While this definitely looks reliable, keep in mind that this sort of thing can always change at the last minute - so take it with a small grain of salt.

Sep

Next Up In Mobile CPUs: ARM Cortex-A9 - Dual Core, 2.5 GHz

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Devices By Manufacturer, News

It's hard not to love Moore's law, isn't it? Global Foundries and ARM revealed some details on the upcoming Cortex-A9 CPU architecture during GTC, and boy does it look like a hardware nerds dream. Thanks to a massive die shrink coupled with other architectural optimizations, word has it that the A9 will boast huge performance gains and significantly less power draw.

The majority of the benefits come simply from the die shrink. Modern chips (such as the ubiquitous Snapdragon CPU's) are based on the ARM Cortex A8 series, which is manufactured on either a 65nm or 45nm process. The A9, on the other hand, checks in at just 28nm; diminutive indeed.

Sep

Rumor Has It Samsung Galaxy Tab Will Go To Sprint

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Galaxy Tab, News, Sprint

Seems like Sprint is really turning itself around lately, doesn't it? They've managed to stop bleeding customers in the past few months, and it's a fairly safe assumption that their ever-expanding lineup of awesome devices has something to do with it. Looks like they're looking to continue the trend, too: BGR's heard word that the Galaxy Tab will be headed to Sprint sometime in November.

They don't provide any details other than that, so hopefully this ends up being reliable. It does seem feasible - word on the street is that Verizon is slated to get a few tablets from Motorola, while we've heard nary a peep about any Sprint tablets before this point.