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AS Exclusive: Sprint Source Confirms Late July Release for the Samsung Within (Galaxy S 2)

Posted June 2, 2011 by Bryce Walter

  Last week, I had reported that our Sprint contact confirmed, that the rumored Samsung Within was indeed coming to Sprint as their version of the Samsung Galaxy S 2. Well today, AndroidSpin.com brings you even bigger news. You wont have to wait long to get your SGS2 fix; our source confirms that it will [...]

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Attention Developers! HTC Launches Dev Site for Sense Development

Posted June 2, 2011 by Stormy Beach

This just came from HTC, directly from their twitter account only 5 minutes ago. If you head on over to the link HTCdev.com, you can sign up to be part of the Sense developing community. HTC is one of the fastest growing device manufacturers on the planet and with every new device come new opportunities [...]

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ASUS Introduces the PadPhone at Computex 2011

Posted May 30, 2011 by Bryce Walter

Earlier this morning, while we were all still asleep in our nice soft (or firm if you like it that way) beds, a pretty sweet concept, which is turning into a reality pretty quick was introduced. We’ve all seen the Motorola Atrix 4G, and the add-on dock that you can purchase with it; well ASUS [...]

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Motorola Droid X finally get’s the Gingerbread update we’ve been teased with for Ages.

Posted May 30, 2011 by Simon Walker

I’m not sure how many times we’ve heard about the Motorola Droid X getting it’s well overdue Gingerbread update. Almost a month ago we posted news indicating that it was coming soon.  The Gingerbread leaks have been around long before that if you didn’t mind rooting your phone. Now it’s official and you don’t have [...]

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Sprint Source Confirms the Samsung Within IS Sprint’s SGS2

Posted May 29, 2011 by Bryce Walter

So, I know we have all been keeping a close eye out on what US Carriers will receive the Samsung Galaxy S2 (SGS2), and what their names will be as well as the features. Friday I received confirmation from my Sprint source that they will in fact be getting the Samsung Galaxy S2, and that the [...]

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When Carriers Attack: Pre-Installed Apps Edition

Posted May 29, 2011 by Bryce Walter

  We’ve all been there, you get a new phone, turn it on, and whats the first thing you notice in the application drawer? A lot of useless applications that you will never use, also known as bloatware. You’ve also probably noticed that these applications cannot be removed without rooting the phone. This makes it [...]

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The T-Mobile G2x Plot Thickens, New Pricing Revealed

Posted May 26, 2011 by Bryce Walter

Our good friend David over at TMONews.com received an interesting screenshot today. It seems that T-Mobile is now raising the price of the G2x after they took it off the shelf due to inventory issues. This could mean 1 of 2 things: 1. They are compensating for the price it is costing them to repair [...]

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HTC Has Listened to the Community: Bootloaders Will Officially No Longer Be Locked!

Posted May 26, 2011 by Bryce Walter

The power of the Android community is something that HTC underestimated, and after a large scale petition was unleashed on HTC to try and influence their decision to lock bootloaders, HTC announced that they where going to review their policy on locking bootloaders on Android devices.  They had so much feedback from the community that they just announced [...]

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[Video] Qualcomm Snapdragon Processors Shown Off – Second Gen. Snapdragon and Dual-Core MDP

Posted May 3, 2011 by Jacob Cunningham

A couple of videos uploaded by Qualcmm seek to show you the abilities of their newer offerings to mobile devices. These videos seek to highlight the  specific aspect of Qualcomm’s latest dual-core Snapdragon and second gen. single core offerings. The new MSM8660 dual-core Snapdragon paired with the Adreno 220, which is said to have more [...]

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[UPDATE] @googlenexus Twitter Account Keeps Me Refreshing My Timeline

Posted April 28, 2011 by Kristina Van Alstine

Earlier this morning the official twitter account for the @googlenexus put out a small notice that gets the curiosity flowing. They stated “We have a surprise for you today. Stay tuned!”. Thats enough for me to keep refreshing my timeline so I don’t miss what is about to be announced. We all already know the Nexus S [...]

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Is Samsung Doing Away with Bootloaders in Future Devices?

Posted April 15, 2011 by Jacob Cunningham

According to well known Galaxy S developer supercurio via a s pecial source this could be likely. This means despite the controversy that surrounds Samsung, the future devices offered could be even more developer friendly. As mentioned in the tweet above the only thing that would prohibit Samsung from offering an open bootloader would be [...]

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Sony Ericsson: A Lesson in How Not to Treat Your Customers

Posted April 14, 2011 by User Submitted Post

  Note: This article does not reflect the views of AndroidSPIN. Better late than never, and in a last ditch attempt to survive, Sony Ericsson decided to jump on the Android bandwagon and release their X10 range of phone this time last year (in the UK at least). It was announced in the previous November [...]

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Mind-blown: Sony Experia X10 will get Gingerbread (2.3)

Posted March 26, 2011 by Cameron Wright

I am in SHOCK!!!  I’m not joking, this amazes me.  The first phone that was going to push the limits of what Android could be.  The hardware sounded like it could easily have lounged at the top of the food chain but Sony Ericsson decided to launch it with a very outdated version of Android. [...]

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Interesting Quality Assurance…

Posted March 7, 2011 by Jacob Cunningham

An interesting comment that we touched on earlier, also contained the anonymous users views on hardware, quality, pricing, and functionality. Yet again I’m curious as to what other people’s views are on this subject.   General overview on different manufacturers, from low to high quality: Motorola:  Atrix line  — Fast Processor, Nice Concept, Awful MotoBlur, [...]

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NVIDIA and Samsung Partner to Bring 10.1″ Galaxy Tab

Posted February 14, 2011 by Allen Kiehl

Now that Mobile World Congress is well underway we are starting to see a lot of things about super phones, tablets, and all the other super Android goodness.  Check out the press release below about Samsung and NVIDIA partnering together to bring a 10.1″ Galaxy Tab to our finger tips. Barcelona — MWC 2011 — [...]

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