Archive for February, 2011

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc system dump appears online

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc system dump appears online   One enterprising XDA forum member has managed to snag a copy of the still unreleased Xperia Arc’s /system partition via ADB, and has posted the resulting files online. The /system partition typically contains the core applications and files at the heart of any ROM. As the Arc [...]

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc system dump appears online

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc system dump appears online   One enterprising XDA forum member has managed to snag a copy of the still unreleased Xperia Arc’s /system partition via ADB, and has posted the resulting files online. The /system partition typically contains the core applications and files at the heart of any ROM. As the Arc [...]

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Apple COO Tim Cook talks cheaper iPhones, huge tablet market growth

Apple COO Tim Cook talks cheaper iPhones, huge tablet market growth During a meeting with Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi, Apple COO Tim Cook referred to the iPhone as “the mother of all halos” because of its ability to expand sales of other core products like the iPad and the Mac. Cook went on to strongly [...]

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Samsung asks: What’s your Tab life?; next ‘Unpacked’ event at CTIA

Samsung asks: What’s your Tab life?; next ‘Unpacked’ event at CTIA The spring CTIA event is just a few short weeks away, and Samsung Mobile’s starting to tease its next "Unpacked" event. The event at MWC in early February was dubbed "Letters From the World," and up next we have "What’s your Tab life?" with the number(s) [...]

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"Fabricate Yourself" Kinect Hack Does Just That [Video]

Want a really, really rough 3D representation of yourself, printed out by a 3D printer using information gleaned from everybody’s favorite game accessory-turned-hacked accessory Kinect? Great, just stand in front of Joris’s Fabricate Yourself and it will do the rest. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/pOKkkFeRdNo/fabricate-yourself-kinect-hack-does-just-that Skype Mobile Phone Apps FREE Skype Apps for Android Andoid Skype Phones [...]

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Sprint Total Equipment Protection App helps safeguard Sprint Android phones

Sprint Total Equipment Protection App helps safeguard Sprint Android phones For you Sprint customers out there who are signed up for the Total Equipment Protection service, you now have a new way to keep your stuff safe. Sprint’s released the Total Equipment Protection App that brings a slew of features to help locate, lock, wipe [...]

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Android Central ROM review: CyanogenMod 7 RC1 for the Droid Incredible

Android Central ROM review: CyanogenMod 7 RC1 for the Droid Incredible This week’s ROM Review brings two Android staples together — the HTC Droid Incredible and CyanogenMod.  These two go together like peanut butter and jelly — each makes a good thing better.  And it’s a great way to get some Gingerbread on your DInc. [...]

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Sprint Total Equipment Protection App helps safeguard Sprint Android phones

Sprint Total Equipment Protection App helps safeguard Sprint Android phones For you Sprint customers out there who are signed up for the Total Equipment Protection service, you now have a new way to keep your stuff safe. Sprint’s released the Total Equipment Protection App that brings a slew of features to help locate, lock, wipe [...]

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iPad Live podcast tonight 9pm ET! Come chat!

iPad Live podcast tonight 9pm ET! Come chat! iPad Live hits the air tonight with Georgia, Chad and Rene and you know you won’t want to miss it! Time: 9pm ET, 6pm PT, 2am GMT Place: http://www.tipb.com/live/ If you have any questions or topics you’d like us to discuss, just leave them in the comments [...]

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Sprint Total Equipment Protection App helps safeguard Sprint Android phones

Sprint Total Equipment Protection App helps safeguard Sprint Android phones For you Sprint customers out there who are signed up for the Total Equipment Protection service, you now have a new way to keep your stuff safe. Sprint’s released the Total Equipment Protection App that brings a slew of features to help locate, lock, wipe [...]

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Cueboy Quest is an adorable 8-bit style physics game

Yes, that’s right, I said adorable. Because Cueboy Quest really is! You play an 8-bit cowboy whose goal on each level is to get to the door (and thus to the next level), but the door is often locked. To get it to open, you must shoot at one or more targets, and those targets [...]

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Firefox 4′s best restartless add-ons

Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, or in a tent outside the Googleplex with an “I LOVE SCHMIDT” banner, you hopefully know that Firefox 4 supports restartless add-ons, or in developerese: bootstrapped extensions. Unfortunately, however, the process of converting an existing add-on into a restartless wonder is far from simple. A few months ago, [...]

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iOS 4.3 unlock working on iPhone 4 basebands 3.10.01 and 2.10.04?

iOS 4.3 unlock working on iPhone 4 basebands 3.10.01 and 2.10.04? iOS 4.3 for iPhone is surely on the horizon and that leaves many unlockers wondering whether or not there will be an unlock ready. It’s been a while but it appears a tweet from @sherif_hashim may be confirming that the issues have finally been [...]

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Android Central ROM review: CyanogenMod 7 RC1 for the Droid Incredible

Android Central ROM review: CyanogenMod 7 RC1 for the Droid Incredible This week’s ROM Review brings two Android staples together — the HTC Droid Incredible and CyanogenMod.  These two go together like peanut butter and jelly — each makes a good thing better.  And it’s a great way to get some Gingerbread on your DInc. [...]

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CrunchGear Week in Review: Vehicle Stack Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: ?Inner City Bike? Is A Minimalist?s Fixed-Gear Contest: Would It Kill You To Dress Up? Jackthreads Can Help 8-Bit Mega Man Straps Serve No Purpose; Buy Them Anyway eStar From Navistar Is Another Electric Delivery Van Honeycomb Is The First Shot Fired Along Apple?s Bow [...]

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The Week in Android News

The Week in Android News Is it just me, or did this week just seem to Xoom on by? Ok, bad joke, I know, but this week was rather loaded with a good amount of Xoom drama, fun, and excitement, along with a bundle of other Android related news. Let’s take a look below at some [...]

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The Week in Android News

The Week in Android News Is it just me, or did this week just seem to Xoom on by? Ok, bad joke, I know, but this week was rather loaded with a good amount of Xoom drama, fun, and excitement, along with a bundle of other Android related news. Let’s take a look below at some [...]

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Further proof that Android apps are slated to run on the BlackBerry PlayBook

Further proof that Android apps are slated to run on the BlackBerry PlayBook It’s nothing we haven’t heard before, the BlackBerry PlayBook is said to be able to run Android applications. But up until now we have never really had documented proof of this. During Mobile World Congress this month, during a hands on with [...]

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FullHDMI allows you to mirror your EVO screen on your HDTV

FullHDMI allows you to mirror your EVO screen on your HDTV For all you HTC EVO owners who have anxiously been awaiting the ability to put your HDMI port to its full use, the wait is over. Android Central forums member oorebmas has created FullHDMI, an application which just entered a public beta, that allows EVO users to mirror [...]

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iPad Live podcast tonight 9pm ET! Come chat!

iPad Live podcast tonight 9pm ET! Come chat! iPad Live hits the air tonight with Georgia, Chad and Rene and you know you won’t want to miss it! Time: 9pm ET, 6pm PT, 2am GMT Place: http://www.tipb.com/live/ If you have any questions or topics you’d like us to discuss, just leave them in the comments [...]

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Man builds machine to push phone buttons from half a world away (video)

If your ambition was to travel the world, and your job to push the buttons of three cellphones located in South Korea, you might go insane. That seems to be what happened to Mok Young Bak, at least, when he invented the crazy contraption depicted in the video above. Called the Caduceus, it’s a telepresence [...]

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Consumer Reports Finds Antenna Issue on Verizon iPhone

Consumer Reports claims the Verizon iPhone 4 exhibits signal loss when held in a specific way, similar to the problems seen in the AT&T iPhone 4 last year. More Verizon iPhone coverage on Wired.com: Review: Verizon iPhone Hands-On With the Verizon iPhone Hotspot Price Chart: Verizon iPhone vs. AT&T iPhone Switching to Verizon iPhone? 3 Ways [...]

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iPad Live podcast tonight 9pm ET! Come chat!

iPad Live podcast tonight 9pm ET! Come chat! iPad Live hits the air tonight with Georgia, Chad and Rene and you know you won’t want to miss it! Time: 9pm ET, 6pm PT, 2am GMT Place: http://www.tipb.com/live/ If you have any questions or topics you’d like us to discuss, just leave them in the comments [...]

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Apple starts using WebKit2 in Mac OS X Lion Safari… Will iOS 5 be next?

Apple starts using WebKit2 in Mac OS X Lion Safari… Will iOS 5 be next? Looks like Apple has finally shipped WebKit2 as part of Safari 5 in the recent Mac OS X Lion beta — so does that mean we can expect it in iOS 5 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad? Originally announced [...]

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Android Central ROM review: CyanogenMod 7 RC1 for the Droid Incredible

Android Central ROM review: CyanogenMod 7 RC1 for the Droid Incredible This week’s ROM Review brings two Android staples together — the HTC Droid Incredible and CyanogenMod.  These two go together like peanut butter and jelly — each makes a good thing better.  And it’s a great way to get some Gingerbread on your DInc. [...]

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Scopy for iPhone Twitter giveaway!

Scopy for iPhone Twitter giveaway! Scopy for iPhone is an extremely well put together Twitter client with a catch. Scopy only focuses on your Twitter friends’ photo streams. It’s very similar to services like Instagram but pulls all your friends existing Twitter photos from your stream. You can choose to sort by individual friend as [...]

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Scopy for iPhone Twitter giveaway!

Scopy for iPhone Twitter giveaway! Scopy for iPhone is an extremely well put together Twitter client with a catch. Scopy only focuses on your Twitter friends’ photo streams. It’s very similar to services like Instagram but pulls all your friends existing Twitter photos from your stream. You can choose to sort by individual friend as [...]

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Android Central Editors’ app picks for Feb. 26, 2011

Android Central Editors’ app picks for Feb. 26, 2011 Whether you enjoy cruising the market, or struggle to find applications for your favorite Android device, suggestions of great applications are usually welcomed. We spend lots of time looking for fun new applications, and are always looking for the next great thing to load on our [...]

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HTC Incredible 2 tipped for Verizon

HTC Incredible 2 tipped for Verizon You didn’t actually think the recently announced HTC Incredible S (see our hands-on) wouldn’t make its way to Verizon as the Droid Incredible 2, did ya? A couple of leaked screen shots point to ADR6350 as coming to Big Red. No real surprise there, as the DInc was one of the [...]

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HTC Incredible 2 tipped for Verizon

HTC Incredible 2 tipped for Verizon You didn’t actually think the recently announced HTC Incredible S (see our hands-on) wouldn’t make its way to Verizon as the Droid Incredible 2, did ya? A couple of leaked screen shots point to ADR6350 as coming to Big Red. No real surprise there, as the DInc was one of the [...]

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HTC Incredible S now available in the UK

HTC Incredible S now available in the UK   Mobiles.co.uk and parent company The Carphone Warehouse are now shipping HTC’s new Incredible S in the UK. SIM-free, the Incredible S can be yours for £499.95 (~$800), while on-contract prices range from free to £319.99 (~$510). Right now the Incredible S is only being offered on contract with [...]

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Android Central Editors’ app picks for Feb. 26, 2011

Android Central Editors’ app picks for Feb. 26, 2011 Whether you enjoy cruising the market, or struggle to find applications for your favorite Android device, suggestions of great applications are usually welcomed. We spend lots of time looking for fun new applications, and are always looking for the next great thing to load on our [...]

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HTC Incredible 2 tipped for Verizon

HTC Incredible 2 tipped for Verizon You didn’t actually think the recently announced HTC Incredible S (see our hands-on) wouldn’t make its way to Verizon as the Droid Incredible 2, did ya? A couple of leaked screen shots point to ADR6350 as coming to Big Red. No real surprise there, as the DInc was one of the [...]

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Scopy for iPhone Twitter giveaway!

Scopy for iPhone Twitter giveaway! Scopy for iPhone is an extremely well put together Twitter client with a catch. Scopy only focuses on your Twitter friends’ photo streams. It’s very similar to services like Instagram but pulls all your friends existing Twitter photos from your stream. You can choose to sort by individual friend as [...]

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HTC Incredible S now available in the UK

HTC Incredible S now available in the UK   Mobiles.co.uk and parent company The Carphone Warehouse are now shipping HTC’s new Incredible S in the UK. SIM-free, the Incredible S can be yours for £499.95 (~$800), while on-contract prices range from free to £319.99 (~$510). Right now the Incredible S is only being offered on contract with [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S II gets price and release date

Samsung Galaxy S II gets price and release date   Samsung’s dual-core, Gingerbread-powered Galaxy S II has appeared on Play.co.uk alongside a tentative SIM-free price and release date. According to Play, which is currently taking pre-orders for the phone, it’ll ship Mar. 31 for £599.99 (~$960). Pre-release prices are never guaranteed to be accurate and [...]

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