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HTC Ville shows Android 4, Sense 4 (video)
3-minute hands-on 6,600 reads
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Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition
REVIEW Mini Xoom 5,800 reads
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Best Android reference apps
FEATURE For the smartest phone of all 5,000 reads
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T-Mobile to introduce The Full Monty tariff
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Dropbox for Android beta lands with auto camera uploads
And 500MB picture space 3 February 2012 15:15 GMT TweetDropbox has taken off the covers of an all-new version of its cloud-based solution for Android devices: the Experimental Android Forum Build 2.0.9. Catchy name huh?
The beta release brings with it a number of key new features, most notably...
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Best Android apps for learning and reference
FEATURE For the smartest phone of all 1 February 2012 12:00 GMT TweetSmartphones apps aren't just about games. There's some educating to do out there if you'd care to tear yourself away from Fruit Ninja for just two minutes and we at Pocket-lint have amassed the very best Android apps for learning and reference so that...
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HTC Ville shows its Android 4, Sense 4 face (video)
3-minute hands-on 31 January 2012 15:58 GMT TweetThe forthcoming HTC Ville has made a 3-minute video debut online, revealing a great deal about the incoming Android 4, Sense 4 handset.
Although the specs have previously been rumoured and we've seen images of the new Android handset, the video...
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Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition review
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Mini Xoom
30 January 2012 19:27 GMT
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Many, including Motorola, followed the iPad's about-10-inch route with the launch of their first tablet, but there's a lot to be said for a more compact format as seen here with the 8.2-inch Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition.
But with challengers...
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The future of your mobile phone
FEATURE The shape of your next handset 30 January 2012 18:01 GMT TweetWhat are our phones going to look like in 10 years time; see-through displays, Star Trek-style tricorders? Ton Brand from the GSMA - the organisation that promotes standardisation between mobile networks - has a pretty good idea.
As programme...
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T-Mobile to introduce The Full Monty tariff - all you can eat calls, texts and data
With no fair use restrictions 30 January 2012 9:53 GMT TweetT-Mobile is introducing a new mobile phone and data plan that it claims is unique to the provider. Called The Full Monty, it offers completely unlimited calls, texts and Internet access with no fair use restrictions.
The new plan will be available...
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Epson Moverio BT-100 video glasses pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON Google on goggles 27 January 2012 17:44 GMT TweetWe all like the idea of seeing a massive TV image while we stare up at the celing, or at a boring old wall. Well, the good news is that Epson wants to help your dream become a reality, with its Moverio BT-100. In simple terms, a pair of goggles that...
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Best Android customisation apps
FEATURE Your smartphone, your choices 27 January 2012 12:45 GMT TweetOne of the joys of Android is supposed to be customisation and yet few people even bother to change their wallpaper after unboxing their little darlings. One of the problems is that most of us have been scarred by our early live wallpaper experiences...
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Android kills the menu button, demands action
Action bar is the future 27 January 2012 10:11 GMT TweetThe menu button on Google's Android is all but dead and is to be replaced permanently by the action bar. That's the message from Scott Main, lead tech writer for developer.android.com, who has posted an article advising Android developers to change...
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APP OF THE DAY: PhotoWall review (Android)
Your pictures, your wallpaper 26 January 2012 18:08 GMT TweetSure, you've got a gallery app full of pictures on your mobile phone. Yes, you might even have the odd widget window on your desktop that connects to it too but, frankly, if you're not using today's App of the Day on your Android handset, you're not...
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Xbox Live landing on iOS and Android
Coming to "other platforms" at least 26 January 2012 11:44 GMT TweetCould Microsoft be about to extend the wings of its online gaming platform, Xbox Live? If a quote from a Microsoft bod given to Forbes is anything to go by, then yes.
The business site has quoted a spokesperson from the tech company as saying:
"While...
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Apple doubles iPad shipments but Android gains ground
Google catching up fast 26 January 2012 11:00 GMT TweetThe Q4 2011 tablet results are in and, despite Apple growing its global iPad shipments - increasing 111 per cent year on year - from 7.3 million to 15.4 million, there will be concern in the Cupertino board room that its market dominance is declining.
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ZTE V9A Light Tab 2 Android fun coming February
ZTE Optik also leaked 26 January 2012 10:21 GMT TweetOver in Las Vegas at CES we thought that ZTE might have shuffled off the shackles of its "budget brand" tag by showing off the Tegra 3 packing ZTE T98.
But a couple of new 7-inch efforts from the Chinese company have indicated that it still...
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HTC Explorer review
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A phone for people who make calls
26 January 2012 10:00 GMT
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Android is a mobile OS that clearly appeals to geeks. And its appeal to those who like flexible, powerful phones that have a great selection of games and apps is clear too. But where does that leave the person on the street? The normal Joe, the man...
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Kurio: The Android tablet for kids (pictures)
Toy Fair 2012: Child friendly 24 January 2012 16:14 GMT TweetA new tablet maker, Inspiration Works, is hoping to succeed where others have failed and make an Android tablet designed specifically for kids without leaving adults out in the cold.
Launching in the UK in July and coming in three sizes - 7-inch,...
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