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Fring Now Offering Four Way Video Calling; Available For iOS And Android

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April 28, 2011
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The free communication app, Fring, is now offering 4-way video calling through its iOS and Android apps. Their new app just hit the App Store today and is quickly climbing the ranks to most downloaded with people discovering the new 4-way video calling feature. Fring previously offered two way video calling last year but the company decided two wasn’t enough and upped it to four. They also added the ability to buy fringout credits which allow users to make low cost calls to regular phone numbers around the world via in-app purchases. It also works with AT&T and Verizon according to the info More >

Google To Unveil Android 2.3.4 At Google I/O; Brings Video Calling Feature

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April 27, 2011
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Google I/O is right around the corner, talking place on May 10-11, 2011 at Moscone Center, San Francisco. The Google I/O rumor mill has been surprisingly calm this year, but a recent tweet from @MAFiA303, who reportedly “works with Samsung,” changes that completely –

Just had a video call using gmail on Nexus S. Impressive quality @googlenexus Gingerbreak 2.3.4

The Android community was expecting to see more than a new iteration of Gingerbread at I/O, but the video chat feature is hot addition to mobile Gmail. But, this is Google we’re talking about, so we expect to be surprised at the More >

Sony Rolling Out Two New Tablets To Take On Apple’s iPad

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April 27, 2011
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Sony is planning on releasing not one, but two new tablet computers according to their recent unveiling. The consumer electronic behemoth seems to be pretty optimistic about the chances its two Google Android-based touchscreen tablets have at competing with Apple’s presently untouchable iPad and iPad 2 tablets.

The folks over at Reuters are reporting that Sony’s tablets will be reaching consumers this fall. The tablets, called the S1 and the S2, will both be using Google’s Android 3.0 operating system. Both will also have Wi-Fi and 3G/4G compatibility. One of the two models will even sport More >

Nielsen’s Research Shows Android Is “Most Wanted” OS

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April 27, 2011
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Just recently, the Nielsen Company released the findings of its latest smartphone survey, which asked respondents planning to purchase new smartphones which platform they intended to patronize. When being asked this question last year between June and September, 33% named iOS, 26% said iOS, and 13% said they planned to purchase a BlackBerry smartphone. This has changed since then and it isn’t exactly a surprise seeing how things have been going.

When a new group was asked the same question between January and March of 2011, Android slipped past Apple’s iOS platform to become the most wanted More >

Root Your Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread Devices With Gingerbreak

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April 22, 2011
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As we already know, utilities like SuperOneClick, Universal Androot and z4root don’t work on Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. It’s not as easy to root some phones running Google Android 2.3 as it was to gain root access to early versions of the operating system. For instance, rooting a Google Nexus One after updating to Android 2.3.3 is a not an easy task. Fortunately there’s a new exploit floating around the web called GingerBreak which remount /system read/write, install su binaries and superUser.apk in your system, regardless of the device.

The tool is relatively new and hasn’t been More >

‘HBO Go’ Streaming Service Demoed for iPad, iPhone and Android

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April 20, 2011
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The the premium cable television network HBO released a teaser video recently on youtube. According to the HBO video the ‘Go service’ is on its way to the iPhone, iPad and Android base devices. HBO owned by Time Warner Cable, will be releasing an iOS app that streams movies and the network’s own shows.

“Get every episode of every season of your favorite HBO shows, plus hit movies and much more,” the video’s voiceover states. “All free to HBO subscribers and all streaming on your iPad, laptop, or smartphone wherever you are.”

The teaser video highlights the app’s features and More >

Windows Phone 7 Beats Android and iPhone 4 In Browser Benchmark

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April 15, 2011
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At Microsoft’s MIX11conference in Las Vegas, Joe Belfiore, the Windows Phone director took the stage to demonstrate how well Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 mobile browser can render HTML5 websites. In order to demonstrate it, he fired up a device running Microsoft’s new Windows Phone “Mango” update with IE9 installed and hardware acceleration, and then started an HTML5 speed test pitting the Mango device against the iPhone 4 and the Google Nexus S. Belfiore was so confident that he even gave the iPhone 4 a head start.

Nonetheless, IE9 loaded the demo faster and came out on top, having More >

CyanogenMod 7 Final Released; Supports Android 2.3.3 Ginderbread OS

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April 12, 2011
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The wait for the latest version of the CyanogenMod custom Android ROM is finally over, CyanogenMod 7 has been officially released.

CyanogenMod is a customized version of Android that adds additional features to your smartphone. CM7 is based on the Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) kernel (Gingerbread was released initially with the Samsung Nexus S). While it isn’t a release slated to hit most phones by default (2.4 is the next official release, rumor has it), many ROM makers have embraced Gingerbread as the release to hack onto phones.

It’s necessary to root your phone to run it, with the list More >

Google’s Music Locker App For Android Leaked

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April 5, 2011
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According to a report from BusinessInsider, Google has accidentally leaked the upcoming version of their Cloud Music App for Android.

Tech From 10 was able to get the app after discovering that Google accidentally pushed a developer version of the next Android Market to their phone.

So on our Galaxy S Vibrant today we went to do a routine update of apps from the Android Market, only to discover that, for a completely unknown and frankly bizarre reason, our Android Market is now suddenly the test version we assume is loaded on Android developer’s devices.

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Google Rumored To Incorporate Google TV Into The Next Version Of Android

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April 3, 2011
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We have heard that the next version of the Android, Ice Cream, is supposed to combine Gingerbread with Honeycomb but the folks over at Phandroid have gotten inside track on some additional info. It looks like Google TV may become part of the bundle as well. While Google TV has gotten off to a rocky start, incorporating it into the Android platform would seem like a smart move for Google.

So what exactly does this mean? It could actually mean a number of things. One thing we can count is consistency. All of Google’s devices (TVs, tablets, and phones) would be running off of the same source More >

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