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Virgin Mobile gets on Google Wallet bandwagon with $25 promo

May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Virgin Mobile has become the latest wireless carrier to get behind the future of mobile commerce that is Google Wallet.  The provider shot out an email today advising that customers who pick up the new LG Optimus Elite can activate Google Wallet and score $ 25 credit in the process.  The catch is that you have to activate the service and Google prepaid card within seven (7) days of purchase and activation.  It's worth pointing out that this is a limited time promotion (May 18 through July18) … [Read more...]

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Android 4.0 arrives May 21 for Amaze 4G at T-Mobile, Sensation 4G gets ICS today

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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T-Mobile has updated their support pages with an exact date to expect Ice Cream Sandwich for the HTC Amaze 4G. Previously the update was pegged as coming sometime in the next couple of weeks. Now users can look forward to Android 4.0 (but only Sense 3.6) on May 21st. In related news, the upgrade to ICS for the HTC Sensation 4G should begin pushing today, just as promised. Any owners of the T-Mobile handset receive the prompt to update yet? You can manually pull the software by navigating to … [Read more...]

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Galaxy S III gets unboxed on video a few weeks ahead of launch

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III is only a few weeks away, but this unboxing video is enough to cause anyone eager to own the new Android superphone to lose their patience. The above video comes to us courtesy of Italy’s HDBlog and features the retail version of the Galaxy S III. For good measure the phone is compared to several other recent Galaxy models as well as the HTC One X and HTC One S. While it doesn’t reveal much about the phone we didn’t already know it gives us a good … [Read more...]

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T-Mobile Gets Ready For Second Round of Layoffs – 900 Employees To Lose Their Jobs

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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  T-Mobile is getting ready for a second round of job cuts in which the number 4 carrier in the US plans to layoff 900 more of their employees across the US. The layoffs follow 10 consecutive quarters of customer contract losses and will should help T-Mo hold apply that $ 4 billion they recently acquired from AT&T to help rollout their upcoming 4G LTE network. The cuts wont affect “front line” employees (those working at T-Mobile retail locations), but will hit those in which … [Read more...]

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Cloud-Synced Note-Taking App Evernote Gets A Huge Update To v4.0 With New Look

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Evernote is a great little cross-platform service that lets you sync notes between devices and save them in the cloud. Using Evernote is so seamless for me, it's like outsourcing my memories to the internet. The app was nothing to sneeze at before, but it just got a big update to version 4.0 that brings a new look and a few features that fit in perfectly with Android 4.0. There is a new home screen with big, friendly buttons to make a new text note, audio note, photo, or upload a file of any … [Read more...]

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ASUS Padfone gets unboxing video, docks on docks on docks

May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The ASUS Padfone has been highly anticipated since it was first announced well over a year ago. After a bit of retooling it re-debuted earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, much to the intrigue of all in attendance. With a smartphone that docks into a tablet that in turn mates with a keyboard dock, ASUS has all the bases pretty much covered. The Padfone is launching soon and our friends over at NetbookNews got their hands on a production unit and gave it the full hands on treatment. Get a … [Read more...]

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Latest CyanogenMod 9 Nightlies Now Include Theme Engine Support – AOKP Gets In On The Action As Well

May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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     If you’re currently running a rooted device that happens to be blessed with CyanogenMod 9 support, you’ll be glad to know that the world famous custom ROM now includes theme engine support in their latest “nightlies.” Just like we saw back in CM7 (their previous Gingerbread custom ROM), users can once again take their customizing to new heights with the option to change everything from the color and icons of their favorite ROM. Very unlike CM7 however, is the Theme … [Read more...]

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HTC One S Gets A Kickstand With Introduction of Official OEM Case

May 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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  Looks like HTC is getting into the accessories business — well, at least making a bigger push into it. Now that they’ve launched their One line across multiple carriers and countries around the world, it’s time to dress up those sexy devices in some stylish cases, starting with the One S. It’s been talked about time, and time again in Android circles. Probably the most lustworthy feature in a phone isn’t the display, it’s not battery life or even “teh corez.” Ever since … [Read more...]

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Another teaser for Gameloft’s N.O.V.A 3 gets released, a little Halo influence mixed In

May 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The other day we got our first looks a teaser of N.O.V.A 3 from Gameloft. I must have watched it at least a dozen times in awe. They always make playing the game look easier than it ever is. They have since released another little teaser trailer that shows off some of the amazing multiplayer gameplay. That aspect of the gameplay looks even better. While teaming up with your friends is always a good time, there is nothing like hoping inside vehicles and causing some mayhem together. Reminds of … [Read more...]

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Android gets ported to C#, ditching Java

May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 XobotOS running on a Linux workstation The team over at Xamarin has worked hard to port the Java part of Android to C#, setting way for a new OS called XobotOS. The team announced the news in a blog post this evening and has uploaded the code onto Github to be used and modified by fellow developers.  The team explains the technical aspects: Android’s core codebase contains over a million lines of Java code, and we knew we wanted to be able to stay up to date with new releases of Android … [Read more...]

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