Archive for July, 2011

Google Enhances Search For Tablets

July 31st, 2011
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Google announced, in a small blog entry, that they've started to optimize the Google search experience for tablets.  This revamp includes making things bigger, and easier to tap. The newly optimized Google search for tablets includes a search box which provides quick access to image, video, places, news and shopping results.  They've also increased the size ...

Samsung Galaxy S II Page Has T-Mobile, Cellular South, US Celluar, And Metro PCS In Drop Down

July 31st, 2011
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All of the rumors coming out about the Samsung Galaxy S II have featured Sprint, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. It's been reported that either T-Mobile wouldn't get the Samsung Galaxy S II at the time of launch, or T-Mobile would get it's own totally different variant, possibly the Hercules. There are a couple of reasons that ...

Droid Charge Discounted To $99.99 At Amazon

July 31st, 2011

Those guys at Amazon Wireless always have the best deals and today that's no different. Amazon has discounted the Samsung Droid Charge 4G/LTE phone to just $99.99 on a new two year contract. The Samsung Droid Charge was the second 4G/LTE phone released on Verizon Wireless as well as the second 4G/LTE Android device on Verizon ...

HTC Droid Incredible 2 Coming Soon In Silver

July 31st, 2011
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If you're one of those people that just has to be different and a different color back to your phone helps you distinguish yourself from the crowd than we have some good news for you. Our friends at Pocketnow have found that the Droid Incredible 2 (or Droid Incredible S overseas) is getting a special "silver ...

LG Thrill Delayed Until August 21?

July 30th, 2011
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LG had a monstrous concert event with Jane's addiction earlier this week in NY's Hell's Kitchen.  All in anticipation of the upcoming launch of the Optimus 3D/LG Thrill. The thrill was repeatedly scheduled for release August 7th and had already gone on pre-order at Radio Shack. Android Central got a leaked internal Radio Shack memo detailing ...

Houston We Have A Problem: Chamillionaire Cites Employee Education For Android Frustration

July 30th, 2011
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We're going to get this out of the way in the beginning of the story this time:  Chamillionaire was invited to attend his second TechCrunch CrunchUp event yesterday. Why? Not because he is rap star but because he is a tech entrepreneur. His credits include investing in Y-Combinator start-ups including Disqus (which we use for ...

AT&T To Throttle Some Unlimited Customers Starting 10/1

July 30th, 2011

AT&T said in a release Friday that they are taking steps to manage the "exploding demand" for mobile data.  As a result they will start throttling their heaviest unlimited customers. Although AT&T was the first to convert to tiered data plans, those who were grandfathered into their existing unlimited data plans and fall into the heaviest ...

Buy A Verizon Smartphone Get $50 Off A Connected Tablet Starts August 1st

July 30th, 2011
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Verizon Wireless is doing away with their free tablet activation promo at the start of next month, which is Monday. Did you even know there was a free tablet activation promotion? Well whether you did or didn't is irrelevant. Monday starts a new and exciting promotion at Verizon Wireless.  Buy any smartphone on a new two ...

Tech Savvy Rapper Chamillionaire Disses Android Big Time

July 30th, 2011
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Although it seemed our good friend Chris Chavez over at Phandroid dismissed Chamillionaire as just another rapper it's very important to point out that Chamillionaire is very active in tech groups in houston and other areas in Texas.  Chamilionaire was spotted several times at the tech portion of SXSW this year and also paneled at ...

Samsung Galaxy S II Sign Up Page Is Live

July 29th, 2011
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Writing about Android for the past few years we've used the words "most sought after" together to describe a device many many times. After all, when you look at it, at the time of release, a lot of Android hardware is nothing less than incredible.  We are all doing things with our phones today that ...

Get Jar Gets 2 Billionth Download

July 29th, 2011

Our friends at Getjar have just reached a hefty milestone. They just had their 2 billionth download (billion with a "B").  Getjar is the largest independent app store around. They serve apps for all operating systems and have had some pretty big exclusive launches this year including Angry Birds and Cut The Rope. 2 billion downloads ...

App Spotlight: MightyText

July 29th, 2011
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The more our lives get wrapped up in technology, the harder it is to keep track of everything. Some things are on your phone, on your computer, in your personal email, in your work email--everything is somewhere. Sometimes it's just easier to sit down and use one device to do everything. However, one thing that ...