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GetJar Getting Into The Apps Payment Business

February 23rd, 2012

Getjar, one of the largest third party app markets in the world, is spreading out. Now in addition to a huge platform for app developers to get discovered, GetJar is entering into the payments business.

Getjar is unveiling a new virtual payment system today, promising developers better returns for their in app payments in Android apps. Getjar has a huge core developer community that already uses their app store for distribution of their popular Android titles.

While Android has over 50% of the smartphone market, their current app payment system for developers is more cumbersome for developers. The end result is many dual OS developers are finding it easier to make money with their apps on the iOS platform.

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Meshin Introduces Recall Into The Android Market

February 22nd, 2012

Our good friends at Meshin have introduced another great app to the Android Market. Our Apps Editor, Elijah has his own way of reviewing apps, for me though most apps that I consider “best” are apps that qualify as productive or business.

Meshin Recall is one of those apps. It integrates with your Evernote account and all, or as many of, your calendars that you want. Once it populates and syncs your calendar it adds a box next to each calendar item to make an evernote next to it.

What this does is gives the user another way to recall (hence the name) important notes from a meeting or event that’s already a calendar item.

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Mystery Devices: Droid Fighter And LG Cayman Headed To Verizon?

February 22nd, 2012

A new substantiated leak has come by way of Droid-Life.  They’ve obtained an internal document highlighting some new device workshops happening this Spring.

The first device to have a workshop for employees is the LG Cayman. We’ve got no information about the LG Cayman other than the fact that the name has appeared on this workshop memo.  Droid-Life speculates that it could be a lower end phone because Verizon just released the LG Spectrum. That could be the case.

We also have to factor in the fact that Verizon has said all their phones going forward need to be 4G/LTE capable which would include low end and high end phones.

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Toshiba Thrive To Get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich This Spring

February 22nd, 2012

If you’re a Toshiba Thrive owner, like me, you’ll be happy to know that in addition to having the most productive Android Honeycomb tablet out of the box, you’ll soon get the greatness that is Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as well.

Well Toshiba USA finally answered the question that Thrive owners have been asking for weeks. When will the 10″ Toshiba Thrive get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.  Toshiba answered via their Toshiba USA Twitter account, telling the customer that they are targeting the end of Spring.

We’re still stuck waiting for a couple of months but at least we know it’s coming.

source: Twitter via Phandroid

 

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HTC Leading The Buzz Factor For Mobile World Congress 2012

February 22nd, 2012

This weekend the mobile world (including thedroidguy) is heading to Barcelona Spain for the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress. This is the biggest event for mobile technology in the world. It’s almost a CES sized show dedicated to mobile.

We’ve heard a ton of rumors and leaks in the past four weeks about what we will see at Mobile World Congress.

The leakage started with the Samsung Galaxy S III that evaporated after Samsung released a statement saying that they would not be releasing the follow up to last years ginormous Galaxy S II until later this Spring. What we are expecting is a new tablet running on Samsung’s Exonys Processors.

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Keep Up With Nascar This Season With Sprint Cup Mobile For Android

February 22nd, 2012

Sprint recently re-upped their sponsorship with Nascar’s Championship cup series. Sprint’s been a great sponsor to Nascar. With their sponsorship they’ve become fully immersed in all aspects of Nascar especially when it comes to providing interactive experiences for fans of the sport.

Sprint has a Nascar Sprint ID which puts Android owners with Sprint ID capability front row and center with everything they need to enjoy the Nascar experience on their Android powered device.

Whether you have a Sprint ID phone or not, as long as you have an Android phone you can use Sprint Cup Mobile to keep up with your favorite Nascar Drivers all season long.  With the season officially starting this weekend with the Daytona 500 it’s time to make sure you’ve downloaded the Sprint Cup Mobile app.

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Samsung Introduces Oven With WiFi & Android Baked In

February 22nd, 2012

Yes you read the headline correctly. Samsung has introduced a new ceramic oven with wifi and Android baked in (you see what we did there).

Sure you can use the new Zipel oven to cook traditionally with the typical oven controls on the front however the oven has it’s own Android application with over 160 different presets for various meals. You can also control the temperature, see when your preheating is up and more from your Android phone or tablet when connected to the oven.

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Satechi Releases The New iFit 2 Speaker Stand For All Smartphones & Tablets

February 22nd, 2012

Despite the fact that they’ve used the “i” moniker to describe there line of speaker stands, Satechi is one of our favorite accessory manufacturers.  All of their stands and other accessories are made out of sturdy reliable materials and they look beautiful wherever they are.

Satechi’s new iFit 2 speaker stand delivers high fidelity audio and doubles as a stand for Android tablets like the Motorola Xoom and Xyboard, HTC Jet Stream and Samsung Galaxy Tab series of tablets. Android phones like the Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Evo 4G, and Motorola Atrix 4G work great with the stand. Actually it’s pretty much a universal beast of a stand so it’s compatible with any Android phone/device.

Satechi iFit 2 Features:

  • Sleek, compact, portable design that fits into your work or home atmosphere
  • High quality stereo system with speakers integrated on both sides
  • Rechargeable lithium-ion battery lasting up to 7 hours of playback time
  • Slanted design to place your device for optimal view

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T-Mobile & Samsung Announce March Availability Of The Samsung Galaxy Blaze

February 22nd, 2012

Last month at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) T-Mobile and Samsung announced the new Samsung Galaxy Blaze 4G was headed to T-Mobile. They didn’t show off the device or announce pricing and availability, however today they announced the mystery device would be available in March.

Now they’ve revealed that the Samsung Galaxy Blaze is a 1.5ghz dual core phone running a Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor. It also has a beautiful 3.7 inch SuperAMOLED screen. In the camera department it features a 5 megapixel rear shooter and a 1.3 megapixel front facing video camera.

The Galaxy Blaze is loaded with some great premium apps as well as T-Mobile TV and Samsung’s media hub. The device will also feature T-Mobile’s 4GPro App Pack with DropBox, Evernote, Square, TripIt, Camscanner, and Linked In.

“The Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G is loaded with rich features and services to keep consumers entertained and connected virtually anywhere they want to go,” said Andrew Sherrard, senior vice president, marketing, T-Mobile USA. “Paired with T-Mobile’s fast 4G network and our unlimited data plans, we’re making it easy for consumers to enjoy the benefits of 4G experiences at a price they can afford.”

The T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Blaze comes in a carbon black color and will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread out of the gate with no word on an Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. The Galaxy Blaze will be $149.99 after a $50 mail in rebate card. Look for it in T-Mobile stores and retail partners in late March.

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Is The Amazon App Store More Profitable Than The Official Android Market?

February 21st, 2012

The latest Distimo report has shed some light on some very interesting news for app developers. Distimo has found that some top developers are making more money on Amazon’s app store than the actual Google powered Android Market.

While this isn’t suggesting that all developers will make more on the Amazon app store, certainly some have benefit from the new Kindle Fire tablet.

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Pre Daytona 500 5 Racer Google+ Hangout With Roush Racing

February 21st, 2012

The Daytona 500 is this weekend at the Daytona Speedway in Daytona Beach Florida. One of the biggest, most popular, and the winningest team in Nascar to date is Roush Racing.  Roush is home to Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth, Ricky Stenhouse Jr, and Trevor Bayne.

Roush Racing is very active with social media, and one of the first teams to have a presence on Google+. On Wednesday at 7pm Eastern Time Roush is going to take advantage of that presence on Google+ by having a hangout with the entire team.

Roush Racing is having two other hang outs this week as well. Saturday they are having a hang out hosted by driver Trevor Bayne, and then on race day owner Jack Roush will be in the hangout.

If you want to get in on the face to face hang out tomorrow night, head to this link and post your question in the comments you could be invited to get in the hang out and ask your question face to face.

Source: TNW

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Qualcomm To Debut New Dual Core Snap Dragon With Integrated LTE At MWC

February 21st, 2012

For a while now one of the biggest MWC rumors has been that HTC will bring a new quad-core Android phone powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chip set.  This will be the first time that HTC has swayed from their long term relationship with Qualcomm and their SnapDragon processors for Android devices.

So what’s Qualcomm bringing to MWC. Well Qualcomm’s Vice President of Product Management, Raj Talluri may have rubbed some folks the wrong way when he announced they wouldn’t be bringing any ready for market devices with Qualcomm’s quad-core SnapDragon processor. He did say there may be some conceptual designs but nothing that will be available anytime soon.

So do we write Qualcomm off right now for MWC? Heck no!

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Nice: CM 9 Boot Animation On Video

February 21st, 2012

Geek.com is showing off the boot animation for the highly anticipated CM9. CyanogenMod 9 is the Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich version of the world’s favorite ROM. CM 9 will give a large number of devices that may not see an official build of Ice Cream Sandwich, the functionality that ICS offers. It will also be a way for many Android device users to get the fun of Ice Cream Sandwich without having to wait nearly as long as the OEM’s and carriers want you to wait.

As Russell Holly puts it on Geek.com:

“This video is the evolution of the CM7 animation, where the arrow would spin around and around the blue bugdroid on his skateboard. The origins of this icon go back to the recovery screen of Android 1.5, where the bugdroid was riding his skateboard.”

He also points out that many people don’t like boot animations because of the resource drain, however the CyanogenMod team will be rigorously testing all aspects of CM9 (including the boot animation), prior to a final release.

Enjoy the video!

source: Geek.com

 

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Meg Whitman: Android May End Up Closed Source Rather Than Open

February 21st, 2012

In one of her first public speaking engagements since she took over as CEO of HP, former Ebay CEO and California Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman, made some interesting statements about Android and her WebOS.

Whitman, made a statement, purely speculative in nature, about the Google/Motorola acquisition. Whitman told the crowd that she thought Android would end up “close source”. Most industry analysts don’t agree with Whitman’s statement.

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