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by Victoria Ho
Oct 17, 2012
UK phone retailer Phones 4u has started to carry the Samsung Galaxy S3 in amber brown. It will sell the brown version alongside the stock “marble white” and “pebble bl...
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by Victoria Ho
Oct 17, 2012
Motorola Droid users rejoice! xda-developers forum user Dan (@djrbliss) has managed to root the Motorola DROID RAZR M, Atrix HD, the Photon Q, and the upcoming RAZR HD with ...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 17, 2012
New TouchWiz features confirmed for U.S. Galaxy S3 update
If you were after a vague, unspecified timeframe for your Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean update, look no further than today's announcement fro...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 17, 2012
Japanese carrier AU is set to launch what's arguably the highest-spec'd Android handset we've seen to date, the HTC J Butterfly. With 4G LTE support, a beastly quad-core Snapdragon CPU a...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 17, 2012
Sony has confirmed that Bell, Rogers, Mobilicity, and Videotron will all have the Sony Xperia T on sale in Canada come November. We've begun putting the international version of the Xperia...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 17, 2012
At this point, you almost feel like Sony is coming up on the limit of one and two letter combinations to put after "Xperia". There's at least room for one more, as Sony is adding yet a...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 17, 2012
The LG Optimus G certainly seems to be making the rounds lately, and now Japanese carrier KDDI has announced the availability of the handset on its network. Overall, its the phone we know from previ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 17, 2012
We've heard a lot of rumors swirling lately about HTC releasing a 5-inch 1080P phone, and it looks like the first proof of this device's existence has just shown up in Japan. The HTC On...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 17, 2012
Users in our forums are reporting that their Verizon Galaxy SIII (S3) handsets are pulling down a moderately sized (62MB) OTA update. Unfortunately, this isn't the Jelly Bean update that most us...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 16, 2012
It's no secret that I dislike benchmark applications on Android. I've got technical reasons that involve native code and virtual machines, but the fact remains that plenty of folks do like t...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 16, 2012
A Wi-Fi-only Android device called the MG was announced for pre-order today. Apparently MG stands for More Game, or My Generation, or something. It isn't made by anybody you've heard of, but...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 16, 2012
Well, AT&T followed through on this one. Following announcement of pricing and availability for the LG Optimus G on AT&T yesterday, the pre-order page at AT&T's website is now live.&...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 16, 2012
The fine folks at BlendTec have continued their fine heritage of appliance-based science by seeing whether or not the Samsung Galaxy S3 or the iPhone 5 are able to survive industrial-strength s...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 16, 2012
The HTC One S is probably one of the most under-appreciated devices of the year, so it's nice to see the phone getting a little bit of extra attention as HTC refreshes its Android line-up this f...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 16, 2012
Sprint this morning announced that its Samsung Galaxy Note 2 will be available Oct. 25 for $299 on contract. It'll be available in Marble White or Titanium Gray.
More: Read our complet...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 16, 2012
This morning at events in Milan, Italy and Taipei, Taiwan, ASUS has announced its second-generation phone and tablet hybrid device, the Padfone 2. Like the original Padfone, it’s an Android ph...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 15, 2012
Yes, Alltel Wireless is still around. The small carrier that focuses on value and no-contract plans in specific regions has a new mid-range device in the Alcatel One Touch Ultra 960C (y...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 15, 2012
Hot on the heels of AT&T's announcement today, Sprint has given word that its LG Optimus G will be available on Nov. 11, for $199 on contract. Preorders start Nov. 1.
We took a gander at th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 15, 2012
The unapologetic first impressions after 10 minutes of use
From time to time we review phones here at AC. Some of us are really good at it, with a fine eye for detail, some of us have used so ma...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 15, 2012
Android 4.1.2 hit the Nexus 7 last week, and now it seems the latest version of Jelly Bean is slowly starting to make its way to the GSM/HSPA Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S. Currently the only versio...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 15, 2012
AT&T's LG Optimus G will be available Nov. 2 for $199 on contract. Pre-orders start tomorrow.
And, well, that's about it. We've got the carrier's version of the Optimus G ...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 15, 2012
Update: Sources tell Android Central that these images are not of a genuine Nexus device.
The photo above is one of a pair of pictures doing the rounds this morning, claiming to show a future ...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 15, 2012
Samsung has once again started rolling out the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3. The update first landed in Poland a few weeks back, before being sent ou...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 14, 2012
LG has just released some information showing which devices will be getting updates -- and when those updates can be expected. Of course, a global press release like this doesn't do a whole...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 13, 2012
HTC offers desktop software for folks who aren't just quite ready to rely completely on the cloud for backup and file management. Its software Sync Manager, which has clients for both Windows an...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 12, 2012
We saw just a few days ago that Verizon had put up an information page indicating that two new colors -- black and brown -- of the Samsung Galaxy SIII (S3) were going to be coming soon. Now Verizon ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 12, 2012
The Verizon Droid Incredible 4G LTE by HTC (really? enough with these names) is getting an update today that brings both international roaming capability and Isis mobile payments. Verizon has unlock...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 12, 2012
What do you get when you take leaked, pre-production phone hardware running pre-production software and subject it to a full review? Well, you get something like the review that appeared at Belarusi...
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by Simon Sage
Oct 12, 2012
TELUS and Mobilicity have confirmed that they will be offering the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 to Canadians on October 30. Mobilicity was a little coy about the information, nestling it into the e-ma...
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by Alex Dobie
Oct 12, 2012
UK retailer Phones4U has placed the newly-announced Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini up for pre-order on its site, along with the first details of on-contract pricing. The phone, which will come in white and ...
