Jan

2012

Archos Smart Home Phone Lands Across The Pond

by Spencer McClendon
tagged Android, android 2.2, ARCHOS

Is your land-line phone dull and drab? Do you ever find yourself wanting to check your e-mail, but don’t want to get up and turn on the computer, or your smartphone isn’t near you? Well Archos has finally answered your prayers. The new Archos 3-5 Smart Home Phone now gives you all the smartphone goodness [...]

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Sep

2011

ViewSonic V430 Packs 4.3 Inch Display, But Few Other Upgrades

by Justin Routhier
tagged 4.3 inch, android 2.2, froyo, Snapdragon, V350, V430, ViewPad 4, viewsonic

The V430 is the newest Android smartphone from ViewSonic, the maker’s of the ViewPad 4 and V350 handset devices we told you about earlier this year. These previous offerings gave users a decent phone with a nice appearance and good overall performance for the time, but the new V430 doesn’t seem to offer many upgrades. [...]

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Sep

2011

AT&T Brings the $30 Impluse 4G to Save you from Smartphone Envy

by Harold Williams
tagged android 2.2, AT&T, budget smartphone, impulse 4g

Want to know how to get an Android smartphone into more people’s hands? You do exactly what AT&T is doing by offering one for $30. Another kicker, by the looks of the screenshot, is it looks to be rocking stock Android 2.2 (huge bonus). We don’t have a full breakdown of specs on the Impulse [...]

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Aug

2011

HP TouchPad already has Android 2.2 Froyo, Gingerbread and Honeycomb could be next

by Robert Nazarian
tagged android 2.2, Android porting, froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, HP, porting Android, TouchPad

I know a lot of you grabbed the HP TouchPad for $99 hoping Android would be ported to it. Even if it doesn’t, for $99 how could you go wrong? Either way we know it is a matter of time as I suspect this tablet will have a huge development community keeping it going. It [...]

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Aug

2011

Android 2.2 Froyo arrives on the Motorola Flipside

by Robert Nazarian
tagged android 2.2, AT&T, Flipside, froyo, motorola, update

It is far from exciting to report that a phone is getting updated to Android 2.2 Froyo, but I am sure it is exciting for Motorola Flipside owners. Motorola has finally made the update available, but unfortunately it is not an automatic download. There is one extra step in that you will have to download [...]

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Aug

2011

Malware strain Nickispy.C is exploiting the rise of Google+

by David Laborde
tagged android 2.2, android 2.3, Android Applications, Android Market, Android smartphones, applications, Google, smartphones

The newest strain of the Nickispy trojan virus (the first two variations we named Nickispy.A and Nickispy.B respectively) is taking advantage of the rise of Google+ to attack phones, Trend Micro discovered Friday. While the three variants of Nickispy use many of the same services, the new “C” version calls itself Google++ and uses the social network’s icon for virtually all [...]

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Aug

2011

Google’s Video App Now Works On All Devices Running Android 2.2

by Ryan Brooks
tagged 2.2, android 2.2, android app, android apps, app, apps, google movies, movies, videos

It wasn’t long ago that we learned that the Movies app, or Videos app for Android, would be pushed out to all Honeycomb devices, including the at-the-time new Xoom and Galaxy Tab 10.1. Well, we learned today that the same can now be said for all devices that run Android 2.2. This comes as excellent [...]

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Aug

2011

Google Videos now working on Android 2.2 and higher

by Robert Nazarian
tagged 2, android 2.2, Google, movie rentals, videos

Google Videos was originally launched on the Motorola XOOM back in May, and is has finely become available to a lot more people. If you are rocking Android 2.2 (Froyo) or higher, you can head over to the Market and install it. Google Videos is the official player for all Android Market movie rentals. There [...]

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Aug

2011

“Fashionable” 7” Tablet Launched by Pierre Cardin

by Ryan Brooks
tagged android 2.2, fashion, fashionable, pierre cardin, tablet

Out with the old, in with the… old? Pierre Cardin apparently just launched a “fashionable” 7”’ Android tablet that, according to Eurodroid, “…is powered by Android 2.2, so immediately fails one of the main criteria of fashion. It is running last season’s version…” We couldn’t agree more. While the device is undoubtedly pretty, the specs leave much [...]

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Jul

2011

HTC EVO 3D and LG Optimus 3D landing in Canada with Rogers

by Jesse Bauer
tagged 3D, Android, android 2.2, android 2.3, canada, dual-core, Evo 3D, froyo, Gingerbread, hd, HTC, htc evo 3d, launch, LG, optimus, Optimus 3D, release, Rogers, summer, video

Rogers Wireless is about to unleash the first 3D smartphones to hit Canada with the launch of the HTC EVO 3D and the LG Optimus 3D. Pricing hasn’t been released, nor has a specific launch date, but no doubt like many other new smartphones, they’ll both be priced around $99.99 at launch with a new [...]

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