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May

12

2011

Netflix playback now available for HTC Evo, Incredible, Nexus One, G2 and Samsung Nexus S

by Dustin Karnes
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Well folks, it’s been a long time coming (for a lot of us), but some of us are finally catching a Netflix break. The Netflix media player client has finally hit for the following devices: HTC Incredible with Android 2.2 HTC Nexus One with Android 2.2, 2.3 HTC Evo 4G with Android 2.2 HTC G2 [...]

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May

4

2011

Are SBC kernels worth it?

by Andrew Greenfield
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SBC kernels. They’ve been the hot topic on Android forums for a long time. “Superior Battery Charging,” as discovered/implemented by ms79723 over at xda. Claims of it nearly doubling your battery life to blowing up your phone have been thrown around a lot. So what are the risks? What are the benefits? Is it worth [...]

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Apr

17

2011

This week’s top 5 articles: CyanogenMod7, Thunderbolt & Evo getting Gingerbread, Lookout saves the day, and more

by Dustin Karnes
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Want to know what people read the most this last week on TalkAndroid? Read on, my friend, and take a gander! We’ve got The Thunderbolt and Evo getting Gingerbread, CM7, Lookout on Android finding a stolen car, and more! Hit the break to check out all the most popular posts from this last week!

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Apr

14

2011

Gingerbread with HTC Sense leaked for HTC Evo 4G

by Dustin Karnes
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O. M. G. Waffles. That’s what all us Sense-loving Evo users are thinking, anyway. That’s right – Gingerbread for the HTC Evo has leaked out onto the internet, and we modders couldn’t be any happier. As of right now, there’s nothing flashable… just a dump of the partitions. However, we’re sure that won’t last long, [...]

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Apr

13

2011

Tutorial: Get Sprint Visual Voicemail Back on Your HTC Evo 4G running CynogenMod 7

by Dustin Karnes
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Do you love CM7? Of course you do! Who doesn’t? We do, that’s for darn sure. My only real qualm with it was not having visual voicemail – an issue I was quick to overlook for the awesome functionality of the ROM. But wait! Thanks to XDA, us Sprint users can have VVM back! The [...]

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Apr

12

2011

Evo 3D and Evo View 4G new spotlight of Sprint landing page

by Dustin Karnes
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It’s coming, folks… closer and closer. That’s right, of course we’re talking about the Evo 3D and the View 4G tablet. Sprint has recently made some website changes, for example: heading to www.sprint.com/evo3d will now bring you to the new “All. Together. Now.” page, which shows off the Evo 3D, View 4G, Kyocera Echo, and [...]

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Apr

10

2011

HTC Confirms Wi-fi Only Evo View Tablet Coming to Best Buy

by Dustin Karnes
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So if you were around our site yesterday, you may have seen that a reader of ours got the inside scoop on the Evo and Thunderbolt getting their own official Android 2.3 update by end of Q2. However, also hidden in the email was the fact that we will be seeing a wi-fi only version [...]

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Apr

9

2011

HTC Confirms Thunderbolt And Evo 4G Will Receive Gingerbread 2.3 By End Of Q2

by Axl Logan
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I know you HTC Evo fans and Thunderbolt early adopters have been asking, for quite some time now, the same question over and over again, “where is my Gingerbread update?”  Here’s a little something to provide some hope over the next couple of months regarding the Android 2.3 update coming to your device.  A faithful [...]

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