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Mar

4

2012

YouTube Update Brings HD Streaming to Some Froyo and Gingerbread Devices

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by Ed Caggiani
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An update to the YouTube app has been made available in the Android Market that brings HD video streaming to capable Android 2.2 (Froyo) and 2.3 (Gingerbread) devices. So what devices are considered “capable”? Well, it seems like it’s a crap shoot, with some devices not seeing the market update at all, and some others [...]

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Mar

3

2012

HTC Thunderbolt Users: Stay on the Lookout for ICS, Testing May Have Begun

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by Emily Aquin
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Everyone was drooling over the HTC One series at Mobile World Congress, and its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Sense 4.0. Now, it looks as though HTC might be hitting up some of their older phones with ICS as well. There has been an email leaked that Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt has a few devices undergoing [...]

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Mar

2

2012

Archos Apologizes For G9 ICS Delay, Deploying Within Two Weeks

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by Stacy Bruce
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It was back in December that we first heard Archos claim that its G9 series of tablets would receive the ICS update sometime in Q1 of this year. Here we are in the home stretch of the first Quarter and we have yet to see the devices get the update. Now, apparently Archos wants to [...]

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Feb

29

2012

Promoted Tweets Coming to Official Twitter App

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by Emily Aquin
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If you are a Twitter user, you are already familiar with Promoted Tweets, which is Twitter’s fancy name for “ads”. Now, the official Android Twitter app will bring these promotions to your timeline: Promoted Tweets will appear in your timeline like any other Tweet, and like regular Tweets, they will appear in your timeline just [...]

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Feb

26

2012

QuickPic Gallery App Updated, v2.0 Offering New UI, Apps2SD And More

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by Josh O'Donnell
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Popular gallery app QuickPic has received a pretty big update today, offering users some new and improved feature additions. The most noticeable, of course, being the revamped user interface to reflect Android design guidelines set forth at the release of Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s not only a visual upgrade, however, as the UI works more [...]

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Feb

24

2012

[Update] Chrome for Android Receives Update, Custom ROM Users Beware

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by Stacy Bruce
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    Chrome Beta for Android received an update this morning and was brought up to version 0.16. When we first noticed the update this morning there was no changelog and here it is 8 hours later and still nothing. I was hoping to be able to give you guys some kind of idea what [...]

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Feb

22

2012

Official Twitter App Gets ICS, Kindle Fire, and NOOK Updates

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by Ed Caggiani
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The official Twitter app for Android received a user interface refresh in December, but was lacking full Ice Cream Sandwich compatibility. The latest version (v3.1.0), released yesterday, includes tweaks for ICS, and is also available for the increasingly popular Kindle Fire. The NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet updates are coming tomorrow. The Android Market page lists [...]

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Feb

17

2012

Samsung Continuum Getting Android 2.2.2 Froyo Update

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by Josh O'Donnell
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Samsung Continuum owners are getting some update love today in the form of two updates. The first update upgrades Android to Froyo itself (software version EB01) and the second update includes some improvements, one of which is the ability to run Flash Player 10.1. The phone arrived late 2010, and if you own one of [...]

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Feb

17

2012

HTC Confirms the Thunderbolt, Rhyme, Incredible 2 and Raider will receive ICS Update

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by Stacy Bruce
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Great news for you North American HTC Thunderbolt owners! According to HTC’s Facebook page they have plans to upgrade the device to ICS at some point in the future. They didn’t give an exact time frame, but at least we know it’s coming (I had my doubts). Along with the TBolt, HTC gave ICS update [...]

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Feb

17

2012

Skype for Android Update Brings Improved Interface and More

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by Ed Caggiani
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Skype for Android has just been updated to version 2.7.0.907, and brings an updated calling interface, performance improvements, bug fixes, and continues to add video calling support for more devices with the addition of support for Sprint’s Samsung Epic 4G Touch. The market page lists the following: What’s in this version: Improvements and new features: Calling interface updated [...]

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