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Aug 14, 2015

10 Ways Your Phone Has Embarrassed You in Public

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Sometimes your smartphone is a life-saver, like when it helps you avoid super awkward situations. But other times, it’s not so awesome, like when it rings in the middle of your Grandfather’s

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Aug 13, 2015

How to choose which apps Now will search index

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The app does more than feed you sports scores or suggested TV shows in Now. ong with the longsting ability to search your web history contacts, also indexes some third-party apps takes you directly

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Aug 13, 2015

Amazon Appstore gives away 39 paid apps, including Goat Simulator Sonic the Hedgehog 2

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The best kind of back-to-school shopping is the free kind. Amazon has obliged with another fire sale in its Appstore for Android. You know the drill: be sure you’ve installed the Amazon

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Aug 13, 2015

Samsung launches the pen-driven Galaxy Note 5 the mega-sized Galaxy S6 ge+

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Samsung didn’t just overhaul its flagship devices this year—it did some considerable work on its phablet lineup, too. The company announced the br new, completely revamped Galaxy Note 5, it’s just as

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Aug 13, 2015

Hs-on with the Galaxy Note 5: Samsung’s phablet has still got it

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ether you want to admit it or not, you can thank Samsung’s Note series for the popularity of bigger phones. They offer a larger screen for easier multitasking, room for your thumbs so you

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Aug 13, 2015

Hs-on with the Galaxy S6 ge+: Did we really need a bigger version?

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Remember last year, the year before, when we all complained about Samsung churning out phone after unneeded phone? As soon as it started doing that, the quality of its product lineup quickly deteriorated. I’m

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Aug 12, 2015

Android Experiments is ‘s new playground for off-the-wall apps

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has launched a splashy new site that highlights numerous zany creative Android apps. It’s called Android Experiments, it’s a curated collection designed to show off the flexibility of Android development tools. Anyone can

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Aug 12, 2015

Reality check: Nextbit to launch its first phone on September 1, but be wary of the hype

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You may have heard this before: a small startup claims it’ll produce a top-rate smartphone with impressive specs a budget price. No, we’re not talking about Oneus, which has struggled mightily to

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Aug 12, 2015

5 Tips to Make Your Android Phone Run Faster and Longer

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There’s a lot of power within that little glass rectangle you carry around all day. They’ve got eight-core Cs, multiple gigabytes of RAM, batteries with thousands of milliamperes, and hours of capacity.

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Aug 11, 2015

shbullet adds end-to-end encryption for SMS, copy paste, notification mirroring

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shbullet sends a lot of data back forth in order to sync up your notifications text messages. l that is done of HTT, but it still hits the shbullet servers in an unencrypted form. So,

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Aug 11, 2015

Android ar 1.3 hints at interactive watch faces new ‘together’ mode

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There’s a minor update out for Android ar that bumps the software on your phone to version 1.3. ile it doesn’t bring a ton of new functionality, there are a lot more

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Aug 11, 2015

Five things we want from Apple Music on Android

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Apple Music is here. ll, unless you’re on Android, where it’s coming later (how often do we have to hear that?) Assuming that some of the wrinkles of Apple Music on iOS get

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Aug 11, 2015

Review: Motorola’s Moto G is the best smartphone for around $200

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at makes a great Android phone? Is it the software? Its camera? Is it how good YouTube looks on its relatively small screen? I personally think a great phone is one that can do all

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Aug 10, 2015

to support new Vulkan 3D rendering A in Android

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announced at a major graphics conference that Android will support the Khronos Group’s Vulkan 3D graphics A. Vulkan will perform what’s called low-overhead graphics rendering, which is helpful for creating games that

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Aug 10, 2015

Hangouts 4.0 for Android brings Material Design, speedier messaging

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has finally finished up a Material Design overhaul of Hangouts. The 4.0 update vastly improves the interface, adds more functionality to the floating action button, more deeply integrates the service with Android ar. Ironically,

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Aug 10, 2015

Motorola pledges rapid fix for Stagefright vulnerability

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Motorola doesn’t want you to fret about Stagefright, even if you’re holding on to one of its older phones. The company detailed its pledge Monday to patch all its current future devices.. The

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Aug 7, 2015

Five to Try: Microsoft Translator hits phones watches, Accomplish gets to-do tasks done

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Games aside, this week’s top new Android apps are hy tools designed to help in very different ways. Microsoft Translator is a useful option for translating phrases between languages, it one-ups ’s option

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Aug 7, 2015

Verizon eliminates subsidies, contracts in effort to simplify phone plans

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en Verizon’s geese come home to roost, they’re going to find a whole different set of smartphone plans. Big Red is eliminating subsidies, service contracts, building its plans around a fixed cost for