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Samsung Galaxy S II GPS — it works, it really works! (video)

The biggest problem facing mankind? No, not really. But when the alien robot sentinels do eventually descend upon our puny green planet, you’ll be happy to know that your Galaxy S II smartphone will be able to get a GPS lock reliably and accurately. S…

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Onkyo blesses 10.1-inch TA117 Android tablet with NVIDIA’s Tegra 250

Lookin’ to get a jump on the rest of the folks, eh Onkyo? Rather than waiting for CES to kick off next week, the aforementioned firm has just let loose its TA117, proving that it’s totally kosher with supporting both Microsoft and Google in the tablet…

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Shenzhen Brought Us Android iPhone 4 (With Video)

We are glad that there is an Android version iPhone 4 clone finally, but probably this won’t be too surprising, because we had heard about dual OS on iPhone 4 clone already. We have couples of pictures of it and a video for you to enjoy later on.

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Samsung Orion dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip spotted in the wild

We know it’s a little tough to get excited about a chip, even if that chip is the hotly anticipated Samsung Orion. Still, bear with us, because this isn’t your average slab of cellphone silicon — the Orion’s got a dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and…

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T-Mobile G2 official shots break loose, corroborate rumors of wanton awesomeness

The T-Mobile G2 — which will likely be known as the HTC Desire Z outside the States — is shaping up to be one of the more anticipated Android launches of 2010, and a handful of smaller-than-we’d-like official press shots that have just leaked over o…

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Nvidia’s Tegra 2 Obliterates The Competition In Speed Test [Android]

That Toshiba AC100 Android-powered netbook may not be the most desirable combination of hardware and software out there, but it already has one big plus point—it's Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset destroys…

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Exclusive: Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform and PSP Go-like smartphone

There’s no question that gaming on the Android platform has heretofore been relatively underwhelming, but that looks like it’s all about to change. It seems that Sony Ericsson — a company that has yet to even introduce an Android 2.0 device — is at …

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ZTE Racer review

In a battlefield now abundant with Android handsets, there’s only one easy way for a young smartphone brand to grab our attention: make a seriously dirt cheap handset. And we’re not just talking about a free phone chained to a pricey 18-month contract…

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Nokia’s Crowdsourced Design Competition Shows Fans Really Do Want Android [Nokia]

When Nokia started crowdsourcing ideas for a new potential phone, I very much doubt they expected one of the key criteria named by partakers would be an “open source operating system with unlimited mul…

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Shanghai’s Roewe 350 auto rolls off the assembly line with Android 2.1

This is probably not what Google means by a mobile OS, but no matter: SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) has recently announced that the Roewe 350 — which began production last week — will feature a custom variant of Android 2.1 called …

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