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Rovio, creator of Angry Birds say piracy can be a good thing

Piracy is a touchy subject and has been looked down upon by many many different markets, Android included. Obviously we all know how the music industry feels on the matter, and we’ve seen the countless attacks and results from their approach. When it comes to Android or apps in general some might feel different. The [...]

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Barnes & Noble says new Nook device coming this spring

Barnes & Noble is making a new Android-based Nook e-reader! Huzzah! The latter isn’t exactly news – there’s always a successor to the current model in the pipeline. But according to an in-depth report in The New York Times, the bookseller is preparing a new model of the Nook for release some time this spring. [...]

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Easy Development Studio makes rolling your own ROM a snap

I’d wager there’s a lot of you reading this who run custom ROMs on your Android phone or tablet, but only a tiny portion that actually develop your own. (Guilty.) The simple fact is that rooting and flashing a custom recovery/ROM is fairly simple for those of us that know our way around a command [...]

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Samsung preparing two Android 4.0 tablets, GT-P3100 gets WiFi certification

Samsung had a pretty weak showing at this years CES show and latest reports suggest they wont be announcing much for phones at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event in a few weeks either. What we do have though is the possibility of two impressive Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablets from Samsung. New reports [...]

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Humble Bundle hits Android, name your price for games and support charities too

For many gamers the entire idea behind the Humble Bundle is not new. For those that have never heard of it or would like to participate on Android we have all the details. Essentially this is a “name your price” for games, and part of the funds go directly to charities, developers and more. Their [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note S rumors continue, aiming for March release

Along with the latest rumors coming out today, we’ve heard plenty about the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III. We don’t expect these to slow down anytime soon either. Latest reports from MobileCowboys are giving us some interesting details — including an early March release for the Galaxy S III and even a Galaxy Note [...]

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ASUS to unveil and announce new Padfone design next month

We’ve seen and been waiting for the ASUS Padfone for what seems like forever. It has now been officially confirmed by ASUS themselves that it will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2012 — that is the end of February folks. What’s even better is we are also hearing reports from a few trusted sources [...]

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Firefox 10 update hits Android Market, Flash still missing

For all those users of the popular Firefox browser for Android we have good news today. Firefox 10 has just landed in the market and the update is available now thanks to Mozilla. Along with tons of improvements to overall stability and performance we have a faster and easier set up and sync, but Adobe’s [...]

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Official Steam for Android leaves beta, open to all Steam users

After Valve finally released an official Steam app for Android just a few short days ago users have been leaving all sorts of comments to release it out of beta. After only a select few could use the late to the party application, today it has left beta and is now fully open and available [...]

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Sky Go video streaming app announced for HTC and Samsung phones

Do you live in the UK? Love TV? Jealous of Hulu? (Don’t be – we have to pay for it on Android.) Own a recent Samsung or HTC Android phone? Then you’re in luck: the other British broadcaster, Sky, has plans to release its Sky Go on select Android devices at the end of February. [...]

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