Dave
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Supersized smartphones, what to do with them?
02 days ago
by Dave
in On Devices
Probably, you have heard of the new ‘supersized smartphone phenomena’. It is an emerging product category, characterized by having huge screens or at least bigger than 5 inches and pen input. Examples are the Samsung Galaxy Note and the recently announced LG Optimus Vu. For me it still unclear what [...]
Apple settles in class-action lawsuit concerning the iPhone 4′s antenna issues
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More than a year after the antenna problems with the iPhone 4 were first acknowledged by Apple, they have settled in a class-action lawsuit which represents about 25 million US citizens. These 25 million people all have had reception issues as a result of the faulty antenna placement on the iPhone [...]
ICS on original HTC Desire is near to complete!
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As you might know, I am still rocking a now almost 2 year year old HTC Desire. It is still going strong except for the volume rocker which does not really work that well anymore. I have begun playing with custom ROMs pretty early after I first got it and have spent a lot of time with either a MIUI [...]
AndroidYeah is looking for enthusiastic contributors!
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The AndroidYeah staff is looking to expand. We currently only have two bloggers, which makes it hard to continuously create content for our blog. This is made harder because AndroidYeah is not really a news blog just posting all the latest news, but rather focusing on our personal opinion about [...]
Apple VS Samsung, the never ending battle
06 days ago
by Dave
in On other stuff...
Today the latest and greatest in patent lawsuits has been issued by Apple. Aimed at, yup you guessed it, Samsung! What a surprise… However, now Apple has made its biggest complaint yet, ordering the ban of no less than 17 of Samsung’s products, including not only mobile phones but mobile media [...]
Native ICS apps
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If you didn’t know yet, I like ICS. I like the new interface, the Roboto font and especially the new and improved Google native apps. Since I saw GMail and the Android Calendar app on Honeycomb, I creaved for an update of these apps on my phone. But alas, Google has decided that you can only get [...]
Review: MobileVOIP
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Today I will be telling you about a new VoIP app called MobileVOIP. VoIP is becoming all the rage nowadays because it lets you make cheap phone calls or send cheap text messages over a data connection in stead of over the normal 2G/3G connection of your phone. MobileVOIP is the first VoIP app which [...]
Review: Chrome browser for Android
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Since my girlfriend just flashed a custom ICS ROM on her Samsung Galaxy S2, I decided I wanted to give Chrome for Android a go. I have always been a fan of Chrome for the desktop and the better integration that the new mobile version offered in relation to the desktop version is something I have [...]
App review: Finally a Facebook app for Android that works!
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You know, I can be the person who constantly bitches about an app when it just doesn’t work. This was the case with the previous range of Facebook apps for Android, they were pretty crappy. Slow loading times, very bad responsiveness to finger actions and so annoying to check out photos and like or [...]
Discussion: Ice Cream Sandwich; what’s your favorite feature at first glance?
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So we all saw the new unveiling of Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Or read about it later when you were in the wrong time zone. Lots of new features were presented, what’s your favorite? Is is the face recognition unlock function? The new visuals? The new launcher? Notification bar? Camera [...]