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href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ndrive.android"&gt;Check out "NDrive 10"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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Looks like in Asia the Japanese Developer "Creams" is working to bring BLN for Galaxy S2, for me it's the only thing i miss from the first Galaxy S.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
He is working on a bug that only allows BLN to work on USB connection,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;it is maybe a power management problem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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You can follow the developer blog &lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fcreamsnexus.blogspot.com%2F"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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And you can see it working in the next video:&lt;br /&gt;
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LG understands that, and it's why the company is introducing a pair devices to its Optimus line dubbed the Net and Pro.&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Optimus Pro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;, just like its similarly monikered&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Droid Pro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;, is a candybar QWERTY device with a 2.8-inch touchscreen. The Pro comes in a trio of color options, including something called "titan." The Net, on the other hand, is a fully touchscreen affair (though, the North American version may sport a sliding QWERTY pad), with a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 display. LG is pushing its Social+ widgets that put Twitter and Facebook on your homescreen -- something we all know&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;others&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;have had&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;tons&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;of success with. Both devices pack a 1500mAh battery and an 800 MHz CPU, which should be enough for less demanding smartphone users. They'll be rolling out this summer starting in Europe. One more pic and some PR await after the break.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div id="pr_box" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="LG Optimus Pro and Optimus Net" height="375" id="vimage_4299111" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/7-15-2011lgoptimusnetoptimuspro3.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 4px;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-1814391428297409190?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/ewptDEAHaQc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/ewptDEAHaQc/lg-takes-gingerbread-sporting-optimus.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/lg-takes-gingerbread-sporting-optimus.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-1104926675059020922</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-16T17:09:53.697+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>HP TouchPad goes on sale in the UK, starts at £399 for 16GB WiFi model</title><description>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/16/hp-touchpad-goes-on-sale-in-the-uk-starts-at-399-for-16gb-wifi/" style="color: #00bdf6; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;img border="1" height="294" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/hp-touchpad-on-sale-uk.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px;" vspace="4" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Here's an interesting titbit: HP's TouchPad has&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;already&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;begun to ship to speciality shops in the land of untamed energy usage and a holier-than-thou attitude, but for the pernickety among us, you may know that the company's first webOS slate hasn't actually hit the streets of Londontown. &lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Until now, ole chap. The 16GB WiFi model is going for £399, while a doubling of capacity will tack on a few extra quid. It's available now directly from HP's webstore, but if mum always criticised your rampant online shopping sprees, we hear aeroplanes and coupés are colourful alternatives for acquisition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-1104926675059020922?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/zEDJZgo5yfA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/zEDJZgo5yfA/hp-touchpad-goes-on-sale-in-uk-starts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/hp-touchpad-goes-on-sale-in-uk-starts.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-1257728779787464970</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-16T17:08:38.318+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>Samsung Galaxy S II may be destined for Bell July 21st for $150</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/14/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-may-be-destined-for-bell-july-21st-for-150/" style="color: #00bdf6; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;img height="147" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/gs2-bb-20110714.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 4px;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Time to break out the peanut butter and syrup, folks, because Bell is waffling. The Canadian mobile provider looked all set for a July 21st launch of the highly-coveted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Samsung Galaxy S II&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;, according to a listing on Best Buy Canada, but the page has unfortunately been pulled. When it was live, the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;galactic sequel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;was priced for $150 with three-year commitment, and if that were true it would make&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Bell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;the first North American carrier to offer the hot-selling Android device -- though it certainly won't be the last. Was the page taken down at Bell's request to allow it the chance to formally announce the device? Has it been delayed? Or, was it just wrong? While we're guessing it's the first possibility -- it is, certainly, a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;flagship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;phone that deserves some fanfare -- we'll toss a quarter in the wishing well in hopes that our dreams come true next Thursday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Best Buy Canada reinstated the page, but nudged the price up to $170. Thanks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;a lot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Well, will you look at that? Bell's gone and made it official. The carrier will indeed get the Galaxy S II on July 21st. Think it's too good to be true? Check the Bell source link.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-1257728779787464970?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/8Ik5kMjh63I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/8Ik5kMjh63I/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-may-be-destined-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-may-be-destined-for.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-6399107869063666970</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-16T17:06:40.350+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>New Version of the LG Optimus Net Passes Through the FCC – Bound for AT&amp;T?</title><description>&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://phandroid.com/2011/07/15/new-version-of-the-lg-optimus-net-passes-through-the-fcc-bound-for-att/ldp690net/" rel="attachment wp-att-57295" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #254e7c; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://phandroid.com/2011/07/15/new-version-of-the-lg-optimus-net-passes-through-the-fcc-bound-for-att/ldp690net/" rel="attachment wp-att-57295" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #254e7c; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-57295 aligncenter" height="421" src="http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ldp690NET.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;" title="ldp690NET" width="232" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The last time we saw the&amp;nbsp;LG Optimus Net&amp;nbsp;it was in a&amp;nbsp;handy Italian promo video&amp;nbsp;showing all the in’s and out’s with the device. It looked like a pretty solid, mid-level phone and many believe it will be the replacement for LG’s popular Optimus One line.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;What we didn’t know is if, or when this phone would ever make it stateside. Well, a slightly different version of that same phone made its way through the FCC today, the LG Optimus Net P690g, and according to the paperwork, looks to be supporting North American 3G/4G bands. Namely, AT&amp;amp;T’s 850MHz and 1900MHz bands.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Now, this doesn’t mean it’s for sure coming to the U.S. (I think come Canadian carriers support the same bands) but it makes it all the more possible. If this phone is, in fact, the successor to the Optimus One, I suspect, just like the Optimus One, we will be seeing this device on every carrier under the sun&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-6399107869063666970?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/kGQUuDB5ajk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/kGQUuDB5ajk/new-version-of-lg-optimus-net-passes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-version-of-lg-optimus-net-passes.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-6498104537916841046</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-16T17:04:46.331+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Apps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>Zinio Announces Support for Android 2.2+ Handsets</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.androidguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/zinio_phone.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.androidguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/zinio_phone-180x300.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Zinio,the popular newsstand/ magazine application for Android tablets, is now available for Froyo and Gingerbread smart phones as well. After "tens of thousands" of immediate downloads upon entering theAndroid Market back in June, Zinio has hit the ground running. Expanding support to a wider range of devices, including 7-inch tablets such as the Galaxy Tab and HTC Flyer, we can imagine the app will find an even larger audience.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As they did with the launch of their initial release, Zinio is giving away a number of free magazines to new customers. Download the app today (before Aug 15) and get free access to issues of Bike Magazine, BlackBook, ESPN The Magazine, House Beautiful, Juxtapoz Art &amp;amp; Culture Magazine, Maxim, Outdoor Photographer, Redbook, Robb Report, Seattle Met, SURFER Magazine and Wine Enthusiast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-6498104537916841046?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/u4Vyo1L14uc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/u4Vyo1L14uc/zinio-announces-support-for-android-22.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/zinio-announces-support-for-android-22.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-8447037090537280932</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-16T17:01:05.387+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>EAFT's MagicTile Marathon tablet gets priced, opens up the floodgates of Froyo nostalgia</title><description>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/15/eafts-magictile-marathon-tablet-gets-priced-opens-up-the-flood/" style="color: #00bdf6; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/eaft-magic-tile-tablet-gray.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 4px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Hey, remember 2010? Lady Gaga was all over the radio and all the kids were crazy excited about the upcoming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deathly Hallows&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;movie. &lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And then there was Froyo -- it was never designed to be a tablet OS, but manufacturers defiantly went against Google's wishes. EAFT is carrying that torch with the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;MagicTile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Marathon, a 10 inch tablet doesn't look too bad from a hardware perspective, with a Tegra 2 chip, 3G, 1080p video, and an HDMI port. The whole Android 2.2 thing makes the tablet seem downright archaic, however. Interested parties can pick the tablet for Rs. 26,999 (around $607) at launch and Rs. 29,990 (around $675) later. We hear it's great for watching your favorite Charlie Sheen episodes of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two and a Half Men&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-8447037090537280932?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;The folks at Google are adding traffic support for Google Maps in 13 more countries, mostly European.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The list of countries:&amp;nbsp;Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland. Alongside live updates, Google will estimate how traffic will look in the near future based on current traffic trends. We’re not surprised at Google chipping away at providing a great Maps experience for the whole world to enjoy and we’re glad a ton more people are in on these goods. Find the update in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #254e7c; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Android market&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="clear" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; 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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; font-size: 10pt; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Get Google Maps with Navigation (Beta), Places, and Latitude*Navigation: Free, voice-guided GPS navigation system *Places: Find, rate, and get recom...&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://androidapplications.com/44215-google-maps" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #254e7c; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/od7SqkN_t1M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/od7SqkN_t1M/13-new-countries-get-live-traffic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/13-new-countries-get-live-traffic.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-799105728160955758</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-16T16:58:34.862+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Funny</category><title>In Another Dimension, the HP TouchPad Runs Android 3.0 [HUMOR]</title><description>&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-57453 aligncenter" height="306" src="http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/best-buy-ca-honeycomb-touchpad.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;" title="best-buy-ca-honeycomb-touchpad" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;And that other dimension would be Canada. Best Buy, Canada to be exact. One of the advertising wizards behind their weekly flyer has the HP TouchPad curiously listed as running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Right…but the TouchPad actually runs webOS 3.0. We understand getting the 3.0 part confused, but a quick glance at the other side of the page clearly states webOS. Somebody didn’t double check before sending this one to print.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-799105728160955758?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/XhSDSqTQyo0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/XhSDSqTQyo0/in-another-dimension-hp-touchpad-runs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-another-dimension-hp-touchpad-runs.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-7036037372445322407</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-16T16:57:41.971+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>Android 3.2 SDK now available, new features get detailed</title><description>&lt;div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/mediapad-3.2.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; float: right; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-top: 12px;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;And just like that, it's official. After hearing about the next incremental step in Honeycomb's journey by way of Huawei's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;MediaPad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;, we've seen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;breadcrumbs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;about its functional differences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Today, we're being given the full shebang -- Google has just made official v3.2, boosting the API level to 13 and releasing the SDK into the wild in one fell swoop. The new build brings along optimizations for a "wider range of tablets," as well as "compatibility zoom for fixed-sized apps," media sync from SD card (huzzah!) and an extended screen support API. Head on down to the links below for a closer look, and expect to see this rolling out to [insert your favorite Android tablet here] in due time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-7036037372445322407?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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An ITC judge has found HTC in violation of two Apple patents which appear to be at the core of Android and are likely infringed by all Android devices.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I have looked at those patents before and they appear to be very fundamental. They are very likely to be infringed by code that is at the core of Android. It's telling that those two patents are also at issue between Apple and Motorola (and the '263 patent was also used by Apple against Nokia).&lt;br /&gt;
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The two patents infringed on are:&lt;br /&gt;
● U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 on a "system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data"&lt;br /&gt;
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● U.S. Patent No. 6,343,263 on a "real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data" (while this sounds like a pure hardware patent, there are various references in it to logical connections, drivers, programs...)&lt;br /&gt;
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This decision by an administrative law judge has yet to be reviewed by the six-member commission. The commission has the power to ban imports into the U.S.&lt;br /&gt;
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Apple has also filed a second ITC complaint against HTC which claims they infringe on other patents as well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-1525971383244946516?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://phandroid.com/2011/07/15/leaked-pics-of-sprints-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-surface-say-hello-to-the-within/sprint-within2/" rel="attachment wp-att-57496" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #254e7c; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-57496" height="225" src="http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sprint-within2-550x310.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;" title="sprint-within2" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Now that we got that out of the way, we don’t have much else to go on other than these pics here. You can see Sprint’s branding not only on the backside of the device, but on the software as well. The familiar (and nearly indestructible) Galaxy S II texture battery cover is easily recognized as well as the diplayed 8MP camera. Word on the street is this will launch with Android 2.3.4 so you can expect Google Talk video chat right out of the box.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Let us hope (and pray) this new leak is a sign the launch date is just around the corner because it looks like this device might be all ready for shipping to Sprint stores very soon. Sprint is coming in hot this summer with the release of the&amp;nbsp;Motorola Photon 4G&amp;nbsp;in a few more weeks. Anyone else excited to finally get their hands on this device?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-8530284996499783787?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Yesterday was a big day for our favorite search giant, at least for it's investors and people concerned with the financial growth of the company. Google conducted it's Q2 earnings call to report in about the growth of several of it's products. Two of the big winners? Android and Google+.&lt;br /&gt;
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This news probably comes as no big surprise to you since you are reading it on an Android based blog, but take a look at the numbers that were reported yesterday, they are a bit staggering.&lt;br /&gt;
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Android growth for example, at I/O this year Google announced that there were 400,000 Android handset activations a day. A huge number to be sure, but yesterday Larry Page announced that in just two months time, that number has grown to 550,000 activations a day. That is a huge leap in adoption for sure, but must be tempered by the fact of the sheer number of Android powered handsets on the market. Either way, Android is now on 130 million devices. Pretty amazing and if you are an Android fan like we are, makes you all happy inside.&lt;br /&gt;
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The other interesting number that was talked about on the call was that Google+, the new social media-search-communications thingy that Google has just recently launched, now has 10 million users already, despite the service still being invite only.  Many people seen on the service have said that they have abandoned their Twitter and Facebook accounts totally, where others are saying that Facebook is still their method of choice when it comes to connecting with people.&lt;br /&gt;
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As far as earnings go, Google is on pace to rake in 9 billion in revenues this year, with half of that figure coming from outside of the US.  Ads still being the number one money maker across all of the products Google offers.&lt;br /&gt;
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What does this mean for Android?  Growth, innovation and attention.  As Android is one of the biggest products that Google offers, we are only going to see bigger and better things on our mobile devices.&lt;br /&gt;
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There was one unspoken downside to the call, and that was concerning tablet sales.  It is being reported by sources on the call that Page was very specific when he quoted the 130 million activations, he made sure to say on 'phones', separating out the other area in which Android is trying to go, which of course is the tabletmarket.  It will be interesting to see if in the next quarter there has been any movement upwards with the plethora of Android powered tablets out there.&lt;br /&gt;
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Either way, if you were in an early investor in Google, you should be sitting pretty right now, for the rest of us, we can look forward to continued awesomeness in free ad-driven product.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-7565801579467486634?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"&gt;Para tirar partido do 3D, os consumidores que adquirirem o equipamento podem ainda recorrer ao canal 3D do portal móvel da Vodafone, onde estão disponíveis vários jogos e vídeos, como o real Football 2011, Spider-Man: Total Mayhem ou Assassins Creed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;O equipamento está à venda a partir de 459,90 euros. Na loja online da Vodafone tem um desconto de 10 euros e com vinculação à rede da operadora por um período de 24 meses, descontos maiores (preço mínimo de 159,90 euros).&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;img align="middle" alt="Nome da imagem" src="http://imgs.sapo.pt/gfx/528575.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-5877475505992917732?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Harmony may soon be restored though, because a number of Desire Z owners in Germany (and at least one in Hungary) have just received their OTA Android 2.3.3 updates, and the rest of Europe shouldn't be too far behind. At some point, the original Desire will also be allowed back at the Gingerbread table after all manner of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;divisive head-games&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;-- possibly as soon as August&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;in some regions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;. We're going to re-stock our fridge and put the oven on in anticipation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-5852399486320998430?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;center style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Google-Music-Market.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #ec720f; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-57357" height="264" src="http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Google-Music-Market-550x363.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-decoration: none;" title="Google-Music-Market" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;When Google first introduced Google Music, we were treated to a vision far broader than just uploading your already-existent music collection to the cloud for playback via wireless streaming. We got a look at how life would be like if Google offered music purchasing functionality for Android users, similar to what Apple does with iTunes and what Microsoft does with Zune. Unfortunately, the Music beta didn’t come with these features.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Fortunately, “beta” means Google isn’t finished, and our friends at Android &amp;amp; Me have reason to believe that we’re inching closer to getting the full experience Google envisioned. They looked inside the resource files of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://phandroid.com/2011/07/12/get-the-new-android-market-now-download/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #254e7c; font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;latest Android market app update&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and found some images not currently used. That market icon in the upper left corner when you go to a specific section of the Android market? There are certain-colored icons for games/apps, books and movies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Well, thanks to what’s been revealed by the resource tree, there is a specific icon just for Music. It’ll be orange themed – just like Google Music’s main color. This could mean a lot but could mean very little. Google could very well be in promising negotiations with record labels to provide the service, and these resource files could suggest they’re far along in those talks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Another scenario that is just as likely? They could just be anticipating that the music service will come sometime – anytime – down the line. It doesn’t hurt to keep the necessary resources inside the application as they don’t take up much space, so Google may have just thrown this in for good measure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;So we know they’re still trying to get that music store launched, but we’re still not exactly sure how far off we’re on. We’re hopeful that today’s discovery means we’re ever closer, but we won’t get our hopes up. Are any of you looking forward to this?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-4704451810233059458?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/JfuSiZCOCkA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/JfuSiZCOCkA/new-android-market-app-tells-of-google.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-android-market-app-tells-of-google.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-5389407074018347878</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-15T15:28:34.359+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Apple</category><title>Gresso flaunts $30,000 white iPhone 4, holds more ice than a skating rink</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="322" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/gresso-lady-blanche.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 4px;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Sure, you probably waited longer than you should have to get the elusive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;white iPhone 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But, you know what's better than a boring regular model? One with diamonds, crystals and pearls... of course! Known for its&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;ridiculous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;custom mobile devices, Gresso may force you to refinance your house&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;hock a kidney to afford its latest creation, the Lady Blanche.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A solid diamond-coated mineral glass backing, three independent Swiss clocks and pearl dials replace the usual body on this iced-out iPhone. If the $30k diamond model is a bit out of your price range, the much more affordable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Swarovski&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;crystal version will only set you back 7,000 bones.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Release details are unclear at this point, but when they drop you better act fast -- only 150 of these gems will be available. Heck, if you have that kind of cash lying around, just get the salesman to throw in one of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;these&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;for your iPad, too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Creating the perfect phone is an extremely hard task.&amp;nbsp; Most people can agree that a loaded spec sheet is a great place to start, but when it comes down to software and hardware design it’s extremely hard to please the subjective tastes of the masses.&amp;nbsp; While Apple aims to please everyone with a one size fits all model, Android manufacturers have gone the opposite route, creating niche products for niche demographics.&lt;br /&gt;
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Enter the HTC Status. The handset’s exterior design is a throwback when the HTC Dash ruled the planet as one of the best Windows Mobile messaging phones.&amp;nbsp; Fortunately for us, the introduction of Android has pushed us into a new era of smartphones, but I do have to say that the portrait QWERTY design of the HTC Status is a welcome change in a never ending sea of generic Android slab devices.&lt;br /&gt;
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The specs on the HTC Status will not impress any of your friends (2.6-inch landscape touch screen, 800 MHz processor, 512 MB RAM/ 512 MB ROM, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, front-facing VGA camera, four row QWERTY keyboard, and a dedicated Facebook button) but it does have the potential to be a big success. AT&amp;amp;T plans on launching the HTC Status on July 17th for $50 with a new two year contract.&lt;br /&gt;
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The HTC Status’ main selling point is the dedicated Facebook button and the phone’s tight integration into Facebook.&amp;nbsp; The Facebook button allows you to easily share what you are doing (listening to music, watching YouTube, browsing the web, using Google Maps, and much more) with your friends with one simple button press.&amp;nbsp; But what if you’re not so into Facebook?&amp;nbsp; Well, let’s not forget that the HTC Status is still and Android phone with access to the Android Market and capable of doing pretty much anything you want it to.&lt;br /&gt;
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The HTC Status has no problem playing Angry Birds Rio, Glow Hockey, or even iRunner, but if you’re hoping to play some intensive 3D games you may be disappointed.&amp;nbsp; I tried loading up Dungeon Defenders and Gun Bros but was treated to multiple force-closes before I could even start playing.&amp;nbsp; The low resolution screen (480 x 320 pixel)&amp;nbsp;is most likely the culprit, but we do have a feeling that the HTC Status would be able to handle some light 3D gaming.&lt;br /&gt;
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Most other applications from the Android market worked flawlessly, but I was annoyed at times with the choices made by app developers.&amp;nbsp; The HTC Status forces most apps to display in portrait mode so that the user does not have to rotate the phone all the time.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately many applications which have a portrait layout simply stretch the landscape layout to fit the display rather than reorganize the layout to maximize screen real-estate.&lt;br /&gt;
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The portrait keyboard on the HTC Status felt a little cramped at first, but after a full day with the phone I am able to type just as fast as I do with the G2.&amp;nbsp; Ergonomically, the keyboard isn’t as good as what RIM offers on their Blackberry devices, but the build quality of the handset has certainly made a few Blackberry users here in the office turn green with envy.&lt;br /&gt;
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The HTC Status is certainly not a phone for current Android users, but it may be the perfect stepping stone for anyone who’s looking to upgrade from their flip phone or wanting to trade up from their Blackberry. The Status’ Facebook integration is certainly intriguing, but I don’t think it’s enough to make it one of the main selling points for the phone.&lt;br /&gt;
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Let us know your thoughts and impressions on the HTC Status.&amp;nbsp; Is the phone appealing to you?&amp;nbsp; If not, what does HTC need to do to create a successful portrait-QWERTY Android device?&lt;br /&gt;
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border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" title="DSC_1647" width="75" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-761004133209748868?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/jWzDPI7Ejxc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/jWzDPI7Ejxc/htc-status-initial-hands-on-impressions.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/htc-status-initial-hands-on-impressions.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-6026981695155021707</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-15T15:20:33.384+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro 'slides' through FCC with photos in tow</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="294" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/07/seminipro3-20110715.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 4px;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;It looks like Sony Ericsson needs to juice up the&amp;nbsp;invisibility cloak. Not only has the handset maker been pushing a decent number of phones through for&amp;nbsp;Federal approval, it's splayed out&amp;nbsp;most of them&amp;nbsp;for the whole world to see. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The latest device to get the thumbs-up from the feds is the&amp;nbsp;Xperia Mini Pro, which appears to be on track for its promised third-quarter launch. If we don't see a different version of the same phone hit Washington soon, it's more than likely that the&amp;nbsp;900&amp;nbsp;/&amp;nbsp;2100MHz&amp;nbsp;Mini Pro won't see much 3G activity in the US, since we use different frequencies stateside -- though it'll still function as a 2G device when it hops the pond with Europeans on holiday.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;We've yet a little while before the QWERTY smartphone comes out to play.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;You can check some photos here: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sony-ericsson-xperia-mini-pro-fcc/#4298437"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/bTdf5VnWxZ4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/bTdf5VnWxZ4/sony-ericsson-xperia-mini-pro-slides.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/sony-ericsson-xperia-mini-pro-slides.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-963151121658319139</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-15T15:18:11.804+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>Confirmed: Samsung Epic 4G Is NOT Shipping With Android 2.3</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-57266" height="288" src="http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/epicNOgb.jpg" title="epicNOgb" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Yesterday we&amp;nbsp;posted a little something our awesome readers came across on the Sprint website. Apparently, Sprint had the&amp;nbsp;Samsung EPIC 4G&amp;nbsp;listed as shipping with Android 2.3 (and Sprint ID, what?). If you’re an Epic user, you were either confused, excited or angry that Gingerbread was being made available on the device.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"&gt; If you were a potential Epic user, I know a few that eagerly rushed out that same day to buy one, only to come back with sticky Froyo devices. The guys at&amp;nbsp;Android Central&amp;nbsp;were also able to dispel this mix up after getting in touch with Sprint and verifying that it was indeed, a typo. Shucks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="content" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 20px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;I’m all about conspiracy theories and I never trust any big corporate companies, so perhaps this is all just a cover up seeing how Gingerbread has been leaking all over for the device. Maybe this “typo” is just another sign that it’s coming soon, right? I’m onto you Sprint (glare).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/xLP4N-jFTe0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/xLP4N-jFTe0/confirmed-samsung-epic-4g-is-not.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/confirmed-samsung-epic-4g-is-not.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-3345354128252381548</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-15T15:14:39.564+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>Amazon Chooses Foxconn to Manufacturer Their 10.1-inch Android Tablet</title><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-57273 aligncenter" height="223" src="http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/AndroidAmazon.jpeg" title="AndroidAmazon" width="400" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Looks like Foxconn will be the manufacturer of choice for Amazon’s upcoming 10.1-inch Android tablet. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Currently, Foxconn is the manufacturer behind Amazon’s widely popular Kindle e-readers. According to Digitimes, the tablet is expected to ship in 2012 and while that launch date may seem like a little late in the game, perhaps it has something to do with the rumor that the “Hollywood” device will be packing Nvidia’s new quad-core Kal-El processors. Even still, there is the possibility that Amazon could release the 10.1-inch tablet a few months early in time for the busy holiday season.&lt;br /&gt;
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Also mentioned was Quanta Computer who is apparently manufacturing Amazon’s smaller 7-inch tablet codenamed Coyote and has already begun shipping to the online retailer. This tablet is rumored to be powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 and could launch as early as late August or September.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Looks like Amazon is getting ready for war and I’ve read a few editorials that it might not be Apple who is shaking in their boots but Google. Amazon seems to be using the openness of Android against big “G” to compete directly with almost every one of Google’s online services. Interesting, indeed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Skimac/~4/RT4QoE6bF74" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Skimac/~3/RT4QoE6bF74/amazon-chooses-foxconn-to-manufacturer.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Skimi)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://skimac.blogspot.com/2011/07/amazon-chooses-foxconn-to-manufacturer.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1056033110328714124.post-4037459011713228563</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-15T15:13:18.641+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Apps</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Android</category><title>ClockworkMod: DesktopSMS App has been launched!</title><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;img height="346px" src="http://d2rfichhc2fb9n.cloudfront.net/image/1/resize@w=208,h=346/adn-user-assets/assets/app/53/60/00/5360000000000000.png" width="208px" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;Desktop SMS forwards your text messages to your GMail and Google Chat. And if you reply back, the recipient gets a text from your number!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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You can use your favorite IM client (Beejive, Trillian, etc) or email client to send text messages from your phone number!&lt;br /&gt;
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Download DesktopSMS on your phone, and then use your an IM or email client from your XOOM or other Android Tablet to send text messages!&lt;br /&gt;
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Step 1) Install Desktop SMS on your *phone*.&lt;br /&gt;
Step 2) Install a chat client or use gmail on your desktop PC or tablet (like a XOOM)&lt;br /&gt;
Step 3) Have a friend send you an SMS, and respond from your desktop PC or tablet!&lt;br /&gt;
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This is an open beta, so be prepared for bugs... :) Please post on the Facebook page if you have any issues!&lt;br /&gt;
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Troubleshooting:&lt;br /&gt;
We recommend using Gmail filters to keep your inbox organized!&lt;br /&gt;
Not getting your message on your computer? Try logging in again.&lt;br /&gt;
This may or may not work with Google Apps accounts. I will add support for it in a future version.&lt;br /&gt;
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SEO: Google Voice, SMS Email proxy gateway&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;This is an open beta, so be prepared for bugs... :) Please report any issues to their &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/ClockworkMod"&gt;Facebook page&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;img class="photo" height="200" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/android/market/com.koushikdutta.desktopsms/hi-256-0-6bfcdea815334af0279034be46ca09da51c0ea8c" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;Download free app on &lt;a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.desktopsms&amp;amp;referrer=app.net,1,EjgxfDEzMTA3Mzg5Njd8VUtJUWpUQVdBVWhUX3o5cjllaXhGVkFzWU9rMVRCMmpZc19tS1BqN1lFTRobY29tLmtvdXNoaWtkdXR0YS5kZXNrdG9wc21zUJP1jPGSJg;08yHRK0MoBRYYa0fi444wVaMKx4"&gt;Market&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #414141; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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We cannot deny that the stock live wallpapers created by manufacturers have their inexplicable appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
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Maybe it is the will to get your device to make it look like your friend's or it could simply be the fact that we need the capability to change the look of the device out of sheer boredom. In either case, for those of you boasting Transformers, XDA member "Segnaro" has a little gift for you, straight from the Galaxy Tab. &lt;br /&gt;
He has extracted, signed and repackaged the aqua as well and the aurora lwp as apks for easy installation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please leave some feedback if can try these out. Pulled these from the Tab 10.1 rom. &lt;br /&gt;
I've seen these wallpapers before on Galaxy S phones, so they must be Samsung's Touchwiz UX counterparts. &lt;br /&gt;
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You can find more information in the original &lt;a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15654627#post15654627"&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on XDA. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U0XHQrON31g/TiBjD_7PGqI/AAAAAAAABUc/veguocgJXNI/s1600/SC20110715-011236.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U0XHQrON31g/TiBjD_7PGqI/AAAAAAAABUc/veguocgJXNI/s640/SC20110715-011236.png" width="384" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Get the Android free app &lt;a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.quicinc.vellamo"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;Skimi&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1056033110328714124-3518325471309622621?l=skimac.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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