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[Deal Alert] Samsung Nexus S 4G For $99 From Wirefly
If you've been thinking about picking up the Nexus S 4G on Sprint, then now is the time to go for it, because Wirefly has a deal that's hard to resist. You can get this stock Android beauty for $99...
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[Hands-On and Initial Review] Xperia Play: The PlayStation Phone Hits The U.S.
Note: Most of the pictures in this hands-on were taken by a second Xperia Play unit, so you can use those to judge the quality of the camera. The saga of the PlayStation phone has been a long one, but...
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Sony Xperia Play Review: Finally, An Android Phone For Gaming - And Not Much...
It's been quite some time since we first heard rumblings of the PlayStation phone. The concept - a high-end Android phone mashed together with familiar PlayStation controls - seemed like one that...
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[CES 2013] Vizio Announces New 7" (Tegra 3) And 10" (Tegra 4) Tablets Running...
If you like Nexus tablets, Vizio is gunning for your wallet. Today, the company announced a duo of tablets running stock Android. The first is most similar to the Nexus 10: a 10" display with the same...
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AT&T Drops The Price Of The HTC First To $0.99, Probably The Best Damn Phone...
When I reviewed the First, I realized it was much, much more than just a Facebook experience device. Sure, it's sporting Home out of the box, flashes a Facebook logo during the boot process, and is...
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Will A Samsung Galaxy S4 "Google Edition" Be Unveiled At I/O 2013?
Among dedicated Android fans, there is a consensus that stock Android is the best experience. That being said, not everyone is smitten with the Nexus hardware. A new option for conflicted users is...
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It's Time To Let The Phrase "Stock Android" Die (Opinion)
Sundar Pichai made a series of statements at recode's Code Conference yesterday that seem to have the internet aflutter. Pichai claimed that Google would be adding more software features to future...
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Lenovo will abandon its Vibe Pure UI in favor of stock Android on all future...
Perhaps the most common complaint about Android phones is that the software doesn't always hit the heights of the hardware. It's true of many flagship phones from a variety of OEMs, and one of the...
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Lenovo's K8 Note is official with a 5.5" FHD display, Helio X23, and stock...
It's easy to forget here in the West that Lenovo still makes its own phones (versus relying solely on Motorola). Despite that, the Chinese company just announced its newest device, the K8 Note. It...
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Xiaomi Mi A1 (Android One) review: Almost the perfect budget phone
Xiaomi phones always have the same problem. While the company's devices have generally great specifications and design for the price, the software experience is usually not very good. If you've read...
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Hands-on with Oreo on the Nokia 8: A mildly flavored Stock Android 8.0 version
I've had the Nokia 8 for a little over a week and have run Android 7.1.1 on it out of the box. Yesterday though, Nokia announced a beta labs program to test out Oreo on the Nokia 8 and I instantly...
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Nokia 8 review: Nokia looks and Nexus feel make for a very enjoyable experience
Confused nostalgia. It's hard to find another way to describe my feeling right now as I sit down to write this Nokia 8 review. For those who don't know my history, my career covering mobile devices...
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After 5 years with Samsung and LG, I moved to a Pixel 2 XL and... nothing has...
I still remember when we used to bicker over iPhone vs Symbian, before Android took over the second part of that argument. I also remember when Xenon vs LED flash was the most controversial discussion...
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TWRP support now available for Essential Phone, Nokia 8, and HTC U11 EYEs
Even stock Android isn't perfect. While the lack of a heavy-handed skin is welcome, many users will find shortcomings (whether personal or widely acknowledged by the user base at large), that they'd...
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DontKillMyApp.com shames OEMs that needlessly kill useful background...
The days when third-party battery-saving apps were necessary to hit a satisfactory number of hours off a single charge are long behind the vast majority of Android users, thanks to improvements like...
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Five OxygenOS features we hope to see in stock Android someday
Good artists copy... you know the rest OnePlus is a genuinely innovative smartphone company, and we don't just mean hardware: its OxygenOS Android skin is our favorite of all the currently available...
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Seven OxygenOS features we hope to see in stock Android someday
Good artists copy... you know the rest Update Some new features Much more than hardware, OnePlus has matured on the software front in its relatively short existence in the smartphone space. In all...
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