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- Share Contacts by SMS on your Android Phone [Business Card]
- ADW Launcher on CM7 Development Playground to test new features
- Motorola Xoom Wifi $589 at Costco with Free Gel Case & Free Shipping
- Motorola Atrix headed to T-Mobile UK in June
- HTC ThunderBolt Battery Time Revealed [Hands-On Test with SlashGear]
- Motorola rumored to be building a rugged PTT CDMA Android device for Sprint
- Blaze Software says Android 50% faster than iPhone 4
- Android Developers offers data on platform versions
- Verizon HTC Thunderbolt 4G on sale now
- HTC ThunderBolt Pre-Order Under $200 [With Bonus High-Res Pics]
- T-Mobile G-Slate gets some screen time with the LG Girl [video]
- HeLauncher for Android, all home replacement launchers in One
- HTC ThunderBolt Video Quality [PROOF]
- Sprint to add Android Push-To-Talk phones into lineup on CDMA Network
- HTC ThunderBolt Connection Speed Benchmarks [SlashGear]
- HTC ThunderBolt Long Boot instead of Short Boot?
- Motorola Droid 3 leaks again with 5 Row Qwerty keyboard & dual core
- HTC ThunderBolt Hands-On and Unboxing by SlashGear
- Samsung Galaxy Player 4 & 5 headed to the U.S. to rival iPod
- Stellar Escape Unity3D Game for Android Released
| Share Contacts by SMS on your Android Phone [Business Card] Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:57 AM PDT Most of you can probably agree that you have had to do this at one time or another on your Android phone. Get someone a phone number, send your friend or a co-worker someones number and wished there was an easy and simple way for this to happen. Well now you can with Share Contacts by SMS. Instead of trying to copy/paste it, or write the number down or try to remember it in your head. Now you’ll never need to do that again.
This is a very simple apk you can download and install that will allow users to both send, and receive business cards on Android. Features: -Send contacts by SMS This is still very much a work in progress and most likely it will get better and prettier as time goes on, as well as adding new features. The developers at XDA are always fixing, changing and improving everything Android. This is another great example. For more information check out the links below. [via XDA Forums] )
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| ADW Launcher on CM7 Development Playground to test new features Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:39 AM PDT Like we have mentioned a time or two here, the developers over at XDA are always making changes and improving things for our beloved Android phones. Today we have an exciting and simple add-on that makes the ADW Launcher (stock in CM7) even better. It is a development playground that is testing new features to see if they are popular enough to integrate into CM7.
For those like me that are always tweaking, changing, and tinkering with their Android phone, this is perfect for you. Basically this is an add on apk that will add features, change some of the aesthetics and functionality all while leaving the launcher the same for the most part. They are small changes that make things nicer, easier, and more convenient. The best part about this mod is if you do not like the changes you can simply uninstall the add-on apk and it will be just the way you left it. So you don’t have to fix anything. Here is a list of some of the main features that are integrated already, and more will be coming soon. Features: * The application popup menu replaces “Uninstall” with “Settings”. This takes you to the Application Info window instead. There is an uninstall button on this screen, but also has a lot of other useful information. If you would like to try this out yourself and enjoy some of these nice new changes feel free to download and install the apk below. For more information and to ask any questions you can check out the via link at the bottom also. [via XDA Forums] )
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| Motorola Xoom Wifi $589 at Costco with Free Gel Case & Free Shipping Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:03 AM PDT The Motorola Xoom has been getting more than enough attention lately, but with good reason. It is an amazing device. I can’t seem to put mine down for more than 30 minutes unless I’m watching March Madness. Earlier we posted a Xoom Wifi Release Schedule mentioning everywhere it will be for sale. Today we have more news from the Costco side.
Costco is selling the Motorola Xoom now, you can see prices and in store pictures here , the Wifi Only Xoom will be available in store at Costco same time as everywhere else, March 27th. The deal here is the Xoom Wifi is available to order online at costco.com with a free Motorola Gel case, and free shipping right now. If I didn’t already have the Verizon Xoom I’d be pre-ordering mine from Costco right about now. I don’t know about you guys but you better move fast, as this deal probably wont last long. [via Costco] )
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| Motorola Atrix headed to T-Mobile UK in June Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:41 AM PDT This morning some news has came up that T-Mobile UK looks to be getting the Motorola Atrix. The date I’m hearing is starting in June, but no exact time frame has been given by T-Mobile. Hopefully they plan to release it before June because by then I expect there to be more than a few dual core phones to compete with it. Sooner the better T-Mobile.
The Motorola Atrix has been getting lots of heat lately for its 4G speeds. Well AT&T has I should say. There has been many reports that AT&T is capping upload speeds. They later responded and said 4G upload wasn’t even turned on. So far it has been a little bit of a mess, so those looking to enjoy the all mighty and powerful Atrix without all the hassle should look for T-Mobile’s version coming soon. We will be sure to update you on this as times goes on and as we hear more about the Atrix on T-Mobile. While you wait for an official release date, or more information feel free to check out our reviews of the phone, and all of its top quality accessories that make the Atrix that much better. Remember these are of the AT&T 4G version but we can assume the accessories will work on the UK version. Here they are for you: Atrix HD Dock & Keyboard Review [via T-Mobile UK] )
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| HTC ThunderBolt Battery Time Revealed [Hands-On Test with SlashGear] Posted: 17 Mar 2011 07:22 AM PDT We’ve been passed some rather interesting information on the battery life of the HTC ThunderBolt from our pal Vince over on SlashGear – specifically, that the first day using it didn’t add up to a very good long life of usage. We’ll be getting our review model in later today, but for now, let’s take a peek at one test that revealed much less than a full day’s work on a single charge. And note – this is indeed only one test, and there’s much more testing to be done, but it is a real-world situation nonetheless.
After having just charged the unit up from zero to full, Vince took the HTC ThunderBolt from Verizon out for a spin. Once one hour had passed and having done “regular tasks” like email, internet browsing, Twitter, and a little bit of Facebook, the batter displayed 70%. Note that this was without using the camera, no videos, no YouTube:
The battery then hit 50% after having been used in the same way approximately another full hour:
And the battery is right around 30% after 2:15:21 the ThunderBolt was used an “average to heavy” amount of time.
Finally, with an uptime of 3:34:03 and actual usage time of 2:45:59, the battery was at 8%. During this time there were no phonicalls made, no YouTube or Videos watched, no Wifi used. This amount of time was dedicated to LTE for data working with email, Twitter, Disqus, downloading the app Dungeon Defenders, and etcetera.
So is the battery draining pretty quick? Seems that way. We’ll be bringing an extra battery pack along to CTIA 2011 since this will still be the phone we’re using there primarily. Speaking of which – do you think there’ll be a phone in there worthy of eclipsing the HTC ThunderBolt? ALSO: Vince (and I) will be going through more natural day-to-day tests today for the battery and everything else, so we’ll have more results up here in a few hours. Take note that the “usage time” might be strange in the first test because every time we plug the device into the computer to take screenshots using the developer program, the time resets (if anyone has a screenshot app that works outside of root, we’re all ears!) For further tests, we’ll be taking photos of the screen to avoid this problem. Our next test here is being conducted as a mix between LTE and Wifi whereas the test yesterday was done purely on 4G LTE. I think you’ll be interested to see that the results appear to be quite different:
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| Motorola rumored to be building a rugged PTT CDMA Android device for Sprint Posted: 17 Mar 2011 06:18 AM PDT Yesterday we mentioned that Sprint was making some changes to its network with the phase out of iDEN and some updates for PTT users. At the time we figured Motorola would be the company offering the new PTT handset. A rumor surfaced today that Motorola is in fact in talks with Sprint on a new PTT rugged Android smartphone.
According to sources cited by AndroidGuys, Motorola has specifically noted that the device will be for Sprint. What exactly the phone will look like and what it will offer spec wise isn’t known at this time. whether the device will be a feature phone or what is speculation at this point. It’ wouldn’t make a lot of sense for Motorola to cram Android inside and then not take advantage of all the things it can do as a full smartphone. This should be a handset popular with users out in the field a lot that need PTT to stay in touch. [via androidGuys] )
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| Blaze Software says Android 50% faster than iPhone 4 Posted: 17 Mar 2011 06:08 AM PDT If you have wondered what’s faster for web surfing, an and or device of the iPhone 4 Blaze Software has found the answer. According to the field tests that Blaze ran the Android device is 50% faster than the iPhone 4 when it comes to page loading.
The page load times were about a second apart and it wasn't a few tests run either, the testing included 45,000 load tests. The test on Android was run on a Nexus S smartphone on Android 2.3 using chrome. The median load time was 2.144 seconds. The iPhone 4 on iOS 4.3 using Safari had media load time of 3.254 seconds. The test used Fortune 1000 websites repeatedly using both WiFi and 3G connectivity. The Android device was faster on 84% of the sites the company tested on. The study said, “Android wasn’t just faster overall, but rather provided a faster browsing experience four times out of five.” [via ComputerWorld] )
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| Android Developers offers data on platform versions Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:30 AM PDT I am sure that it helps developers of Android apps immensely to know what the most common version of the OS is when they are designing their games and apps. Android Developers has offered up just such details for devs to gander at. The new details offer up the current distribution noting the percentage of a specific version installed and historical distribution levels.
The idea of the info is to offer devs an idea of how many devices their apps will be compatible with. The data in the first chart was collected over two weeks ending on March 15. According to the info the most common version of Android right now is 2.2 with 61.3% of devices on the market running 2.2. The next most common is 2.1 with 29% of devices using that version. Android 1.5 has 3%, 1.6 has 4.8%, 2.3 has 0.7%, and 2.3.3 has 1% of the market. The least common Android flavor today is Android 3.0 at a mere 0.2% of the market. A second chart offers similar version details in a historical distribution chart with stacked line graphs. Its details range from September 2010 to March 2011.   )
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| Verizon HTC Thunderbolt 4G on sale now Posted: 17 Mar 2011 01:56 AM PDT Verizon’s HTC Thunderbolt 4G was already up for pre-order at Amazon yesterday, but right on schedule the carrier itself has thrown open orders for the LTE smartphone. Priced at $249.99 with a new, two-year agreement – or $599.99 full retail – you’ll need a voice and data package but get free mobile hotspot tethering until May 15.
After that, Verizon is offering 2GB of mobile hotspot use a month for a further $20. Your money gets you Android 2.2 Froyo, HTC Sense, an 8-megapixel main camera, 1.3-megapixel front camera and 32GB of storage. Of course, the biggest thing about the Thunderbolt is the speed, so head over here for all the performance benchmarking your heart could desire. )
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| HTC ThunderBolt Pre-Order Under $200 [With Bonus High-Res Pics] Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:32 PM PDT Oh so you’d like to make a purchase of that phone we’ve been posting about all day long and will get in the mail tomorrow? Let’s talk about how you can get that phone for under $200, shall we? We’ve received a tip by our favorite clown-related forum member, ClownBaby, that notes how Amazon Wireless has the HTC ThunderBolt for the low low price of only $179.99 (with a two year agreement, of course.) This is currently the lowest amount of cash you’re going to be paying for this fabulous device. Would you like to know more?
ClownBaby, you’re so helpful. If you’d like to be like ClownBaby and purchase the HTC ThunderBolt on Verizon so you can have a crapload of speed on their 4G LTE network, all you’ve got to do is head over to the Android Community discussion forums where ClownBaby has posted a [delicious link]. Meanwhile let’s have another look at the closeup images we’ve got of the ThunderBolt right here below. These images were photographed by our pal Vincent over on SlashGear, our sister-site that got the phone in the mail today. Tomorrow we will be getting the phone in the mail and we will have additional photographs, of that you can be sure. Meanwhile, let us glue our eyes to the glory:            )
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| T-Mobile G-Slate gets some screen time with the LG Girl [video] Posted: 16 Mar 2011 05:17 PM PDT The T-Mobile G-slate has made a small appearance, today we have a video slightly under about 3 minutes that goes over tons of features and gets you a first hand look into the new T-Mobile G-Slate. The LG girl courtesy of YouTube is one of the lucky people that has their very own G-Slate to love and enjoy. She goes through UI, Map, 3D video capture and more.
For those wanting to see a little more about the G-slate before watching the video below you can check out a few videos we have. Here is our sister site Slashgear with the G-Slate, here is also some G-Slate pricing. Last I have this wacky video of someone else that was lucky enough to handle the Android 3.0 Honeycomb slate a little early also. We all should hopefully know plenty by now about this Android 3.0 Tablet with a 8.9″ screen, Dual camera’s on the rear for some 3D Video, front camera, and all the usual goodies like a dual core Tegra 2 processor. So I’ll just skip right to the good stuff, other than this Twitter post, Check out the video below, and notice the dock pins, it sure has a lot of them vs the 2 on the Xoom.    )
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| HeLauncher for Android, all home replacement launchers in One Posted: 16 Mar 2011 04:01 PM PDT Home replacements for Android have been around since the beginning. The launcher is what launches the main desktop for your device. It’s where you rearrange your icons, put your widgets, and everything. There is stock launchers, Home +, with bigger names like Launcher Pro, and ADW EX being some of the more popular ones. These are all great but sometimes switching between them can get cumbersome and irritating. Always having to replace all the icon’s and widgets gets old also. We present you with HeLauncher.
HeLauncher is an all-in-one home replacement that has many, many of the launchers all in one for an easy, smooth, and seamless change from one to another. No longer do you have to run both stock, and a Sense UI Launcher that take extra memory and phone resources just to get what you want out of both. The amazing developers over at XDA have invented HeLauncher. The dev has pulled the launchers from most of the manufactures, devices, and custom home’s from the market and put them all into one easy to use app. There is no massive settings or options menu, to try and keep things easy, simple, and stock. HeLauncher also has features that most would charge for, but it is all free. For more information, pics, and to start playing with this on your own device feel free to check out the via at the bottom of the page. As always, be careful when installing things and changing settings on your phone. Here it is direct from the Android Market also. Features: Latest Build: Coming Soon: [via XDA Forums] )
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| HTC ThunderBolt Video Quality [PROOF] Posted: 16 Mar 2011 03:59 PM PDT Our sister site SlashGear has their review unit of the HTC ThunderBolt and they’ve sent us over a sample of the video quality they’re seeing on the back camera of the HTC ThunderBolt and lemme tell ya – it’s pretty much amazing. As you may already know, the HTC ThunderBolt has an 8-megapixel camera on its back that’s capable of recording at 720p HD, at 1280 x 720 pixel resolution. EDIT: CORRECTION: This video is actually not even at the full resolution, as it’s been discovered to have been at the default 800×480. Even better! Fat! Let’s take a peek at what that looks like below, and don’t forget, if you haven’t heard me write this already, we’re getting our own ThunderBolt unit in tomorrow.
The video you’re seeing isn’t recorded in the worst lighting conditions in the world, but it’s certainly not the best! This is the same environment you’ll more than likely be working in whilst recording your OWN child screaming like a velociraptor captured in a cage on Isla Numblar. Looks nice, yes? We’re more than satisfied already and we don’t even have the camera in our hands. So what comes next? That’s up to you! We’ll keep posting items we feel are important to explore with this phone starting tomorrow, and that includes items that you request! So feel free to ask here, email us, or even tweet our name @androids on Twitter – we’ll hear you! Another sample shot taken with HTC ThunderBolt
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| Sprint to add Android Push-To-Talk phones into lineup on CDMA Network Posted: 16 Mar 2011 03:33 PM PDT Sprint has just released some exciting new information about their Vision and plans for the network. As you guys all know Sprint's iDEN network is being shutdown sometime in 2013. That is the network that hosts all the Push-to-talk devices you see people still using. Today Sprints press release announced plans to unveil push-to-talk phones on the current CDMA network, a technology they will call Sprint Direct Connect. This will be what replaces the iDEN Network.
Sprint Direct Connect will feature a broad array of improvements over the iDEN network and is expected to consolidate multiple network technologies into one seamless network resulting in enhanced coverage, quality and speed, better network flexibility, reduced operating costs, and improved environmental sustainability. These changes should help with the increase of data usage on smartphones and offer higher bandwidth capacity, as well as triple the square-miles that the Push-to-talk network covers. Sprint mentions they plan to first release an Android Powered phone for this new Push-to-Talk network built by either Kyocera or Motorola, and with more to follow from those manufacturers. It will feature smartphone specs, and have a qwerty keyboard. (I’m betting on Motorola first) This all sounds like good news for those that enjoy Push-to-talk. I know I have two friends, one a Fire fighter, and another that is a Vegas Metro Police Officer that both use current Push-to-talk phones on the job that are old, outdated, and look like flip phones from 2007. This should be good news for companies supplying these types of phones to their staff. Read below for the full Sprint Press Release: )
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| HTC ThunderBolt Connection Speed Benchmarks [SlashGear] Posted: 16 Mar 2011 03:12 PM PDT We’ll be running our own benchmarks when we get our own ThunderBolt tomorrow, but for now, let’s have a look at what SlashGear’s been doing all afternoon, as they got their Verizon superstar phone earlier today! The tests began with a bit of the ol’ Sun Spider browser testing. What SlashGear found was that this phone, while fast on the downloads, isn’t the speediest phone out there today as far as Sun Spider sees it – while the HTC ThunderBolt grabbed a 6031.9ms, the Motorola ATRIX 4G (also on Android 2.2 Froyo running with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor) handled the test at 3960.8ms – and smaller is better.
Then there’s a ping test to be done. Download and upload speeds are what people testing out the ThunderBolt’s hotspot tethering service’s free couple o’ months are going to want to see, right? They’re going to see how freaking amazing they are, then they’re going to have a heart attack when they have to go back to the first kind of internet they had. Take a peek here at the results.
With 1 connection to the HTC ThunderBolt, Pint is at 78 ms, while download is at 17.92 Mbps and Upload is at 3.27 Mbps. Once 2 connections are made, the Ping goes up to 87 ms, while the download moves to 18.73 Mbps and the upload speed goes to 4.39 Mbps.
Holy springtime dinner, that’s a lot of speed. It’s important to note also that Vince, our pal over at SlashGear, also did the test with the iPhone 4. The results of the same test done here done instead on the iPhone 4 (also run on Verizon, but on 3G, as it doesn’t connect at 4G LTE,) were thus: .72 Mbps download, and 4.52 Mbps upload. That’s not quite as fast.
When the ThunderBolt checked its own speed with the SpeedTest.Net app, the results showed 7.20 Mbps downloads, 27.59 Mbps uploads, and a Ping at 198 ms. Astronomically delicious. Again we’ll be doing these tests on our own tomorrow when we receive our own review unit, and feel free to tweet or chat or comment all of your questions so we can answer them in stride.       [via SlashGear] )
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| HTC ThunderBolt Long Boot instead of Short Boot? Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:35 PM PDT Let’s be clear before a fire is started – the amount of time you’re going to sit and wait for the HTC ThunderBolt to boot up is not any different from any other modern phone you’ve got in your hand right this moment. Have you heard of the Fast Boot the ThunderBolt is capable of? That exists, but it’s not the only way the phone starts, it’s just an option. One of the reasons this Fast Boot doesn’t just work every time so that if you’ve got apps that might not boot up or load up properly with the Fast Boot, you’ve got the option to boot up in regular mode.
The Fast Boot is meant to boot up the phone in under 10 second. Indeed it does go extremely fast in Fast Boot, and with it comes a sweet dash of lightening and sound clip that makes you freak out with glorious anticipation. When the phone is not in Fast Boot mode, the phone takes approximately a minute and 22 seconds. So that’s pretty much utterly different from 10 seconds. So probably the fast boot is for people who aren’t that into experimenting with apps. Or of COURSE we can expect such a functionality to be retrofitted to all sorts of different devices once the hackers get at it, right? I would hope so. Though with advanced hardware comes the advanced features, right? Yes. But expect such speeds in the future, ladies and gentlemen. A 10 second startup should soon be the average, and that’s exciting! We’ll be continuing our coverage of the ThunderBolt today and we’ll be getting our very own unit in the mail tomorrow — feel free to send us any questions you might have about it and we’ll try our best to answer it tomorrow! [via SlashGear] )
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| Motorola Droid 3 leaks again with 5 Row Qwerty keyboard & dual core Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:35 PM PDT For those that love Android (you all should) and also want a hardware keyboard on your phone, it looks like your next device has just been leaked to the interwebs, again. The Motorola Droid 3 was recently discovered by a few over at howardforums to be coming soon along with the Droid X2, and an unknown device called the Motorola Targa. You can read all about the first leak here.
Beautiful, is that a 5 row qwerty keyboard we are seeing, I think it is. For those that are wondering the Droid and Droid 2 had 4 rows and shared the top row with numbers and a shift key was needed. This will make things much easier and smoother. Looks to almost be the perfect phone. Pair that with some juicy details that a famous Verizon Engineer mentioned on twitter about it being “Dual Core, Android 2.4, Better Keyboard, and no BLUR”, it just might end up being the perfect phone after all. Picture of that tweet is below. Also if you look closely at the main picture above, you can see two ports on the side. I smell HDMI out next to the micro USB charging port. I don’t know about you guys, but if this really comes “without” BLUR, that would be awesome. It would be a stock Google Experience device like the original Droid, and a quick one at that. We sure hope to hear more about this device in the coming weeks. Hopefully we get details on screen resolution, OMAP 4/5 CPU, and more. When this information does drop be sure to check out AndroidCommunity for all the information. [via Howard Forums]
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| HTC ThunderBolt Hands-On and Unboxing by SlashGear Posted: 16 Mar 2011 02:15 PM PDT Behold the HTC ThunderBolt as our sister-site SlashGear unboxes it. The oddest thing happens when you first glance at the box – it’s black. There’s nothing on it! That is, until you get a closer look in the light. Just punched-out letters all around, HTC, Verizon, and ThunderBolt around the sides and the bottom, with a bunch of copyright information across the back. When you take off the top, the inside appears red. This is excellent packaging design if I do say so myself. Here at Android Community we’ll have to wait until tomorrow (we hope!) to get our own review model in, but even from the video filmed by our main homie Vince, you can see the power emanating from the box just surrounding one of the most widely anticipated phones of 2011 (and it’s not even spring yet!) Welcome the rain storms, thunderbolts (lightening?) everywhere!
Once the box is opened, there’s just a slip of plastic over the face, and the SIM card is pre-installed. I doubt this will be the case when you purchase the phone from the store, but here it is in this review model. There’s two mics on this device, one on the top and one at the bottom, a 4.3″ WVGA touch screen display, front and back facing cameras, 3.5-inch headphone jack at the top, and 1400 mAh battery inside. The back camera is 8 megapixels and has a dual-LED flash above a kickstand (which has a giant speaker grill underneath,) volume rocker in the upper right, and microUSB port in lower left. Inside there’s a lovely new Qualcomm 1Ghz processor. On the back there’s a difficult to pop off battery cover and an oddly tight battery over a slot for a Class 4, 32 GB, microSDHC card (this is not just in the review unit, it will come with your purchased unit from the store,) with 8GB onboard memory. Take a peek of a sampling of images from SlashGear’s unboxing, then prepare yourself for a series of pre-looks at the ThunderBolt today with a closer look at the device tomorrow when we get the unit in for ourselves! Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow – it’s only a day a-way.               )
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| Samsung Galaxy Player 4 & 5 headed to the U.S. to rival iPod Posted: 16 Mar 2011 01:36 PM PDT Looks like we have got a bit more exciting news about the Samsung Galaxy Player. Samsung intends to rival Apple’s highly popular iPod Touch with a mini tablet-like device of their own. They have the Samsung Galaxy Player 4 & 5 both en route. The two models are named for screen size, 4″ and 5″. News has leaked that they are on the way to the U.S market and will be up for sale soon, as in “Spring”.
If the story of the Galaxy Player selling over 20,000 in 10 days over in Korea tells us anything, it is that people would like another solid option in the personal music player, or MP3 player market. Many of us now use just our Android phones for this, but it would be nice to have a dedicated music player that was not locked into the Apple and iTunes world. It looks like Samsung intends to hit that spot with the perfect device that exceeds the specs of the iPod Touch latest generation. The Galaxy 4/5 is a Galaxy S device with all the specs we love about the Galaxy S line, but the phone radio’s have been replaced with a front and rear camera, and an overhauled music player brought to us by Samsung. Here are the specs listed below in case anyone hasn’t seen them before. Samsung Galaxy Player 5 specs: * Android 2.2 Froyo (device capable of 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade, but not promised) Samsung Galaxy Player 4 specs: * Android 2.2 Froyo (device capable of 2.3 Gingerbread upgrade, but not promised) Personally I use my Android phone for my music player over bluetooth in my car, but I could see a Galaxy S Player replacing that in the very near future. Tell us what you think in the comments below, or in the forums. Will you buy a Galaxy Player, or keep using your ipod touch/android phone? Take a look at the full press release below:    )
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| Stellar Escape Unity3D Game for Android Released Posted: 16 Mar 2011 12:35 PM PDT Stellar Escape is a new and exciting game that was just released for Android. If you haven’t got it already I recommend you getting it now via the Android Market. Stellar Escape is a runner game based on the exciting new Unity 3D Graphics Engine. This is a game with stellar graphics where you are running for your life.
If you have ever played the popular flash based game called Canabalt I recommend you try it. Stellar Escape is similar to Canabalt but smoother, better graphics, and more engaging of a game. It is actually a lot of fun. The developers have also released a free trial version and have committed to adding more fun and exciting levels soon. I played it for a good 30 minutes today while waiting in the doctors office, while it’s no Call of Duty, it is a fun game that is worth the price and will most definitely help you pass the time. Go ahead and give it a go on your Android phone today. The levels get harder as you go, so be careful, and don’t play through it to fast as you might get addicted. More levels will be coming soon, and so will a review of the game from us here at AC also. I’d like to also mention this is the first game to be released by Orange Agenda but they plan to bring many top quality games to Android in the coming months. Hopefully we see more and more with the great graphics that the Unity 3D engine can provide. Unity has worked with partners such as Nvidia, and Qualcomm so we can expect smooth, and very well running games on all of our favorite Android phones and tablets like my Motorola Xoom.      [via Orange Agenda] )
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