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Eric Schmidt Promises Users Google Will Not “Screw Up” Android

Eric October 3, 2011 48

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was recently interviewed by Bloomberg and was hard pressed for details behind the purchase of Motorola. Would it be the end of Android's open philosophy? Would Motorola get special treatment from the company because of the purchase?...

Amazon Announcing Their Tablet The ‘Kindle Fire’ This Week

Eric September 26, 2011 57

Earlier today on Android Life, I wrote about a tablet being lit aflame by a flamethrower, but this is a whole different story. According to TechCrunch, Amazon is going to announce their hotly anticipated tablet, and it will be named the Kindle 'Fire.' This may...

Video: Logitech Revue Receives Second Honeycomb Leak, Market Receives Apps Made For TV

Eric September 14, 2011 28

If the video of Honeycomb running on a GoogleTV unit at CEDIA wasn't exciting enough to get you to run out and buy one (like I did), then this news should up your thoughts of getting one on the cheap. The Logitech Revue has received a second leak of Honeycomb...

Android Kind Of A Big Deal In Europe, Leaps Up To Second Place Behind Symbian

Eric September 13, 2011 4

In the spreadsheet above, research group comScore has taken a poll of many of the larger European nations to find that Android now accounts for almost a quarter of all smart phones across the pond. The number that everyone wants to know is "Is it more than iOS...

Gamestop Introducing Branded Android Tablet Next Year?

Eric September 12, 2011 31

Color me surprised, because the largest retailer of video games in the nation is involved with talks that they will be launching their own brand of Android tablet sometime during the next year. Gamestop president Tony Bartel explained today that they are...

Droid 3 Unbrick SBF Released to Ease Your Hacking Fears

Eric September 9, 2011 38

I can speak from personal experience that up until now, experimenting with the D3 was always playing with fire because there was no safety net to fall back on incase something went horribly, horribly wrong. Now, thanks to some great guys over at XDA there has...

Rumored Nexus Prime Specs Leak Out: Curved 4.65″ HD Screen, New Name Too?

Eric September 8, 2011 212

Only a week after a support page for the GT-19250 went live, and showed that the Nexus Prime is getting close to retail stores, now there are a few rumors floating around of what kind of specs the phone will actually have. An anonymous tipster came to GSM...

Max Payne Getting HD Mobile Treatment Early Next Year

Eric September 8, 2011 1167

In a press release this morning, Rockstar Games the company behind games like Red Dead: Redemption and Grand Theft Auto spoke about some details of their refresh of the bloody, dark noire Max Payne series. One of the interesting tidbits from the release said...