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HTC CEO Officially Confirms The Unlocking Of Their Bootloaders

Tim May 26, 2011 209

We have done it! HTC's CEO, Peter Chou has confirmed in a quote from the HTC facebook page that they will no longer be locking the bootloaders on their devices. This could be the first step to other companies following suit. We can only hope. Here's the quote...

Man Arrested For Fleeing The Scene After Being Tipped Off From His DROID Police Scanner App

Tim May 25, 2011 86

Imagine this. You're the getaway driver in a pharmacy robbery, and you think you're smart because you have an Android phone equipped with a Police Scanner application. Thinking you're one step ahead of Johnny Law, you go for it. While listening for activity...

Pick Yourself Up A Refurbished Galaxy Tab Today Only For $260

Tim May 25, 2011 42

Been in the market for a tablet? Not feeling lucky that you'll win one from us? Well take a look at Woot today. They're selling refurbished 7" Galaxy WiFi+Sprint 3G Tablets today only, and for $260, that's a pretty darn good deal. It's even known that they'll...

New CM7 Nightly Allows Users To Deny Permissions For Applications

Tim May 23, 2011 47

Lots of people are always griping about the permissions applications ask for off the Market. Whether it be to read the phones ID, need full network access, or to send SMS messages. Sometimes, most of these applications do not need these permissions to work...

Hacked Netflix App Now Works On Most Devices

Tim May 20, 2011 318

Hooray for the amazing people at XDA, again. Thanks to their hard work we have a working version of the Netflix applicaton for most devices. The hack makes it so the application doesn't check the Device ID, allowing for all the Netflix streaming goodness we...

Verizon Looks to End 3G Service, Go All 4G LTE By 2013?

Tim May 20, 2011 102

Let's hope they plan on investing in some battery technology as well then. Earlier today, Tony Melone, the man responsible for the roll out of Verizons LTE network held a Q&A with reporters in Texas at the TIA conference. A few important things were said...

Charge, HTC Thunderbolt, DROIDX2, and Xperia Play Wallpapers All Bundled Into Individual Apps

Tim May 20, 2011 18

Dave Kover - a continuous giver to the Android community. Creator and maintainer of some of Android's most popular themes, has now put up on the Market individual applications for all of the aforementioned devices' wallpapers; putting them in easy to use,...

Federico Carnales Releases Alpha Music Application

Tim May 20, 2011 141

The man behind LauncherPro is now diving head first into the music arena with his alpha release of an app with a "Windows 7ish" feel and look to it. So far it's very bare bones, but it plays music, shuffles, etc. We can definitely expect to see a lot more...