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- Palm's new Pixi is lightweight and eye-catching, but doesn't feature a sliding keyboard like the Pre — Switched
- Apple has decreased the price of the 160GB Apple TV by $100 to $229 — CNET
- LG debuts its very first handset featuring an Android operating system — Wired
- T-Mobile has decided to put its $1.50 a month fee for paper billing on hold for now — Consumerist
- When Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift's speech last night, there were almost 300,000 tweets about it in one hour — Mashable
- It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar! Be sure to log in and play our Best Video Game ever bracket! — GeekSugar
Amazon Releases a Snazzy Android App
Just like the one created for BlackBerrys and iPhones, Amazon has done it again with a sophisticated app for android handsets.
With this app, android owners will be able to check out products in 40 different categories, access their account and settings and see personalized shopping recommendations. Best of all, you'll be able to use your phone's camera to remember certain products (with our without snapping the barcode) and easily make one-click purchases.
New App Lets You See the World in a Whole New Way
Obviously, I'm all about apps. Apps that help me take better photos, look better, and even find a cab in New York (it's possible). So if I had an app that turned my phone into a virtual Looking Glass — that let me see anything from apartments for rent to how high a building is just by holding up my phone to the horizon — I'd be all over it.
The MyTouch 3G Is Now Available For Purchase
The second android Google phone from T-Mobile hits store shelves today and its boasts many more improved features than its predecessor, the G1.
This touchscreen 3G beauty, which I've already ooowed and awwed over, will cost $199.99 with a new contract and data plan. The MyTouch 3G is also highly customizable with cool skins, accessories, and widgets.
Which of These Sweets Is Not an Android OS Codename?
Yummy! The codenames for Google's smartphone OS, Android, continue to get more delicious: The first iteration is "Cupcake" (the favorite dessert of many a young woman) and the next codename is also tasty-sounding — or is it ridiculous?
And does the person that adopted this naming convention have the craziest sweet tooth in the world, or what?
HTC Announces the Hero Android Device
Just days after T-Mobile announced their next Google Android handset — the myTouch — HTC is now announcing their latest Android smartphone, the Hero. What's great about HTC is that it really strives to improve its handsets over time, so you know you're always getting something exponentially better than a previous model. For instance, the Hero comes with a whopping five megapixel camera and an anti-fingerprint coating on its 3.2 inch HVGA touchscreen.
T-Mobile's Second Android Phone Announced: The myTouch
Are you one of the ones dying for the next Android-powered cell phone? Well, the wait is over: T-Mobile and Google have has just announced their next Android handset, the T-Mobile myTouch 3G (myTouch), the highly anticipated followup to the T-Mobile G1, the first Android phone.
In addition to Google services and Android software, myTouch lets you customize your menus, wallpapers, and icons, plus there are plenty of cool themes and skins.
An Enhanced iGoogle Debuts For the iPhone and the G1
I can't tell you the number of times I've been grateful to have my cell phone when standing in long line-ups. I'm not really a "line talker" — for fear someone is listening in on my private convo — but I do respond to emails, check the news, read tweets and sometimes play games. To make things easier on people like me who like to waste time with my cell phone, Google has just announced a new and improved iGoogle for the iPhone and Android powered devices.
Daily Tech: Second Android Phone Coming This Summer
Will Google's 18 Android Phones Finally Trounce the iPhone?
So you were excited about the prospect of the G2, a second Android phone? Well, then how do you feel about 18 new Android phones? That's what Google exec Andy Rubin said yesterday at Google's I/O developer's conference — that around 18 Android phones should be on the market by the end of this year.
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