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How to automatically sync your Android phone with iTunes

24 March, 2010 (15:01) | By: Michael Prassel

Share Apple’s iTunes does a great job of synchronizing your music, video, and photo collections with a smartphone — provided that smartphone is an Apple iPhone. But what if you have an Android phone but still use iTunes to organize your media on your computer? It turns out it’s still pretty easy to synchronize your [...]

You’d Be Crazy to Buy a Palm Now

19 March, 2010 (20:01) | By: Michael Prassel

Share Palm is dying. They’ve been hemorrhaging money since late last year, and yesterday’s woeful earnings announcement sealed its fate. It didn’t have to be this way. But it’s been coming for a long time. via You’d Be Crazy to Buy a Palm Now – Death of palm – Gizmodo.

Top 10 Android Apps

1 March, 2010 (09:50) | By: Michael Prassel

Share Android’s been around for more than a year, and in that time developers have whipped up some great apps. Whether you’re a new Android owner or a pro looking for new tools, these 10 great and free apps belong in your arsenal. via Top 10 Android Apps – Android – Lifehacker.

Samsung i8520 ‘Halo’ Android 2.1 phone with 3.7-inch Super AMOLED and pico projector

15 February, 2010 (11:47) | By: Michael Prassel

Share The i8520 Halo packs a 3.7-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display (bigger than the Wave’s 3.3-incher), 8 megapixel autofocus camera with flash (VGA on the front), 720p / 30fps video encoding / decoding, DivX and Xvid playback support, Bluetooth 2.1, standard 3.5mm headphone jack, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, A-GPS, 16GB of internal storage and microSD expansion, stereo [...]

Motorola Droid’s next update to be Android 2.1, includes multitouch browser

8 February, 2010 (15:10) | By: Michael Prassel

Share “We’ve just gotten the inside line on the next Droid update that’s making the rounds through Verizon’s testing department from one of our trusted sources, and overall, it looks like this should take users 95 percent of the way to curing pangs of Nexus One envy. Here’s what we’ve got:” via Motorola Droid’s next [...]

Our Motorola Droid Review

19 November, 2009 (07:00) | By: Guest Author

Share So after 3 days of Droid, here’s my good, bad and ugly in reverse order. First, background: I have been a blackberry user for ~4year (8700 and Curve).  I also own an iPod Touch *UGLY*: Have YET to be able to sync my Microsoft exchange with the Droid’s email feature. Droid admittedly (they say [...]