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Flipboard For Android Officially Released
Flipboard for Android is now out of beta and in the Play Store! The popular news reading app has been in closed -beta for a while, after being a Galaxy S III exclusive for
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Where Microsoft Went Wrong With Metro
So the Microsoft Surface tablet has just been announced. It’s a very good, innovative idea; the hardware looks well designed and it seems the hardware specs will be up to scratch too. But is
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Instapaper for Android Review
Instapaper has been a long time coming on Android. Its developer, Marco Arment, famously does not like Android, much prefering Apple’s platform, iOS - the OS which he first made Instapaper for. Finally, it has arrived on
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Apps on Android – wait, what?
Android has an app problem. Let’s not beat around the bush here. There’s malware and viruses in the Play Store and fake apps, like fake Temple Run and Angry Birds. It’s the nature of
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AOSP, Sense, Google Play – what’s it all mean?
Google has a problem. This problem is that they’ve pretty much last control of Android. HTC Sense is almost an Operating System of its own now, and Amazon has their own forked version of
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The State of Android Updates – And How To Improve It
So the world of Android has two main problems: apps and the general rubbish that constantly gets into the Play Store (fake Temple Run apps, anyone?) and updates. They’re both problem that exist, and
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The Google Play Dream
So we’ve had a few posts on Google Play. Graham seems to like it and Oliur hates it. Well, I’m going offer a third opinion. I think Google Play is good. OK, yes, the name
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Tech Companies: My Favourites
I’m sure we all have favourite consumer electronic/technology companies. Yours might be Apple, or Samsung, or even LG, although I’d struggle to think why you’d like LG. Anyway, I’m going to list my favourite
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Announcements From MWC
MWC. Mobile World Congress. A lot of phones have been announced in the last few days. Let’s take a look at some of the major announcements. HTC One X Giant 4.7 inch screen, with
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My Google Drive Dream
New editorial series – based on how I dream a specific product or service, rumoured, announced or released, would work. Google Drive. The long rumoured project from Mountain View. Rumours have recently started flying
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The Google Docs Android app has been updated, adding long-overdue rich text editing, meaning you can now bold, italicize, underline and do a generally a lot more than you could previously. The editor is phone
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Linux – The Awesome OS Nobody’s Heard Of
So you have Windows; the OS many in the tech industry regard as poison (Josh Topolsky of The Verge among them). Maybe poison is a bit unnecessary, but even so, Windows for many users is
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What Could Google Do With Motorola?
Traditionally, Google have never been a hardware company. They’ve always stayed in the software realm of things. When the T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream was released in 2008, although it was branded as a Googlephone, as
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The Mobile Industry As We Know It
Quick introduction: I’m Phil Oakley. I’m 17, I go to a UK Sixth Form, studying for my A-Levels, and I’m UltraLinx’s newest writer. I’ll mostly be doing long-form editorials for the site, as well
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