Binatone iHomePhone 2 Is An Android Landline Phone No One Should Own

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A DECT based cordless phone with Android OS and speaker dock seems like all-in-one dream gadget for your home. With Android OS, much more can be done than just making plain phone calls, you can browse Internet, play games, music, video etc. And DECT? Yes you could connect many other DECT cordless devices to this network. With a speaker dock, you can throw your old mp3 player and use this flashy

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Android Infographic

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A nice infographic on Android Operating System done by cellphones.org. Among many things it shows you the growth, timeline and market share of the popular mobile OS made by Google. One caveat I noticed (and many others) is the missing Symbian OS in the smartphone market breakdown section shown below in section 3. Symbian has been a powerful and popular OS for smartphones though lately it has been beaten by Android, iPhone and Blackberry.

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The Android Privacy Fuss

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A study by scientists of Intel Labs, Duke University and Pennsylvania State University says that few Android apps are sending out private information like your current location information (could be GPS coordinates or coarse network based location details) and other sensitive personal data like IMEI, phone number and SIM number to, possibly the advertisers and app content servers. These information, claims the scientists are being sent without any kind of notification or permission of the

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The 47 Top Apps On My Android Phone

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Once you have an Android phone, no one can stop playing around it with apps from the Android app market – all popular, newer and crazier kinds. So as of date, here is a list of favorite apps I have on my phone. My phone model is Samsung Spica (i5700), which was released just about an year ago and has been out of market close to six months. This is one of an excellent

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[Updated] Yes, Google Is Testing Android Paid Apps In India

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Update 2 [05-10-2010]: Today Google ended its testing and enabled paid apps for all users. The market now shows the approximate price of the app in Indian Rupees as ~Rs. The price is converted as per the day’s USD to INR conversion rate.

Update [26-09-2010]: Google has sent out an email to all Android developers indicating it is going to extend paid apps support for ‘additional’ countries without mentioning which are those additional countries. Find the

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