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If you love your smartphone's camera, and want to take things up a notch, the Galaxy Camera is perfect for you. Running Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean), the Galaxy Camera is the exact opposite of what we're used to seeing today. Instead of a smartphone camera, it's a camera smartphone (without the actual phone capabilities). How does this work? Does it really have anything to offer that your plain old smartphone doesn't? We took the Samsung Galaxy camera for a test drive to find all that out. And as usual, one of you will get extremely lucky and win this $430 camera for free!
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Tablets running Android 4.2 support multiple user accounts. User accounts work just like they do on a PC -- each account has its own apps, settings, and other data. If you share your tablet with another person, you can use user accounts to allow each person to have their own environment -- including the launcher setup, Google account sync, and other settings. This helps give each of you more privacy when you're using your tablet, and also allows each of you to log in with your own Google account and see only your own email and other data.
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With the recent releases of the Samsung Galaxy S4, the HTC One, and the Nexus 4, there's a pretty good chance that, as an iPhone user, you may be looking at switching over. These Android phones have been creating a lot of buzz because of the great hardware and software they've been packing. However, switching over to Android isn't as easy as simply picking up the new phone -- or at least not as long as you have contacts, pictures, music, and more that you'd like to move over. How can you do this as quickly and painlessly as possible? Sadly, there isn't a single utility which can do everything for you automatically, but with a minimal amount of effort you'll get things moved over in no time.
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One of Android's greatest strength is how customizable it is. Even without rooting your device or installing a custom ROM, you can do some incredible things to shape your phone to be just the way you want it. Installing a third-party launcher like Nova goes a long way, but you can do so much more: UCCW, or Ultimate Custom Widget, is a widget that lets you place custom clocks, battery meters, weather meters, and just about anything else right on your homescreen. Customization is often a painful process, but UCCW makes it incredibly simple.
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Whenever I’m at my favourite pub (admittedly not often) or at my mother-in-law’s (sadly more often than I would like) I find that I have considerable trouble making a phone call. How can mobile phone networks claim such high coverage when the majority of people can easily recall occasions when making a connection has been a trial? We’ve all stood on chairs with our phones held aloft, trying to "hook" onto a stray signal, but surely there is a better way?
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For the past few years, Adobe Flash has proved quite controversial. Ever since Apple opted to block support for it on iOS – thereby forcing anyone who wanted to use the iPhone or iPad to rely on other solutions (usually HTML5) its future has remained in doubt, with only traditional desktop and laptop users still regularly using it. Despite the lack of native support for Flash or the ability to easily install it through Google Play, it is actually possible to install the software on a modern Android device and reap the media streaming and gaming benefits.
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SendHub — the business-focused calling and messaging app — was released for Android on Monday after a high demand from users. Since its first arrival on iPhone nearly a year ago, SendHub's developers have received nearly 30 request per day for an Android version. The core features of the app include calling and texting over WiFi, 3G, 4G or cellular voice networks, group messages, auto-responders, contact lists, and more.
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A nameless writer once remarked, “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” While probably in reference to broadcast television, the saying also applies to Google’s recent introduction of several poorly implemented services in newer versions of Android. Over the past year, you may have noticed programs running on your device that you never signed up for or installed. These purported "free" services come with a hidden price.
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This week has seen several minor yet useful updates to Google's Chrome Web browser for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad as well as the browser's beta channel on Android. The latest version for both platforms includes fullscreen support, and the iOS update also adds Google Cloud Print and AirPrint while the Android version of Chrome has received client-side certificate support and long-press tab history.
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If you’re like most people, you don’t have unlimited data and you don’t want to go over your data cap. Phones with Android Jelly Bean contain powerful tools for tracking your mobile data usage, setting phone-wide limits, and identifying the apps that are sucking down the most data. You can prevent these apps from using data entirely to save your precious data allowance and avoid cell phone bill shock.
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Looking for contacts on my wife’s Android phone this morning, I was astonished at how slow the process had become. After eventually creaking through the menu for the details I needed, I switched the device off and back on. A short wait ensued, followed by another. Ceri isn't a habitual app user, and her phone remains unmodded, so what could have been causing these performance delays. And then it struck me. The problem wasn't with Android.
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Stop digging through your Android's settings screen, just to switch that one setting on or off. Widgetsoid is a free Android app allowing you to create your own widgets, filled with switches that control otherwise obscure options on your phone or tablet. Whether you want to control your music, disable Bluetooth, lock your screen or unmount a USB connection, Widgetsoid allows you to create a toolbar for your homescreen with the controls you want – and nothing more.
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Google is making some big changes to Google Play on Android, which you can expect to see in the upcoming days. The new Google Play should make it easier for users to find music, books, apps, and other content, which will, naturally, benefits both users and Google itself, as you cannot purchase things you cannot find. Functionality aside, the update includes a significant visual overhaul, which should also improve the overall browsing experience.
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Tumblr for Android received a new update on Monday that completely revamped its design, which now follows Google's Holo design conventions, and makes Tumblr's mobile app even more interactive. The most prominent addition to the new Tumblr app is its incorporation of a brand new "post anything" screen. This interactive menu features an artistic arch of bubbled menu options which lets you instantly share videos, photos, quotes, chats, and links.
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Android users will soon have a new way to connect with their friends and family. Facebook announced on Thursday that it is releasing "Home", a homescreen replacement app designed to provide Android users with a more social experience. Home replaces the Android standard homescreen with a Facebook-inspired set of features, giving you access to photos, status updates, and notifications without having to open their Facebook app.
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