Category: Mobile
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Mobile Game Review: NBA Jam For iOS
Boomshakalaka! Having grown up in the ’90s, NBA Jam: Tournament Edition is one of the many games I look back on fondly. Before the release of Goldeneye, NBA Jam is what my friends and I would play nonstop. Packed with outrageous dunks, an over-enthusiastic announcer, and violent gameplay that only vaguely follows the rules of…
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Motorola Atrix – The Future of Mobile Computing
With practically everything available at our fingertips via smartphone, “What could the mobile market possibly do next?” I thought. We have 1 GHz processors in most new smart phones, an incredibly powerful, ever-growing Android OS, the simple and beautiful iOS 4, turn-by-turn navigation, mobile Google Docs, 4G wireless connections, video chat, 720p video recording, 1080p video…
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Britannica Encyclopedia kicks back, brings information from print to mobile
We all know how reliable Wikipedia can be for information, especially for term papers. And who goes to the library anymore to use encyclopedias? With technology and the way information flies faster than the speed of fiber optic, encyclopedias or any type of printed information is becoming increasingly obsolete. So what should you use for…
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Express Your Inner Android with Androidify
Do you love Android? I mean, like, really love Android to the point where you see that green little robot and go: “Squeee!!”? I know I do. As much as I like to keep my IRL mug a secret (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain), I always wished there would be some…
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Emulators on Android: The Future of Past Gaming
If you were born anytime after 1975, then you probably are familiar with console gaming. And as a kid growing up in the decades following, it seemed that each new year gave us bigger and better gaming options: NES became SNES, GameBoy turned into GameBoy Color and then GameBoy Advance, cartridges flattened into CDs, and Sega… well,…
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Latest LauncherPro Update Adds Sweet New Transitions
It’s been over a month since we last heard from Federico Carnales, developer of the awesome Android homescreen replacement application LauncherPro. He’s been busy completely rewriting LauncherPro from scratch, but recently found time to push out an update to the current version that adds some very cool screen transitions. For the uninitiated, LauncherPro is one…
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Simple Droid X Hack Can Greatly Improve Call Quality
There are many reasons why the audio quality of mobile phones isn’t great. One simple, but fixable reason is that the phone is most likely configured to use an outdated voice encoder algorithm by default. Luckily for us, Motorola includes hidden programming menus in most of its phones where we can adjust advanced settings like voice…
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iPhone 4: Coming to Verizon on February 10
After years of wanting and months of speculations, the iPhone is finally coming to the Verizon network. I honestly never thought this would happen! Announcement A press conference was held this morning in New York City. At the press conference, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam and Apple COO Tim Cook, along with Verizon Wireless CEO Dan…
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How to Bypass the “Welcome to” Android Phone Activation Screen
When you turn on an Android phone for the first time (or after resetting your device), you’ll be greeted with a “Welcome to <Your Phone Model>” screen which shows you how to activate your new phone. If you’re checking out a phone in a store (or just don’t want to activate your device yet), this…