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Real world examples and practices from the Android design team make this session from Google I/O 2013 a must-watch -- even if you'll never write your own app. See how Android apps should look and act, and see what the folks behind Android say about why they…

Major update delivers new features and support for new animations, notifications, bug fixes  Ingress, everyone's favorite sci-fi virtual reality simulation game, got a major update this afternoon. Everything you love about the game is still there, with less…

From 5 to 9 a.m. on May 22, you'll have to get your "Girls" fix somewhere else. Don't worry, we're all in this together.    

HTC's Zoe feature is a perfect way to play with Auto Awesome motion on Google+ Google+ got some great new image tools and toys last week and Google I/O, including the "motion" portion of the Auto Awesome tweaks. How it works is, it takes any series of…

Face-to-face voice and text translation across multiple languages  We're at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas and while a lot of business and back-end technologies are being talked about here, companies like the Japanese carrier NTT Docomo are showing off at least a…

It's my pleasure to announce that I'll be joining Jason Howell, Ron Richards and Gina Trapani tonight on TWiT's "All About Android" show to talk about the new Xbox One. Wait. That's not right. We'll be talking Android. All about Android. But maybe a little bit…

The Nexus experience device won't be available outside the US at launch, sources tell CNET It appears that folks around the world are going to have to wait to not order their very own Google Edition Samsung Galaxy S4, as CNET says Google has confirmed the…

Interesting name. And so far this is making Google TV look like a bad dream. We're keeping up with the Xbox news over at WPCentral.    

Available from June, no pricing details available yet Following T-Mobile's announcement yesterday, Sprint-based MVNOs Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile have confirmed that they'll offer a 4G LTE-capable Galaxy S3 from next month. The device will run on Sprint's…

The liveblog kicks off at 9am PT right here We're ready to go on the official first day of CTIA 2013, and the events kick off with the first of three keynote sessions. It is set to run from 9am to 11am PT, with several industry leaders expected to speak.…

The May 21 ShopAndroid.com Deal of the Day is the Seidio SURFACE Case for Samsung Galaxy S4. Crafted from a hard yet flexible material, the SURFACE Case provides an amazingly thin layer of protection without adding the excessive bulk of other cases. It…

Two ruggedized mid-range devices destined for Sprint, Boost and U.S. Cellular Making their appearance as successors to the original Kyocera Hydro, the Hydro EDGE and Hydro XTRM have been unveiled here at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas. Doing what Kyocera does best,…

Just a quick heads up that LG has confirmed that its May 30 event in Macau, China, indeed is for the Optimus G Pro, as we originally suspected, and not a successor to the smaller Optimus G. That makes more sense from a release-cycle standpoint, as the Optimus…

6.3-inch Galaxy Mega to go on sale at UK retailer in July for £459.99 If the likes of the recent 5-inch devices, or the Galaxy Note 2 just aren't quite big enough for you, then you may be interested in the Samsung Galaxy Mega. A colossal 6.3-inch smartphone,…

i500 LTE modem gains support for 150Mbps LTE with software update At CTIA in Las Vegas, chipmaker NVIDIA has taken the opportunity to showcase the LTE capabilities of its upcoming Tegra 4i SoC, its mobile processor designed for mainstream smartphones.…

Optimus G Pro also rumored for the Now Network LG is keen to make inroads into the budget LTE space with its Optimus F series devices, first announced at Mobile World Congress back in February. But one device that wasn't shown in Barcelona was the Optimus F3,…

New WebKit-powered Opera 14 stable now available for Android The Opera browser for Android has exited beta and arrived on the Google Play Store as a fully-fledged stable app. The mobile version of the long-running browser is based upon the WebKit rendering…

Rugged Galaxy S4 variant crops up once again in Croatia Following yesterday's first photo appearance, today brings us a very quick video encounter with the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. The ruggedized S4 variant, which sports physical buttons and a 1080p HD…

Two cases with distinct styling and different levels of protection We're here at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas, and although the show hasn't officially kicked off yet we had the opportunity to play with two of Otterbox's latest cases for the HTC One. At the middle…

Otterbox is here in Vegas at CTIA 2013 with its Defender and Commuter series cases for the Samsung Galaxy S4 CTIA is always a hotbed for the latest and greatest accessories and this year's show is no different -- Otterbox was onsite tonight at…

The one word you think of when you see those three letters. CAT. As in Caterpillar. As in construction equipment. Rugged. And that's translated nicely to the Cat 15 ruggedized Android smartphone. Available now for $349 after its unveiling a couple months ago…

It's that time of year, again, folks. We're live from the spring CTIA event in Las Vegas, where the mobile industry comes together to show off the nuts and bolts that makes all this stuff work. We'll also get a little consumer-friendly fare, so stick around…

CTIA in Vegas starts tonight, and we're there to relay all the news back to you Phil, Anndrew and Andrew are on the ground in Sin City, getting prepped to bring you all the news you'll want to know from the CTIA show. This is the last spring CTIA show, and…

Free storage has been bumped to 1TB,  and a new version of the Android app is on the way EDIT: The update is now live in Google Play. Go get it. Yahoo is doing more than buying blog platforms today, and during an event in New York they have announced a…

Small update with system enhancements, still based on Android 4.1.2 HTC One phones that were sold unlocked via HTC, including the developer editions, in the U.S.A. are getting a small over-the-air update today. As you can see it's a 17MB file containing…