Surely one of my favorite features of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the ability to show your data usage over a monthly cycle. In the data usage area, accessed via Settings | Data Usage, you can set a mobile data limit and track your data usage by application. While the Data usage feature is not an exact measurement, it does give you a good idea how close you are to your data cap. This is a feature of the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android (4.0), and will be available regardless of your carrier once you upgrade.
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With LG signing a patent agreement with Microsoft for Android devices, they now have 70% of smartphone devices covered in the US. One of the side stories of Android Smartphones is the fact that Microsoft feels that the operating system infringes on their patents. To remedy the situation Microsoft has been signing agreements with Android manufactures to license the patents and LG is the latest to sign on.
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There is a lot more to eating healthy than simply cooking food at home compared to eating fast food every time your stomach grumbles. The food you cook needs to be healthy, and, though your list of grocery items make look healthy at first glance, not all jars of pasta sauce are created equal.
This is where Fooducate, an iPhone an Android App that helps you make selections between between the dozens of options available on your grocery shelf. Rather than selecting food based on commercials you have seen or colorful packaging, Fooducate enabled you to find and buy the healthy option.
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One of the many goals of a parent is to teach our children effective ways to communicate. Because infants and babies haven’t yet developed the ability to speak, it can be difficult, at times, to understand what they need or want.
Sign Language, on the other hand, is a skill, that children as young as six or seven months old can use effectively and My Smart Hands for iOS and Adroid is an app that can help children communicate with their parents long before they start to master verbal communication…
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Finally! For anyone who likes to play games, the time for rejoicing is upon us! 2D Boy has just released World of Goo, the winner of multiple Game of Year awards, for Android devices! They also came to their senses and stayed with the original name, instead of the proposed “GooDroid.” *Shudder* That was a close one!
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OK, let’s get this out of the way right up front: This phone is so thin it could almost double for a letter-opener. I have to admit that I had my worries that I would break the device in half, but nothing could be further from the truth. This was a fun review for me because I knew that I would be purchasing one of the two phones review by SMR this week. In the end, I did not chose this phone, but had it been the only choice, I believe I would have been very happy indeed with the results. The Motorola Droid RAZR is an amazing piece of technology and it speaks very well for the future of Motorola in the Android ecosystem.
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When you join your first reward program you don’t have visions of how many points you might let expire unused in that loyalty program. The vast majority of reward points, however, go unused. With just one membership reward programs are easy to manage, although, over time, the list balloons increasing the management complexity by a order of magnitude. Membership programs tend to become “out of sight, out of mind”, and, this is why points expire.
Imagine the complexity of tracking membership programs from American Airlines, Delta Airlines, JetBlue, Virgin Atlantic, United, Marriott, Hyatt, Hilton, American Express, Bank of America, CapitalOne, Chase, Thrifty, Avis, Enterprise, Hertz, and National, all on different websites. This list is a small number of the over 400 and growing sites AwardWallet can manage.
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Several days ago Verizon announced that they would be carrying the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, one of the hottest upcoming Android devices, and the first to be released with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. Up until that point, speculation ran rampant about where the Nexus would land. In the absence of any solid answer from other US carriers, hope still remained, since the device had already been announced for carriers in other countries. Last night, however, the hopes of many were dashed, as Verizon’s sign up page contained the underlying banner ad, stating Verizon exclusivity.
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The Motorola Droid Razr pre-orders begin today (10/27) for $299 with a 2 year contract. The Razr has a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED display, 1.2 GHz dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB phone storage, 16 GB SD Card, 8 megapixel Camera, 1080p HD video capture, front facing HD camera, and has the amazing Verizon 4G LTE network.
The Droid Razr will be running Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread). This is one of the three block buster Android devices coming to Verizon over the next couple of weeks. The Razr that has a kevlar back and is water resistent both inside and out.
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I’m a two-year Android veteran, having become a fan of the operating system. I recently purchased an HTC HD7 to test drive Windows Phone 7 (WP7). I gave the phone a two-week grace period, including a week using the Mango update. I will admit this was a limited test however I had limited time as I was relocating outside of the US. For me, I found WP7 underwhelming in a few areas, and I switched back to Android. Read on to see my top five reasons why I find Android to be better than WP7.
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