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Take Google Search 2.0 for a Spin
In an attempt to compete with the oncoming shit-house that is Microsoft’s Bing, Facebook’s real-time Search and everyone else generally wanting a piece of the Google pie, Google has pulled version 2 of Google Search out of the garage for some beta test runs while they tighten the screws over the coming months. You can give [...]
Continue reading...HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that form [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft Games the Bing Search Results
Monday, June 1, 2009
Saw this on Digg, they are search result comparisons between Google and Microsoft’s new “Bing” search engine with an $80 million ad campaign behind it: Given those results, I have to imagine Microsoft is going to allow advertisers to pay for higher search result placement — which, like this, will give us more helpful and completely [...]
Continue reading...FriendMobilizer Brings Facebook to Android
Friday, March 27, 2009
While Facebook might openly hate Android, it’s hard to ignore the 114 other corporations around the globe that are committing to it’s expansion and rollout across the planet. Unfortunately one of the most obvious missing applications for Android thus far as been a Facebook client — not wanting to hold their breath until the 4 horsemen [...]
Continue reading...Google Finalizing the “Cupcake” Android Update – Includes Virtual Keyboard
Sunday, February 22, 2009
As I’ve been reading more about the T-Mobile G2 plans, I’ve been running across mention-after-mention of this “Cupcake” branch of the Android OS that Google has been working on that will include a lot of updates that people have been wanting – most notably the addition of the virtual keyboard finally. The benefit there for [...]
Continue reading...HTC Magic is Most Likely Going to be the T-Mobile G2
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Speculation has been flying around the web for months now as to which of the HTC phones is going to become the platform for the T-Mobile “G2″ — or rather the follow-up to the popular T-Mobile G1 (Video Review). Back in December or January the general opinion was that the G2 would be based on the [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile G1 (Android Phone) Video Review
Monday, December 15, 2008
As a compliment to our in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1, the Break it Down Blog has also put together an extensive, 4-part video review of the T-Mobile G1 for you as well. The reason we complimented the original review of the G1 with a video review is because buying a cell phone is hard, buying [...]
Continue reading...Google Friend Connect Added to Break it Down
Monday, December 15, 2008
If you are wondering what that chat-box-looking-thing on the right hand side of the screen is, that’s the Google Friend Connect members widget. We’ve decided to give Friend Connect a trial run for about a month and see if it ads values to the Break it Down Blog community. The purpose of the service is to [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile G1 (Android Phone) Review
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Update #1: We have also put up a 4-part T-Mobile G1 video review for readers as well. Summary [7.5 out of 10] The T-Mobile G1 is an excellent “first-mover” Android-based phone from T-Mobile and is truly a “Google Phone”. If you are already have most of your life on Google through one of their many handy and [...]
Continue reading...Working Around Gmail Contact Importing: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts.
Friday, November 21, 2008
If you are like me and trying to get your contacts all organized in Gmail, you may likely be running into the god-forsaken phrase: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts. … over and over again; no matter what you do. I was trying to import some CSVs from Windows Vista Contacts (exported from Windows [...]
Continue reading...FCC Approves Unlicensed White Space Spectrum Use
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
After a long fight Google, Microsoft, and many other tech companies won their argument with the FFC yesterday when the FCC voted to approve the use of unlicensed “white spaces” spectrum newly freed up as a result of TV broadcasters going from analog to digital broadcasts. While there are companies opposed to opening up this newly [...]
Continue reading...Motorola Adopts Google Android and Windows Mobile Exclusively
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Up until this point, Motorola has been shipping millions of devices on it’s custom MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux platform as well as the Symbian UIQ platform. After announcing some disappointing 3Q losses, Motorola announced plans to move their entire device line to Google’s Android and Windows Mobile platforms exclusively, discontinuing development and support for the MOTOMAGX platform [...]
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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