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The international version of the HTC One S has been available for a few weeks already and now customers in the U.S. will soon be able to purchase the phone from T-Mobile when it goes on sale on April 25th. HTC was kind enough to send us a demo unit a few weeks early so that we could give you a detailed look at what to expect from the HTC One S. Early reviews of the international version of the HTC One S were favorable, but does T-Mobile’s software tweaks and HSPA+ network allow the One S to...

Samsung is set to unveil the Galaxy S III on May 3rd in London at an official Samsung hosted event. With May 3rd just about 2 weeks away now, it would seem that someone, somewhere, would have had a chance to snag a picture of the GSIII in the wild by now. Today may finally be the day we’ve all been waiting for, as some blurrycam pics of an unreleased Samsung device have found their way online that could very well be the Galaxy S III. According to Gizmodo Brazil, the pictures you see before...

Verizon has issued incremental updates for three of their most popular smartphones today, the Motorola Droid 4, Droid Razr and Droid Razr Maxx. The Motorola Droid 4′s update is being called 6.13.219.XT894.Verizon.en.US (or 6.13.219 for short), and boasts several new enhancements and bug fixes to keep your phone running like new. Along with improvements to WiFi connectivity, messaging, the touchscreen and battery life, you’ll find a couple of bug fixes related to the power on function and...

T-Mobile’s web team is a little trigger happy today, updating the HTC One S product page with the phone’s price before the New York city press event which is scheduled to kick off in just one hour. The only new detail revealed on the product page is the $599.99 price tag for those looking to purchase the HTC One S without signing a new two-year contract. Paying $599.99 for an off-contract device isn’t ridiculous, but we find it odd that T-Mobile would charge more than the current $549.99...

Can our community help discover the next great Android app? Welcome to a new experiment called #thenextinstall where we try to see if we can find an Android app in the rough, and boost its installs and exposure to new highs. Last week our community selected Minimal Reader, which is a great little widget for reading RSS feeds. After it was featured on our site, the daily installs spiked to a 30-day high. The developer listened to the feedback from new users, and he tells us an important update...

If you own the European HTC One X, you might want to go check for software updates. HTC just pushed out a new update over the air (OTA) that upgrades the firmware to version 1.28.401.9. We don’t have a full changelog yet, but we think this is the update that includes the fix that increases battery life by up to 20%. Some press units of the HTC One X shipped with firmware 1.26, that had some issues with battery life and this was reflected poorly in some early reviews. HTC updated some devices...

According to Netbook News, Samsung has stopped production of the upcoming Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) tablet to beef up the innards of the device. Previously set for an early-May release with a dual-core processor, Samsung apparently wanted the Tab 2 to better compete with upcoming quad-core tablets. The rumor cites their source a Korean Samsung insider. If the rumor proves true, the Tab 2 10.1 could be the first tablet to feature Samsung’s quad-core Exynos chipset, hopefully the 32nm Exynos 4412...

You all know what tomorrow is right? April fools day. Yes, that glorious day where everyone gets to play pranks on each other and possibly even get away with some of them. We don't have any April fools jokes lined up for you all but it'd be kind of cool if Google themselves pulled one. You all got any pranks on tap? If so, let us know in the Android Central Lounge. If you're not down with pranks then hit up the forums for some straight up Android talk: Rumored Devices Forums - Will you avoid...

An analyst at BTIG Research is suggesting that Verizon's top selling handset is the new HTC Thunderbolt, not the iPhone 4. Walter Piecyk and his team called roughly 150 different Verizon stores over 22 cities to inquire as to how the two devices were selling. Their findings were that the Android-powered Thunderbolt was doing as good as the iPhone 4 in 61% of the stores while 28% indicated that the HTC phone was doing better. That means that roughly 11% of the stores were seeing the Apple...

Google continues their commitment to advancing NFC technology by joining the NFC Forum, according to Mobile Crunch. They join the likes of AT&T, Motorola, LG, and more carriers and OEMs looking to incorporate NFC technology into their products and services. “The NFC Forum thrives on the active participation of global industry leaders and innovators such as CSR, Google, and Intel,” said Koichi Tagawa, chairman of the NFC Forum. “Their energy, ideas, and influence will greatly enhance the work...

Our main dude in England has his hands on the Xperia PLAY, also known as the “Playstation Phone,” and he’s reviewing it fully for our sister site SlashGear. This device goes by model name R800x, runs a full Android 2.3 Gingerbread experience, and has a 4″ capacitive multi-touch, 854 x 480 pixel FWVGA display on top of a fully functional Playstation control set. Inside you’ll find a Qualcomm Snapdragon II 8655 1GHz CPU with Graphical Processor Adreno 205, the entire device is 4.68 x 2.44 x.63...

If you are a Dropbox for Android user, and enjoy checking out the latest and greatest in all Android applications, you will be happy to know that the application has been updated. They have announced version 1.0.9.3, which added additional language support, along with Honeycomb support, and a number of additional fixes that are to be found publicly in version 1.1. Some of these fixes include: Lock Code now protects your Dropbox from prying eyes. Better checking for file modifications before...

File this under things you didn’t know existed but now that you do you totally want one. We were just emailed a video of someone demonstrating Perfect Spiral Trainer, an app powered by what the guy is calling his Replay Football system, which tracks a modified Nerf ball in-flight and reports back all sorts of interesting data via Bluetooth.Uhhh, what? Just watch video below: From the YouTube page and original creator:It employs a Nerf football with a 9-axis motion sensing pack and a visualization / throw analysis application on an Android platform. The football transmits real-time motion

Remember when you first tried Swype? How about when you got a DVR and didn't have to worry about watching TV shows when they were actually on? SnaPanda is a little like that: it takes a task we're all familiar with, looking up a word in the dictionary, and gives you a new, better way of doing it. Here's how it works: when you come across a word you want to look up in a book or document, you fire up SnaPanda and point the phone's camera at the page. Tap the word on your screen, confirm your...

It's been seen on Alltel, Bluegrass Cellular and deep inside Verizon stores, and now US Cellular has the Samsung Gem. As you'll recall, it's a mid-range 3.2-inch (WQVGA display) Android 2.2 device with a 3.2MP camera and 800MHz processor. The Gem will be available on April 1 for a mere $29.99 after $80 mail-in rebate. [ US Cellular ] U.S. Cellular gets the Samsung Gem for just $29.99 after rebate, contract posted originally by Android Central Sponsored by