HTC admittedly had a tough 2011 so they promised that 2012 would be better with fewer models and more focus. In late February they unveiled the One series, which consisted of the One X, One S, and One V. If HTC had it their way, that would be it, but unfortunately it’s impossible to [...]
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Was Sony Pondering Development Of A Playstation Phone With Two Keyboards? A Patent Filed In 2010 Suggests It Was
April 30th, 2012 
dantek Well well well, what do we have here? This device looks as if it is the Playstation Phone that never came to fruition. Sony was apparently out to show it still has some tricks up its sleeve back in 2010 by filing a patent for not one, but two sliders on its devices such as the Xperia Play. [...]
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InvisiBright: Automated brightness levels without touching your phone
April 22nd, 2012 dantek With the development of touchscreen devices, using gestures to control certain functions on our Android smartphones has become second nature to us. One of the earliest uses of gesture can be found in many early devices that allowed users to control their car-racing game using their phone’s accelerometer.The iPhone’s iconic lock screen gesture has garnered [...]
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Screebl: Auto disabling screen timeout according to phone tilt angle
April 21st, 2012 dantek Don’t you just hate it when you’re in the middle of an article, and you’re leisurely reading through it when your phone’s screen just blacks out. You’ll have to wake your phone again and find your place in the article to finish reading. Rinse, repeat.We can’t blame our phone for needing to rest, because it’s [...]
HTC One X case: As slim and sleek as the phone itself
April 20th, 2012 dantek We’re in meetings this week with HTC in Seattle. And along with some great candid conversation with the smartphone manufacturer, we’ve gotten a look at an extra slim case that’s in the works for the HTC One X. It’s a plastic deal that adds just a tiny bit of thickness to the phone, wrapping around [...]
Lava’s Xolo X900 is the first Intel Medfield phone, coming soon in India
April 19th, 2012 dantek The VergeIt must’ve been hard for Intel to watch Qualcomm, Nvidia, and, to a lesser extent, Texas Instrument gaining such a strong foothold in the mobile CPU industry over the last couple of years. But while the Santa Clara based company has been quite late to the party, we sort of expected to see Intel [...]
Did You Know: Google Play Store Offers 24/7 Phone Technical Support?
April 19th, 2012 dantek Ask anyone how they feel about Google and their services, and they’ll likely tell you their single biggest issue with the internet search giant is that you can never expect any kind of technical support. None. Well, Google may be trying to change that image, actually offering 24×7 phone support in the Google Play Store. [...]
How to backup your phone to the cloud
April 18th, 2012 dantek As you may have heard, March 31 was World Backup Day. Geeks across the Internet were sharing pointers on making sure that your computer’s important data doesn’t get lost in an unfortunate accident and we here at Android Authority would like to share a few methods in making sure your phone information doesn’t go up [...]
FaceLock: Locking down your phone apps and unlocking with your face
April 17th, 2012 dantek Face Unlock and Android Beam are two of the new features of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. But, for Android phones running Android 2.3.6 and higher, you can still enjoy the face unlocking feature from Android 4.0 ICS via the FaceLock app.Created by SmartApps Mobile, the FaceLock app allows you to use your face as [...]
Reuters: Samsung set to trump Nokia to become the world’s biggest phone maker
April 17th, 2012 dantek Our smartphones lagging behind the competitors’? Not a problem, we’re the biggest phone maker in the world by volume, dontcha know? But after 14 years of being number one in the global mobile phone market (and having that status to fall back to at a time when critics sharpen their knives), Nokia will soon have to [...]
