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Whether you’re buying a new phone or getting an existing one swapped out / repaired, you might want to keep an eye out for the casually slipped in refurbished models. Repair shops, wireless carriers, and eBay sellers would love to hand you a refurb in place of a factory-new one. Why? Well, factory-new phones are [...]
Sprint is next in line to receive the pure Google experience on one of their phones. The Nexus S is getting the 4G treatment and will be available starting May 8, 2011. This is a big change from Google’s nearly exclusive relationship with T-Mobile. If you’re sick [...]
…and this is bound to happen by August this year. The report by mobile research firm Research 2 guidance says that Android Market has managed to beat the Apple App Store in terms of application uploads in October last year and that it will win the war altogether around August 2011 becoming the biggest mobile app [...]
Before messing around with your Android phone, the first thing any groovy geek would do is perform a full system backup. When it comes to making Android backups, the Titanium Backup can handle them for you. But, the only problem is that it requires your phone be rooted. Sure, there are a few other options [...]
Rooting your Android phone might sound risky or intimidating. You might have heard horror stories about bricked and broken devices, but that isn’t the case anymore. Rooting your phone is actually really simple, and it can open up a whole new world of possibilities in the way you use your device. I recently took the [...]
Do you use voicemail transcription on your Android phone? Does your carrier provide this service free of charge? If you answered “no” to either of those questions, then Yap might be just what you need. Yap is a free voicemail-to-text transcription app that runs on almost any Android phone and seems to be a lot [...]
grooveDexter showed us how you can clear the Swype dictionary on your Android phone in one go. But if you are not a fan of Swype, like me, there is another option: XT9. XT9 helps you write faster by predicting words for you. Well, at least it makes typing faster for me—my fingers are to [...]
Increasingly, people are using mobile phones to access information like email, banking, web browsing and even editing documents or team collaboration. Part of getting work done on the go is being able to easily access, edit and share content, which is why I’m happy to share with everyone the Google Docs app for Android. With this new [...]
Sometimes ideas are brought to me, and other times I just sit down and start writing about something that’s floating in my head. Unfortunately, most of the time when I get my great ideas, I’m not conveniently sitting behind my computer. In that situation, a lot of writers would use notepads to scribble down an [...]
Android users that use Sprint as a carrier don’t have it bad, but they do have to deal with some annoying built-in software from Sprint. One of the most annoying things about Sprint, is that they like to send you almost meaningless notifications. Half the time the notification will just appear for no reason, and [...]
Have you ever accidently mistyped a word while manually entering letters on your Swype keyboard? If so, then you’re like 99.9% of the rest of us that use it. When you manually spell out a word, it will be added to Swype’s dictionary. This is done so that the word can be “Swyped” in later. [...]
The world of cloud-based music streaming is still figuring itself out. From the discovery of “Internet radio” apps like Pandora and Rhapsody, to the on-demand online libraries like Grooveshark and Last.fm, determining the best way to take music libraries to the cloud has been an ongoing experiment over the past years. Surprisingly, Amazon emerged a [...]
Nowadays, a smartphone isn’t a smartphone if it doesn’t have a way to connect to a 3/4G LTE network or at least a Wi-Fi hotspot. In a previous groovyPost we explained how-to test your internet connection on your PC (as well as how-to understand what the test meant) however with so many new Android Mobile groovyReaders I thought it [...]
Have you ever ben woken up by a text message, email alert, or prank call during the middle of the night? Or, maybe you’ve been sitting in the middle of class or a work meeting only to interrupt everyone with your shameful Justin Bieber ringtone. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost good [...]
