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Adobe Flash coming for ICS, not Android 5.0

Earlier in the month news came that Flash was dead for mobile devices; and this seemed confirmed over the weekend when it was revealed Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus doesn’t ship with it installed. You can’t even download it from Android Market. But it looks like that’s set to change. Adobe has confirmed to Pocket-lint it intends …

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Black Friday deal

As you can imagine, there are tons of Black Friday apps in the Android Market, most of which do the same thing–aggregate holiday sale items. Sure, you can download them all to make sure you’ve got your bases covered, but we’re thinking you probably don’t want to be fumbling through an unwieldy app drawer while throwing elbows in department store …

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Adidas miCoach Football app encourages you to leave the sofa

Adidas’ miCoach app has been available for about a year now, helping track your training using a sensor, a little like Nike+. A new footie app game based on the tech — miCoach Football — has just launched, reports Pocket Gamer, and the more exercise you get, the stronger your in-game characters become. So unless you want a thrashing, you’d …

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Kyobo Mirasol color e

A lot of people thought Mirasol, Qualcomm’s once-promising color display technology with e-ink-like properties, was dead in the water. But now we get word that Kyobo Book Centre, Korea’s largest bookseller, has announced the retail availability of the first Mirasol e-reader. Simply called the Kyobo e-reader, it looks a lot like the Mirasol prototypes that have been floating around for …

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Best Android apps

The growth of Android has been rapid and startling over the last year. We’re at the point where 200 million devices have now been activated, with 550,000 more flying off the shelves every day. What’s more, hundreds of thousands of apps are now available in the Android Market. So which ones deserve to have their icons nestling on your home …

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Apple beats HTC legal challenge

Apple has won the latest round of legal shenanigans with rival phone makers. US trade regulators have cleared Apple of naughtiness, messing up HTC’s carefully laid plans. HTC’s plan was to challenge Apple by buying a company called S3 graphics, then challenge Apple for infringing patents owned by S3. But the US International Trade Commission has ruled that Apple has …

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Verizon’s Samsung Illusion appears Nov. 23

A mirage no more, the Samsung Illusion is now officially on the records. Whispers of Verizon’s more midlevel Illusion first reached our ears in September, when a spoiler image briefly appeared on Flickr. Back then, we knew few details, other than its Android character. Now we know that it runs on a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird processor, has a 3-megapixel camera, …

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Case

A steady stream of Kindle Fire cases have headed to stores and Case-Mate has three new ones: the Venture, Tuxedo, and Hampton. Here’s a quick skinny on all of them, ordered by size, least to most expensive. The slim Tuxedo comes in brown or black and retails for $40 (click to enlarge). Case-Mate The Tuxedo ($40) is a slim folio …

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iPhone 4S camera is superpopular on Flickr after only a month

According to a keen eye from MacRumors, the iPhone 4S, in just over a month after its release, has become the second most popular camera phone on Flickr, trailing only the iPhone 4. Flickr provides data on the most popular cameras used to post photos on its popular image-sharing site. The data is collected by automatically detecting the camera type …

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Analyst reports 67 percent of Asian iPhone market untapped by Apple

According to a new analysis from Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty, Apple has yet to explore nearly 67 percent of the potential iPhone market in Asia. The analysis, presented in a note to investors, suggests that only 22 percent of Asian carriers are selling Apple’s iPhone. Asian carriers represent nearly 10 percent of world’s highest smartphone penetration demographic (25- to 34-year-olds), …

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