We take a look at three popular Qi wireless charging solutions and put them head to head in Jerry's bedroom Qi(pronounced Chee, and is totally a word no matter what Words with Friends says) is a wireless standard developed in 2009 by the Wireless Power Consortium. The standard itself covers inductive power transfer over short distances -- up to four centimeters -- and uses a electromagnetembedded...
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Sprint finally shuts down iDEN, but how fast will it translate into improved LTE?

New cash and spectrum give Sprint lots of potential, but it still needs to execute on its (Network) Vision We've known about the impending shutdown of Sprint's legacy iDEN network for a long time now, and this is finally the last full day of service for the network. There are likely very few handsets, and even fewer running Android, up and on the iDEN network today, but Sprint flipping...
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Vine now available for the Amazon Kindle Fire

You have a Kindle Fire from Amazon. You want the Vine app. Today is your lucky day. The Vine for Android app is now available on the Amazon app store, and is compatible with the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. That means you can now take all the six-second selfies your heart desires, and share them all with the rest if the civilized world. Or you can freak out over ... Gummy Worms....
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Reminder: June 30 is the last day to get Google Play Music All Access for $7.99 a month

Save two dollars a month by signing up before Monday Attention music fans! Google Play Music All Access will move from $7.99 per month to $9.99 per month starting July 1. If you want to save $2 a month on the life of the service you'll need to act before Monday rolls around. Signing up is easy -- just point your browser here (or click on the link with your phone) and follow the instructions...
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Apps of the Week: Financial Times, NewsBlur, Blank Lockscreen and more!

Another great set of apps to wrap up this month's Apps of the Week posts It's Saturday afternoon, and that means it's time for another Apps of the Week post where we show off a few of our (currently) favorite apps. A handful of the Android Central writers have chimed in this week with an app that keeps them productive, entertained or just solves a problem that's bothering them on...
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Android Central 140: Inside the Google Play edition phones

Audio-only stream below type="audio/mpeg"> We're back, and we've got the Google Play edition HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4...
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Google Reader shuts down July 1, be sure to export your feeds

Whether you've found a replacement service or not, be sure to get your feeds from Google before the shutdown Monday will be a sad day indeed, as Google Reader will finally shut its doors and stop operating as an RSS feed aggregator. We've covered some alternative (and free!) choices over the past week, but whether you've made up your mind on where your RSS feeds will live post-Google...
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Google brings Microsoft Office document editing to Chrome OS developer track

If you look back about a year ago, you'll be reminded that Google purchased the mobile office suiteQuickoffice. We finally see the fruits of the purchase, but not exactly how everyone expected to see it. Using the Microsoft Office compatibility built into Quickoffice's document editing, users on the Chrome OS developer build track can now edit both Word and Excel files without any...
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Win an Android tablet ... from CrackBerry.com?

Our pals at CrackBerry.com have had a tough day. Their beloved PlayBook tablet you know, the only BlackBerry Tablet in existence won't be upgraded to BB10. Not exactly a shock, especially to those of us who are used to seeing 2-year-old devices be put out to pasture with even less fanfare. At least these guys got a warning. Anyhoo. CB's giving away a tablet anything other than a PlayBook,...
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Chrome beta updated, fixes keyboard at Gmail website and favicon sync

Chrome beta for Android has received another sizable update, and a few long-standing nags have been addressed. A quick look at the change log says the white flash that appears when you load a new tab (that's murder on the eyes at night in bed) should be gone, favicons should sync across other devices using Clank (Chrome beta for Android's code name), and issues with the keyboard at...
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Max Sound's Spins HD makes Android mp3 playback not suck

Coming update makes it easier to organize and play your library while keeping all the sound improvements you expect from Spins HD While the debate over keeping your music collection stored locally or in the cloud will never end, the one thing most people agree on is that a good music player app makes a world of difference in the way those files sound. Everyone has a favorite, but...
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