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Google’s Awesome Native Keyboard Is Now an Android App

Google Keyboard is Google's new keyboard replacement app that's very similar to Swype or SwiftKey. It's live in the Google Play store now, and it'll make your phone, regardless of manufacturer, a little bit more like a Nexus. Read More >>

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htc
HTC’s Looking at Bringing Stock Android to Existing One Owners

After the wholly unsurprising, but still-good-to-hear news yesterday that HTC is producing a stock Android, 'Nexus' version of the HTC One for Google, HTC also let slip that it's looking at giving early adopters (read people who have already bought Ones) a taste of stock Android too. Read More >>

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How Google Is Finally Fixing Android’s Deepest Flaw

You might not have noticed, but in the last two weeks Google has fixed the thing you hate most about Android. Read More >>

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phones
Report: LG’s Been Ditched By Google and Isn’t Making the Nexus 5

After firing out the white Nexus 4 into the ether, it seems LG's not gotten the nod from Google for the fabled Nexus 5, which begs the question: Who's making Google's next iconic phone? Read More >>

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Google I/O Rumours: What’s Next for Android, Chrome, Nexus, and More

Google I/O, the company's mammoth annual developer hoopla, goes down this week. Here's what you can expect to hear from Google during Wednesday's three-hour keynote extravaganza. Read More >>

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Nexus 4 on the Way Out? Some Retailers Stop Selling it, Suspiciously Near Rumoured “Nexus 5″ Date

A couple of the largest phone shops in the UK have stopped stocking Google and LG's sweet Nexus 4, with both Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U no longer listing it. This has led people who like to think about things to think it means a Nexus 5 launch at next week's Google I/O event is practically guaranteed. Read More >>

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rumours
Rumour: LG and Google Polishing up a Nexus 5

Google and LG might be about to repeat the Nexus 4 trick again this year, with rumours from Korea suggesting the pair will launch some sort of "Nexus 5" at some point -- and they're discussing working together on other forms of hardware, too. Read More >>

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android
Next-Gen Nexus Phone Cameras to be “Insanely Great” Says Google Man

The spec of your phone's camera looks like being the next tech battleground now everything half decent is running on a monstrous quad-core chipset, with Google joining HTC in banging on about how amazing its next Nexus phone camera's going to be. Read More >>

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security
Your Android Phone’s Lockscreen Is No Match For a Freezer

Make no mistakes about it, your lockscreen is good at keeping honest people honest, but a truly dedicated thief is bound to find his way around it. One of the wilder ways to do so has recently been demonstrated by researchers who cracked through a Galaxy Nexus's security by throwing it in a freezer. Read More >>

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Google’s Acquisition of Motorola Is Still a Bust And Will Be For a While

During Google's earnings call, Google executives made it clear that the acquisition of Motorola comes with quite a bit of baggage. More specifically, Google has inherited "12 to 18 months of product pipeline," said Google CFO Patrick Pichette. Yikes. Read More >>

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rumours
Do Google and LG Have a Nexus 4 Sequel On the Way Already?

Here's a curious one. If rumours are to be believed, LG's actually stopped producing Nexus 4s, and has turned manufacturing efforts to its incoming next-generation phones instead. Does Google have another Nexus right around the corner? Or has LG simply had enough of flogging hardware for next to nothing? Read More >>

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phones
What It’s Like to Have a Nexus 7 As a Phone

Like most in the Android world, I've been steadily increasing my comfort zone on how big a screen I want. Back in the day, I was obsessed with getting my phone as small as possible, like Zoolander. Then I got my first smartphone in the Windows Mobile 6 days, and ever since then every device I get has a bigger screen than the last, and I end up being happy about it. Read More >>

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tablets
New $99 Nexus Tablet Leaking its Camera Spec Online

Images taken with an unannounced Asus tablet calling itself the ME172V have popped up on image sharing site Picasa, with the low-res 1280 x 720 photos fitting nicely with the 1-Megapixel front-facing camera expected in the new budget tablet. Read More >>

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tablets
Asus Undercutting Google With Super-Budget 7″ Tablet?

A new, lower-spec Asus tablet has been spotted, offering the same 7" form factor as the company's Nexus 7, only skimping on the internal power so the maker can sell for an even lower price. Read More >>

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chrome
Google Planning Own-Brand Chromebook to Fight Chrome OS Apathy?

Google is looking to copy its popular Nexus hardware line and use a similar system to bring a bit of spice to the rather sad world of the Chromebook, with the search giant said to be planning the launch of a Google-branded Chrome OS notebook. Read More >>