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This week the folks at Motorola are doing their best to let the world know that their Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Update schedule is based not on their inability to upgrade their devices, but on how willing they are to do so. In a bit of a sting to those who purchased Android devices with Motorola manufacturing over the past year or so, expecting the next Android system upgrade as they did so, the manufacturer has sent out a message to gebruikers that if ICS wouldn’t “improve” their devices, they would not be updated. Have a peek at the full list below.

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This is Part Two of a two-part series on Disassembling Android. 

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If you feel that you can’t get enough dose of multimedia content from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google + and other social networks, then you should take Talpic out for a spin. Based on the concept of crowd-sourced content-sharing, Talpic is a relatively fresh media-sharing social service available to Android en iOS gebruikers. Apart from sharing your own content, you can also explore an endless stream of photo and sound-oriented posts shared publicly by other app gebruikers. What makes Talpic unique is its feature to supplement all the shared photos with relevant audio recordings. Bijvoorbeeld, if you’re attending a debate competition, not only can you capture and share photos of all the participants, but also a portions of their speeches.

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No matter how much we emphasize on optimizing a mobile or desktop operating system to get the optimum performance out of the host apparaat, the fact of the matter is that in order to achieve said purpose effectively, you need to have a robust, trusted and well-crafted toepassing at your disposal. This is perhaps the exact reason why we see so many different system optimizer tools emerging on to the scene day in day out. Even for the Android platform, we have already reviewed a wide array of different system optimization apps, including Booster (read review), Bitdefender Power Tune-Up (read review), Cosmos by Support.com (read review) et al. From the team behind the hugely successful Android app, Root Uninstaller (Lees review), comes yet another very handy Android optimization app, called Smart RAM Booster.

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The concept of ‘floating apps’ is fast transforming into a pretty handy way of helping Android gebruikers extract the maximum performance out of their immensely powerful devices, while at the same time, letting them enjoy the true essence of multitasking on a mobile apparaat. Previously reviewed calculator app, AirCalc, is a very fine example of a neatly-designed and simple floating app, which remains persistently visible on any Android scherm that you navigate to. Over a period of time, the concept of floating apps has been employed on far more diverse app categories, en Android gebruikers these days find themselves surrounded by a healthy number of floating video players in the Google Play winkel. Echter, the catch with most of these ‘floating players’ is that they come tied with a hefty price tag, which is not the case with Super Video, Floating & Popup – a comprehensive video streaming and playing Android app that lets you simultaneously play multiple local and YouTube videos through various resizable and movable floating Windows.

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Ahead of Facebook’s Friday IPO, NPD released usage data for Android smartphones. Unsurprisingly, user reach is quite high. In looking over the data, I honed in on Google+, which makes a surprising showing for a social network not even a year old. But behind early adoption is a lesson for Google en Android developers about the app vs browser.

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It’s no secret that when it comes to smartphones, Samsung sees only one company as its competitor – Apple. It believes, rightly so, that it has the most popular presence on Android so rather than fight against other Android manufacturers it has its eyes set solely on the iPhone. So it is really no surprise that the company has developed its own version of Siri. Will it be able to measure up?

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Google has secured Chinese approval to complete its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the search giant has confirmed, though it was reportedly forced to commit to Android openness to sway the decision. Chinese regulators had stood as the final hurdle for Google to complete, with the two companies being given the green-light by both US and European authorities back in February. According to unconfirmed reports, echter, China’s price for giving the deal its blessing was a renewed commitment by Google to ensure Android remained freely available for at least five years.

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Looking back at some of the previously reviewed Android apps dat laat gebruikers wirelessly and simultaneously share files in bulk with multiple Android apparaten, we find that SPRiiD (read review) and X-Link (read review) are perhaps the only noteworthy options, which not only require the least amount of user intervention, but also support sharing almost any file format at blazing speed. While both said apps were pretty impressive with their functionality, they sported abysmal looks, to be honest. Same could be said of SonicShare – the latest arrival in the Google Play Store that lets you share virtually anything existing on Android apparaat with as many other app gebruikers as you like. Sporting a cartoon UI, SonicShare allows you to simultaneously share business cards, contactpersonen, installed apps, webpages from your web history, received text messages, SD card content (files only), system files (without requiring root access), downloaded content, foto 's, muziek bestanden, video 's, clipboard content, bookmarks, audio recordings, custom text messages and sketches with multiple app gebruikers over the internet. Each file that you wish to share first gets uploaded to the SonicShare servers, from where it is downloaded directly to the all the selected recipients’ devices. Te volgen Details.

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VoiceBase is an online audio/video transcription service, sporting its own native search engine, waarmee gebruikers upload their recorded material and search for the required multimedia (audio/video) content across the expanded VoiceBase database by providing the relevant keyword(s). Simply put, anyone looking to search the internet for audio content – interviews, debates, conferences, podcasts and webinars etc – can resort to VoiceBase in order to find adequate helpful material. The service also sports a little social network of its own, wherein people can share the required audio bits with others, comment on the shared content, and upload their own data.

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