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Supercharge Your Phone: 40 Tips and Tricks

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May 19, 2010
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Supercharge Your Phone: 40 Tips and Tricks Avoid annoying people, make free phone calls, and manage your life with these 40 tips and tricks to supercharge your smartphone, your 'dumb' phone, and your kitchen phone.
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Will 4G Fix Wireless Voice Quality? Will new WiMax and LTE wireless technologies address the dropped calls, latency, and line noise that many users have come to associate with wireless calls?
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Apple Rejects Wireless iTunes Syncing App for iPhone We are shocked, absolutely shocked to hear that Wi-Fi Sync, an app that allowed iPod touches and iPhones to sync with iTunes over a Wi-Fi connection, has been rejected from inclusion in the App Store.
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How to Get Flash on iPhone Now Analysis: While Apple, Adobe argue, Flash at last comes to the iPhone.
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Apple's iPhone 4G: What We Know So Far Now that we've seen another device claiming to be a leaked iPhone prototype, here's what we know about Apple's next handset.
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Top 10 Android Phones Android phones come in a variety of forms and flavors. Here are the best smartphones running Google's innovative mobile platform.
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11 Essential Android Travel Apps The GPS chip inside your Android phone makes it an indispensable tool for your travels. Whether you walk, drive, or fly, theres a great app for your phone that can help you get around faster.
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Review: HTC Droid Incredible Lives Up to Name The HTC Incredible is one of the most impressive Android phones available with a gorgeous display, slick user interface, and lightning-fast processor.
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20 Crazy Concept Phones From snake phones to handsets that look like hockey pucks, these hopelessly impractical devices are the coolest-looking phones you'll never want to own.
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Google Android Comes to Life With new smartphones, surging unit sales, and advances in app development, Google's mobile OS is hitting its stride.
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PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Downloads: April 2010The reviewers and bloggers of PCWorld see a great deal of software every month. In April, their favorites ran the gamut from the useful to the delightful--and a few that fit both descriptions. From encryption to syncing, from printer utilities to desktop tidiers, from problem-solvers to puzzle games and even a Commodore 64 emulator...here are the month's favorites.
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