Android Apps Alert #86: TurboTax, ESPN, Steam, 1Weather, and more

January’s almost over and this is the first Android Apps Alert of 2012. Madness, I know, but things kept moving even while we were away dealing with CES and other things. App makers must have had their fingers hovering over the publish button because there have been plenty of apps and games released recently, so here’s a tidy little round-up of a few that you may want to grab

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Android Apps Alert #86: TurboTax, ESPN, Steam, 1Weather, and more

Is Google right to say farewell to the Menu button? [POLL]

The menu button has lost its space among the elite conventions of Android UI design. What once was Menu, Back, Home, Search has become Back, Home, App Tray, and Google wants Android developers to get used to it. But should they

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Samsung ”still reviewing” the launch date of Galaxy S III

The Samsung Galaxy S II has clearly been of the most popular Android-based smartphones ever, if not the best, so it’s only natural to crave for a Galaxy S III release as soon as possible. However, even though the next generation Korean handheld was originally rumored to make its official debut at the 2012 MWC, it seems that we might wait for a while before catching a glimpse of it after all. In an exclusive conversation with the guys at sammyhub.com , Mrs

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Deal of the day: Refurbished 16 GB HP TouchPad for $169.99, 32 GB model for $220

If you failed to pick up an HP TouchPad a few months ago when it was available for 100 bucks (granted, only for a couple of hours), you can today take advantage of a special deal and get the 10-inch tablet for… well, for a lot more. For 169.99 dollars, to be more exact, which is a lot more than the ‘’yard sale’’ price from when HP discontinued the gadget, but is significantly less than what this gadget goes for on most online stores right now. Sure, the TouchPad you will get from Woot for $169.99 is a refurbished 16 GB model, but I personally am thinking to get one, as the CyanogenMod guys are almost done with their Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich port.

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Motorola shipped 1 million tablets, 18.7 million phones in 2011

Remember all those times where we tried to play the guessing games about how many Motorola Xoom’s were shipped ?

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Deal: The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is available from Amazon Wireless for $99

If you’re looking to start a new account with Verizon Wireless, then you will definitely want to take a close look at the promotion Amazon Wireless is currently running.

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Toshiba Thrive Review

Bigger is better.

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Toshiba Thrive Review

Dolphin, meet Evernote and Skitch for Web Clipping and Image Annotation

I’m not the only one here at Androinica who loves Evernote, and I use it many times every day, as well as my trusty Dolphin browser. Well this week these two good friends have started working together on Android in a big way, through two new add-ons, and Evernote rounded things out with a new version that adds some very handy new features as well

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Lenovo and NAF partner to teach Android app development to teens

Mobile apps are already a huge industry, but there’s still plenty of room for growth. That means companies will have a need of skilled programmers and designers to develop those apps in the future. Lenovo and the National Academy Foundation have partnered to make sure that teens in the U.S.

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AT&T has huge Q4 of smartphone sales – Android crushed by iPhone

We’ve been in the habit of reporting so much about Android’s incredible sales that it’s sometimes jarring to hear when the green bot isn’t racing towards the top. On at least one U.S.

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