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Motorola Milestone Review

After successfully launching its first Android smartphone Motorola DEXT (or CLIQ in the United States), Motorola’s put its high hopes for financial recovery onto its next Android device – Milestone (DROID for the United States). Even though DEXT didn’t have a blast in sales, it has been well received by users and registered pretty good sales.

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Review: Set card game on the iPhone is oh so close to the perfect puzzle app

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review The idea behind Set , the now-classic card/puzzle game, can be mind-numbingly difficult to explain. Some people just can’t wrap their heads around the “all the same or all different concept.” Of course, some people get it right away

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Turn yourself into an alien avatar with PhotoAvatar

Filed under: App Review PhotoAvatar (US $.99) is a remarkable iPhone/iPod touch novelty app from the makers of HourFace , an app I liked quite a lot when I reviewed it a few months ago.

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Aol Autos app strips down car buying data for research, daydreams

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review Most people don’t buy a car but once every few years (or more).

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Paypal app goes 2.0, adds Bump integration

Filed under: App Review Never before in human history have there been so many ways to part with your hard-earned cash. The spotlight might be on credit card acceptance tools from Square & Verisign , or the beta Venmo service’s SMS-based trust network — still, don’t forget about the cagey veteran. Paypal is 12 years old now (and in Internet years, that’s…

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CoPilot live is updated and continues 30 day free trial offer

Filed under: iPhone , App Review A new version of CoPilot Live enhances and fixes a lot of issues in the previous versions. According to the company, the app now includes improved guidance at complex intersections, Facebook status updates, free local search, and the latest maps of North America. More than 15,000 miles of roads have been added, 73 completely updated counties and hundreds of map improvements submitted by the CoPilot Live User Community

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Quizarium the multiplayer trivia app is nearly ready for prime-time

Filed under: Gaming , Software , iPhone , iPod touch , App Review Quizarium [free], a multiplayer iPhone/iPod touch trivia game, arrived in the App Store today. I got a chance to look at a pre-release copy and I found some problems with the interface and flow of the game. Some problems will be solved either upon release, since an update is being approved right now, or within a few days after release.

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Review: Knights of Charlemagne card game is simply simple, and we like it like that

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review The clever 2006 card game Knights of Charlemagne has made it to the iPhone and iPod touch as a simple little number placing app [$1.99, iTunes link ]. We don’t mean simple in that it’s easy to beat or uninteresting. We mean that the game is clearly designed and plays quickly.

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Poynt for iPhone is a mixed bag

Filed under: Freeware , iPhone , iPod touch , App Review Poynt has come to the iPhone, after having been a very popular free app on BlackBerry phones. Poynt provides local searches of individuals and businesses.

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Black Swan brings Google Voice back to the iPhone without the App Store

Filed under: iPhone , App Review Google Voice on the iPhone has been something of a sore subject for me. If you need a full-recap of the whole sordid iPhone/Google Voice story see this story from December or more of our coverage . I even started a little site devoted to waiting for Google Voice on the iPhone called IsGoogleVoiceAvailableForTheiPhone.com

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