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Android fragmentation kills birds, dual cores everywhere, and use your phone as a time machine, all that and more on this week's edition of Android Atlas Weekly. Join Justin Eckhouse along side guest host, Senior Editor Kent German!

News Stories Sharp's 3D Android phones are coming to America in 2011 http://androidandme.com/2010/11/phones/sharps-3d-android-phones-are-coming-to-america-in-2011/

First Verizon 4G handset in February, delivering faster data speeds at premium prices http://androidandme.com/2010/11/carriers/first-verizon-4g-handset-in-february-delivering-faster-data-speeds-at-premium-prices/… Read more

Android on your iPhone, 3D Video Chat and the Top 5 ways to fix Android, All that and more on this week's edition of Android Atlas Weekly for Thursday, November 11th, 2010. Join Justin Eckhouse along side guest host, CNET Associate Editor, Antuan Goodwin!

News Stories

Android gets a multi-browser advantage http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20022277-264.html

Android bugs let attackers install malware without warning http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/10/android_malware_attacks/

Hulu for Magazines' Coming … Read more

Amazon is opening an app store, HP tells Android it's not you it's me, and apps that can save your life. Join Justin Eckhouse and Jessica Dolcourt as they dig into the stories making news in the Android world this week.

Amazon's Android App Store http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20018078-251.html

Survey: Developers favor Android over Apple long-term http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20017903-37.html

HP officially drops Android plans, focusing on "PalmPad" WebOS tablet … Read more

I'm about to start Road Trip 2010, my fifth annual journey through a region of the United States in search of some of the most interesting places to write about and photograph.

As in previous years, the trip will focus heavily on what interests me--and hopefully my readers--as a self-professed geek. After all, this blog is called Geek Gestalt. And that will take me to high-tech research labs, military bases, a motorcycle factory, NASA facilities, and much more.

Being a traveling geek reminded me of the great book "The Geek Atlas" by British author John Graham-Cumming. That … Read more

Motorola has big plans for its iPhone 4 killer, including a 2Ghz processor. Norton Security is out to defend against Android viruses, but do they exist? What's the deal with the Droid 2, the Droid X, and the HTC Aria? Join Justin Eckhouse along with guest hosts Bonnie Cha and Wilson Tang for a special Android Atlas Weekly from New York.

Stories

Sprint Overstates Early EVO 4G Sales

Motorola Droid for Verizon gets a price drop

Droid 2, Droid X prepped for summer launches… Read more

Today will be my last day writing for iPhone Atlas. It's hard to imagine that I've written or contributed to more than 450 posts during my nearly two-year tour of duty with CNET's iPhone Atlas.

I have been serving up news, break fixes, tips, etc. to more users than I ever could have imagined, and I'm grateful that I had the opportunity to do so. I have always been greatly humbled by your reader responses, and I have had an amazing time meeting some really great people along the way.

If you would like to stay … Read more

If you've ever tried visiting iPhone Atlas on your iPhone, you've no doubt noticed that Safari automatically gets redirected to m.iphoneatlas.com, the mobile version of the blog.

That's not a bad thing--the mobile version makes it much easier to browse and view the latest posts. Or it would, if it wasn't broken.

See, when you tap any post title, you land on a page that contains only a summary of that post, not the full article. It's a bug--a pretty major one, obviously--and I apologize for it.

Make no mistake: We're keenly … Read more

There is something refreshing about occasionally doing prep work without the need to plug anything in. The knife may be the ultimate in manually operated prep tools, but when it comes to specialty preparation, usually there is an energy-eating gadget on hand. Pasta preparation, even though it is thousands of years old, is no exception in the modern world.

The Italian-made Atlas Pasta Machine is a perfect example of old-timey tech that still has a place in today's kitchen. The hand-crank machine creates four types of pasta in a variety of thicknesses. With a few turns of the handle, … Read more

User-generated data may be the answer to the GPS navigation industry's problem of outdated maps on user devices, say industry voices.

According to Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist, the reason users encounter inaccurate road layouts and landmark placements on their GPS devices is that it takes a long time getting updated maps to users.

From the mapping of roads to getting the maps updated and onto distribution channels such as garages, people can expect their maps to be over two years old, even on new devices, Parsons said in an interview with ZDNet Asia.

Even buying maps online … Read more