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The Android marked reached 10 Billion downloads today, and to celebrate, Google is offering some quality apps for the next 10 days for 10¢ a piece!

Android Market's Exponential Growth

If your current device doesn’t support an app you would like to purchase, but you would like to get it anyway, say because you plan to upgrade in the near future, you could still get the app from the online store at this link: https://market.android.com/details?feature=banne­r&id=apps_timed_promotion

Here is the list of fire sale apps for 6/12/2011:

1. SoundHound
2. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD
3. Minecraft – Pocket Edition (yep!)
4. SwiftKey X Keyboard
5. Endomondo Sports Tracker PRO
6. Great Little War Game
7. SketchBook Mobile
8. Fieldrunners HD
9. Color & Draw for kids: phone ed
10. Paper Camera

I’ll just let the pictures do the talking on this one..

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Also check out how this baby reboots in under 20 seconds:

So who is hoping to find one of these under the Christmas tree? Stay tuned for our next post where we rip it apart and apply some quality thermal paste to keep it running cool..

Update: The phone has been sold. Thanks to all who were interested.

After much thought I have decided to sell my Xperia X10. I have only had the phone for a few months, but as I develop apps for Android, I need a phone with the latest Android version.

I’ve attached some pictures below, and as you can see from them, the phone is in excellent shape and has no scratches on the body. I’ve always used a screen guard so the screen has no scratches as well, and I also have a new spare screen guard which I will give with the phone.

The phone comes with a 16GB microSD memory card. I’ve never used the headphones that came with it. My asking price is $315 + shipping. Click on the images to view them in full resolution.

Check out the pictures below:
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Ever since the holiday season started I have been receiving a hoard of phishing emails both on my personal and work email accounts. The emails seem to be after my bank account and either state that the bank believes my account has been compromised and I need to re-enter all my details on the website at the link given below to ‘fully reactivate’ my account, or that I need to enter them to ‘update’ my account to benefit from the banks ‘new security features’.

What is interesting is that I started receiving these emails soon after of my credit card was used fraudulently online to purchase merchandise from stores in France. Thankfully, my bank refunded the purchases and issued me a new card.

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For those oblivious to the obvious, the Android 2.1 update for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 smartphone has finally hit Canada. If you bought the X10 from Rogers and haven’t debranded it, just connect your phone to the computer via USB and use Sony Ericsson Update Service (SEUS) or Pc Companion for some 2.1 goodness.

This post is for those who are having trouble getting the update, especially those who de-branded the phone to get global updates in the past. Most of this was done with a bug in the SEUS software which allowed a firmware from a different region to be flashed to the phone.

The problem now is that SE have fixed this since then, and re-branding your phone back to Rogers firmware has become somewhat tricky. Re-branding is necessary as presently the generic flash tool for North America isn’t available yet, and the only way you can get the Android 2.1 update, while still keeping your model as X10a is to get the update from Rogers. I spent half a day trying to figure this out, and I thought I might post my findings here, hoping someone else might find it useful.

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