There are multiple ways of playing music stored on your smartphone through your car stereo’s system, but what about video — assuming you have a video display in your vehicle.

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This tiny box streams music and more to your car without any installation

We’ve heard that people who don’t use Netflix or Hulu or who even have cable instead rely on television signals that are magically transmitted over the air . Weird, right? RCA thinks that it would be fun to be able to access these signals anywhere, anytime, and they’ve come up with this prototype portable digital TV system with which to do it.

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RCA intros mobile DTV prototype for serious broadcast addicts

Who dares challenge Samsung’s best and biggest Galaxy Nexus smartphone? Sony Ericsson seems up to the task. A new leak points to Sony Ericsson building a smartphone with a huge 720p resolution display with a more-than-necessary megapixel-packed rear camera.

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Sony Ericsson’s next smartphone is going to be a monster

Missing its early November and alleged Dec. 9 launch date , the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus is finally official. It’s available on Verizon for $300 with a two-year contract and is the first smartphone to run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus officially for sale on Verizon for $300

Third time’s the charm, right? LG and Prada are once again riding into the sunset with a co-designed cellphone. It’s the third LG Prada in the line and naturally, it’s the beefiest one yet. If the devil wears Prada, I might just have two pointy red ears and a spade-shaped tail.

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LG teams up with Prada for ‘LG Prada 3.0′ Android smartphone

If you’ve been debating between Apple and Android for your next tablet purchase, perhaps you should take a tip from Pope Benedict. Shunning the normally favored iPad, The Holy Father decided to go with a Sony tablet running Android to switch on the Christmas lights in the Italian town of Gubbio.

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The Pope chooses Android to fire up the Christmas lights

I know I’m not the only person who knows of a handful or more silly Android names that are either too long are trying too hard to sound different. Yinzcam’s humorous Android Phone Name Generator randomly churns out a ridiculous Android phone name based on all Android devices that have been announced.

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Android Phone Name Generator pokes fun at naming conventions

iFixIt tears down the Galaxy Nexus, the latest “Google Experience” phone (a phone that ships with a stock Android installation and no telco/manufacturer crapware installed) and finds it to be admirably tinkerer/repair-friendly. The device is held together with standard screws, and very few of the components are glued together, meaning that it will be fairly straightforward to repair. The phone is meant to ship next week, and I’ve already pre-ordered mine (I’ll let you know how it works out). I’ve owned two other Google Experience phones (the Nexus One and the Galaxy S) and been very happy with them. Samsung Galaxy Nexus Teardown ( via Wired )

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Galaxy Nexus teardown reveals a repair-friendly, tinkerable phone

Ars Technica’s Casey Johnston checks out a new Android handset designed to be good at playing music : “we’re not sold”

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HTC Rezound

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been investigating Silk, the web browser built into Amazon’s new Android-derived Kindle Fire. Silk is billed as being a very fast browser, thanks to acceleration achieved by funneling all requests through Amazon’s cloud servers. This may speed up network sessions, but it creates many privacy questions, since it means Amazon gets a view into your network sessions that it wouldn’t otherwise have — a copy of all the web-pages you receive. But as Dan Auerbach reports, Amazon made some very good privacy choices in the design of Silk. First, the “acceleration” is user-configurable, and you can just turn it off if you’re worried. Further, SSL connections are never intercepted, and Amazon only lightly logs your network sessions, and expires those logs after 30 days. The service isn’t perfect, but it’s got a lot to recommend it. It is good that Amazon does not receive your encrypted traffic, and does not record any identifying information about your device. And there are other benefits to user privacy that can result from cloud acceleration mode. For one, the persistent SPDY connection between the users tablet and Amazons servers is always encrypted. Accordingly, if you are using your tablet on an open Wifi network, other users on that network will not be able to spy on your browsing behavior. Amazon does not act like an anonymizing proxy, because it does not shield your IP address from the websites you visit or strip unnecessary information out of the outgoing request. Indeed, because the XFF header is set for HTTP requests, your IP is still passed through to the websites you visit. Other headers, such as the HTTP referer header, are set as normal. Thus, the website you are visiting using Silk has access to the exact same information that it would if you were using a normal browser.

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EFF: "We are generally satisfied with the privacy design of Silk"