After considerable backlash from owners and press alike over their decision to forgo Android 4.0 upgrades for the various Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab models, Samsung announced yesterday that they were considering alternatives in order to get Ice Cream Sandwich to customers. At least one option was disabling certain features, possibly including Samsung’s custom skin [...]
Just yesterday Samsung gave us a glimmer of hope that their 2010 flagship devices the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab could get Ice Cream Sandwich as they went back to reevaluate the feasibility of the task. With TouchWiz in the way, it certainly won’t seem as easy as we’d hope considering these devices have limited [...]
Keeping with their promise to unlock the bootloaders on their devices, HTC has added two new devices to the growing list of devices that can have their bootloader unlocked. The HTC Evo View 4G (the HTC Flyer‘s big brother) and the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide can now have their bootloader unlocked by following some instructions [...]
It's long been rumored that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 would be headed to US Cellular. And now, thanks to USCC's ESN system, it looks like the Galaxy S II is headed that way as well. Neither device has been officially announced by the regional carrier. But given the depth of its current roster of [...]
UPDATE: There were 3.7M Android devices activated on 12/24 and 12/25. Google’s Vice President of Mobile, Andy Rubin, dropped some nice Android stats on us today. As you probably know by now, the number of Android devices that are activated every single day is now at 700,000. Well, that number is nothing compared to how [...]
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The ASUS Transformer Prime is shipping in some parts of the world now and users have gotten their hands plenty wet with it. Over at AndroidForums.com folks are curious how satisfied you are with it if you did happen to purchase one. 75% of the 20 people who voted in the poll over there seem [...]
In this post, Fernando gives five important tips that every developer should take into account in case they are doing their own public relations. … Continue Reading Here PR for app developers 101: Part I androidactivist.org
In the continuing story of “Nobody knows what the hell's going on with the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab,” (see Part 1 and Part 2) a new report out of Korea suggests that the manufacturer's 2010 flagship devices may receive a “Value Pack” update instead of a full-fledged refresh to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. [...]
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In this day and age it seems you can’t find a new phone without an eager group of developers ready to support it. Some people come to Android and may not have the slightest clue of what rooting and flashing custom ROMs/mods/kernels is. (I have two of them in my very own household.) If you [...]
Sprint’s confident in their plans to get their LTE network to a majority of their customers by the end of 2013 and they keep rolling on with deployment. Today they’ve announced that new LTE clusters have been deployed in the Kankakee, IL area, just 60 miles south of Chicago. They’re planning on bringing their first [...]
It seems that the elves over at Gameloft have a few post-Christmas surprises up their sleeves this year. According to a recent Twitter post, they will be offering ALL of their mobile games for just 99 cents in the Android Market (starting December 29th!) Not too shabby, right? Also, while you wait for Thursday’s offering, [...]
A new firmware update has been released by Asus for their original Transformer tablet PCs and is now available OTA as version 8.6.5.21-20111216. (This device should not to be confused with its successor, the Transformer Prime.) The update addresses HDMI problems some owners experienced while operating the tablet with newer HDTVs and it enhances stability [...]
Did you give or receive an Android device for Christmas? Even if you did not, it looks like a whole host of people found the green robot under their tree this Christmas. According to a tweet from the ever-so-candid Android head Andy Rubin, 3.7 million Android devices were activated over the 24th and 25th of [...]
Well, lookie here. You seem to have found yourself in the Android Overload tonight. This is your one stop, place to shop for all of the top news stories from throughout our day – the ones that didn’t make it onto our front page – giving you one last shot to soak in all things [...]
I don’t know about you, but I love a really good word game. Whether I’m on public transport or just trying to wind down, an immersive and challenging word puzzle is often just the tonic for me. I can’t be the only ‘wordie’ either as there are literally hundreds of word games in the Android [...]
Fresh to the Android Market is the newly released NeoDroid bringing Neo Geo emulation to your smartphone. The emulator is actually based off another emulator called GnGeo and will play all those games that were WAY too expensive to buy as a kid. Emulators tend to fall into this gray area so to avoid any [...]
There are a few ROMs and kernels out there for Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus already, but the one that clearly stood apart from the rest was AOKP by Roman of RootzWiki. Thus far, his build has been the most stable and speedy while still having all the bells and whistles. Through a ROM Control quicklink within [...]
With Christmas all said and done for yet another year, it's time for those at Google to start looking at the number of devices that got activated over the Holidays. Luckily, Andy Rubin anticipated our wondering and has given up the goods: UPDATE: There were 3.7M Android activations on 12/24 and 12/25. Congrats team-android! Also, [...]
We told you guys earlier today about smartphone activations jumping 353% from the previous year but many were left wondering, “Just how many of those were Android devices?” Well, I found this report from Localytics who breaks it down by country and OS but if you’re looking for a specific number — our very own [...]
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Alright, so we know Fridays’ “leaked” renders of the Samsung Galaxy S III turned out to be nothing more than fan-created concept art but now we’re hearing rumblings around the net that Samsung could be planning to introduce the device at MWC 2012. Okay, so that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given Samsung’s [...]
As long as the world doesn’t end in 2012, the LA Times writes Google+ could round up 400 Million users by the end of 2012. This is only theoretical, and going by the current 625,000 calculated users signing up daily. With some simple arithmetic, we arrive at around 400M. For those of you that don’t [...]
The third version of the Prada phone by LG is now available. Unfortunately, if you want to get your hands on this phone today, you will have to be in South Korea. The phone will be launching in some European countries and other parts of Asia sometime in January. The Prada Phone by LG 3.0 [...]
If you’re a Sprint customer, you may want to listen listen up. Seems old Yeller is throwing a silent (read: secret) promotion for certain eligible Premier customers by allowing them to upgrade early. I know, it sounds crazy but look at the above leaked pic for proof. Every phone appears to be up for grabs, [...]
During a hacking convention in Berlin conducted by Germany’s Security Research Labs, a hacker discovered a security hole within the GSM mobile network. In Mr. Karsten Nohl’s own words: We can do it to hundreds of thousands of phones in a short timeframe. None of the networks protects users very well. Mobile network is by [...]
Last week, Samsung announced that it wasn’t going to be upgrading their Galaxy S phone and their Galaxy Tab tablet to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest and greatest version of Google’s smartphone OS. According to Samsung, those two devices weren’t going to be upgraded due to insufficient RAM and internal storage needed to [...]
No, the image you see above is not in black in white — it’s actually in full color. That’s LG’s newest smartphone, the “Prada Phone by LG.” First thing I’m sure you’ve noticed the device is its minimalist “Prada themed” black and white UI, a clear departure from the manufacturer’s pseudo TouchWiz found on devices [...]
Now is a better time than ever if you’ve been on the fence about when to purchase a new smartphone. And when I say “new” I mean a new device to you and not a brand spanking new one. It’s probably a little late in the game to be reporting this now however, there’s still [...]
A vulnerability was discovered in GSM networks — the same type of network T-Mobile and AT&T operate on — that could allow for a hacker or an otherwise nefarious character, to gain full remote control of any smartphone running on those types of networks (Sprint and Verizon are in the clear). The security flaw was [...]
As if the Logitech Revue wasn’t doomed enough already after having a lousy adoption rate and prolonged Android upgrade, the Google TV box is getting another round of disappointing news. Some folks who had enough gusto to drop the cash for the seemingly reasonable and reduced price of for the Revue over the holidays are [...]
There’s something to be said for the old T9 input system. Most often that something is “why would you use it on a touchscreen,” but for a certain type of user it’s extremely useful. Sharp is playing to those users with the unfortunately named Aquos IS14SH, heading to the Japanese market in the near future. The [...]
What some of my friends and non-tech savvy family don’t seem to understand about technology is it’s not just fun or geeky — but it’s also supposed to make your life easier. Thankfully, I came across Tablet Remote — which is free in the Android Market — and how it works is it allows you [...]
Google TV has taken a beating in the last few months, especially Logitech’s flagship Revue set top box. To add insult to injury, GTV Source reports that a considerable number of users who recently bought the Revue found that it couldn’t authenticate with Google’s servers, making the device a curvy and expensive paperweight. Apparently the issue is [...]
Christmas may be over but don’t tell Gameloft that. The mobile gaming company will be having a sale, starting Dec 29th, on all of their Android titles in the Market, offering them up for only 99 cents (my favorite word) each. That’s not such a bad deal seeing how some of these games can reach [...]
Huawei might still not be a household name but they have decent hardware and are getting better with each release. The hugely popular original Ascend was available on Cricket Wireless and recently they launched the Ascend II with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and a 3.5″ display. This same awesome budget device is headed to US Cellular [...]
New Galaxy Nexus owners: this is what you waited for. As developer devices, the Nexus phones get pretty much all the desirable custom ROMs out there, and now you can download the popular MIUI ROM for Google’s favorite son. Different builds for the GSM and CDMA Galaxy Nexus are available over at XDA, both compiled from the [...]
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