A user over at Android Central received an OTA notification on his Verizon Galaxy Nexus, and managed to pull the file and make it available for download. Apparently the update contains Android 4.04 IMM30B. This seems to be a limited release, most likely for internal testing, so if you decide to flash this, don’t be [...]
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Best Buy has announced that customers pre-ordering the Samsung Galaxy Note for AT&T beginning February 5th will receive a little something extra for their interest. Pre-ordering the Note at a Best Buy/Best Buy Mobile store or online earns future owners a flip cover case to protect that sizable 5.3-inch display. The case normally retails for [...]
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The Super Bowl is quickly approaching and EA wants to commemorate the biggest sporting event in America by putting their game on sale. The game is now just $.99, less than what it would cost otherwise. You get 32 teams with authentic playbooks and you can even play a full 16-game season, as well as [...]
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Google Wallet, the NFC-based payment system, is now officially available for the AT&T Nexus S and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus running on AT&T’s network. Google Wallet has been around for many months now, but up until today, has only been officially supported in the U.S. via Sprint and its Nexus S 4G. If you’re an [...]
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Google Wallet, the NFC-based payment system, is now officially available for the AT&T Nexus S and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus running on AT&T’s network. Google Wallet has been around for many months now, but up until today, has only been officially supported in the U.S. via Sprint and its Nexus S 4G. If you’re an [...]
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With a couple of Android 4.0 builds for the Samsung Galaxy S II (I9100) already out in the wild, a new one has just surfaced. From the looks of it, the build looks pretty stable and this means that Samsung may be dropping the ICS update very soon. According to the Sammobile, this leaked update [...]
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Previously only available to Sprint Nexus S 4G owners, Google's NFC-based payment app, Google Wallet, has just been updated to add support for the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S on AT&T. So if you're a Nexus owner on AT&T, you can hit the Android Market and find out what all the fuss is about. We've [...]
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We rocked out a pretty solid Android Central podcast for you all earlier, so be on the look out for that when it goes up if you weren't able to tune into our earlier time. Otherwise, head on into the Android Central forums and get in on the action: HTC Thunderbolt Forums – Mail download, [...]
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Time for another edition of the state of fragmentation. Google have updated their platform distribution chart to show how widely adopted each version of Android is. Gingerbread gained a bit of share but was pretty much stagnant in the two weeks ending today. Ice Cream Sandwich got its full first percentage point in this period, [...]
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Samsung already made it official they won’t be showing the Galaxy S III next month at Mobile World Congress, but Mobile-Review EIC Eldar Murtazin just tweeted a press shot of a Samsung smartphone that will be unveiled at the event. Could it be the Galaxy S II Plus or something completely different? You can clearly see [...]
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Samsung just pushed out the kernel source code for AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy Note. There are three different versions listed for download at Samsung’s Open Source Release Center. Why three, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine at this point, but according to one developer, they are almost all identical save [...]
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The Galaxy Nexus isn’t the only phone that took Verizon forever to release. We know quite a few of you are eagerly awaiting the DROID 4, which was due in your hands by last December, on paper anyway. It seems the multitude of devices available for the holiday season were simply flooding Verizon and so [...]
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While overall news has been rather slow as head on into Mobile World Congress, there has still been plenty of tidbits popping up here and there to keep things happening. If you missed out on anything from today, get yourself caught up either here on the blogs or in the Android Central forums: HTC Rezound [...]
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The Samsung Galaxy Note for AT&T won’t be here until February 19th (presales begin on the fifth of this month) but its source code is already available for developers to download. This will allow folks to get started on creating ROMs well before its launch but don’t expect to see a lot of that happening [...]
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Source code. Galaxy Note. AT&T. What do you get when you combine those three things? If you said “source code for the Galaxy Note on AT&T,” then you win a cookie. Go wait over there and we’ll bring it right out. Samsung just pushed the source to its Open Source Release Center for all to [...]
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Source code. Galaxy Note. AT&T. What do you get when you combine those three things? If you said “source code for the Galaxy Note on AT&T,” then you win a cookie. Go wait for it over there and we’ll bring it right out. Samsung just pushed the source to its Open Source Release Center for [...]
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Samsung has gone ahead and released a teaser video of their upcoming Galaxy Note commercial which will air this Sunday during the Super Bowl. This will be the first time that Samsung buys ad space on the biggest television event of the year. The 90 second ad will be shown at some point during the [...]
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This year’s Super Bowl is going to be a good one, but just in case it’s over by the 4th quarter, we have something else to look forward to, and that’s the first ever Super Bowl commercial from Samsung. It will air during the 4th quarter, and it will be about the upcoming 5.3-inch beast, [...]
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For our readers in Canada, you’ll be happy to know the Galaxy Nexus is coming to mobile carrier WIND February 3rd. That’s just 3 days away, and you can finally get your hands on some Android 4.0! Prices for the device vary depending on what program you decide on. The WINDtab+ program will be the [...]
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Looks like all the major carriers Canada are set to launch the Samsung Galaxy Note. The latest carrier to list the massive 5.3-inch device on their website as “coming soon” is Bell. Bell is the third Canadian carrier to reveal that they, too, will be getting the Galaxy Note. The other two were Telus and [...]
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Amazon Wireless is hosting an AT&T winter sale, offering some of the carrier’s best phones for some pretty nice prices. Highlights include the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket for 0 and the Samsung Galaxy S II for . HTC’s full slate of Android devices can’t be had in this sale but these are a few [...]
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After Koush tantalized users with a video showing off the first official touch-based ClockworkMod Recovery interface two days ago, CWM has taken to Google+ and posted download links for the official beta, making CWM Touch Recovery available to Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S users. Update #1: Nexus S 4G now supported. Update #2: According to [...]
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For those of you who were disappointed to see that the recent release of Sonic 4 Episode 1 wasn’t compatible with your ICS device, you’ll be happy to know there is a market update waiting for you right now. Today’s Sonic 4 update brings compatibility to all devices running Android 4.0 and I was able to [...]
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Back when it was first leaked that Sprint would be sporting a Galaxy Nexus of their own it was suggested that their version of the phone would be running a 1.5GHz processor. Considering the original runs a 1.2 GHz OMAP processor everyone was a little surprised. It caught some to question the fact that Google [...]
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Just a quick heads up for those of you who picked up the 3800 mAh extended battery for the Verizon Galaxy Nexus — ShopAndroid.com now has in stock the Seidio SURFACE Case to fit that honkin' battery. It's made of a durable plastic and has Seidio's soft-touch coating and, most important, it protects your [...]
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ClockworkMod Recovery developer Koush has released a beta version of the new touch-enabled ClockworkMod Recovery. Touch Recovery Beta allows you to navigate the through the recovery using the touch screen instead of the volume up/down keys. The Touch Recovery beta is currently available for both versions of the Galaxy Nexus (GSM and CDMA), and also [...]
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With AT&T getting a confirmed release date for the Samsung Galaxy Note earlier the Canadians don’t want to be left out of the fun. While we’ve known for some time now that the device would be launching mid-February, we didn’t have an exact date. Thanks to Best Buy, that’s no longer the case. And when [...]
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The Jan. 30 Shop Android Deal of the Day is the Case-Mate Barely There Case for the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4G Skyrocket. These cases are designed to help protect the design of the Samsung Skyrocket while allowing more of it to show, thanks to a slim profile and impact-resistant flexible plastic shell. It's available in black [...]
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Just weeks after we saw our first “unofficial” release of a touch version of the popular ClockworkMod custom recovery, developer Koush has put forth a beta version of his own, available for download now. For you new folks, a custom recovery is an indispensable way to back up your device as well as install new [...]
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The AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note will be available Feb. 19 for 9 on contract, Samsung announced this morning. It'll be available in carbon blue and ceramic white, and preorders will begin Feb. 5 and will be delivered by Feb. 17. Along with the phablet itself — remember that this bad boy is 5.3 inches — [...]
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It hasn’t even been a week since Koushik Dutta first showed us a touch-enabled ClockworkMod Recovery up and running on Android 4.0+ devices and now he’s making the beta available for all to download. We’ve got builds here for the CDMA and GSM versions of the Galaxy Nexus as well as the GSM version of [...]
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If you're one of the more than 28 million users of Formspring, you'll notice that there has been a lack of an official application from the social network. That all changes now as the official Formspring for Android application is available right now in the Android Market. It offers a pretty full experience, allowing you [...]
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After Koush tantalized users with a video showing off the first official touch-based ClockworkMod Recovery interface two days ago, CWM has taken to Google+ and posted download links for the official beta, making CWM Touch Recovery available to Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S users. It’s worth noting that (for now) the beta is only available [...]
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A couple of days ago we told you about Koush’s new project, a touch version of ClockWorkMod. We weren’t sure how long it would take for us to get our hands on it, but he just announced it’s now available as a beta for download for the Galaxy Nexus (GSM and CDMA) and the Nexus [...]
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So any of you sporting the original Galaxy Tab have likely realized by now you’re never going to see an official ICS update. Don’t let it get you down though cause there’s an alternative that in all likely hood is even better. The Galaxy Tab is now supported by CyanogenMod 9. This device was added [...]
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