Folks who have grabbed the S-Voice .apk file over the weekend are reporting that it has stopped working on their Ice Cream Sandwich powered devices . We suspect that Samsung has blocked their servers since the app is an exclusive feature of the Galaxy S III. I initially installed S-Voice on my HTC One X [...]
After enjoying Samsung’s new S Voice service that had been pulled from the Galaxy SIII, users started to notice a network error appear often enough to assume that Samsung had blocked the service. If you were running into this issue and can’t live without S Voice on your phone, there are a couple of fixes [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is to this date one of the best Android phones available today. So it’s surprising that Canadian mobile carrier Telus has decided to prematurely retire the pure Android device. It’s reason for doing such a thing? Well— it’s not exactly certain, but there’s increasing speculation that the mobile carrier is clearing [...]
Well that certainly didn’t take long. While the Samsung Galaxy S III still has yet to arrive in stores, we have certainly been treated in the last few days. We’ve already seen everything from the complete firmware of the device being available to .apk files such as S Voice being extracted but now we have some [...]
As a Brit myself, this seems a little cheesy but, also nice to see happening all the same. Samsung have announced Olympic Editions of both the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Y. These are essentially dressed up versions of the devices here in the UK. You can get them from O2 (Galaxy Note, Galaxy Y) [...]
If you watched the official announcement of the Galaxy S III, you probably know that Samsung is an official sponsor of this year’s summer Olympics in London. Folks in England like @sicknology received a special Olympic edition Galaxy Note with an additional battery cover sporting the British flag with some kind of indentation that protects [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S3 – which won’t even go on sale until the 30th of May – has been rooted and its stock ROM has been leaked to the world by a forum poster on XDA. This is BIG news for all of us who’d like to dig into the Galaxy S3′s firmware and see [...]
A Twitter user has uploaded a series of photos that seems to reveal a new Olympic edition Samsung Galaxy Note. The images show the handset wearing a Union Jack back cover which looks to ilttle thicker than that of the average Note. The phone’s packaging is also on display, and betrays a second design, this [...]
Zack has always been a fan of anything with the tag “Gadget” on it, he has had used almost every phone brand except for the Palm and owns a Motorola Atrix 4G and now a Samsung Infuse. He is a full-time father of two great boys and happily married to his wife. Did we mention [...]
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It’s time for another Android Police Week In Review, where I put things in lists. You can catch of lot of these things in our weekly podcast, too, because who reads things? FeaturesRon go hands-off, voice-on with Samsung’s S-Voice, and it sounds like it’s too bad you can’t tell it to suck less at understanding [...]
After the big Galaxy S III announcement we knew it would only be a short amount of time before the cool software features were pulled from the phone for use across other Android devices. One of the more noteworthy GSIII features is the S-Voice app, basically Samsung’s version of Siri. Thanks to XDA member Ascarface23, we [...]
Oh, Apple, you really do have no shame do you? I have no problem with people seeking for what is rightfully theirs – the very idea of patent enforcement however, Apple’s audacity in strangling innovation through litigation quite frankly make me mad. It’s one thing that Apple quite publicly took Apple to court across the [...]
h0tw1r3 has released an update to CM9 RC0 UNOFFICIAL UCLD3 Kernel. The latest version is now RC0. This release is supported on the following Device(s):- Samsung Galaxy Note I717: AT&T What Works?Dunno, you tell me. I just built the damn thing, booted up, setup Straight Talk APN (works), enabled WIFI (works), took some screenies for [...]
If the import ban on the HTC One X and the Evo 4G LTE wasn’t already a bitter pill to swallow for HTC, it looks like they’re in a bit more trouble than earlier anticipated. TmoNews were tipped off earlier today that customers who were looking to purchase a new Amaze 4G were being told [...]
Well, the good news is that creating various carrier variants isn’t slowing down the Samsung Galaxy S III’s launch in the US by too much. However, the bad news for those looking to use the phone on T-Mobile’s network is that you might have to do without LTE. While it’s a bit understandable considering T-Mo [...]
TeAm VeNuM has released an update to VeNuM ICE Rom. The latest version is now Release 5. This release is supported on the following Device(s):- Samsung Galaxy S II: Sprint Epic 4G Touch Changelog: 05-16-2012 FE14 FD02 SteadyHawkins rogue kernel (excepts init.d, and flashing of themes:D) VeNuMs Super Tweaks (For network and data speeds, speed [...]
The unreleased Samsung Galaxy S III has already been rooted, well sort of. XDA developer, Chainfire, was able to gain root access to the Samsung handset using an “insecure” kernel leaked by someone who wishes to be stay anonymous. He was able to do that by using the SGS3′s release candidate firmware. ChainFire also mentioned [...]
Even though the device hasn’t even hit the street, noted Android developer Chainfire has obtained root on the Samsung Galaxy S III. Chainfire doesn’t actually have the device in hand, so don’t start berating him with questions on that matter. Rather, he got root on a firmware build that was leaked to him, and has [...]
The Samsung Galaxy SIII has apparently been rooted by famed hacker Chainfire. As you know, the phone isn’t even out yet, but this is good news for those planning to pick up the device in the coming weeks. He isn’t able to release the “insecure” kernel yet as it may be traceable back to the [...]
Samsung has been on a roll in the Android world ever since they launched the Galaxy S, which again besides the very controversial design, it had some very innovative features, like the Super AMOLED display, which at the time was absolutely incredible compared to any mobile LCD on the market, and the very powerful Hummingbird [...]
Samsung has always been one to sport a device in as many colors as possible. The Galaxy S III will start off in White and Pebble Blue as you know and we can only assume in other colors down the road. This time however it’s regarding the “berry pink” version of the Galaxy Note that [...]
The folks over at Mobileburn have scored an exclusive image of the upcoming LG Eclipse ( the rumored LS970 we covered earlier) – this time with it’s back off for all to see. There’s nothing really that special about a shot of a back of a phone but, that might be the case this time. [...]
If you didn’t know, Samsung introduced some alternate colors for the Samsung Galaxy Note. Unfortunately, those alternate colors only launched in Korea. Well, it looks like parts of Europe are about to get in on the fun as Carphone Warehouse have pegged June 2012 as the launch date for the berry pink version in the [...]
You might have heard that Samsung has a new phone coming out soon, but even if you’re not planning to buy the Galaxy S III it seems like the phone’s success is all but assured. An unnamed Samsung official, speaking to the Korea Economic Daily, said that the new flagship handset has already been preordered [...]
I am fairly certain that no one out there doubted that the Samsung Galaxy S III would basically conquer the world at launch. Every previous Galaxy device out sold the other and as it would seem, the Galaxy S III is going to do it again. An anonymous insider at Samsung has released news that the pre-oders [...]
It looks like the pre-orders for Samsung’s newest high-end Android phone, the Galaxy S III, has jumped the borders of the UK and are now available for U.S. residents to pre-order. Both the white and blue models are up on Amazon for pre-order at a cost of $799. Read more… … Continue Reading Here Samsung [...]
Samsung is a big leader in the Android smartphone market, but just how big? According to recent sales statistics, Samsung accounted for 40% off all Android smartphone sales while no other company went over 10%. This is a pretty big difference and goes to show just how well the South Korean company is doing in [...]
LG has been making quite a splash in the smartphone market these days with their popular android devices and cutting edge specs of phones like the Optimus 2x and G2x. Both the first phones in their market to house a dual core processor. The NVIDIA tegra 2 none the less. This time around LG is [...]
Those of you in the UK clamoring for one of those T-Mobile-branded versions of the Samsung Galaxy S III are one step closer to having the device in your sweaty hands. T-Mo has laid out its Galaxy S III price plans, while also putting the smartphone officially up for pre-order. Naturally if you’re a data-hungry chap, you’ll [...]
T-Mobile UK has announced pre-order plans and pricing for the highly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III. The phone will be available at several price points ranging from £300 up front to completely free when paired with a £41 per month plan with unlimited calls, messaging, and data. Striking a balance is TMo UK’s “Full Monty” plan, [...]
Samsung’s trademark train is showing no sign os slowing, but it did big up a few new passengers. Adding to the growing list of name available for use with future handset designs, the Korean manufacturer has picked up Galaxy Lunge, Galaxy Forge, Galaxy Weild, Galaxy Mission, Galaxy Rivet, and Galaxy Victory. The names are only [...]
Check out this unboxing video of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III. As you probably know by now, the upcoming Galaxy S III is getting ready to be released in Europe at the end of the month; it was only a matter of time before unboxing videos started to creep on Youtube. The latest video [...]
Back at CES in January Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took part in CNET’s Next Big Thing Panel, where he famously said this when discussing Android fragmentation: “You have to be careful with that word,” he cautioned. He actually prefers to use the term “differentiation” to describe the situation, as his definition of fragmentation is [...]
What, you didn’t have your celebrity Android fix for the day? Well, here you go. George Clooney was in Malibu this week filming a smartphone commercial and just so happened to have a Galaxy Nexus on him. We are going to go ahead and assume it wasn’t a commercial for the G-Nex since they blacked [...]
bhu1 has released an update to INFINITUM VIBRANT LBR. The latest version is now 1.0.0. This release is supported on the following Device(s):- Samsung Galaxy S: T-Mobile Vibrant CHANGELOG LBR V1.0.0- initial release. Head over to bhu1′s CommunityRelease Developer Homepage for more information and downloads. Register now on Community Release and follow your favorites. Get [...]
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