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Today Huawei announced two new Android smartphones, the Ascend P1 and P1 S. These Ice Cream Sandwich-toting smartphones are undoubtedly the best offerings to ever come from Huawei, and both best many smartphones today in a couple of categories. There isn’t much different between the two handsets besides battery capacity and thinness. Even the P1…
CES has yet to even start but that doesn’t mean the news has slowed. Toshiba recently unveiled its newest tablet and it’s no Thrive 2. The Toshiba Excites brings just about anything you’d want from a high-end Android tablet these days when it comes to internal hardware but it’s really an experience to have the…
Corning has just announced the next generation of its Gorilla Glass, aptly named Gorilla Glass 2. Not only is the new glass much harder but it’s thinner and is significantly more scratch resistant than the previous iteration. Corning will officially unveil the new glass at CES next week, along with a 82 inch multitouch LCD…
It looks like the successor to the LG Revolution is finally here, as the LG Spectrum will be landing on Big Red on January 19th. The Gingerbread-toting handset is packed to the gills with high-end specs, the 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 being one of them. The Spectrum sports a 4.5 inch (1280 x 720) True…
Get ready, Texas, as you’ve got some good news coming your way. Dan Hesse has just announced the rollout of LTE and 3G upgrades by mid-2012 in Atlanta, GA, San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas. Little else is known, as news was announced through Twitter. This is just the first few markets of Sprint’s rollout, of…
Android’s open nature has long been a double-edged sword. From security issues and fragmentation on the bad side, to insane amounts of customizations, mods, and ROMs on the good side. Manufacturers who have created custom user interfaces for its Android handsets, which is essentially everyone, have furthered the fragmentation of the OS with slower update…
It certainly wasn’t good news to hear that the Transformer Prime’s bootloader was locked and encrypted, which blocks the ability to load custom ROMs onto the quad-core tablet. Well, it may not be long until said bootloader will be able to be unlocked through an Asus provided tool. When people got word that the bootloader…
So you have your brand new and shiny Android phone and are wondering where to start? We’re going to cover how to set your new phone up and what to do to get yourself right at home. There are hundreds of different Android devices in the world today so your experience may differ slightly (or…
Flurry has released some impressive stats for Android and iOS device activations on Christmas day and even more impressive information on the amount of downloaded applications. If you got an Android or iOS device this past Xmas day, you probably contributed to these stats in some way, so read on! According to the chart, from…
Slowly manufacturers have begun to announce Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update details for their handset portfolios and now it’s LG’s turn. In a nutshell, updates should begin to rollout sometime in Q2 and Q3 of 2012, with some notable handsets missing from the Android 4.0 lineup. LG announced the following on Facebook today: During…