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If you’re still rocking one of Samsung’s first generation Galaxy S smartphones or its original Galaxy Tab, then you may want to sit down. There will be no Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for you, as these first-gen devices just can’t handle all of the sweet update with TouchWiz running on top. Ice Cream Sandwich…
CES 2012 is only a few weeks away and among the announcements that we’ll see, we’re pretty excited for what Intel is going to announce. After a lot of talk, Intel looks like it will be officially breaking into the mobile space with a new reference design handset and a couple of more announcements along…
With Xmas just days away, Google’s Android team has thrown together a video wishing everyone Happy Holidays. Of course, you’ll find the Galaxy Nexus throughout the entire video along with some of the handset’s nifty features. Since we’ve already gone through the all the features found on the Galaxy Nexus and in Ice Cream Sandwich…
At one point, every carrier that wasn’t AT&T and didn’t have the iPhone had an Android smartphone as its flagship device and there was a good chance that said handsets were coming from HTC. Much of this remains true today but the likes of Motorola and Samsung have become much more prominent. HTC has been…
Well, what do we have here? It looks like Apple has successfully banned the import of select HTC devices in the US, effective April 19th, 2012. The decision has been delayed twice at this point, and today the International Trade Commission has sided with Apple. The HTC devices that are to be banned are only…
Another day, another lawsuit filed over Android. British Telecommunications is suing Google over its popular mobile operating system, which seems to be the trend nowadays. Whether or not the newly acquired Motorola Mobility will be able to aid Google in the lawsuit with its patent portfolio is still in question, but it does come at…
Rocking a GSM Galaxy Nexus and want the Android 4.0.2 love that Verizon’s version is sporting today? Well, it looks like the official roll-out of the small update has begun, as owners of the device have begun receiving it. The update is rather small and doesn’t provide much along the way but we’re glad Google…
Move over, Android 4.0.2, a new version is coming to town. The next incremental update for Ice Cream Sandwich, appropriately named Android 4.0.3 brings a few new features, a handful of bug-fixes, as well as a whole new API level. The Android Developers blog highlighted a few new APIs that you’ll find in 4.0.3: Social…
We know Google was trying to bring all the features from Honeycomb into Ice Cream Sandwich but not all of these features translated perfectly. The absence of the dedicated search key, even in software form, is something I missed dearly and the static search box on the top of the homescreen was something I never…
When the GSM Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released last month, many were a bit bummed to see that Flash wasn’t yet supported for Ice Cream Sandwich. Adobe quickly responded to say that it was working on getting Android 4.0 support out the door as soon as possible and today is that day. It’s definitely nice…