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HTC recently announced that it will cease locking the bootloaders of its Android handsets. This is good news indeed for those who want to apply mods and flash custom ROMs to their phones. However, Peter Chou’s statement was rather vague, though, and someone decided to ask for some clarification on Twitter to a Verizon representative and received an answer…
Remember when HTC said they would be reviewing its bootloader policy yesterday? Well, I’m eating my words since I said that this could take a long time, as HTC has officially announced that it will no longer lock the bootloaders of Android phones. This is good news indeed for those who like to apply modifications…
The smaller, thinner, and lighter version of the already slim Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 has just made its way through the FCC. The sexy Honeycomb tablet should make its way to the US sometime in the early summer and while we’re not surprised that we’re seeing the tablet grace the FCC, we’re…
When the T-Mobile G2X was released, the carrier claimed that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update would become available shortly. Well, since its release the only Gingerbread the handset had seen is the leaked version of the official ROM and custom ROMs from developers. Luckily, T-Mobile recently announced on Twitter that the update will be available…
Last year when the Motorola Droid X was released there was a lot of buzz surrounding the handset, not the mention a full-fledged scavenger hunt for the handset across the country. When we finally got one in our hands, we immediately fell in love. Even with Motorola’s custom user interface Motoblur running on top (the…
We just got word about the June 9th event in New York City where Motorola and Sprint are to take the wraps off of a new device. While we haven’t seen the device yet, we just found out a good chunk of information about it and looks to be similar to AT&T’s Atrix 4G. Apparently…
The best handset for T-Mobile at the moment, the G2X, may have just been pulled due to quality issues. From random reboots to light leakage, T-Mobile’s dual-core phone may be down for the count. As a happy owner of the T-Mobile G2X, I was surprised to hear so many are having issues with the handset.…
HTC has been leaving a bad taste in some user’s mouths by locking the bootloaders of its handsets lately. This lock-down not only makes it harder for those who want to apply modifications to their handset, but it’s also something the handset-maker went out of its way to make it harder for such users. Well,…
We’ve been playing with the special edition of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 that Google gave away during the I/O conference earlier this month for some time now, and we’re quite impressed with the tablet. The Tab 10.1 currently runs on Android 3.0.1 Honeycomb, but according to Sammy the tablet will ship with Android 3.1…
Google and Sprint have been quite chummy as of late and they may be taking that friendship to the next level later this week. The search giant and carrier may be launching an NFC (Near Field Communication) payment system as soon as the 26th, making NFC-enabled devices your potential next credit card. We had an…