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Well, well, look what we have here. A video has surfaced on a Mexican site showing the Samsung Galaxy S III running some buttery smooth Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) goodness (check out our review of the Verizon version here). In the video you get an idea of what Jelly Bean would officially look like on…
Kyocera plans to release a new lower-level device called The Rise. The handset will launch on both Sprint and its subsidiary owned network, Virgin Mobile. This lower-level device will come with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) out of the box. Spec-wise, the handset isn’t so impressive. The Rise features a 1GHz single-core chipset, 3.5-inch HVGA…
Today Acer is made available a budget friendly handset known as the Liquid Glow, set to go on sale in the United Kingdom. We first got word of this phone’s existence when it appeared at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The phone will set U.K. customers back £147.99 ($181.78 USD), and will offer color choices…
LG announced that it has sold five million LTE smartphones worldwide. Perhaps the most interesting part about this news is not the five million figure, but the amount of handsets the Korean manufacturer sold in the month of July. LG sold 1 million devices last month, which isn’t too bad for a company searching for…
Well, this didn’t take long. Dark Sky, a uniquely built predictive weather app, just received a pretty significant update. Firstly, if you didn’t read my review on Dark Sky last week, then shame on you. In this upgrade (version 2.0), the developers of this incredible weather application addressed some pressing issues I had in my…
Apple is continuing its dominance in the tablet market, according to the latest numbers tallied up by IHS iSuppli. The firm found that the Cupertino based company extended its lead in the slate business shipping about 70 percent of all tablets in the second quarter of this year. Indeed, these are impressive numbers, but they…
Google has filed a phone patent that’ll hopefully save you from those awkward moments in public. You know, that moment when you attempt to answer a call on your smartphone but find yourself talking into the wrong end? Yeah, that one. The new patent will allow users to answer their smartphones no matter which end…
T-mobile is stepping up to become the first major carrier to give Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus owners some Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). This is normally a ridiculously drawn out process because folks who happen to own carrier-connected tablets have to wait longer for their updates. Well, as of today, the fourth largest wireless provider…
Sony announced that it will be releasing a dark silver version of the Xperia S, which is the company’s flagship device at the moment. The Xperia S isn’t the only handset expected to get a color change, as Samsung plans to release a black version of its Galaxy S III. Sony deserves props for trying…
Finally, the long awaited Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update for the Motorola Droid 4 is here. First, we thought that Verizon was going through the usual bells and whistles with a soak test procedure. As it turns out, a few folks out there are beginning to receive their helping of ICS despite not hearing…