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Last time we wrote about Jelly Bean update for Samsung Galaxy S II, we said that it will be released at some point in February. Apparently not, with some users already getting the goodies. Those users are in Spain and they could already make their Galaxy S II smartphones run Android 4.1.2, presuming they connect…
A new, still unannounced LG smartphone has been caught at the FCC and WPC. Device with a model number VS870 is tailored for Verizon as it’s ready to sing along its CDMA and LTE networks. We don’t have all the details, but we do know that the phone supports Qi wireless charging and that Android…
When the original Padfone was announced I was amazed. And I know I was not the only one. I thought that will be my next phone/tablet – I’ll have a regular smartphone with the tablet “option” jumping in only in certain situations when I want to watch a movie or do some research (when the…
Pantech is the latest entrant to the phablet market as its gearing towards launching a device of its own with a 5.9-inch full HD (1080p) screen in its own backyard. Yup, South Koreans will have another big smartphone to buy soon, one that fits somewhere between the Samsung Galaxy Note II and the newly announced…
Google announced its fourth quarter earnings today and they’re pretty impressive. The company just slightly beat analyst expectations, reporting revenue of $14.42 billion for the quarter, which is an increase of 36 percent over the year-ago quarter in 2011. Google noted that this revenue amount doesn’t even include revenue from Motorola Home, which contributed $1.51…
Samsung is in a device-making frenzy. Today, pictures of the rumored Galaxy Note 8 hit the interwebz, provoking a kind of “wait, another..whaddaya call it?” moment. The Galaxy Note 8 will be toting an 8 inch screen, which is a little bigger than the quasi standard 7″ tablets that we have seen from manufacturers across…
When we first heard about Motorola’s upcoming Motorola X superphone in December, we didn’t get many details except for that it was in the works. Thanks to an unnamed source from Droid Life’s forums, some new information has come to light, alluding to what Google and Motorola are cooking up for 2013. The Motorola X…
Galaxy S4 rumors are abundant these days, and some newly released details are making Samsung enthusiasts ecstatic. A new picture has been released, giving us an idea what the new phone may look like. Reports indicate that the handset could be announced in March at an “Unpacking” event followed by an April launch. Samsung is planning to ship the “Altius”…
More photos of the HTC Sense 5 custom user interface are popping up on the Droid DNA. Apparently, there are users with access to this unreleased version of Sense, so more and more screenshots are beginning to leak out. An XDA member, who goes by the name of mdeejay, has just put up several screenshots…
CyanogenMod 10.1 Milestone 1 ROMs are now available for Nexus and Samsung devices. For those of you not familiar with this kind of ROM, allow for me to break down the geek/techie lingo. This Milestone 1 version is an unofficial Android 4.2 build deemed “mostly stable” and good enough for daily use, unlike the Nightly…