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News Corp’s London Times has thought of a creative way to offer new customers a deal on membership to its paper. The Times is dangling a 32GB Nexus 7 tablet for just £50 when you sign up to a £4 per week subscription to its tablet edition. If you do some quick math that would…
Good news for folks with AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S III as you should be able to get your Jelly Bean fix as we speak. It’s not an over-the-air affair and you’ll rather have to connect your beloved smartphone to a computer and fire-up the ever-annoying Samsung Kies software. However, it’s well worth…
Almost missed this… Amazon Appstore is now live in Japan, bringing its vast selection of apps and games, along with the ever-convenient one-click payments to the local Android users. Of course, aside from global best-sellers the store also offers “local favorites” and apps from “top-tier brands like Square Enix and NTT Docomo.” In addition, there…
It was Cyber Monday, 2012, and Amazon was offering a deal on their Kindle tablets. I quickly snatched up a 2nd-gen Kindle Fire for my mom’s x-mas present, as she (like everyone else this holiday season) wanted a tablet. When the unit arrived a few days later on the doorstep, I immediately had my greedy…
It’s the beginning of the month, and that means Google has updated its Android version share chart. Google collects the specific versions of Android accessing the Google Play Store to get these numbers, and to no surprise, Jelly Bean has picked up a bit. Android 4.1 and 4.2 Jelly Bean are now 6.7% of devices…
As if we needed anymore confirmation as to what the next version of the Android operating system would be called, the drawing you see above pretty much spells it out to the world, right? Not so fast. Manu Cornet, a Google employee that works on the Gmail team, drew up this little doodle “just for…
Want to root your Verizon Galaxy Note II? Thanks to xda member droidstyle, all you need is a few files and about fifteen minutes of your time. The process is pretty easy — just install Odin and use it to flash a rooted stock Odin image to the device. It’s also easy to revert back to…
Verizon announced on Twitter that it is rolling out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates in “phases” to the Motorola Droid Razr HD and Droid Razr Maxx HD (check out our review of both devices here). Both phones will get all the goodies that Jelly Bean has to offer, including Google Now, enhanced Voice Search, notifications…
According to a rumor from Sammobile, Samsung may be working on three new devices for 2013. The most impressive of the rumored devices is a phone code-named Project J. Project J is allegedly the next Galaxy S handset and may include a 5-inch full HD AMOLED display, a quad-core processor, a 13-megapixel camera, and the…
A recent Nokia job listing for a Principal Software engineer to work on Embedded Linux Middleware kicked off a flurry of posts suggesting the Finnish handset maker might be pursuing Android. Though many would love to see an Android-based Lumia 920 phone, this isn’t going to happen in the foreseeable future, says the head of…