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It hasn’t been long after Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but Android users are already eager to find out if their device will qualify for the software update. Since Samsung is the most popular manufacturer of Android devices, the company is feeling some extra pressure to get its upgrade plans out to the public.…
The Day 1 keynote of Google I/O 2012 gave us the first look at what the search giant has been working on since it released Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich late last year. What we got was the expected Android 4.1 Jelly Bean – a smaller update that builds upon Android 4.0 and brings in…
After Apple won a court case that led to the ban of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States, the judge has denied Samsung’s request to lift it. The ban hereby remains in effect in America until further notice. The lawsuit, which Apple filed last year, claimed that Samsung’s flagship tablet copied the…
Ever since the iPhone came out in 2007, people have been asking themselves whether or not phones with physical keys offer some sort of advantage due to their tactile nature. Looking at all the major smartphones that have been announced over the past few years, as well as RIM’s stock price, one would think that…
Samsung’s 5.3 inch smartphone/tablet hybrid, the Galaxy Note, hit the European market in October 2011. We’ll admit it, we made fun of the Note, predicted it would fail, and wrote countless editorials poking fun at Samsung’s management. We were wrong. Dead wrong. Last month Samsung announced that sales of the Note eclipsed 7 million units,…
HTC announced three devices at Mobile World Congress in February of this year. The One X, their 4.7 inch flagship device; the One S, the slightly smaller 4.3 inch smartphone with a serious case of anorexia; and the budget One V, which is a refresh of the 2010 hit, the HTC Legend. Last month we…
Google showed off the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on October 19, 2011. Here we are, nearly nine full months later, and we can finally say that more than 10% of all Android devices currently in use are running ICS. This data, courtesy of Google, also reveals that a whopping 64% of…
Amazon Flow, which up until this point was an iOS exclusive title, is now available for download from Google Play, allowing Android users to join the barcode scanning party powered by Amazon. However, it’s important to add that Amazon’s “default” app can also “handle” barcodes, but Flow comes with a fancy UI that supports augmented…
Yup, we’ve told you that the long wait will finally end and voila… the first beta version of VLC is now available for download from Google Play. The sad news is that not all devices will work with this release, though most new phones will do the job — as long as they’re powered by…
God forgive me – I forgot to inform our readers that the new Spider-man game is available for download from Apple’s AppStore and Google Play. I’m about to fix that mistake even though the game has been ready for your smartphone or tablet for more than few days. As you can imagine, The Amazing Spider-Man…