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If you were one of the 7 million people who activated a new smartphone over the holidays, there’s a high likelihood that you downloaded Angry Birds, as Rovio said it had 6.5 million downloads on Christmas day. This included multiple Angry Birds games like Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Seasons and the original Angry Birds,…
It certainly wasn’t good news to hear that the Transformer Prime’s bootloader was locked and encrypted, which blocks the ability to load custom ROMs onto the quad-core tablet. Well, it may not be long until said bootloader will be able to be unlocked through an Asus provided tool. When people got word that the bootloader…
T-Mobile is kicking off the new year with a major sale on many of its smartphones and tablets but the deals will only be available this weekend, so get to getting if you want a new T-Mobile 4G device. Some of the deals are better than others but in general, you can walk out of…
Samsung announced an updated version of its Galaxy Ace smartphone, simply calling it Galaxy Ace Plus. The main difference between this new model and the existing Galaxy Ace is in the processor used – Galaxy Ace Plus rocks a much faster 1GHz CPU. In addition, the new device also comes with 7.2Mbps HSDPA and Wi-Fi…
Motorola released an update for its super-thin RAZR smartphone in Europe. No it won’t bring Ice Cream Sandwich to your device; rather software version 651.73.30 includes several improvements and adds a new app – Evernote (which is my personal favorite note-taking tool). Here’s what else is included in this release: General improvements to camera performance…
Good news for those of you with MetroPCS’ LG Esteem – you can now more easily root your smartphone of choice. Yep, the all-in-one root and custom recovery is out, compliments to AndroidForums.com ROM developer PlayfulGod, though credit also goes to Koush and RaidZero for their recoveries as well as zergrush for their root method.…
Asus is rolling out a new firmware update for its fancy Transformer Prime tablet/netbook device as we speak. Unfortunately software version 8.8.3.33-20111223 doesn’t bring the latest version of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich), though it will increase the overall performance of the tablet. For instance, it is said that the camera app is now launching much…
Well what do we have here – a new LG Android smartphone with MetroPCS logo that will most likely be unveiled at the CES in Las Vegas. The name of the device is LG Connect 4G (model number MS840), hinting us it’s ready to sing along the carrier’s LTE network. However, it’s not a high-end…
If you still haven’t read our CES 2012 preview piece (where we talk about all the gadgets which we think we’ll be unveiled at the show) – do it now. Add to that list this latest rumor suggesting Asus will unveil a 7-inch Transformer Prime and new Eee Pad Memo in Las Vegas. Of course,…
It looks like many of you got new smartphones for the holidays and that also means many of you were busy downloading apps. According to Flurry Analytics, you were very busy, as smartphone users downloaded more than 1.2 billion apps from Dec. 25 to Jan. 1. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise,…