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Motorola Droid Bionic got the unofficial Ice Cream Sandwich ROM, compliments to developer dhacker29 of the TH3ORY ROM team. As far as we’re hearing it’s a pretty stable build, though not everything will work properly, including data and Wi-Fi. And while folks behind this project are working to bring the missing features, we actually don’t…
Remember that Samsung’s dual-screen clamshell SCH-W999? It’s officially announced for China Telecom and that means now we have more information to share. The device that reminds me on many Japanese phones will comes with two 3.5-inch S-AMOLED WVGA (800×480 pixels) touchscreens, two SIM card slots, Qualcomm’s MSM8660 1.2GHz dual-core processor and a 5-megapixel camera on…
Meizu, which is arguably the world’s best known iPhone cloner, unveiled a new smartphone – Meizu MX. The device looks pretty slick and is also pretty powerful. It comes with a dual-core 1.4GHz processor, 4-inch touchscreen with 960×640 pixels resolution a la iPhone, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera on the back, front-facing VGA camera, HSPA+…
Back in October Sony announced that they were going to purchase Ericsson’s half of the decade old joint venture Sony Ericsson. We didn’t really get a lot of details about what the future of the company would be, other than that Sony would keep on making mobile phones. Now thanks to Kristian Tear, an executive…
Remember when Google made a whole bunch of noise about their new mobile payments service and how they were going to render your old leather bifold absolutely useless? That never really happened. It’s been nearly 3 months since Google unveiled Google Wallet and it still only ships on one device (the Nexus S), is still…
Chinese handset vendor ZTE doesn’t get a lot of respect from the mobile geek community because they make devices that are usually targeted towards the low end. Case in point: the ZTE Blade (V880) (pictured above), which has has been out for over a year now, shipped with a 600 MHz Qualcomm CPU, 512 MB…
Here’s a scenario – let’s say you own the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and also some solid Honeycomb tablet. Don’t you want to use your smartphone’s gamepad to play games on a tablet’s bigger screen? Yeah you do want the capability and now you can have it. The name of the application is DroidMote and…
Dolphin Browser HD, which is the web browser I use on my Samsung Galaxy S II, has been updated again. Version 7.2.0 introduces several changes, including: Encryption to backup data; Option to turn on/off Toggle Webzine button in Settings; Option to disable confirm dialog while exit Dolphin via back button; Enabled option to disable “Rate…
We keep on getting teased about the Verizon Galaxy Nexus, as we still don’t have a solid release date but the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the device will be $299.99 with a new, two-year contract when it lands later this month. There’s nothing official on the release date but the report says that…
Dell is apparently exiting the tablet market, less than two years after its first tablet model was unveiled. The computer manufacturer struggled with its line of Android tablets and made the mistake of announcing early and releasing late. Dell introduced the Streak tablet in early 2010, but failed to ship a working model until August…