Galaxy S3 preorders have crossed 9 million worldwide according to Korea Economic Daily which includes sale of this unit on more than 290 carriers in more than 145 countries. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S3 a couple of weeks back at event in London and showcased some amazing exclusive features of the Galaxy S3 smartphone. The S3 has S-Voice, Smart Alert, Smart Stay and Allshare Play as just some of its amazing features. More
HTC One V is the least basic device of the One series. Its sub-standard specs however manage to provide some amazing performance and while it targets the market of mid-ranged to low-ranged smartphones, its software makes you feel entirely different.
HTC One V features a 3.7-inch Gorilla Glass touch screen which displays HTC’s Sense 4.0 Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS (Android 4.0.3 installed). It has a screen resolution of 800×480 and also includes a 1 GHz single core Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon processor.
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Samsung has begun manufacturing 2GB low-power consuming mobile phone memory chips with the aim of making it a standard spec in the near future. The Korean handset makers are hoping to up the ante by mass-producing 2o nanometer 4GB LPDDR2 RAMs in the hope of replacing the 1GB RAM currently used in most of the Android smartphones.
Stripping the memory chip from 30 nm to 20 nm will not only help the device stay slim but will also aid in making the 2GB chip a mainstream product by 2013. The new chips will run at 1066 Mbps without any extra power and in fact will cut down from their predecessors.
In an event held in Beijing today Motorola Mobility has announced three handsets that we’ve previously heard about as Droid RAZR upgraded versions for Chinese market. The three new RAZR phones headed for China: MT887 which was detailed and XT885 and XT889 will be available on June 2nd via China Telecom and China Unicom.
Motorola MT887 (in the above imagine on the right, XT885 left and XT889 middle) is 8.35mm thin has a 4.3-inch qHD (540 × 960p resolution) touch screen, equipped with a 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, which support Full HD video recording at 1080p.
Samsung has announced the pricing and availability of the next GALAXY phone for the Russian market. According to Samsung Russia the GALAXY S III (16GB variant) will start selling at 7:00PM on June 5th for 29,990 rubles (about USD $965).
Customers are also able to pre-order the device earlier and as an incentive Samsung Russia offers a Flip cover for free. More
On May 10th Samsung Electronics has filled a series of new trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The South Korea-based manufacturer has submitted six trademarks for the following names: Lunge (Serial No.85621870), Galaxy Forge (Serial No. 8561866), Galaxy Wield (Serial No. 85621864), Galaxy Mission (Serial No. 85621859), Galaxy Rivet (Serial No. 85621854), and the Galaxy Victory (Serial No.85621853).
All of the above names have been filed under “Goods and Services” which covers ”Mobile telephones; Smartphones,” and in a way they seem to have ties with the Olympic games. Not long ago Samsung has unveiled the official London 2012 Olympic Games smartphone — the GALAXY SIII. More
If this was the first time we’ve met Sony Xperia Lotus name, we would have said that a new Android phone has been uncovered, but it’s not. At the beginning of 2012, more precisely on 18 January, an internal document leak from Sony India, Xperia Lotus name surfaced for the first time along with details of a possible launch for August and a price of 277 Euro’s set for the handset.
In a more recent leak from this week, the above mentioned Xperia handset codename Lotus is tied to the model number ST27i / ST27a through the user agent profiles (UAP) found on Sony’s website. According to these profiles Lotus is powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, it has a touch screen with 480×854 resolution and it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Late last month Android 4.0 firmware upgrade started spreading out to US customers owning a Eee Pad Transformer tablet. Following v9.2.1.21 a new software update build 9.2.1.24 is now pushing out for the Asus Transformer TF101 which adds the Face Unlock feature, brings new features to the Email app like email download size/thread/mail sync schedule and much more.
The latest build 9.2.1.24 will add additional functionality and will also improve system stability with the new operating system. We strongly recommend to update to the latest version as soon as possible.
Bricking your device is hardly a good experience, especially if you own an expensive high-end smartphone and you turned it into a brick. Bricking usually occurs when messing with custom ROMs and bootloaders on your device. For some phones there have been numerous unbricking methods, of which we must mention Unbrickable, but that’s limited to Samsung devices.
If you own a HTC smartphone, and you were afraid to go S-OFF or to flash a custom ROM because of a potential bricking risk, rejoice! XDA Senior Member dexter93, along with his team have started Unbricking Project to help unlucky users get out of that miserable brick state.
HTC One V is the least basic device of the One series. Its sub-standard specs however manage to provide some amazing performance and while it targets the market of mid-ranged to low-ranged smartphones, its software makes you feel entirely different.
HTC One V features a 3.7-inch Gorilla Glass touch screen which displays HTC’s Sense 4.0 Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS (Android 4.0.3 installed). It has a screen resolution of 800×480 and also includes a 1 GHz single core Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon processor.
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In an event held in Beijing today Motorola Mobility has announced three handsets that we’ve previously heard about as Droid RAZR upgraded versions for Chinese market. The three new RAZR phones headed for China: MT887 which was detailed and XT885 and XT889 will be available on June 2nd via China Telecom and China Unicom.
Motorola MT887 (in the above imagine on the right, XT885 left and XT889 middle) is 8.35mm thin has a 4.3-inch qHD (540 × 960p resolution) touch screen, equipped with a 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, which support Full HD video recording at 1080p.
On May 10th Samsung Electronics has filled a series of new trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The South Korea-based manufacturer has submitted six trademarks for the following names: Lunge (Serial No.85621870), Galaxy Forge (Serial No. 8561866), Galaxy Wield (Serial No. 85621864), Galaxy Mission (Serial No. 85621859), Galaxy Rivet (Serial No. 85621854), and the Galaxy Victory (Serial No.85621853).
All of the above names have been filed under “Goods and Services” which covers ”Mobile telephones; Smartphones,” and in a way they seem to have ties with the Olympic games. Not long ago Samsung has unveiled the official London 2012 Olympic Games smartphone — the GALAXY SIII. More
If this was the first time we’ve met Sony Xperia Lotus name, we would have said that a new Android phone has been uncovered, but it’s not. At the beginning of 2012, more precisely on 18 January, an internal document leak from Sony India, Xperia Lotus name surfaced for the first time along with details of a possible launch for August and a price of 277 Euro’s set for the handset.
In a more recent leak from this week, the above mentioned Xperia handset codename Lotus is tied to the model number ST27i / ST27a through the user agent profiles (UAP) found on Sony’s website. According to these profiles Lotus is powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, it has a touch screen with 480×854 resolution and it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Late last month Android 4.0 firmware upgrade started spreading out to US customers owning a Eee Pad Transformer tablet. Following v9.2.1.21 a new software update build 9.2.1.24 is now pushing out for the Asus Transformer TF101 which adds the Face Unlock feature, brings new features to the Email app like email download size/thread/mail sync schedule and much more.
The latest build 9.2.1.24 will add additional functionality and will also improve system stability with the new operating system. We strongly recommend to update to the latest version as soon as possible.
LG Mobile introduces the latest user interface – Optimus UI v3.0 which will be available along with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich firmware upgrade for all LG handsets scheduled to receive it in the following months as well as on the newly announced and upcoming devices.
LG’s Optimus UI 3.0 brings with it an array of enhanced key features, including Quick Memo and unique unlock functions, among other new features and functions aimed at improving LG smartphone experience.
When Mojang announced Minecraft for Android everyone was excited. Then there was a letdown as people noticed it was watered down version that didn’t have the same appeal the original has.
After some time and a lot of updates I can finally do a real review without feeling like I was ripped off. As of update 3.0 , Minecraft PE has many of the features we expected from there early release but were not released mainly being survival mode and crafting. Starting with survival mode, this is the main mode where you must collect materials and defeat monsters during the night, although very fun, finding a group of players to run around with is probably the hardest part.
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Twitter for Android application receives a bug fix update to version 3.2.2 which fixes missing avatars on devices running Android 2.0/2.1 Eclair, fixes Top tweets appearing out of order in Search and Discover and it now accurately displays sync settings based on system sync setting.
It’s been a while since we’ve heard the last time about Google Play Store APK v3.5.16 being updated, actually we havent heard anything in over a month or so, ever since Google transformed it from Android market to Google Play Store.
The latest update bring the APK to version 3.5.19 without any notice, we don’t really know what happened to 3.5.17 or where 3.5.18 is, but anyways at least there is a new update available which most likely fixes several issues and enhances Play store app for a better performance.
HandyGames rolls out a new update to its blockbuster action-strategy game Guns’n'Glory WW2. It also adds a brand new tactical gameplay element where players are able to call in battlefield air supply drops of “silver coins” that can be used to buy additional units.
This adds another layer of depth to gameplay by giving players the ability to effectively react to challenging combat situations. More
I guess by now everyone who updated to the latest version of Facebook for Android application is mostly annoyed by the number of apps/icons the new update installs and the worse part is that you can not remove them without removing Facebook app itself.
There is a workaround to this problem, although it doesn’t remove the Camera app nor the Messenger app from your devices, you can easily hide it from your app drawer with a small application developed by senior XDA forum member machx0r. He’s application requires root. More
Sony released today a follow-up to the previously released ICS alpha ROM, a beta version of their Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM available for unlocked 2011 XPERIA phones.
This is pure gold for all custom ROM developers out there, so if you want to test it or download it to hammer your own custom ROM the source is available for download. Check the change log below and follow each step on how to install it on an unlocked XPERIA device.
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If you’re still having doubts about Android devices and their portability here’s another proof on how versatile this handsets are.
Youtuber by his username qantrell shows us how we can turn (transform) a Google Galaxy Nexus phone into a desktop computer with the use of a few cables that costs a little over $20, a bluetooth keyboard and a LCD screen (works on any device with a HDMI port). More
What are your top three settings or things that you always setup (can’t leave without) on your smartphone or tablet no matter which Android version the device is running?
Lets hear some tips on how-to tweak your Android device for a better performance, experience, security, etc.
Downloading applications outside the Android market is a potential risk and one of the top 5 forms of getting infected apps installed on your device (tablet, smartphone etc). All security-based experts will tell you not to choose this path, to install apps on your phone, but if you do (and we know you do,although we urge everyone to ONLY get apps from the official market) here is a quick tip how to cautiously do it.
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