Tag: ICS
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Software Fix for Samsung Galaxy Nexus Volume Bug is Coming
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For many, the thrill of being one of the first to own a smartphone running the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software was too much, with thousands picking up a Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone already. Unfortunately many of the early adopters have experienced issues related to volume control on the device. Some have experienced…
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Xperia X10 Gets a Piece of the Ice Cream Sandwich
Sony Ericsson were struggling for ideas when they decided to jump on the Android bandwagon, but their first attempt was kind of disappointing. The X10 was released when Android 2.2 Froyo was starting to take over from Android 2.1 Eclair. Even though Froyo was predominantly the most used version of Android at that point in…
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Cyanogen Mod Bringing CM9 ICS build to Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Early Next Year
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Cyanogen Mod CM7 is one of the most popular custom Gingerbread rom’s available on over 60 different Android Devices. CM7 War particularly a Gingerbread based Rom and CM8 was reserved for Android Honeycomb when the sources were released. But the Cyanogen Mod Team is skipping CM8 as Google have only just released the Honeycomb sources…
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Ice Cream Sandwich Supports USB Mass Storage, Galaxy Nexus Does Not
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When we first had a look at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, we were a little bit shocked to find out USB mass storage wasn’t supported on the device, leading us to think that it was a missing feature in Android 4.0. Android engineer Dan Morrill took to the internet to sort out this confusion and…
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Flash Not Quite Dead On Android Yet
Flash mobile may well be on its deathbed but it is not going to go out without one final slice of cake. With the Galaxy Nexus and running ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) and a host of older devices getting a port of Androids new OS, Flash have decided that HTML5 is not quite mature enough…
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Development Weekly – ICS Ports, Kindle Fire Mania and Cotton Candy
So here we are, another week of developments in the mobile world. This week we are going to have a look at some of the most interesting developments in the world of Android. First of we will touch on some of the Ports from source of Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0.1. This has been one…
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HTC are also making a Quad-Core Tegra 3 Tablet – HTC Quattro pictured and detailed
HTC’s intentions of joining the Quad-Core tablet revolution have been made very clear this afternoon, after an image and details for a Tegra 3 tablet have leaked online. Codenamed the HTC Quattro, the image above is the first render we’ve seen for HTC’s next tablet effort. Details so far are fairly slim, but we do…
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Android Soars to Over 200 Million Handsets in 6 Months
In May of this year Android was doing superbly with 100 million Android handsets being used and around 500,000 handsets being activated on a daily basis. Well, only 6 months on from May and here we are mid-November. Google’s OS has shipped on over 200 million devices and is being activated at a rate of…
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Confirmed: Samsung Galaxy S II UK owners will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
A tweet from Samsung UK has confirmed that the latest tasty update to Google’s mobile OS Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, is on its way to the “World’s Most Powerful Smartphone” – the Galaxy S II. Or course, this was expected. But confirmation from Samsung means further proof that the Samsung Galaxy S II is still…
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Acer Let Slip a HD Resolution Tablet Running Nvidia Tegra 3 Chipset
With the release of Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core chipset, it looks like the tablet world is about to be turned on its head. All of a sudden we have different manufacturers announcing Tegra 3 devices that will be running Google’s new Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Well, after Acer let slip the ICS devices the a510…
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Kindle Fire Has Root, But Should You Do It?
The Kindle Fire Tablet has been out less than a week and we already have a one click Root for it. But is it worth it? I’m going to take you through some pros and cons. Simplicity If you got the Kindle Fire for a simple to use tablet then we would suggest you leave…
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Samsung Galaxy S 2 Android 4.0 Port Well Under Way
Since the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich source code, developers have been working around the clock to bring some Android 4.0 goodness to our smartphones and tablets unofficially. The popular Cyanogen team have stated that they intend to get ICS up and running on their 60 supported devices within the next 2 months, which…