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Galaxy SII owners have been hovering around speculation of Android 4.1.1 (Jellybean) coming to their handsets as an official update.  The good news to come from this post is yes, the Galaxy SII will be receiving this update supported by Samsung via OTA (Over The Air) or KIES. Samsung has   Read More ...

Categories: Android, Featured, General, Mobile

CyanogenMod as always are delivering what is shaping up to be an incredibly good custom ROM of Ice Cream Sandwich for a vast array of Android devices. Titled “CyanogenMod 9″, the ROM is still experimental, but from what I have seen and the experience I have had so far, this   Read More ...

Categories: Android, Mobile

Game Stop bought Electronics Boutique, InBev bought Anheuser Busch, Disney bought Marvel. Acquisitions happen all the time. Oftentimes they affect the general public in name only but today a deal officially closed that stands to reshape the cellular phone industry: Google bought Motorola Mobility. Author: Visit 's Website - Email   Read More ...

Categories: Android

A developer on our forums, RainMotorsports,  just pointed out a very frightening fact. Since he summed it up fairly nicely I will just post his explanation. Changes to the Android/Linux Kernel between 2.3 and 4.0 have popped up something unfortunate on certain revisions of eMMC chips. Performing factory resets on   Read More ...

Categories: Android, Mobile

If you have an ICS device (That’s Android 4.0) then you’re in luck and can try this shiny and new music player designed by the CyanogenMod 9 team. Remember though, this is just for ICS devices, if you try this on any earlier Android revisions it will not parse. Until   Read More ...

Categories: Android, Featured, Mobile

That time of the year has come, the time of the year where everyone celebrates a little bit different to each other, but in the end we all have something to be happy about. Its the holidays. Kick back, play a game or two, read a 1337 article if you   Read More ...

By running Android 4.0 myself and being a former developer, I can tell you that getting Android 4.0 to flawlessly run on hardware takes a little longer than most other builds. This is partially due to Android 4.0 being the first build that is completely hardware-accelerated. With that said, Handset   Read More ...

Categories: Android, Featured, Mobile

After having a fearful experience playing around with and nearly bricking my Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 I felt it necessary to make a video as well as a written tutorial as to how anyone in Australia can flash their phone back to an official firmware. The firmware is 2.2 Froyo, and once you   Read More ...

Recent news from Korea suggests that Samsung announced their first mobile processor to feature ARM’s Cortex-A15 core a few days ago (I know, we’re a tad late). The new dual-core Exynos 5250 is built on Samsung’s 32nm-low power HKMG process and it will run at speeds up to 2 GHz.   Read More ...

The Galaxy Nexus, the world’s first Android 4.0 device was released on the 17th with the exception that a build was made a month prior for the Galaxy Nexus’ predecessor, the Nexus S. You can guess where I’m going with this; I was able to get Android 4.0 on my   Read More ...

Categories: Android, Featured, General, Mobile

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