The Android world was somewhat up in arms today after discovering new limitations on Google Play Music, namely that you could only de-authorize up to four devices every year. This put those who often flash new phone or tablet ROMs in a bind, since an active flasher could run through his or her quota in a couple of months. The small but extremely vocal portion of Android users that this affects made their opinions known, and Google seems to have … [Read more...]
Let’s get this right out of the way: Verizon’s latest release for the LG Revolution is not, repeat not, Ice Cream Sandwich. There, we’re done. That being said, there’s quite a bit of new stuff in the latest update, and Revolution owners who are still on the stock software will want to upgrade immediately. Build VS910zV9 brings some important security fixes along with the usual speed and stability improvements. According … [Read more...]
There’s a ton of launchers available at the moment, but depressingly few are for Android tablets (with Go Launcher HD being the best among them). Chameleon is a new tablet launcher that uses an impressive methodology: its layout changes depending upon the time of day, connection, or even GPS location, catering itself to which apps you use in which situations. Like seemingly everybody these days, the creators have started a Kickstarter … [Read more...]
Huawei announced this super-thin smartphone at CES and we were able to get a look at it running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich back in February during Mobile World Congress. The Huawei Ascend P1 will be available globally later this month so today we are taking a full hands-on look at it and unboxing it for everyone interested. In might not be Galaxy S III caliber but check it out after the break. Huawei is sporting this as one of the thinnest … [Read more...]
Whoa, for those that were saying the LG Optimus LTE2 with 2GB of RAM that was announced the same day as the Galaxy S III didn’t pose a threat we might beg to differ. New details today appear to show that at least the Japan model will be getting an increase to 2GB of internal RAM to compete with the LG smartphone. We already know the superphone from Samsung will be arriving in multiple flavors. Quad-core’s for most of the world with … [Read more...]
LG announced their new quad-core Optimus 4X HD a few month back during Mobile World Congress and today they are giving us all another look at the handset. Although we’ve had various hands-on with the new phone ourselves this exceptional new video from LG is worth a quick look for those interested in the smartphone. This video is pretty Tron-inspired if you ask me, just watch past the first 0:23 seconds to see the exquisite phone in … [Read more...]