When the Samsung Galaxy S III first surfaced towards the end of May, the Android community was ready to pounce on its many exclusive treasures, namely S Voice - the Siri-esque voice recognition software. Jelly Bean 4.1's release into the wild has followed a similar prose, with wallpapers, themes, and even the Google Ears widget having been ported through to devices running Ice Cream Sandwich.
Although plenty of successful inroads and developments have been made over the years in the modding and jailbreaking of the popular games consoles (most notably Geohot and his famous PS3 jailbreak), they can often take a while to arise due to the tight-belted nature of the console vendors, most of whom tend not to be accommodating.
Although Apple's App Store still leads the way when it comes to numbers, Google's online content portal is now teaming with content including books, music, apps, and videos. Given its vast array of content, it was recently renamed the Google Play Store, ditching the old Android Market moniker in a move said to better reflect what it has to offer.
Announced at Google I/O 2012, the Nexus 7 really is the most talked about tablet today. A quad-core chip, HD display along with the latest version of Android - 4.1 Jelly Bean – and a truly unmatched price make it one of the best tablets you can buy today.
Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus was banned as a result of a preliminary injunction ruled four days ago by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. Now, we are starting to see the first effects of the ruling as we have received news that Google has stopped selling Galaxy Nexus online. Check out the details after the jump.
If you’ve been following the patent war between Apple and Samsung closely, then you must be aware of the fact that a certain Cupertino based company is doing the best it can to scrape every Galaxy device off the shelf in the U.S., and fortunately or unfortunately, depending on which side of the fence you belong to, it is getting really lucky lately.
Taking the prize for strangest Android story of the week, we bring news that Google's campus is currently down one Android statue thanks to an unfortunate occurrence that can only be blamed on Mother Earth.
Happy 4th of July to our readers from America! To make the federal holiday special, we went out and hunted for the best iOS / Android apps that have had their prices cut specially for Independence Day; our quest so far has resulted in a treasure trove of awesome apps. All of them are listed right after the jump. Check them out and be sure to share this post with your friends and family!
The injunction placed last week against sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet was, as you would probably expect, appealed by the Korean consumer electronics giant. The pleas have fallen on deaf ears, however, and as reported by Reuters, a judge has blocked a move to lift the injunction on the tablet.
In an interview on Finnish TV, a Nokia executive has claimed that the phone maker has a fallback plan should Windows Phone 8 not meet the company's expectations. That fallback plan? Google's open source Android operating system.
