A developer from the Android modding community has managed to boot the latest version of Android - 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich - on Motorola’s recently released DROID RAZR, Redmond Pie has learned.
Have you ever come across an app on Android Market that you really, really wanted to try but couldn’t since the app in question was incompatible with your Android device? With the fragmentation issues facing the platform, I’m pretty sure you have! Although there are some established ways to getting these apps to work on your device (like using ChainFire 3D for incompatible games), we came across a newer and more effective method today. Check it out after the break!
In a recent post on avast! Mobile Security BETA app, we promised that we’ll be discussing the growing perception among smartphone enthusiasts that Android is an insecure mobile operating system and that it is prone to malware, just like Windows is on the desktop. This perception is, for the most part, a product of the hype created by certain security solution-providing companies and the blogosphere itself.
Even if you fall on the Android side of the smartphone divide it is hard to argue - without coming across as a raving crazy person - that there isn't something a little crazy about the shear number of different Android devices out there. Be they from the likes of LG, HTC, Samsung, Motorola or anyone else, there are so many that naming each and every one of them just isn't getting any easier.
When Google first took the wraps off its Honeycomb release of Android at CES in January, the world sat up and took notice - was Google going to finally do to the world of tablets and the iPad what it did to the smartphone market? Would Honeycomb kick start the Android tablet space and create some competition for the runaway success Apple was enjoying with the iPad?
The ongoing spat between Samsung and Apple is turning into one of those rather depressing proses where an allegiance breaks down, descending into all-out war.
When Flipboard stepped up their game by releasing an iPhone app for their self-titled reader, we knew someone would want to steal their thunder somehow.
Twitter for iPhone and Android has had a major overhaul today, with both versions of the social networking app seeing plenty of changes both under the hood, and up front.
According to a report published earlier today, popular iPhone photography app Instagram is being readied for Android. Details after the jump!
There is a growing perception among the smartphone enthusiast crowd that Android is an insecure mobile operating system which is riddled with viruses, trojans, rootkits and what have you, and that an Android phone will be open to these malicious pieces of software unless and until you install an antivirus. While some parts of this perception are completely wrong (we will discuss them in a separate post), we still believe that it is better to be safe than sorry and that is exactly why we’ll be talking about an supercharged new security app from avast! for Android after the jump.
