Handsets running on the Windows Phone platform have been very popular recently. Helping push sales are their ability to integrate completely with an exchange account, an amazing turn-by-turn navigation app and a beautiful WVGA screen. There are other features aimed at entertainment such as Xbox LIVE compatibility and what they call Live Tiles.
Even though Samsung's Galaxy Nexus has been available in the UK for a couple of weeks now, everyone in the United States are still being made to wait before they can get their hands on Verizon's exclusive version, and people are starting to get impatient.
Ever since Siri released on the iPhone 4S about a couple of months, we’ve seen an outpour of Siri-like apps for Android. None of these apps, to be honest, have reached the level of ease-of-use that Siri offers, but this new alternative that has popped up today may just give it some real competition. Details after the jump!
The ability to install modified versions of stock Android (read: custom ROMs) is one of the biggest reasons why enthusiasts opt for Android today. These custom ROMs can be slight variations of an original ROM, for example DarkyROM, or be heavily modded like CyanogenMod and MIUI. It can actually be quite addictive, this habit of trying out new ROMs and flashaholics - people who flash new ROMs very regularly - especially those of you who have the Samsung Galaxy S II will undoubtedly love this new dual-ROM-booting app we came across. Check out the details after the jump!
While the Samsung Galaxy Nexus isn't yet on sale in the United States, the handset has been available in the UK for a week or so already. Lucky, Brits queued up iPhone-like in order to get their hands on the device, but it hasn't all been plain sailing since then.
The last time we talked about CyanogenMod for HP TouchPad was when its first Alpha was released to the general public. Since then, two Alphas has been released with the 3rd Alpha being released just a few days ago. In this post, we’ll be guiding you on how to flash/update to CyanogenMod 7.1 Alpha 3. Details after the jump!
One of the social networking apps to take iOS users by storm is Instagram, but it's not just any normal social network. Allowing users to upload their own photos after editing them using a selection of provided affects, Instagram is a cross between Flickr and Twitter and is currently the must-have app for the technorati of iOS. The problem is, there is currently no Android version and fans of the little green robot are getting tires of waiting.
We discovered an unusually powerful app today, folks. It’s called AirDroid and it lets you manage and control just about every feature of your Android device from a computer using a web browser over the same WiFi connection. Details after the jump!
Samsung's second Nexus phone, the Galaxy Nexus, is already on sale in the UK, but those in the United States are still waiting to get their hands on the first smartphone to sport Google's Ice Cream Sandwich.
The Galaxy Tab - now known as original Galaxy Tab to avoid confusion with its successor Galaxy Tab 7.0 - was abandoned by Samsung when Android 3.x Honeycomb came along but dedicated developers from the Android modding community are still hard at supporting the device as we have received news of a working alpha AOSP-based Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich port of Galaxy Tab. If you’ve got an original Galaxy Tab, you may want to try it out after the jump!
