Apple and Samsung have been in the middle of a vigorous legal battle to ban each other's products for several months, with lawsuits being filed in Europe, Korea, the United States, Australia and more recently Japan. Apple has now managed to get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet banned in Germany after a judge ruling.
Released just yesterday, the developer community has already found out a way to gain privileged access (read: “root” access) to the Motorola DROID Bionic. As a matter of fact, the DROID Bionic was rooted before it was publicly released, but the method has now been tested and is confirmed to be working. If you’re interested, you can follow our guide after the break.
The developer community is getting closer and closer to a stable Android port for the HP TouchPad. In a video uploaded recently, Redmond Pie has learned that CyanogenMod 7 for the HP TouchPad has got multitouch working, GPU acceleration has been enabled and the popular custom ROM just looks better on the TouchPad thanks to “proper pixel formatting”.
One of the most useful and popular apps on the iTunes App Store is Remote. It is a first party app that, well, lets you use your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad as a remote control to control your Mac/PC’s iTunes library. I recently shifted back to the Android camp and found myself longing for a Remote-like app and magically stumbled upon the solution in the form of iRemote iTunes WMP.
Because of its relatively open nature, Android is a whole lot more fun to play around with than Apple’s iOS. One very important tool, which is in just about every flashaholic’s phone is ClockworkMod Recovery and today we’ll be talking about some of its useful features and how you can install it on your phone.
This is a major breakthrough for the TouchDroid project, folks! It has been revealed that touchscreen drivers are now working on the HP TouchPad with Android 2.3.5 “Gingerbread”.
While the iPhone got its first screen recording app back in early 2010, Android is only getting a proper screen recording solution today. Well, it’s better late than never, as the screen recording app released today does a whole lot more than simple screen recording: it’s called ScreenCast & Screen Recorder and, well, it lets you record your phone’s screen and take screenshots.
Chinese search engine giant Baidu has announced their own mobile operating system today. It is called Baidu Yi OS and it is based on Android.
IFA is a German trade show, similar to the well-known American CES, where all devices ranging from tablets to 3D TVs are showed off. Samsung has a huge booth at the conference, yet it has voluntarily yanked out one of its flagship products, the Galaxy Tab 7.7, off display.
If you’re an iPhone user and take photos with it, you’re likely aware of Instagram, an app that allows uploading pictures to the said service or Facebook or Twitter with cool retro effects. First launched in October 2010, Instagram now has already been downloaded 8 million times and the service’s CEO Kevin Systrom has shared a few details about the future of the app.
