While all the talk has been about whether Samsung would announce the Galaxy S III at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, the Korean company has taken us all by surprise by announcing a different handset.
For those of you who are involved in the business of modifying, tweaking or tinkering with the Android operating system, you will more than likely be aware of certain recovery methods and solutions which make an attempt to use the touchscreen display of the device for navigation purposes. You will also more be aware that until now, the offerings out there don't exactly do a good job of touchscreen implementation.
Oh my, things just keep on getting worse and worse if you're an Android user who's concerned about security. It's the one thing that fans of more closed systems such as iOS and the App Store will always throw at those who favor open - security can never be as tight.
While we're going to have to wait until next month for the official, stable release of Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich for Asus' Eee Pad TF101, an unofficial (and also somewhat unstable) version by XDA member paulburton has surfaced. Check out the details, as well as a how-to-tutorial after the jump!
There is no getting away from the fact that mobile phones are quickly becoming much more advanced, with mobile operating systems such as Android, iOS and Windows Phone becoming the most talked about software throughout the tech world. The introduction of the Apple iPad in 2010 has also started a trend amongst manufacturers, with a new release of an Android powered tablet seeming to come every other week.
There's no doubt that Samsung's Galaxy S line of Android smartphones is a monumental success. Both the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II have proved exceptionally popular amongst those wanting an Android phone with a huge screen and powerful specs.
With so many different takes on the archetypal smartphone from various manufacturers, it’s often difficult to surmise the size of your next smartphone unless, like choosing a dog from the rescue home, you pay it a visit to Target in advance. Please, don’t take that as a cue to go and create a comparison website though, since we already have far too many of those, and in most cases, they don’t offer anything we don’t already know. Well, that was until the rather striking offering of phone-size.com. Much more than a simply mind-numbing table of specs allied to a pixelated image, phone-size lets you compare the size of your phone, versus the size of someone else’s. Interested? More after the jump!
Ever since the source code for Ice Cream Sandwich was released some two months back, many talented developers have been tirelessly experimenting in order to bring a range of custom ROMs for those running certain Android devices.
With so many different ways of measuring how well both Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems are doing, it's almost impossible to work out just which is on the up and which is on the decline. If you throw enough figures at something then you can always make then read what you want them to.
We're big fans of Google's Chrome web browser here at Redmond Pie, and the majority of us use it as our daily driver on a variety of desktop operating systems, be that Mac OS X, Windows or even on the odd occasion, Ubuntu.
