After the runaway success of Samsung's Galaxy S Android phone, it was always on the cards that the company would bring a successor to market. Now the imaginatively named Galaxy S II is on the scene - and if pre-orders are anything to go by, it's going to outsell Apple's iPhone 4. In Korea at least.
Samsung's Galaxy S II has barely been launched and thanks to developer Chainfire of XDA-Developer fame, it has been rooted already for full file system access.
Fring has been my favorite video chat app that I use on my Galaxy Tab. I have always preferred using it because of multi-OS support for the video chat. Furthermore, the video chat always went through even if the called party had no front facing cam on his/her device. Now, Fring has just gotten even better with the four-way free video calls enabled for just everyone on the planet.
With Google I/O on the horizon, the Android world was quietly hoping for more than a new release of Gingerbread to be shown, and if one particular tweet is to be believed, we could be in for some native video calling goodness coming to the platform.
With Samsung's Galaxy S II landing in stores in just a few short days now, buyers don't have long to wait before they can get their hands on all that loveliness. Packing a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM to power that massive 4.3inch WVGA screen the replacement for the talismanic Galaxy S is sure to be a crowd pleaser - and you can get a little slice of the fun right now.
Google's Android mobile operating system could be about to score a massive new group of users, if Wired are to be believed. The claim is that a new wartime smartphone is being tested by the US Army, dubbed Joint Battle Command Platform.
It's all kicking off these days with what seems like the whole internet, nay they whole planet going into meltdown over the fact the iPhone and even Android phones are tracking our every move. Thankfully however not everyone is jumping on the hysteria bandwagon.
Chances are you're familiar with the web-wide overreaction to news that iOS devices have been collecting location data about us for some time, but are Apple the only one's collecting this data? Turns out, writes TheNextWeb, Google's Android is also in on the act.
It's taken 4 months but the final release of CyanogenMod 7.0 is ready, and it's available to download right now. Possibly the Android community's favorite custom firmware, CyanogenMod's 7th incarnation comes with support for 30 devices, including some old favorites.
Ah, Fring. Love them or hate them, they're one of the few real VoIP competitors to Skype and that makes them important. Now the plucky challenger is looking to get one over its larger competitor by being the first to offer group video chat from mobile devices.
