Along with the new wallpapers and ringtones, the Samsung Galaxy S4 ROM dump also made the new S Voice app available for download. It’s supposedly working well on the Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note II and Nexus 4, though there have been reports of some issues with AOSP-based ROMs. S Voice is based on...
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At Fulton Innovation’s booth at the 2013 CES, we received a tech demo of the new eCoupled two-way wireless charging solution between tablets and smartphones. Essentially, a tablet that’s being charged wirelessly can actually be used to wirelessly charge a Qi-enabled mobile phone. By placing the two devices back-to-back, the power transfers wirelessly between...
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An early build of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has leaked out for Verizon’s Motorola DROID RAZR HD and DROID RAZR MAXX HD smartphones. The leaked 9.1.39 build is available to flash for advanced owners who are brave enough to put their devices at risk. Its stability is unclear at the moment, but the leakster...
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The Google Play Store, formerly Android Market, received an update for select devices already running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Asus Nexus 7 from Google I/O 2012). We’re not sure when other iterations of Android will receive the update over the air by official means, but you can manually download the...
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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has a beautiful 4.65-inch 720p HD display, but that measurement can be a bit misleading since a good portion of the screen is constantly occupied by a row of on-screen navigation buttons. Unless you only use the Galaxy Nexus as a dedicated YouTube player, you’ve probably noticed that very few...
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A new Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM, labeled I9100XXLPB and dated January 29, has leaked for the Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone. The ROM is believe to still be in beta/alpha stages, but it seems fairly stable. That’s a good sign considering the update is expected to be officially released in March 2012...
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One of the big upsides about Amazon’s Kindle Fire is the Silk Web Browser that comes preloaded on the tablet. Silk is notable for using the cloud to process and render pages. Well, the creative minds at XDA-developers have successfully ported the Silk browser to other Android devices. The kicker is that you’ll need...
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Ice Cream Sandwich is the latest iteration of Android, but can it run on legacy hardware like the HTC G1? Yes it can! Thanks to jcarrz1 from XDA-developers, there’s now a ROM floating around comprised of the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich that can run on the...
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The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich keyboard port (for use on Gingerbread/Froyo), which was recently released to the Android Market by johntanmi, has been updated. You’ll be happy to hear voice input now works like a charm. We’ve also filmed an updated video demo to showcase the speech to text feature, typing, word suggestions/corrections,...
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Update: the keyboard port has been updated with working voice input! Check out our updated video. The new keyboard from Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has been extracted and tweaked to work with Android 2.2 Froyo and 2.3 Gingerbread smartphones. Yes, that’s right, the keyboard that’s featured on the hot, new Samsung Galaxy Nexus....
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The Samsung Nexus S is scheduled to eventually get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich officially, but there’s a way to get an unofficial build sooner. Kwiboo, from XDA-Developers, has ported Ice Cream Sandwich to the Nexus S using the source code recently released by Google. While many features work well, it’s still far from...
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Samsung already confirmed that their highly popular Galaxy S II smartphone will be updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. However, advanced users will likely want it sooner rather than later, so it’s encouraging to see an unofficial port already running on the device. The ICS build on the GS2 was compiled using the...
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Ever wish you could group shortcuts together and place them under a single folder tile on the Windows Phone 7 Start screen? That’s what the guys at WindowsPhoneHacker have accomplished for devices that are developer unlocked. The Folders application requires a Mango device that is developer unlocked. We also must note that the setup...
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Google Music 4.0.1, found on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has been ripped from the unreleased Samsung Nexus Prime (Galaxy Nexus) smartphone for all to download. The app seems to be completely redesigned with a new user interface, improved controls, and more options. Grab the Google Music 4.0.1 APK (multiupload) for your Android phone...
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The Motorola Xoom (WiFi vesion) recently received an update (HTK75D) and with it came a new version of the Android Market (build 3.1.6). It’s essentially the same Market we saw pushed to Android smartphones over the past few months, but now it’s optimized and working on Honeycomb tablets – finally. In this video, we...
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