NVIDIA have added a YouTube video showing Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS / Android 4.0) running on the Transformer Prime. Everything looks to be running very smoothly indeed, although that’s perhaps unsurprising with the Tegra 3 quad-core CPU. 🙂 There’s a quick look at ICS running below… Link – …
So, this is a strange one. We got sent a Remote Control Nano UFO toy from the nice people at FindMeAGift.com. It’s ÂŁ13.99 and, if I’m honest, I thought it would fall apart after a few minutes. Why do I say that ? Well, I’m supposedly a serious …
A recent report from security giants McAfee suggests that Google’s Android OS is the platform of choice for hackers currently. The report goes on to note that the levels of malicious software or “malware” targeting the Android OS jumped 37% in the 3rd quarter of 2011, and that …
Over on XDA Developers it seems that the SIRI Protocol has been cracked and this now potentially means that it could be ported or used on different OS including Android!. We are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android …
The upcoming release of the Asus Transformer Prime is eagerly awaited. Any glimmer of information is another factor in my excitement. In the last few days Asus have added a load of information, specs, pictures and the user manual to their product pages. The Transformer Prime is due …
After the apparent lethargy shown by Adobe to support Android 4.0 (Ice-Cream Sandwich) with Flash, it appears that their about turn will be Flash’s swan song on the Google OS. Sources over at Pocketlint have posted that Adobe has confirmed, that whilst it plans to release Flash for …
OK, ignore the pithy title a second and let’s be serious. What is next? Â Where do we go from here? Let’s look at the background. Apple and Google have created and sustained the smart phone market respectively, since it’s coming-of-age era around a 5 years ago. Â We can …
We’re in the middle of writing up our Samsung Galaxy Note review. It sells for around ÂŁ549.95 unlocked and has a large (but hi-res) 5.3″ 1280×800 WXGA HD Super AMOLED screen. It also comes with a stylus, or an “S Pen” as Samsung calls it. Whilst this might …
Alongside the release of their new music store last week, Google also took the opportunity to take their Google Music service out of beta. I previously wrote a hands on about the service, which lets you upload up to 20,000 tracks to stream and download to your Android …
We spotted it as “Coming Soon” a few days back and now it’s arrived… for new customers. The Galaxy Note is a rather large and rather sexy phone which has a dual-core 1.4GHz CPU and 5.3″ screen. Orange look to be giving away some goodies as part of …
The new The Motorola Defy+ has just got tougher. Now there’s a limited edition of the Defy+ – the JCB. It’ll sell for ÂŁ268.80 SIM free and is pretty much the same apart from a JCB case. They’ve also chucked a JCB app on the device too, which …
So it’s now official, Samsung have announced that there will be an update for the Galaxy S to Android 2.3.5 via Kies, so if you live in the UK you’re lucky. It’s apparently rolling out right now, so if you’ve got the original Galaxy S, give it a …
Last week the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released. Phones 4u and various networks all made a lot of fuss about having them in stock and then when it came to it, they seemed to not have that many phones to sell. Phones 4u also increased the price of …
I’m meeting a lot of people at the moment who are planning to upgrade to the rather excellent Galaxy SII. I always agree with them because, in all honesty, it’s an absolutely fantastic device. Just to confirm that, the Galaxy SII has won another award. This time it’s …
Whilst surfing around the T-Mobile Coming Soon section we stumbled on this, the T-Mobile Vivacity. It appears to be a ZTE-built device and has a 3.5″ screen running on Android 2.3 with a 5 megapixel camera plus a further one up front for video calls. Other specs, which …
There has been quite a lot of activity from the Sony Ericsson design team this year and the latest device to be brought forth from their creative minds is the Xperia Ray. This phone is not your usual fair from SE in that it does not fall into …
The all new Android 4.0. Bells. Whistles. Face unlock, a better UI, resizable widgets and more swipe interactions. The Galaxy S2 has now been blessed with the new OS, albeit via a bit of hacking and tweaking of code. Mr Headless Dude shows the S2 in the video …
Sony Ericsson have made an app and a web service that makes displaying pictures on a big screen really easy. There are of course a few things you need to do to get it to work. First of all you need to install THISÂ app from the Android Marketplace. …
On a whim yesterday I ordered the Samsung Galaxy Nexus from Phones4u and it arrived first thing this morning much to my surprise! I’ve been using iPhones since the 3G came out so this is a major change for me and I have to admit I’m a little …
The Nokia N9 is a weird beast. It runs the MeeGo Harmattan OS and has been released after a so-called elopocalypse when Nokia’s new CEO Stephen Elop controversially turned towards the Windows Phone platform, ditching both homegrown smartphone platforms – Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo – into gloom. The decision …
