Tag: ics

Fujitsu and Orange launch the Stylistic S01 for Senior Citizens

Last year we went to see James Maynard, Fujitsu’s new product marketing Director. At Mobile World Congress last year they showed off some of their new kit to us as they prepared to push into Europe. They were the “new” boys on the block in the way – …

42 percent of Android devices run Ice Cream Sandwich or above

Google have published the latest details showing which versions of Android people are running out there. Whilst it shows some good news it also contains some quite worrying info as well. Version Codename API Distribution 1.6 Donut 4 0.2% 2.1 Eclair 7 2.2% 2.2 Froyo 8 8.1% 2.3 …

Motorola RAZR i Coming in White

Motorola have today announced a new version of their RAZR i Edge to Edge smartphone. The new version will appear first in Phones4U sporting a brand new fetching all white look. Featuring a 4.3″ Super AMOLED Corning Gorilla Glass display together with Motorola’s edge to edge display, the …

Jellybean Update for Motorola RAZR i on the way

By far the biggest bone of contention for most Android handset owners is the lack of updates or the lack of information regarding updates. Many manufacturers have a page that details which devices will be receiving updates with a rough approximation of when they will arrive.  Motorola is no …

Sony Announce New Xperia E

Sony have today announced the brand new Xperia E handset. Billed as a “No nonsense Android smartphone”, the entry level device sports a 3.5″ TFT touchscreen with a resolution of 320×480 pixels. Running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich the device also has a 3.2 megapixel rear camera. There …

Samsung Reveal new Android flip format handset

A little while ago we showed a new Android powered Samsung flip phone that was destined for the Chinese market. Well, Samsung have quite strongly upped the ante with the launch of a brand new quad core flip phone powered by Android – again destined for the Chinese …

Huawei G300 ICS update next week

Anyone with a Huawei G300 on Vodafone (and at the price it is selling for I would expect there are LOTS), a new software version is due to be rolled out over the air next week which will address a few issues found in the existing version. Costing …

What version of Android is the most popular?

Ever wondered how many people are using Ice Cream Sandwich, or Honeycomb, or Gingerbread? Well, Google (as usual, with most things) has the answer. Data from the number of Android devices accessing Google Play within a 14-day period shows that nearly 26% are using Ice Cream Sandwich and …

LG release Ice Cream Sandwich source code for the Optimus 2X

In a move no doubt prompted by the upcoming LG Nexus 4, LG have released the Ice Cream Sandwich source code. So what does this mean? Well the Optimus 2X was released in early 2011 and it was the first dual core device on the market. It’s history …

Sony confirm Xperia Upgrade plans

The Sony product blog has today released information regarding their Jellybean upgrade schdule for the Xperia range of handsets. Upgrades are often a bone of contention for Android handset owners with many handsets receiving little or no post sales support from the manufacturers however Sony have been rather good at …

Samsung Galaxy Music Announced

Samsung have announced a new handset today in the form of the Galaxy Music. With a 280×320 3″ LCD screen, a 3mp rear camera and 4gb of internal storage the handset is certainly budget in specification.  The Galaxy music will be shipping with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. …

Acer Cloud Mobile Available from Wednesday 3rd October

News has reached us that the new Acer Cloud Mobile will be available from 3rd October directly from Expansys. The new 4.3″ device is set to ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich and is powered by a 1.5Ghz dual core Snapdragon processor.  With 16gb internal storage and …

Galaxy SIII Jellybean roll out begins…..

With over 20 million units shipped in its first 100 days on sale the Samsung Galaxy SIII can be classed as nothing less than successful.  There was however one slight problem with it – the launch of Android Jellybean. Suddenly Samsung’s all singing all dancing newer than new …

Motorola RAZR i – Benchmarked

This morning we had Niky at the Motorola RAZR i event in London. We then got to see the specs and saw some pictures. Later on we got some pictures of some pretty Motorola pr types demonstrating the device. It’s been a hectic day and we are going …

Coming Soon To 3 Mobile – The Sony Xperia T, With Sneak Peek Video!

It has been confirmed today that the Sony Xperia T is coming soon to the Three  network. The flagship Sony handset has a 4.55” HD Reality Display with the Mobile Bravia Engine, a 13 megapixel camera with Exmor R sensor and fast capture, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 16GB internal memory and 50GB …

Sony Announce 3 New Products At IFA – Including Bond Phone

  More announcements from IFA came from Sony.  In total Sony announced 3 new mobile products, 2 phones and 1 tablet. The first was the Xperia T, Sony’s new flagship top of the range handset which is set to feature in the upcoming Bond movie Skyfall. The main …

LG Optimus Vu Global To Launch Globally

  LG has announced details and global availability of its latest device the Optimus Vu.  The device, a mixture between a phone and a tablet (rather like the Samsung Galaxy Note) will be sporting a 5″ screen and come inclusive of 1gb RAM, 32gb onboard storage – no …

Acer Liquid Glow, budget Ice Cream Sandwich phone now available

Earlier on in the year Acer announced a budget Ice Cream Sandwich device called the Liquid Glow and it was due to be released in a selection of colours. Retailer Expansys now has the Black and White models in stock and the price is definitely a wallet friendly …

Xperia XL to add more speed and a splash of colour

Take the Xperia S we reviewed and splash some new colours on. Now ramp up the dual-core 1.5GHz CPU to a 1.7GHz and you get this, the Sony Xperia SL. It’s rumoured to be running Android Ice Cream Sandwich and these leaked shots, plus more at eprice.com.tw show …

Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the Raspberry pi

Some of you have probably bought a Raspberry pi. Some of you are probably wondering what one is. Well the picture shows you what it is. 🙂 The Raspberry pi is a mini motherboard that you can buy cheaply and install a variety of different Linux distributions on. …

HTC Desire HD – No Ice Cream Sandwich: HTC Explains Why.

Yesterday HTC gave more information as to why the Desire HD (or HTC Ace) will not be included in the HTC’s round of updates to Ice Cream Sandwich. The Desire HD was launched in October 2010, and originally had Android 2.2 Froyo, which was later upgraded to 2.3.5 …

Hannspree HANNSpad SN70T3 review

After using the HANNSpad for a few weeks now it’s time for the full review. I thought I should get this review published before my Nexus 7 arrived as that would just ruin my experience with the HANNSpad. First of all I feel I should point out this …

Huawei Ascend P1 Arrives in the UK next month

Arriving on Vodafone in early August, the Ascend P1 from Huawei is a a slender handset which shares some of the same styling points as the S2 from Samsung. It runs a relatively unspoilt Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and will be free on monthly price plans of …

Want Sky Go but can’t install it? We have news

Fragmentation. Android? Can. Open. Worms. Everywhere. Sure, we know that some apps appear on Android and they’ll only work on certain phones. We could get into a big ‘ole discussion about it but hey, it’s Friday and I can smell the beer from here. We’ve heard news that …

LG Optimus 4X HD Unboxing

In the last few days retailers have started to get the eagerly awaited LG Optimus 4X HD into stock. Expansys are one of these retailers and they have recorded a quick unboxing of the device which you can see below. LG’s First Quad-Core Processor Smartphone: LG’s next milestone …

Three Xperia S users receive Ice Cream Sandwich

Now, don’t mis-read that headline. There’s more than three people with the ICS / Android 4.0 update, we’re talking about the mobile network “Three”. They’ve announced that their Xperia S customers can.. err.. “proactively download the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update”. What this basically means is that you …

Xperia S gets some tasty Ice Cream Sandwich

Did you dive into a new Sony Mobile, even though it was “only” running Android 2.3.7? Well, good news, because today Sony Mobile are starting the roll-out of Ice Cream Sandwich for the Xperia S. With the new OS you’ll also receive some Sony extras, such as a …

Updated Spotify For Android Out Of Beta – Now On Google Play

Following the beta launch of their overhauled Android app a few months back, Spotify have now officially released the app on the Google Play store for devices running Eclair (2.1) and higher. The app features an overhauled UI that’s more in line with the Holo ICS theme, and …

HTC Desire V brings us dual-SIM action

Yeah I know, I bet you thought that we’d only see the “One” handsets from HTC this year. Wrong. Since the HTC One X, HTC One V and HTC One S appeared we’ve seen the HTC Desire C and now this, the slightly confusing HTC Desire V. I …

Motorola ICS Videos released

Motorola have released videos demonstrating their forthcoming release of Ice Cream Sandwich on their handsets. The videos detail the differences between the current Gingerbread complete with Motoblur and the near stock Ice Cream Sandwich. The videos show an updated lock screen complete with 4 unlock options instead of …

It’s official – No ICS for the Xperia Play

Yesterday the interwebs came alive with rumours that the Xperia Play wouldn’t be getting an update to ICS because it was sneakily left out of a press picture detailing Sony’s update plans. Today unfortunately the rumours have come true; Sony have come out and announced the Xperia Play …

Opinion: Handset Makers, Not Good enough, Must Try Harder

It is seven months since the launch of the latest incantation of Google’s mobile operating system,  Ice Cream Sandwich. Since October 19th 2011, there have been 3 revisions and the OS is now on version 4.0.4 Within a few days of the release of the SDK, ROMs started …

Sony ICS Updates Update!

Posts made on the Sony Xperia blog today reveal the latest information regarding Ice Cream Sandwich being released for both the UK versions of the Sony Tablet and the much vaunted Sony Xperia S. The Sony tablet rollout will start on 31st May with the Xperia S slated …

HTC Desire C available to buy .. soon

The HTC Desire C went official just yesterday and now Clove have added prices to their site. Priced up at 189.99, it’s set to arrive in the Clove warehouse on May 24th. The Desire C packs a 5 megapixel camera, 600MHz CPU, 320×480 pixel 3.5″ screen, Bluetooth 4.0, …

HTC Desire C appears in rendered form

We previously knew it as the HTC Golf, but now the HTC Desire C has appeared in the Vodafone Portugal catalogue with suitably mid-range specs. There’s a 600Mhz CPU (probably the same one we saw in the HTC Explorer), a 3.5″ 320×480 pixel screen, 4GB of internal memory …

Latest Figures Showing Sharp Rise In ICS Usage.

The latest figures released by Google on the Android Developers site have shown a sharp increase in the number of devices that have Ice Cream Sandwich using Google Play. It has been revealed that ICS (Android version 4.0.x) now accounts for 4.9% of all devices, an increase powered …

Android 4.0 hitting the Sony Tablet S.

Today Sony has come out and announced that they have released the Android 4.0 update for the Sony Tablet S. With this update you get the usual set of ICS updates and optimisations, but Sony also have a special treat for us Tablet S owners too! Sony has …

Asus Transformer 300 Coming to PC World and Currys in May

Asus have announced that the Transformer 300 is coming to the UK in May with PC World and Currys getting early availability, while other retailers will have to wait until June. Selling for £399, the Transformer 300t will come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich running on a …