News tagged "Android"

We reported a couple of days back that HTC is seeding the 2.3.5 Gingerbread update to the Incredible S with the Desire HD in the waiting list. HTC UK have confirmed that the 2.3.5 update has been released in the UK for the Incredible S and...

Samsung execs can pop the champagne early - in 2011, they sold more phones than they've sold ever before, a cool 300 million units. That's up from 280 million in 2010, which itself was a big improvement over 2009. The South Korean company is...

We are surprised to say the least, but a fact is a fact, folks - Huawei has released an official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for its U8860 Honor handset (you can check out our hands-on impressions of it here). This makes the Chinese maker of...

Back in September Samsung announced it would release their flagship Galaxy S II device in new flavors. The South Korean exclusive Galaxy S II LTE and the Galaxy S II HD LTE were just released on the local market and guess what, they now have white...

HTC has just started seeding the latest firmware update for their Incredible S Android smartphone. It's quite a major bump, bringing the Android version up to 2.3.5 and the Sense UI 3.0. Reports about the over-the-air update have been coming from...

Panasonic announced a prototype of a smartphone they will release globally as part of their plan to get back to the global smartphone map. They teased with a few specs and released rendered images of the phone. The prototype phone by...

No one likes waiting for software updates, but preparing such an update for release turns out to be a tougher ordeal than most people suspect. Sony Ericsson detailed their procedure of updating, which explains why we'll have to wait a while before...

LG is yet to officially announce the next Prada phone, but we already have its first benchmark. The results of the LG P940 (that should be the Prada K2's model number), which should make its public debut on December 14, were posted on the AnTuTu...

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt took part at the LeWeb conference today to discuss all things Google. Naturally, Android was discussed throughout as well. On the topic of Android, Schmidt made a statement that "Android is ahead of the iPhone...

Great news for all Sony Ericsson Xperia phone owners, who have been eagerly waiting for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to run on their devices. A Sony employee has tweeted, rather optimistically, that ICS should be expected to arrive in the very...

Sony Ericsson is really having a hard time keeping their Xperia Arc HD smartphone under wraps. Their upcoming flagship droid broke loose again and appeared on a couple of live shots, confirming some of its specs in the process. The smartphone...

Google announced an impressive achievement for its mobile OS today - the ten billionth app download in its Android Market. While the milestone is impressive enough on its own, it is the rate of growth which is truly staggering - four billion of...

Verizon is on a roll today - the carrier just announced a couple of new Android tablets to go with the white Motorola Droid RAZR. The DROID XYBOARD tablets come in 10.1" and 8.2" flavors and carry pretty attractive price tags. The fancy names...

Verizon has officially announced that a white version of the Motorola DROID RAZR will hit shelves in time for the holiday season. Besides the color of the frame, nothing has really changed in the smartphone hardware. It features the same...

The Verizon Galaxy Nexus rumor train is going at full speed. Today we got a new story about the pricing of the Android Ice Cream Sandwich pioneer on the big red US network. Wall Street Journal has it that, despite earlier rumors pointing at a...

Meizu, the Chinese brand known for their controversial designs that closely resemble a certain product from Cupertino, has announced a new Android smartphone called the Meizu MX. Named after the first two letters from the Chinese characters of the...

Flyer is HTC's first tab announced back in February and released in May with Android 2.2 Froyo. Later, it became clear the Flyer will be getting Honeycomb treatment later this year. Well, the long wait is over. The Android 3.2 Honeycomb firmware...

It seems that the elusive Asus Padfone is about to finally materialize. The smartphone that can convert to a tablet is now said to come in early 2012 and it will get a nice specs boost to make it up to us for the delay. According to the latest...

We are no strangers to the Sony Ericsson Nozomi, which has leaked a couple of times before. And now to put any doubts of the phone's looks to rest, a high-res press photo of the device has leaked. From this press image we can clearly spot the...

In collaboration with China Telecom, Samsung has unveiled the SCH-W999 Android smartphone. It's a clamshell phone with two 3.5-inchers of WVGA resolution - one on the inside and one on the outside. Both screens are of the SuperAMOLED variety too,...