Flash Player for Android gets security update
If you head to the Google Play Store this morning, you'll see a brand new update for Adobe Flash Player for Android. While no major new versions of Flash are being deployed on Android, Adobe continues to push out security fixes, and that's exactly what this latest update contains. According to the latest Adobe security [...]
Live wallpapers on the Samsung Galaxy S III
Like live wallpapers? You'll find a couple of interesting new ones pre-loaded on the Samsung Galaxy S III, and we shot some video of them during our recent time with the phone. In addition to the standard ICS live wallpapers like "Bubbles" and "Phase beam", the Galaxy S III features a re-vamped version of Samsung's [...]
Hands-on with ‘S Beam’ on the Samsung Galaxy S III
Samsung announced a slew of new features on the Galaxy S III at yesterday's Unpacked event in London, and one of the most interesting was "S Beam", a new file transfer capability based around NFC and Wifi Direct. Similar to ICS's Android Beam feature, you start by finding a file, photo or video in one of [...]
Some Guys Have All The Luck: HTC One X Hitting Doorsteps Ahead Of Schedule
Sure, AT&T’s One X will officially hit store shelves this Sunday, but you may be in for an early weekend treat if you’ve taken it upon yourself to pre-order the thing.
According to a handful of reports from AndroidCentral’s and Phandroid’s forums, some lucky HTC fans have already received their new Android handsets well in [...]
China passes US in smartphone usage, over a billion mobile subscribers overall
The importance of China to Apple has been discussed many times by CEO Tim Cook and is now clear due to the last couple of quarters of monster growth. China’s sheer population and exploding economy combine to make it an incredibly important global market, and it looks like it may now be even more vital [...]
Flipboard for Android – we go hands-on!
Flipboard is finally coming to Android. Well, sort of. Flipboard is coming to Android on the Galaxy S III. Exclusively on the Galaxy S III, we're told, at least for some amount of time, though Flipboard's website today informs that it'll be available on "Select Android phones" at first, so that could mean more than just [...]
Samsung announces Galaxy S III with S Voice and a bunch of other iOS features
Samsung announced the Galaxy S III today at the Unpacked event in London. Apple’s biggest competitor in the smartphone space, and the only other manufacture making any significant profit, showed off the upgraded 4.8-inch 720P SuperAMOLED display device that now weighs 133 grams among other minor spec improvements.
A few of the features shown off were S-Voice, which is like Siri (on-stage presenter asked [...]
Latest Android version numbers show gains for ICS and Gingerbread
The latest set of Android version numbers has been released by Google, showing details of the spread between various versions of the OS. As always, the stats were collected from devices accessing the Google Play Store during the last two weeks of the month. Here's a quick breakdown –
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich grew [...]
Behold, the unholy marriage of a Tegra 3 game on a Snapdragon S4 device!
One of the greater marketing successes of the past year or so has come from NVIDIA and its Tegra platform. Tegra 2 kicked off the dual-core era in early 2011. And in late fall last year, it upped the game even more with the quad-core Tegra 3 platform.
One of NVIDIA's major competitors in the space, [...]
Revealed: Facebook Messenger for iPad, iPhone app with video chat in the works
While Facebook has focused on smartphones for its standalone Facebook Messenger app, the company is currently developing a version for the Apple iPad. A reliable source has provided an in-depth look at an early beta version of Facebook Messenger iPad, and those comfortable with the iPhone version should feel right at home with the new [...]