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by Alex Dobie
May 16, 2012
Google's reported introduction of more manufacturers into the Nexus fold could be a stroke of genius, but it’s not without its risks.
We don’t often present entire articles of...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 09, 2012
Wind customers with a Samsung Nexus S should get ready for the big OTA to Ice Cream Sandwich, as it appears to be rolling out now. AC reader Vic Singh tweeted in to let us know that his Nexus S was ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 03, 2012
A few days ago we saw the very first factory images for the Nexus S posted by Google. Previously you had to use a community-supplied image to go all the way back to 2.3.4 and then manually flash the...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 29, 2012
Google has released the official Android 4.0.4 factory images for the international (GSM) version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the T-Mobile and European unlocked Nexus S. These are files tha...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 28, 2012
Android 4.0.4 has started rolling out on Wifi-only Motorola Xoom tablets, as well as GSM Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus phones, Google has confirmed. The new version of Android, which has been described a...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 28, 2012
Many GSM Samsung Nexus S owners have been patiently waiting to see when Google would push the next update to their devices, and the answer is right now. Android 4.0.4 is currently rolling out to use...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 16, 2012
Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich was briefly pushed to the Nexus S last December, before being pulled due to battery life issues on some handsets. Now reports suggest that the official resumpti...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 15, 2012
Last week Google disabled the provisioning of pre-paid cards in Google Wallet, following the discovery that clearing app data could allow the PIN for these cards to be reset. Now Google says a fix i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 30, 2012
Just weeks after we saw our first "unofficial" release of a touch version of the popular ClockworkMod custom recovery, developer Koush has put forth a beta version of his own, available fo...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 27, 2012
ClockworkMod developer Koushik Dutta has shown off some early progress in bringing touchscreen functionality to his popular custom recovery image for Android. In a video posted on his Google+ page, ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 04, 2012
The official BBC iPlayer app for Android is great, assuming your phone or tablet is on the list of approved devices. If it's not, you won't even be able to see the app in the Android Market,...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 03, 2012
We passed along the good news on Boxing Day about how Carphone Warehouse had slashed the price of the Nexus S to a few pence under £200. However they seemed to sell out of them almost immediat...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 28, 2011
One of the most anticipated features of CyanogenMod 9 -- the upcoming custom Android distribution based on Ice Cream Sandwich -- is its new home screen launcher, dubbed "Trebuchet." Much ...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 26, 2011
The UK sale wagon continues to roll, with the Samsung Nexus S being offered up by Carphone Warehouse for a few pence under £200 SIM free.
If you're anxious to get some pure Ice Crea...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 24, 2011
Because of the Samsung Nexus S' VGA front camera, face unlock was left out of the official and AOSP builds of last year's reference phone. You know where this is going -- the files hav...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2011
By now you've heard a lot of scuttlebutt about the Ice Cream Sandwich battery bug, and how it's affected the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus. Or not. Either way, we've heard it,...
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by Tim Stiffler-Dean
Dec 19, 2011
Update: Cincinatti Bell's given us an official update on the update, saying that we might not see things push this week, but instead through January. Also, as is the case with Nexus phones, expe...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 17, 2011
We knew this one was coming since the AOSP sources were pushed, and Jean-Baptiste Queru again made it official on the Android Building mailing list. The Linux kernel sources for the Crespo (Sa...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 17, 2011
Samsung Nexus S 4G hacker Beezy has done it again, this time porting the Android 4.0.3 OTA update for T-Mobile phones to the Sprint 4G version. There's no Wimax of course, but for t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 16, 2011
Googler Jean-Baptiste Queru has just announced the push of Android 4.0.3 to the Android Open Source Project tree. This build is for the Motorola Xoom (U.S. Versions), the Nexus S (all versions...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
Want Ice Cream Sandwich on your Samsung Nexus S but down't want to wait on the update to push out over the air? The dowload location has been found, and we've got your update instructions. W...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
We've had unofficial builds of Ice Cream Sandwich on the Samsung Nexus S for a number of weeks now. But today Google announced that the GSM version of the Nexus S will see its Android 4....
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 02, 2011
Researchers at N.C. State University have performed a study of eight Android phones (HTC's Legend, EVO 4G, and Wildfire S; Motorola's Droid and Droid X; Samsung's Epic 4G; and the Nexus ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 20, 2011
You didn't think we would stop playing with the Ice Cream Sandwich AOSP ROM for the Nexus S so soon did you? Trust me when I tell you it's almost 100 percent, and well worth the time t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 20, 2011
Here's why we love open-source software folks. With the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich trunk of the Android Open Source Project code came the ability to build it yourself instead of wai...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 14, 2011
It's a great day to be an Android geek -- the Ice Cream Sandwich source code is now being pushed to Google's git servers! This is the full release of Android 4.0.1, which is the versio...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 06, 2011
Thanks to the talent and hard work of our very own AC Developer Beezy, we've been playing with Ice Cream Sandwich on the Nexus S for a while now. One of the cool things that caught our eye...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 03, 2011
NFC may or may not be the future of on-the-go banking, but for most Android fans it's pretty damn cool. That's why there was a whole lot of disappointment when Google decided to go exc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 28, 2011
So here's the story -- supposedly an anonymous fellow purchased a Nexus S on eBay, and to his surprise found it running Ice Cream Sandwich. There are quite a few visual differences, namely...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 28, 2011
Isis, a joint venture of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, has announced that the major hardware makers of Android (and Windows 7) phones have climbed on board and will offer hardware that impl...
