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by Chris Parsons
Apr 13, 2011
HTC Droid Incredible owners have been patiently waiting for their Android 2.3 Gingerbread update and while we still don't have an actual release date for it, HTC is now advising folks it will ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 12, 2011
Fresh out of HTC's London event today is that the 7-inch HTC Flyer Android tablet will be available in Europe starting May 9. Carphone Warehouse has it listed at £599, but you'll likel...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 07, 2011
In the latest chapter in the ongoing Galaxy S Gingerbread saga, Samsung Finland has updated its official blog with the news that Finnish Galaxy S owners (and other Europeans too, presumably) wi...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 05, 2011
Three UK has revealed via its official Twitter feed that it expects to release the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for its Samsung Galaxy S phones "in the next couple of weeks". However...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 03, 2011
By now, the only ones hiding the fact that the HTC Incredible S is coming to Canada are some of the carriers that are going to be offering it. We've seen leak after leak happen since shortly aft...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 02, 2011
After being the first carrier to confirm the HTC Desire Gingerbread update, Three UK has now given an estimate of when they expect to push the update out to Three-branded Desires. Respondin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 28, 2011
We don't know much about what, exactly, it takes for Motorola to get Verizon to sign off on an official ROM update before it can be pushed out, but we're pretty sure this isn't it. Looks like so...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 27, 2011
Android 2.3.3 leaked out for the Droid X and Droid 2 earlier tonight, and we just had to take it for a spin, especially given that it has an all new skin atop it. We even hesitate to call it Blur, be...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 27, 2011
The race is on to see which device will be the first to get an official upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and a new ROM has leaked out for the Euro version of the Samsung Galaxy S (that's the I9000...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 25, 2011
No, we're not talking about a custom ROM, and no, it's not April 1st yet, either. After announcing that the Xperia X10 would receive no updates beyond Eclair just a couple of months a...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 09, 2011
Development team VillainROM has released a new Gingerbread-based custom ROM for "HTC Vision" devices -- that's the T-Mobile G2 in the U.S. and the HTC Desire Z pretty much everywhere e...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 09, 2011
HTC's Desire S is still over a month away from release, but a leaked test ROM from the upcoming phone has already made its way online, courtesy of MoDaCo's Paul O'Brien. The ROM joins ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 28, 2011
LG has announced that the Optimus 2X -- the world's first (but no longer only) dual-core Android smartphone -- will be hitting Europe in March. Neither carriers nor countries were ann...
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by Sean Brunett
Feb 23, 2011
A minor update to Android's Gmail app has hit the Market that fixes custom labels and improves copy/paste in Gingerbread. If you have custom labels in Gmail with custom colors, they wouldn't pr...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 22, 2011
Good news for long-suffering Nexus One owners - Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread has finally begun rolling out for the original Nexus and its big brother, the Nexus S over-the-air. For the Nexus S, 2.3...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 21, 2011
One of our favorite drinking games is "Guess the OS version." Someone plops down a phone in front of the "Roach" (the person who's guessing), and they have to, well, guess. Wh...
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by Chris Kerrigan
Feb 15, 2011
Live here at Mobile World Congress, we just got word from Eric Schmidt that the next version of Android will combine the feature set of Honeycomb and Gingerbread. Schmidt didn't give any details...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 31, 2011
We've got no doubt that Verizon and Motorola are working on bringing Gingerbread to the Droid X. We said as much in our predictions of which phones will get Android 2.3 upgrades. And so it's little s...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 20, 2011
If you're still rather ticked off at Motorola today and swearing to never purchase their devices again maybe some of these HTC devices might make you feel a little better about the whole situation. A ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 20, 2011
HTC reportedly will ship the first of three planned tablets in March, according to unnamed sources speaking to Digitimes. The initial offering is the "Flyer," which will run Android 2.3 and ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 12, 2011
Yeah, you'll need to take this one with a big grain of salt as some of these rumors have been floating around for a whole now but with that said and out of the way. New information is suggesting that ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 05, 2011
We've looked at the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc before but Sony has just given it an official announcement at their CES 2011 event. The predictions of it running Android 2.3 have now been confirmed and i...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 27, 2010
Another updated feature that comes to us with Gingerbread is the download manager. Just like a download manager on your computer, or the one built into your computer's web browser, it's designed...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 22, 2010
On any phone without a physical set of keys, the on-screen keyboard is one of the most important parts of the operating system. Android has a leg-up over other platforms here, as third-party rep...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2010
Gingerbread on the Droid Incredible? Don't sound so surprised. Now that the source code has been made publicly available, everyone and their mother (hi, Mom!) is compiling a beta build for their favor...
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by Jared DiPane
Dec 19, 2010
With the recent release of the Android 2.3 source code to the Android Open Source Project, we have seen many different ROM's surface for devices based on this 2.3 code. It can be a bit of a strug...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2010
Now that the Android 2.3 code has been made available as part of the Android Open Source Project, we knew it would just be a matter of time before we get it on devices other than the Nexus S. First u...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 17, 2010
For your folks who like to compile and run your own ROMs straight from the source (and who doesn't?), know that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread source code is being pushed to the Android Open Source ...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 12, 2010
By now we've all seen the video and pics from when Andy Rubin hopped onstage showing off the Motorola, Honeycomb equipped tablet and we've gotten a glimpse of the device in a previous blurrycam photo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 07, 2010
While we're all waiting around for the Gingerbread OTA or our Nexus One's, we need some way to pass the time. Bored Android geeks are dangerous Android geeks. Luckily, today's release of t...
