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by Alex Dobie
Feb 08, 2012
If you frequent Reddit, you may be aware of BaconReader, a highly polished and fully-featured Reddit client for Android that launched late last year. Today sees developer OneLouder release a substan...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2012
It's been rumored for some time, but now it's finally here -- Google Chrome has landed on Android. Android 4.0 phone and tablet owners in selected countries can now grab a beta version of Ch...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2012
Exynos, Snapdragon S2 & S3 support on the way; Nexus One still uncertain
Work on CyanogenMod 9 has been underway since Google dropped the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich code back in...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 07, 2012
It looks like Chinese consumers might not have long to wait before they can pick up Huawei's new Ascend P1 S. Huawei SVP Yu Chengdong has been dropping a few hints on social networks about ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 06, 2012
Here's one of those good news/bad news things, which we're going to tell in reverse. The bad news is that Swype, the uber-popular third-party keyboard that lets you trace your finger from le...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 06, 2012
Last Monday we got out first look at the HTC Ville, an upcoming handset that we're expecting to see unveiled at Mobile World Congress in a few weeks. Today four new photos of the phone have appe...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 06, 2012
Following reports from some online retailers early last month, we now have official confirmation from Samsung that the white Galaxy Nexus is the real deal, and will be going on sale next week in the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 04, 2012
Android Central member seanmacanally got an OTA notification on his rooted Verizon Galaxy Nexus, and with a little help from the great crew in the forums got the package pulled and uploaded for ever...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 02, 2012
We've seen at least a couple of early Ice Cream Sandwich leaks for the international Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-i9100) appear, and today yet another version has leaked out online, showing signs o...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 02, 2012
Android 4.0 OTA update for Sensation coming "early this year"
Update: HTC has sent out a clarificaiton that this verison of the Sensation will ship with Gingerbread by will get an upgr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 02, 2012
We might not get the Samsung Galaxy S III at Mobile World Congress, but that doesn't mean there might not be something new to play with Mobile rumormonger Eldar Murtazin today teased the Twitter...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 02, 2012
Google has just released the latest numbers regarding who's using what version of Android. These are devices that have accessed the Android Market over two weeks ending Feb. 1. The long and shor...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 31, 2012
So you got a shiny new Samsung Galaxy Nexus in your hands and you are left wondering exactly just what it can do, and how to do it. It's the first device to launch with the newest Android operat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 31, 2012
Behold, the HTC Ville, seen here with Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense Version 4.0.
The Ville (that's more than likely still a codename, which has been around since early N...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 31, 2012
An internal testing Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the Samsung Nexus S 4G has been leaked out of Sprint, containing a new software modem, bootloader, and a 4.0.4 build. Some are reporting this is ...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 30, 2012
Lenovo are the latest company to jump on the Ice Cream Sandwich update bandwagon by announcing its plans to update the ThinkPad tablet.
The Thinkpad has been around since last summer, and while we ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 26, 2012
Goodbye menu button, hello Action Bar overflow! Today on the Android Developers blog Scott Main, lead technical writer from Google, wrote up a nice piece of prose about how developers should m...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Jan 26, 2012
We here at Android Central refuse to ignore a bargain, espcially one as great as this: Amazon is currently selling the Galaxy Nexus for a mere $99.99, a full $200 less than what you'll pay Veriz...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 26, 2012
The BBC has updated its BBC News app for Android with Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich tablet support. The app now offers a larger, split-screen view for tablets running Android 3.0 and above -- the...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 25, 2012
The "official" update document for the HTC Rezound is now live on Verizon's website, which usually means an OTA update is nigh. According to the page, the Rezound should soon be ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2012
Acer's got a decent affordable Android tablet here, but the shortcuts are apparent
Meet the Acer Iconia Tab A200. We've seen a lot of Android tablets in the past year or so. A lot o...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 25, 2012
Calm down, Verizon Droid RAZR owners, this one's not for you, unfortunately. Owners of the international (GSM/HSPA) Motorola RAZR XT910, however, are in luck, as an early build of Android 4.0.3 ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 25, 2012
The Korea Herald today is reporting that the unlocking mechanism on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is not the subject of a new legal complaint filed by Apple.
The Galaxy Nexus was first named as a target...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 24, 2012
The Android 4.0.3 update for the Asus Transformer Prime brought with it some improvements to the Google Apps. However small any changes may be, nestled among them the Gmail application has received ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 24, 2012
Two months after the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code dropped, we're starting to see more exotic custom ROMs appearing for popular devices like the Samsung Galaxy S II. One such ROM c...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 23, 2012
With a new Android device announced ever hour, it takes a lot to make a device stand out from the crowd. Some devices are marketed heavily, some bring new features and others just fall to the waysid...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 22, 2012
What you see here folks is a Windows 7 desktop theme developed by Flickr user David Molina. Ice Cream Sandwich is pretty darn good looking, and David wanted to bring some of that to his desktop PC.
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 19, 2012
If you've been following recent Motorola Xoom developments, you'll know that the first "Google Experience" tablet has just been updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Alongside...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 18, 2012
The ASUS Transformer Prime is getting another OTA this evening, and reports say that the GPS is working much better. If you recall, there has been issues surrounding the aluminum casing and GP...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 18, 2012
As we first told you late last night, the Wifi-only version of the Motorola Xoom is in the midst of getting its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Motorola's just released the full changelog...
