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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 11, 2011
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has yet to officially hit any phone other than the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but since the source code dropped a while back everyone and their brother has been working on ...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 09, 2011
Looking to heat things up ahead of CES, Coby Electronics Corporation has announced a new line-up of cost effective Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablets to be available for Q1 2012. In total, Coby ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 08, 2011
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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took an hour this week at LeWeb 11 in Paris. And leading off his keynote was none other than Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandw...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 07, 2011
Two manufacturers explaining the upgrade path to Ice Cream Sandwich on the same day? It's gotta be a coincidence, right? Anyhoo, Sony Ericsson -- hot on the heels of Motorola's own post -- h...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 07, 2011
Motorola Mobility, on its blog, has done a great piece explaining the steps it has to take before releasing any upgrades to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. That includes getting the source code, mer...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 06, 2011
Archos sends word that its G9 series of tablets, which includes 8-inch and 10-inch models, will be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich during the first quarter of next year. The Archos 101 G9...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2011
Verizon this morning officially announced it will carry the Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition as the XYBOARD 10.1 and XYBOARD 8.2, respectively. Both tablets will launch with Android 3.2 Hone...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 05, 2011
Cheap Android tablets are nothing new, but Sunyvale, Calif., company MIPS Technologies looks to be one of the first out of the gate with a cheap Ice Cream Sandwich tablet. The first version is launc...
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by Jared DiPane
Dec 03, 2011
Fear not Motorola Droid Bionic owners, you are no longer left behind and can join the cool kid party with a taste of some Ice Cream Sandwich. Developer dhacker29 of the TH3ORY ROM team has rele...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 02, 2011
The CyanogenMod team today has dropped a little update on the progress of CM9, its custom, Android Open Source Project-based build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The short version is they're...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 01, 2011
Vodafone UK arrives fashionably late to the Galaxy Nexus party, with today's announcement that the British network is now offering Google's latest flagship device on-contract. Be sure to che...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 30, 2011
The promised volume bug fix for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is now rolling out over-the-air, with multiple Nexus owners reporting that updated software has arrived on their handsets. The OTA package we...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 29, 2011
As is customary with any big, new phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus recently received the teardown treatment from the fearless spudgers over at iFixit. There's nothing too surprising lurking insid...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 28, 2011
LG this morning on its Facebook page announced four of its smartphones -- its top four, in case you're wondering -- will receive updates to Ice Cream Sandwich. The lucky quorum are the Optimus 2...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 27, 2011
Looks like Motorola has another one of its "projects" in the works (the Droid Bionic is in the middle of one), and this time the Xoom tablet is the intended target. The following e-mail...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 27, 2011
A couple of the most frequently used settings options have been moved in Ice Cream Sandwich. The first, and probably most important, is the "Unkown sources" option. That's the one tha...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 27, 2011
This one actually isn't unique to Ice Cream Sandwich, but it's on by default when you first use your phone. The Android Market now has an option to automatically add shortcuts to your homesc...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 27, 2011
One of the best things about using an Android phone is that it's darn near impossible (OK, at least pretty difficult) to lose your data. That's not to say it can't happen, but Google'...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 25, 2011
We saw the first image purporting to show the "HTC Ville" earlier this month, although there wasn't much to see, just another rounded black slab containing a screen of some description...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 25, 2011
Well -- there goes the joke, will my HTC G1 get Ice Cream Sandwich?
No, it's not overly functional. No, it's not extremely fast. But that doesn't really matter. The fact Android 4.0 Ice...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 24, 2011
We'll keep this short and sweet, because we're pretty sure a few of you will be interested in this. The Galaxy Nexus is available to order in the USA.
Expansys USA have the unloc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 23, 2011
Everywhere you look you see Ice Cream Sandwich being ported to one phone or another. Anytime there's a version update to AOSP, it's fun to be an Android geek. And every time it h...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 23, 2011
By now if you've been following the European Galaxy Nexus launch, you'll be aware of the infamous volume bug that results in volume levels spiking all over the place when the phone (or somet...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 23, 2011
There's been quite the hoopla over the past few days around the Galaxy Nexus volume bug -- that's the nasty little issue which results in the phone's volume levels going crazy when it...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 22, 2011
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One thing Google didn't show us when Ice Cream Sandwich was announced in October was Android 4.0 running on a tablet. NVDIA's taken care of that for us and ...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 21, 2011
Read our Galaxy Nexus Review!
That's right, boys and girls, the picture you see here is a SIM free, carrier unlocked Galaxy Nexus ready for shipping to a lucky British owner tomorrow morning...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 21, 2011
Read our Galaxy Nexus Review!
We've received several tips about a possible bug on the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus (check our review) which results in the phone schizophrenically switching betwe...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 21, 2011
If you're looking to give another early build of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich a go on the Nexus S and prefer the ROM Manager route, Koush (a name you should well know and trust) has made avail...
Review
by Alex Dobie
Nov 21, 2011
Our GSM Galaxy Nexus review finds a great platform for the next version of Android -- Ice Cream Sandwich
The past year, like the year before it, has been huge for Android. We’ve seen headl...
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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...
