Google I/O 2013 recently wrapped up, and I’ve been spending some time ingesting all the information from sessions during the event, including ones I couldn’t directly attend. While Google didn’t announce a new version of Android at the event, something nearly everyone speculated would happen, it did directly allude to new upcoming features that will be implemented in this still unnamed upcoming version. Google allegedly assigns version numbers late in the process, but what is known is that this next release will implement upcoming API level 18. If you follow the progression there’s a likelihood this will be Jelly Bean MR2 (Management Release 2), where Android 4.2 was management release 1. Based on some other discussions and sources I also suspect this might be Jelly...
IFA 2011: Samsung Keynote Introduces Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Wave 3
Not content with one big press event this week, Samsung is breaking some new and curious ground at their IFA keynote. Along with the LTE variants of the Galaxy...
18 by Jason Inofuentes on 9/1/2011
Verizon Will Be Absent From Galaxy S II Reveal
In just a few days we'll be covering the Samsung Galaxy S II event in New York City, and expect to have some hands-on time with Samsung's latest and...
10 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/25/2011
Sprinkle brings Water Physics to Honeycomb
NVIDIA has talked in the past about its Tegra Zone marketplace, which is home to Tegra-optimized games. Well, today they've announced availability of a game which caught our eye...
7 by Brian Klug on 8/25/2011
TouchDroid Project Bringing Android to HP Touchpad
The open source community is wasting no time taking ownership of HP's orphaned Touchpad tablet: a new group called the TouchDroid team is looking to bring Android to the...
18 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/22/2011
Minecraft Now Available for Sony's Xperia Play
The first exclusive for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has arrived. Indie gaming sensation Minecraft, from Mojang, hit the Android Market today in the form of Minecraft: Pocket Edition...
6 by Craig Getting on 8/16/2011
Observations on the Google-Motorola Purchase
If you've been on the Internet for very long today, you've probably already heard about this: Google intends to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion, or about $40...
56 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/15/2011
Google Acquires Motorola Mobility
Google has just announced that they will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (or more commonly known as just Motorola). Google will be paying $40 per share, which means a...
19 by Kristian Vättö on 8/15/2011
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G LTE Review
Using a tablet outside of the home in areas where WiFi isn't prevalent is unbelievably frustrating. Sure it's nicer to use the larger screen of a tablet compared to...
41 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/15/2011
Symantec Releases Free Security Software for Android
Symantec, well known for its extensive lineup of security products on both the Windows and Mac platforms, today released Norton Mobile Security Lite, a freeware security product aimed at...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/11/2011
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: Where Do You Want To Take Your Gaming Today?
The debate over the potential (or not, depending on your perspective) for cellular handsets to supplant dedicated portable gaming consoles was already at the 'dull roar' stage when Steve...
36 by Brian Dipert on 8/8/2011
Samsung TouchWiz UX Review: Honeycomb Gets Skinned
TouchWiz UX is rolling out to Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 as you read this! Samsung's introducing more than just some different fonts and color schemes with this one. But...
32 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/5/2011
T-Mobile G2x Review: Gingerbread-Infused
I’ve been a loyal T-Mobile user for the last five years, so the logjam of sorts at the top of The Big Magenta’s smartphone linuep is particularly interesting to...
37 by Vivek Gowri on 8/3/2011
Motorola Droid 3 Review - Third Time's a Charm
If ever a product has summed up the progression of the Android ecosystem, it’s the Motorola Droid. The first Droid catapulted Android into the mainstream with its first 2.x...
84 by Brian Klug on 7/30/2011
Logitech Revue Slashed To $99 After Poor Sales [UPDATED]
It hasn't been a great year for Logitech, and that's owing in part to the failure of their Google TV platform to take off in a market filled with...
20 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/28/2011
Samsung's TouchWiz Hits NYC And Tab 10.1 On August 3rd
This little e-mail hit our desks today, finally giving a date for when TouchWiz would slide onto Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. We've seen TouchWiz on phones before and had...
4 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/27/2011
Asus Bringing Android 3.2 To Eee Pad Transformers Tomorrow
We're still not sure whether the rumored performance upgrades are baked into Android's latest tablet iteration but we're glad to hear that updates seem to be rolling in quite...
8 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/27/2011
This Just In - Motorola Droid 3 for Verizon
Almost a month ago, we posted about the Motorola Droid 3 popping up in GLBenchmark 2.0's online result browser, with a dual-core 1 GHz OMAP 4430 SoC at its...
39 by Brian Klug on 7/15/2011
Motorola Xoom Gets Honeycomb 3.2 And Hints Of LTE
Two bits of news broke today regarding Honeycomb's first flagship device, the Motorola Xoom. The FCC has gotten their hands on the LTE module bound for Verizon customers' Xooms...
11 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/12/2011
Motorola Droid X2 Review - A Droid X with Tegra 2
Almost exactly one year ago we reviewed and thoroughly explored the Motorola Droid X. At that point, its 1 GHz OMAP 3630 made it a competent performer and a...
72 by Brian Klug on 7/7/2011
HTC Sensation 4G Review - A Sensational Smartphone
I like what HTC has been up to lately. Rather than fighting a race to the bottom with endless soulless variants of the same piece of hardware in a...
107 by Brian Klug on 7/1/2011