Now that Asus has kept its January promise regarding the delivery of a bootloader unlocking solution for the Transformer Prime -- just recently released -- the community started to get its hands dirty and they're now delivering a custom ROM for the tablet. We're looking at a stock Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich build with tweaks and optimizations that make the release deodexed, zipaligned, de-bloated, rooted, optimized for fluid performance and usability as well as 1.6GHz overclocked. If you decide that this ROM is something you want to try (and  read more

We're not sure this has anything to do with the upcoming Mobile World Congress but Samsung has been recently granted trademarks for the following phones: Galaxy Rite, Galaxy Heir, Galaxy Awaken, and Galaxy Axiom. All of the above have a couple of things in common: they're smartphones (as per the USPTO documents) and fall in the Galaxy line. According to Samsung's naming convention (with letters Y, M, W, R and S, from lower-end to high-end) we could identify the Rite as an "R" (Royal, premium) handset, the Heir as a "W" (high-tier) device but the  read more

After a not so successful fourth quarter in 2011, when only 200k tablets were delivered to stores (not necessarily sold to users) and a net loss of about $80 million seen by the company, Motorola is trying hard to reach out to its customers and avoid having the Xoom "experience" again with the Xyboard tablets. Motorola's website now offers the 8.2 Xyboard with a free portfolio case ($39 otherwise) and a HD dock (usually at $49), for $399. In the same way, a similar deal is available for the larger 10.1 tablet for $499. The offer is available until  read more

There are a lot of things we already know about the HTC Ville. Since last year we know it will be one of the thinnest HTC devices which will be unveiled at this year's MWC and it will be coming to T-Mobile's line-up (also confirmed by carrier inventory leaks). NenaMark results are in for the Ville and they are looking quite good (at least compared to some other devices). What else do we know about the Ville? There will be a 1.5GHz processor inside, a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display with qHD resolution, 1080p-capable eight-megapixel camera, Beats  read more

Chinese manufacturer ZTE is preparing for MWC and it looks like they have quite a few devices up their sleeves. Hot on the heels of the ZTE PF200, ZTE N910 and Mimosa X announcement, the company just released information regarding its upcoming MWC line-up. A total of eight devices are expected: Windows Phones and Androids. LTE and multi-core technologies will contribute to achieving "ZTE's ambition to become a top three handset provider by 2015." While that's a bold target, ZTE might be focusing on volumes as they're definitely able to produce budget  read more