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by Stephen Schenck | April 24, 2012 11:06 AMRead OnAs the past generation of Android smartphones ever-so-slowly starts receiving updates to bring them forward to Ice Cream Sandwich, we've heard plenty of promises from both manufacturers and carriers about which devices would end up making the Android 4.0 cut, and which would be left behind. Today we've got some updated info on the manufacturer side of things, with Samsung publishing a carrier-by-carrier breakdown of which models would be seeing ICS updates in the States. Since we've already heard commentary about many of these models and their prospects for ICS before, this document isn't ...
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by Michael Fisher | April 23, 2012 1:59 PMRead OnAnother year, another Samsung Galaxy announcement. This one's not only the most anticipated; it's also the most dramatic, with mysterious textured-liquid-blob press invites and aspirational stellar-themed videos. Android fans the world over are looking forward to May 3rd with barely contained excitement. Will the product live up to such heightened expectations? Let's take a look at the info we have, and do some speculating. Because that's fun. In The First Place, What Is The Product? A few days back, we took a look at what we might expect from a Galaxy S III announcement. Everyone's ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | April 8, 2012 1:00 AMRead OnOK, this one is for the power users that want to have the best of both worlds, meaning the fresh MetroUI on their Google Android-powered tablets. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Asus Transformer owners, check this out! It basically is a theme which allows you to make your tablet's homescreen look like Windows 8 (or Windows Phone 7) with its Metro UI. You will have to flash this one using ClockworkMod Recovery but that shouldn't scare you off if you are a heavy tweaker/modder. To find out more details, instructions and feedback, follow the source links below according to your tablet's make. ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | April 2, 2012 3:30 AMRead OnThose who are Apple fans, or simply follow the tech industry, need no introduction when it comes to John Sculley, Apple's former CEO who decided to come on-board as CEO and help the late Steve Jobs "change the world" instead of selling "sugar water" for the rest of his life while at PepsiCo. In an interview with The Economic Times, the ex-CEO, now 73, said that "Apple has an extraordinary executive team" and he sees "many good years ahead" for the Cupertino-based company. With regards to the tablet market, Sculley, an iPad user himself, said that "the only serious tablet competitor in ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | March 30, 2012 4:21 AMRead OnOur Canadian friends who are running Android and are Bell subscribers will love this! The good folks at MobileSyrup managed to get their hands on what appears to be a schedule for upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich updates for Bell Canada's Android phones. We all know what Ice Cream Sandwich brings and we all want it. So, Bell customers check this out: if you have one of the following phones (and tablet), this is when to expect the update. - Samsung Galaxy S II: April 2012 - Samsung Galaxy Note: April 2012 - Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: May 2012 - Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE: June 2012 - HTC ...
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by Joe Levi | March 13, 2012 5:08 PMRead OnIn a post on their Facebook page Samsung was "thrilled" to announce Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for several of their devices. The post not only told us the European version of the Galaxy S II would be getting the update within the following days, but several of their tablets would also be getting the update to ICS. The post specifically mentions the Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 8.9, and Galaxy Tab 10.1, which will be getting ICS "soon". While that's great news, what's interesting is that there was no mention about when (if?) the Galaxy Tab 7.7 would be getting Android 4.0. Source: Samsung
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by Anton D. Nagy | March 7, 2012 7:02 AMRead OnGoogle yesterday brought the news that the good old Android Market (as well as Google Music) will be rebranded to Google Play. Whether it is something that will help Google take its game one step further is so far a mystery, though Michael is trying to explain Play implications on Android tablets. Our Samsung Galaxy S II, residing in Europe, and running the latest leaked Samsung Ice Cream Sandwich ROM has just received its Google Play update. It replaces the Android Market and the shortcut becomes Play Store (with version 3.4.6). Guess what: our Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 running a custom ICS ...
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by Stephen Schenck | March 6, 2012 4:11 PMRead OnSo far, news about which Android handsets will be making the journey to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and which will be left behind to stagnate has largely been coming from the manufacturers themselves. Some, like Motorola, have detailed support pages up outlining which models should be seeing updates, and when. Other are content to release snippets of their progress on the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Today, though, that news is coming from a carrier, with Verizon publishing a list of devices on its network that are slated to receive Ice Cream Sandwich. Verizon calls this a list of its ...
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by Stephen Schenck | February 27, 2012 9:39 AMRead OnSamsung brought the stylus back to smartphones with the Galaxy Note and its S Pen, and the company's been so pleased with its reception that we've heard it discuss plans to adopt the same input technology for more of its products, especially tablets. Since the S Pen uses a Wacom digitizer, rather than acting as a generic capacitive stylus, adding support for it needs to be done while a device is still in hardware development. As a result, it seemed like there might be a short delay before we started seeing the S Pen on other Samsung gear. Instead, there's now a sign that just such a device ...
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by Brandon Miniman | February 26, 2012 8:23 AMRead OnIt turns out that there will be at least two versions of the Android 4.0-powered Galaxy Tab 2 (not to be confused with the Galaxy Tab Plus), one with a 7" screen, which was previously announced, and now another, with a 10.1" screen. The 10.1" version won't be dissimilar from the Galaxy Tab 10.1 that we all know from 2011: it'll have a 1280x800 display, a 1GHz dual-core CPU with 1GB of RAM, and a 3MP rear-camera and VGA front-facing camera, available as either a WiFi or 3G device. Look for the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 to start shipping in the UK in the near future. We're holding out for Samsung's ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 22, 2012 7:12 AMRead OnSocial Hub, Music Hub, Readers Hub and Game Hub; these are Samsung's hubs at the moment but today the South Korean manufacturer introduced an additional one: Learning Hub. It will be presented at next week's MWC and will be initially available on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE, with support for others coming soon. You might think Samsung took a hint from Apple (and its iBooks Textbooks) but this could go both ways. Regardless, the Learning Hub aims to bring digital textbooks and video-enabled content to Samsung tablets. The manufacturer is planning on having a library ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 22, 2012 6:59 AMRead OnHave a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and you are experiencing touch-related problems? If you decided to stick with a stock configuration or you're running on an Android 3.x Honeycomb ROM -- though there are several Ice Cream Sandwich custom ROMs available, including the official CyanogenMOD 9 pre-alpha -- you should check this application out! TouchScreenTune might (or might not) remind you of those registry tweaks from the Windows Mobile days (oh, AdvancedConfig...); the application basically allows you to custom tune the way your tablet reacts to touch. You have to be rooted in order to take ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 22, 2012 6:51 AMRead OnIf you have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 you probably already got an early taste of Ice Cream Sandwich thanks to developers who live in XDA Developer forums. However, Steve Kondik just let the world know that an official CyanogenMod 9 pre-alpha version is available for you to flash. As you probably know by now, using other ICS builds for the tablet, the camera isn't working, which is mainly due to drivers and code not released by Samsung yet. The same goes for the CM9 pre-alpha. Still, if you want to give it a try, you need to "flash the recovery.img with fastboot, then flash the ROM in ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 14, 2012 4:11 AMRead OnApple is still dominating the tablet market though Android-powered slates are starting to grab a rather considerable slice of the market. It will be interesting to see what the iPad 3 can bring to combat the army of Android tablets with Ice Cream Sandwich and powerful processors this year. However, as far as South Korea is concerned, Samsung's home market, the Apple iPad is outselling the South Korean manufacturer's tablet offerings. The (roughly) 700,000 Apple iPad units sold last year join the other tablets designed in California that existed on the South Korean market before the ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 8, 2012 2:52 AMRead OnCyanogenMod is undoubtedly the most popular custom ROM offering for many Android phones and tablets and its latest iteration, CM9, is set to bring some Ice Cream Sandwich love to Android fans (way ahead of official manufacturer or carrier updates). However, the team is experiencing some problems with closed-sourced device drivers; until those are available don't expect to see everything working as it should (or a port for that matter). Devices like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, Galaxy Tab 10.1, HP TouchPad and Motorola Xoom are on the official support list; if you have one of these ...
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