Microsoft is hoping that consumers aren’t delaying spending and will opt instead to purchase a Windows 7 PC, tablet, or desktop today by offering a $15 upgrade price for users to upgrade to Windows 8 later, rather than waiting for new hardware or for the next-generation operating system to come pre-loaded on a new system. [...]
It looks like AT&T and Samsung are hard at work prepping the forthcoming Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software build for the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note smartphone. A new leaked ROM with Google’s Android 4.0.3 update was just leaked on the Internet with a build number of UCLC3. The UCLC3 is said to not introduce any [...]
An Amazon Kindle Fire update just dropped from Amazon that will make parents rejoice thanks to new parental controls. Previously on a Kindle Fire, younglings could buy movies, books and apps as well as order thousands of pretty much anything they wanted from Amazon. Only you wouldn’t know till you got your shocking email with [...]
Huawei is now making the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich available to owners of the MediaPad 7-inch tablet. According to reports, the software update is not available as an over-the-air update at this time and users must download the update first to their computers in order to upgrade the MediaPad from its Honeycomb OS. In [...]
Owners of the HTC Vivid on AT&T’s 4G LTE network will notice that the newly pushed out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software update will boost the performance of their devices by as much as 66 percent. The smartphone was originally released with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and VentureBeat benchmarked performance of the Vivid using Gingerbread and [...]
Google had promised users who buy into their own branded Nexus line of smartphones that Nexus products will be among the earliest products to get software updates. Unfortunately, for Google’s Nexus S and Nexus S 4G owners, the wait for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is still happening and with devices from other third-party manufacturers–like [...]
After being announced at Mobile World Congress late last month, the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update is starting to become available on AT&T’s network for owners of the HTC Vivid. At this time, early users who are reporting the availability of the software upgrade are noting that the carrier is not yet pushing out [...]
HTC had detailed additional information for the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software update for a number of its phone on its blog. The company announced that its in the early stages still for deploying Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the HTC Sensation and the Sensation XE and that the Ice Cream Sandwich update [...]
After having a false start, Samsung has finally announced that Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software update is now beginning to roll out for its flagship second-generation smartphone, the Galaxy S II. The update is rolling out first to unlocked customers in Europe and South Korea, with other geographic regions to follow. According to [...]
Samsung had initially confirmed that the unlocked GSM version of its flagship Galaxy S II smartphone will be receiving the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update starting this Saturday, March 10. Unfortunately, though, the company subsequently alerted users via Twitter that the date is incorrect. It looks like Samsung may have prematurely jumped the gun, or [...]
After having re-branded its digital storefronts from Android Market to Google Play, early problems with the Google Play app forced Google to quickly deploy and push out a new update. Early adopters to the Google Play storefront noticed that some of the link to the store was broken and even if the store loaded, apps [...]
After the release of the Nokia Belle software update for Nokia’s Symbian^3 smartphone, Nokia is ready to deploy a second software update to its newer Symbian devices dubbed Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1. And despite being lumped under the Belle release–rather than get a full name change to the next Nokia OS called Nokia Carla–Feature [...]
At Mobile World Congress, HTC had let it slip that the company’s HTC Vivid Android smartphone, which is available in the U.S. under carrier AT&T, will be getting an update in the coming weeks that will bring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as well as Beats Audio support to the smartphone. The first feature, Android [...]
In addition to hearing that Nokia may be providing an upgrade path to its earlier Symbian^3 devices, including the venerable Nokia N8, to the next-generation of Symbian OS called Nokia Carla, we’re also seeing for the first time in photo of what Nokia is planning as a hardware successor to the camera phone king. The [...]
As Acer had announced that its Iconia Tab A500 will be getting an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in mid-April, rival Asus has announced that the original Eee Pad Transformer slate will be getting its upgrade in March. The Eee Pad Transformer, launched at the Consumer Electronics Show a year ago, debuted to [...]
While Acer Iconia Tab A200 users have started to see Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades hit their devices recently, owners of the Iconia Tab A500 will have to wait just a little bit longer. According to Acer Australia and New Zealand, Android 4.0 won’t be available to the original Android-powered Iconia Tab A500 until [...]
Sprint is getting the ball rolling as it preps a number of its Android smartphones to be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. After news that the Now Network was working to ready the delectable frozen desert for the Epic 4G Touch, a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone with 4G WiMax support and a [...]
It looks like Sprint may be among the first carrier to deploy the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to its Galaxy S II smartphone variant. The Epic 4G Touch offers a larger 4.5-inch display, compared to the international GSM version which has a 4.3-inch display, dual-core processor, 8-megapixel camera, and a Super AMOLED Plus [...]
A major new software update will be coming to Motorola’s fitness-centric Android smart watch come this March 7th that will bring a host of new features. The software will allow users to track more types of workouts and make the watch more intuitive to use for first-time users out of the box. According to a [...]
It appears that Motorola and Verizon Wireless are readying a new software update for the Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX smartphones, which are essentially based on the same software and design except that the latter has a much more capacious battery while retaining a still slim form factor. The software update for both devices are [...]
In addition to launching a white variant of the original HTC Sensation on March 1 with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box, it appears that HTC will be prepping its entire Sensation line for Ice Cream Sandwich, including the HTC Sensation XE and the HTC Sensation XL. The update will be delivered [...]
In another Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich leak for Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S II smartphone, we’re seeing a more stable build of the Android operating system. The engineering build bears the version I9100XXLPB and has a date of January 29. The version combines Google’s Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich along with Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz user [...]
HTC had promised that it will be offering Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates to select phone models in 2012, but the company has not been specific on a timeframe as to when that would happen. Fortunately, a user who recently purchased the HTC Sensation XE Android smartphone had asked HTC in a Twitter message [...]
According to the Norway regional Facebook page for Samsung, the company has announced that the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will be coming soon to two handsets–the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Note–before the end of the first quarter of this year. It looks like Norway may be among the first countries where [...]
Verizon Wireless is beginning to deploy a new firmware update for the 4G LTE HTC Rezound smartphone, which was the first device to debut with Beats Audio, 4G LTE, and a 720p HD high resolution display. Though considered a minor software update, the update, delivered to users over the air, brings a number of welcomed [...]
After being on store shelves for just under a week, Verizon Wireless is already beginning to push out a minor software update for the LG Spectrum, a phone that sports dual-core processing power, a 4.5-inch 720p HD IPS display, and support for 4G LTE. The Spectrum is positioned as a successor to the LG Revolution, [...]
After the Nokia Anna and Nokia Belle software update for the Symbian operating system, it appears that the Finnish smartphone-maker has Carla and Donna on deck as future software updates. According to dsmobile, it appears that Nokia may be working on a port of its swipe-based UI, which debuted on the company’s version of the [...]
Samsung is prepping a new software update for its Galaxy Note, a device that can make voice and data calls with a large 5.3-inch high-resolution screen. Chief among the update is a new keyboard, which brings a number of new functionality. The first new change of the Galaxy Note’s on-screen keyboard is an always visible [...]
Although Sprint is now focusing on its 4G LTE smartphones and network moving forward, the carrier still has three planned software updates, one for each of its high-end smartphones released over the last two years. The first one goes to the original Epic 4G, which is the carrier’s keyboarded variant of the Samsung Galaxy S [...]
Following the debacle surrounding the locked bootloader issue on Asus’ quad-core Transformer Prime Android tablet, it appears that Asus is trying to rectify some early wrongs. The outfit is offering up its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to early adopters of its Transformer Prime tablet come January 12. ASUS has been working hard to [...]
Verizon Wireless is preparing a software update for its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet made by Samsung with embedded 4G LTE wireless broadband. The update is expected to hit at any time now and will bring a number of enhancements to the lightweight slate along with Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz user interface overlay on top of the [...]
In addition to landing on Sony Ericsson’s line of XPERIA smartphones, Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform will also be hitting Sony’s tablet. The Japanese consumer electronics giant had recently introduced two tablet models, the Sony Tablet P and the Sony Tablet S, and Ice Cream Sandwich is expected on both models according to [...]
Sprint is beginning to roll out its Android Honeycomb update for the carrier’s debut tablet, the HTC Flyer, which is the first tablet that Sprint had supported on its Network with embedded 3G CDMA and 4G WiMax radios. The 7-inch tablet is a variant of the HTC Flyer and comes with an active digitizer for [...]
Samsung Mobile has just announced that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will be made available on the company’s latest range of Android smartphone and tablet releases under the Galaxy brand. The update coming in the first quarter 2012 will be made available for the Galaxy S II, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab [...]
It’s hard to believe that the HTC Thunderbolt, a smartphone that’s well under a year old, was the first smartphone to grace Verizon’s 4G LTE network. In the short time of the Thunderbolt’s existence, we’ve seen numerous phones launch and even the first Google Nexus launching on Verizon in the form of the Galaxy Nexus. [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
