Android

It was only a few short years ago that we had mobile phones that would last for weeks on end without life support enabled. More recently in the smartphone era you are expected to live with near-daily charges. While claims of improving not just smartphone battery life but also battery …

Huawei was the first manufacturer to launch a Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet late last year and the tablet in question was the seven-inch MediaPad. Fast forward six months and it is one of the first tablets to get its own Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. The 330 MB update …

Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru, the technical lead of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) has spoken out, voicing his opinion of the very long waits many Android users face for updates. Following Samsung, Asus and HTC, Sony has recently launched an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Tablet S …

LG has just announced their Optimus True HD LTE Android smartphone will soon be available across new markets in Europe and Asia. Countries at this stage include Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Hong Kong and Singapore. As you might expect from the plethora of buzzwords in the phone's title, it will be …

Asus surprised everyone with the aptly Transformer tablet in early 2011 which combined a 10.1 inch Android tablet and a dock that added a keyboard straight out of a netbook and a battery pack for valued battery life. Since then Asus announced the successor to the original TF101 Transformer and …

Motorola has enjoyed a varying degree of success over the years. It has managed to perform well in the USA thanks to its Droid series of phones but their international equivalents never quite caught on. Motorola has adapted the Droid RAZR MAXX for international users and in the process it lost the …

Earlier this morning we reported that Samsung was going to tease their next Galaxy smartphone at midday today. As midday hit the website crashed (surprise, surprise) but The Verge is reporting that the big surprise is a minute long teaser video that reveals very little. The video (below) basically confirms …

It seems like forever ago that Asus announced the Transformer Pad TF300 tablet back at Mobile World Congress alongside the Transformer Pad Infinity. The competitively priced tablet will be available for $379 and $399 for the 16 and 32 GB models respectively. It's good to see we don't have to pay an …

The most reliable information to date on the Samsung Galaxy S II successor has just been leaked thanks to a Vietnamese website. The website has posted up pictures and a video of the GT-i9300, the name supposedly given to the new Galaxy device due to be unveiled on the 3rd of May. …

Earlier in the year at CES, Huawei unveiled some of the most impressive Android smartphones we had seen to date. At the time no specific launch date information was made public but global availability information for the Ascend P1 has finally been revealed. The 7.69mm thin Ascend P1 is already available in …

The Lava Xolo X900 will soon be the first smartphone to be powered by an Intel Atom processor and is due to go on sale next Monday in India. The handset itself will have 4 inch, 1024 by 600 resolution display that results in an near-retina class display at 295 …

There are a number of ways around an organisation's attempts to block the flow of information to customers about future product releases. But there's always a way around such blocks. Channel sources have confirmed that UK retailers are planning out store space for the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S …

Ever since Asus launched its Transformer Prime tablet back in December, users (including yours truly,) have experienced very noticeable GPS problems. Well, it turns out that beautiful aluminum shell does a pretty good job of blocking high frequency radio waves such as GPS signals. Last week it was revealed that a …

The Chinese phone manufacturer known as Meizu may not be that well known but they do offer up some mighty tempting smartphones. Last year Meizu revealed the MX and said that it was to be available in both dual core and quad core versions. While the dual core version has been available …

One of the biggest court cases in tech history begins today in San Francisco. Oracle is suing Google for $1bn claiming it violated several patents and copyrights. Oracle who inherited the intellectual properties of Java when it took over Sun Microsystems in 2009 claim that Google’s Android operating system infringes …

On Thursday the third of May, a date just two and a half weeks away from today, Samsung will announce its next Galaxy device at a Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in London. On the press invite it tells us to “come and meet the next Galaxy.” It is highly unlikely …

A new lower-end smartphone is soon to be heading our way courtesy of HTC and is destined to be known in retail channels as the Wildfire C. Currently codenamed as the HTC Golf, it will come running with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich combined with HTC's Sense 4.0 skin and …

This week Google CEO Larry Page answered a question about Google's strategy going forward regarding Android tablets. Naturally, this is a topic of high interest to many considering increased retail strength and importance tablets from the green machine are enduring. Page is excited by the current Android tablets already available …

Samsung has just announced retail prices for its Galaxy Tab 2 tablets that will be available in 7 and 10.1 inch models. Starting from $249 the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 will be available for purchase with a 1024 x 600 pixel PLS display, 1 GHz dual core processor, 1 GB …

We never stop smiling at the irony around here. That the world's leading chip and OS vendors have almost no share of the fastest growing technology markets is quite amazing. It's possible that with all of their combined resources, Wintel can pull mobile back and control it – or it …

One of the main features HTC pointed out to us all on their new black-coloured One S smartphone is its unique design process used in creating the phone's body. The micro-arc oxidation process involves running 10,000 volts or energy across aircraft-grade aluminum, creating a ceramic like finish. A finish, according …

One of the most fantastic things about Android is its extensive developer support. While iOS may have the edge when it comes to game development, Android by far wins when it comes to custom firmware, also known as custom ROMs. A popular occurrence when a new device arrives on the market …

Samsung has been the leader of the Android smartphone world for over a year now with their market-leading smartphones such as the Galaxy S and its consequent successor, the Galaxy S II. However their lower end phones have never overly impressed me; so can the Samsung Galaxy xCover (also known …

Just 3 years ago, HTC was the industry's darling. It had moved from clunky old designs to a a sleek new range of phones and was adding in ‘smart' by the bucket-full. It's just announced a 70% drop in first quarter profits. So what went wrong? Before 2007, you could …

It appears as if announcing six phones in the lead up to Mobile World Congress just wasn't enough for LG, among them was the LG Optimus 3D Max. LG is reportedly preparing a new flagship Android that will be up against the HTC One X and Samsung's currently unannounced but highly anticipated …

Ever since Asus' Transformer Prime was released to the masses late last year, owners have been complaining about GPS and to an extent Wi-Fi performance. A later breakdown revealed that the a design issue was the cause. The Prime has a aluminum body, with no plastic RF window, behind which …

Most companies on the planet do not turn over $5 billion a year. To be honest, most companies won't turn over $5 billion over the entire course of their existence. Right now, things are bubbling up nicely for Samsung and its starting to bang in some serious numbers. KitGuru gives …

Google's direct attempt at a tablet in collaboration with Asus is now unlikely to launch until at least July. The earlier leaked design was reportedly ready for a May launch but in an effort to tweak the tablet further, Google has pushed the date back. It turns out that previous …

Today is the big launch day for HTC's latest and greatest smartphones; the HTC One X and One S.  Beginning this morning you will be able to grab either the 4.7 inch, quad-core powered One X or the 4.3 inch, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 powered smartphone from a variety of UK …

The Korean need for national pride is about as strong as the Chinese need to be the world's factory. So what happens when the immovable object (Koreas desire to do everything itself) meets the irresistible force (China's need to do it for you)?  With the launch of Samsung's next chip factory now …