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Guide To Root Acer Iconia Tab A500

May 3, 2011 2 Ricky

The Acer Iconia tab A500 was released just a few days back, it’s a 10.1” Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) powered tablet. It is a low cost android tablet priced even below the iPad. Running the latest tablet optimized version of Android,…

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Samsung Galaxy S II Gets Rooted!

April 30, 2011 0 Ricky

The Samsung galaxy S II was launched this week and it’s not surprising that a developer at XDA has already managed to root the device. Thanks to the developers at XDA that devices are getting rooted in about two to three…

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Maxis Ties up with Motorola to Launch Xoom WiFi in Malaysia

April 30, 2011 1 Krishnan

Tablet fans in Malaysia have a lot to be happy about with Maxis along with Motorola Mobility announcing the launch of the new Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi in Malaysia in May. The Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi runs the Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) designed…

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Motorola Sold Only 250k Tablets In Q1 2011

April 30, 2011 0 Annkur

To be fair, Motorola’s Honeycomb offering Xoom wasn’t on sale from the start of the year and its little surprise to me that they have sold only 250,000 pieces in the Jan-March 2011 quarter (figures not official). The tablet went…

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Images of HTC Kingdom and HTC Rider Leaked

April 29, 2011 0 Krishnan

HTC seems to be on a roll with its Android phones after a sulky start with windows phones. Recent leaks suggest a device purported to be the ‘HTC Kingdom’ could be the next big thing from HTC. Although no real…

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Why The Samsung Galaxy S II GPS Performance Doesn’t Look Impressive To Me

April 29, 2011 0 Rahul S

Samsung’s original Galaxy S was notorious for its rather jittery GPS performance. The successor to that phone seems to have fixed that issue by implementing a better GPS chip inside. Folks over at Engadget who had got hold of a…

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Nexus S gets Android 2.3.4 OTA, You Can Get It OTW!

April 29, 2011 5 Aaplap

Google and Samsung  finally launched the Nexus S in India a couple days ago. Those of you who jumped on it get an instant treat: The latest and the greatest Android 2.3.4! This seems to be a minor update over…

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LG Optimus ME (P350) – OG Review

April 27, 2011 0 Ricky

Today we have another Android Phone with us for review it is the LG Optimus ME (P350 / Pecan), it’s the smaller version of the Optimus One with a 2.8” display, running Android 2.2.2 (Froyo), it’s a mid-range phone. The…

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HTC Incredible S gets Gingerbread Update in Italy

April 27, 2011 0 Krishnan

HTC in February announced that that the Desire HD, Desire Z, Desire and Incredible S will receive the Gingerbread update by end of Q2 of 2011. All I can say is, they’ve broken their promise but a good one at…

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Acer Iconia: Cheapest Honeycomb Tablet Goes On Sale For $450, Does It Matter?

April 25, 2011 0 Annkur

Google has rolled out Honeycomb as an answer to iOSes dominance (with the iPad) in the tablet space. 9 months and 15 million iPads alter we saw the first Honeycomb device, the Motorola Xoom at CES 2011 and it sure looked promising.…

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[How To] Root the LG G2X

April 25, 2011 0 Ricky

The LG G2X is the first phone which will be shipped with Tegra zone and, not only that t-mobile is supporting developers to Mod the G2X as they have given Cyanogen a G2X for free it’s a device with great…

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LG Optimus Big Appears In Korea, No Sign Of An International Launch

April 23, 2011 0 Rahul S

LG’s Optimus Big, also known as the LG LU6800 was first seen back in March in a leaked photograph pictured alongside an iPhone4. Back then, it was speculated that the phone would be seeing a Q2 launch. Well the Q2…

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[How To] Root Xperia Play

April 23, 2011 0 Ricky

Xperia Play was released just a few days back and just this week Sony Ericsson unlocked the bootloader of all the latest Sony Ericsson devices, and the result of that is Xperia Play getting rooted thanks to the guy at…

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[How To] Unlock The Bootloader Of New Sony Ericsson Devices (Xperia Play, Arc and Neo)

April 23, 2011 0 Ricky

Sony Ericsson had promised to unlock its bootloaders and finally they have answered the prayers of developers and also the rooting and custom ROM community. This procedure is very simple, we have to just fill out a form in the…

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Google Android Again Pops Up On The Radar For Security Issues

April 22, 2011 0 Ricky

Recently Android is showing up a lot for its security issues, just a few weeks back Android was attacked by a serious malware, but this time its not a third party which is involved, it’s Google themselves. Google and Apple…

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Amazon Going Green With Android Tablet?

April 22, 2011 0 Ricky

Amazon has already set its foot on the Androidsphere by introducing their own Amazon App store for Android. Later they also introduced a cloud based music player. Amazon is also the home of kindle, which was a huge hit. Just…

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Samsung Countersues Apple In Tit for Tat Move, Avoids US

April 22, 2011 0 Rahul S

Days after Apple sued Samsung for copying design and UI elements from their products in Samsung’s Galaxy line up of products, Samsung has filed new counter law suits in South Korea, Japan and Germany alleging as many as five patent…

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Palm Pre Gets Android Gingerbread AOSP Port

April 21, 2011 0 Ricky

There are plenty WebOS fans around and I always wanted a WebOS port for my Nexus One, but I guess that will remain a dream as of now. For now we have a great news for all the Palm Pre…

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[How To] Root HTC Desire HD

April 21, 2011 0 Ricky

We had reported about Sense 3.0 rom port for the Desire HD and we had also posted the guide of how to flash it on you precious device, but many people have been telling us to write a rooting and…

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UK Getting Samsung Galaxy S II In A Week

April 21, 2011 0 Annkur

After all the false alarms of delays and rumors (coupled with wishes) about the launch date, it seems that we have some concrete details on the Samsung Galaxy S2. The device seems to be ready to hit UK in a…

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Micromax A70 successor to Andro A60 leaked

April 19, 2011 0 Ricky

We all know about the Micromax Andro A60 which was released a few months back we also had written a rooting guide for this device, well there is good news for all the guys willing to buy a low cost…

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Motorola Droid Bionic Rumored To Be Cancelled

April 19, 2011 0 Ricky

Motorola had first showcased the Motrola Droid Bionic at CES 2011, it was the first Tegra 2 and 4G LTE powered device to be offered to Verizon from Motorola’s inventory. This was supposed be a low cost Android phone supporting…

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[How To] Put Sense 3.0 ROM On The Desire HD

April 18, 2011 0 Ricky

We had just reported that the pyramid ROM was ported to the Desire HD, this is really big news for the owners of desire HD, who will now be able to use sense 3.0 coupled with the taste of Gingerbread.…

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Desire HD becomes the first device to get the Pyramid ROM Port

April 18, 2011 0 Ricky

The guys at the XDA have done it again, it was just a few days back that the System dump of the HTC pyramid was found going around in xda. As soon as the System Dump was found the developers…

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Will Android hit half-a-million activations a day soon?

April 18, 2011 0 Krishnan

Android, nicknamed the ‘Droid’ is the latest buzz everywhere. Jeff Huber, Senior Vice President of Google’s Commerce and Local, stated at recent discussion of Google’s Q1 of 2011 about the massive growth of Android devices and revealed 350,000 Android devices…

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HTC Sensation In India By May/June 2011

April 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

If you were one of the many Indians looking forward to getting yourself a nice, powerful, dual core Android handset, your options will soon expand to one more handset in the form of the recently announced HTC Sensation. Also, if…

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Skype For Android Has Serious Security Flaw; Exposes Confidential Information

April 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Folks over at Android Police have managed to unearth a serious flaw with the Android version for Skype wherein it could end up displaying confidential information regarding you to a malicious app – should you happen to install one on…

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Samsung Galaxy S Gets Gingerbread Update In Europe

April 17, 2011 0 Rahul S

Good news for all you Samsung Galaxy S users. If you have been patient enough for an official Android 2.3 ROM to be available for your phone, you wait has ended … well almost. Should you be somewhere in Europe…

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Android Help: Installing And Uninstalling Apps

April 15, 2011 0 Ricky

This is a section dedicated to all the first time Android Operating system users. Many people these days are getting Android as gifts for birthdays, relegious occasions, etc. So I decided to create a special section called as Android 101…

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[How To] Flash Clockworkmod Recovery On ASUS eee Pad Transformer

April 15, 2011 0 Ricky

The ASUS ee Pad transformer development is in full swing, now the custom clockworkmod recovery is out for the ASUS eee Pad transformer, which will allow you to take nand backup and also restore the data.

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[How To] Root The ASUS eee Pad Transformer

April 15, 2011 1 Ricky

ASUS eee pad is one device that i would love to have, it looks sturdy, runs the latest software low cost, and the dock looks very nic e and the hardware configuration too is not that bad. Well it is…

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Custom Kernel Now Allows SD Card Support On The Motorola Xoom

April 12, 2011 0 Ricky

Motorola Xoom has been out there for quite some time now but the development for Android 3.0 honeycomb device is going on very slow as Google has not provided the source code for the tablet version yet. Despite Google turning…

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Verizon Pushing Gingerbread 2.3 Update For Motorola Droid X?

April 12, 2011 0 Annkur

It seems that Verizon customers using the Motorola Droid X are seeing an OTA update to Gingerbread! Currently running (at least officially) Android Froyo, Gingerbread (2.3) is the most sought after hack. A Gingerbread build for DroidX had leaked sometime back, but…

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CyanogenMod 7 Goes Stable, We Go Hands-on

April 12, 2011 0 Ricky

Yesterday morning I woke up to my friend Chirag Khushalani’s gtalk message that the CyanogenMod 7 stable is out; and provided me the download link. That was all which was needed for me to get up and run to my…

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SGS2 Launch: UK To Get Samsung Galaxy S II on May 1st! No Pricing

April 11, 2011 0 Annkur

Seems like Samsung has made the final push to prove that the Galaxy S2 isn’t delayed and would launch in the timeline provided. The UK launch date for Samsung Galaxy S II has been confirmed as 1st May. Samsung recently…

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AMD To Join The Android Party

April 10, 2011 0 Ricky

We all know that many manufacturers and developers have been showing a lot of interest towards Android lately. We have seen an increasing number of iOS developers shift to Android, graphics card manufacturing giant nVIDIA bringing the Tegra 2 mobile…

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Motorola Xoom Tablet Gets Priced In UK, Starts £480

April 9, 2011 0 Annkur

The frist Honeycomb tablet to be touched by mankind has finally made its way through UK. Motorola has been going slow with the Xoom rollout and the device has had its own little ups and downs in the rat race…

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[How To] Get Gingerbread On Your Galaxy Tab

April 8, 2011 0 Ricky

We can say that the Galaxy tab is the most sold Android tablet right now, but we are not proud of this tablet as it still runs on Android 2.2 Froyo. Well all the people who are rooted and waiting…

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Leaked: Droid X 2 Specs And Pictures

April 8, 2011 1 Ricky

We all remember the Droid X a huge devious and at one time considered the iPhone killer and one of the best devices out there with a great processor, huge RAM and a big display. Well there has been a…

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Why the HTC Flyer could be an iPad competitor!

April 8, 2011 5 Mr Spock

The second iPad has been launched and we are still searching for the tablet that will provide competition to the iPad. The Motorola Xoom, for all that it had been promising, has not exactly delivered on everything that was talked…