After a huge backlash in 2011, HTC changed their strategy and said they would start allowing customers to unlock the bootloaders on their devices. Over the past six months HTC has unlocked over 45 devices, but it looks like the AT&T One X might not be participating in that program quite yet. Android hacker Paul O’Brien of [...]
Happy Cinco de Mayo! We hope everyone is out enjoying the weekend with their friends and family, but we also wanted to share some of the liveliest discussions from our community this week. We recently launched Threads so our users could share their voice and talk about the topics that matter the most to them. [...]
Scalado, developers behind the magical Rewind and Remove camera apps, just shared a video that shows their vision for the future of mobile imaging. I think you will agree it’s pretty rad. Would you like to have this in your mobile device?
Think you could game on a tablet for 26 hours in a row? Ever dream that your name would appear in the Guinness Book of World Records? Want a shot at $50,000 in cash prizes? Today Qualcomm announced they are working with the Guinness Book of World Records to host the first ever Snapdragon Gaming [...]
The Pebble smartwatch is on fire, even though the first units don’t ship out to customers for another five months. Application developers have taken notice of the buzz and today RunKeeper announced they would become the first Pebble app partner. A company blog post shared the RunKeeper team’s excitement about the news. “When Pebble approached us [...]
Does the processor found inside your mobile device really matter? The average consumer doesn’t care what CPU is featured inside their smartphone, but it’s always a popular topic among the hardcore crowd. Today’s hottest mobile chips are NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4, so we put them through a round of benchmarks and experiences [...]
Every week we cover Android gaming on Wednesday, followed by Top 10 app updates on Friday. Now every Monday we will look back and see which ones were the most crowd-pleasing among our audience. Read on for the 10 most popular Android apps from your peers. 1. AfterFocus AfterFocus MotionOne PLAY QR POWERED BY APPAWARE For the second week [...]
In the world of tech, sometimes the jokes just write themselves. When you have a platform that’s as open as Android is, it makes sense that app developers would write amusing applications that are designed to make us laugh more than actually being useful. We decided to look for off the wall apps just because [...]
T-Mobile has been silent about its plans to update current phones to Android 4.0, but our friends at TmoNews have managed to get their hands on an internal document which reveals T-Mobile’s current Ice Cream Sandwich update timeline. According to the document, the Samsung Galaxy S II (which was not listed on Samsung’s Android 4.0 [...]
