Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a…
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Refresh Roundup: week of January 30, 2012
February 5th, 2012 
Zachary Lutz 
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February 5th, 2012 Jerry Hildenbrand AT&T will begin to take pre-orders today for the Samsung Galaxy Note, the 5.3-inch phablet will be sold in carbon blue or ceramic white, and check in at $299 with a new agreement. Orders are set to be delivered by Feb. 17, just a bit too lat…
Posted in News Tags: Accessories, Android, AT&T, Best Buy, flip case, galaxy note, pre-order, Samsung, samsung galaxy note, smartphone, Smartphones, tablet, Tablets No Comments »45 Best (And 1 WTF) New Android Apps And Live Wallpapers From The Last 2 Weeks (1/23/12 – 2/4/12)
February 5th, 2012 Artem Russakovskii Welcome to the weekly roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Market or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.This is the app roundup. The game roundup from this week can be found here a…
Posted in News Tags: Android, appbrain, Applications, Apps, best, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, honeycomb, live wallpapers, LWPs, Market, new, planetandroid, recommended, tablet, top, worthy No Comments »Verizon Galaxy Nexus Android 4.0.4 OTA package now available (unofficial)
February 4th, 2012 Jerry Hildenbrand Android Central member seanmacanally got an OTA notification on his rooted Verizon Galaxy Nexus, and with a little help from the great crew in the forums got the package pulled and uploaded for everyone to play with. A few caveats: This is onl…
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android 4.0.4, Galaxy Nexus, ics, manual update, ota, Samsung, smartphone, Smartphones, Verizon, verizon galaxy nexus No Comments »Sony Ericsson hangs ten, launches Xperia Active Billabong Edition
February 4th, 2012 Andrew Munchbach Sony Ericsson is looking to start a bromance with the McTwist-loving, Double-Cork-landing, A-Frame-riding masses jonesing for a new Android device. The handset maker has announced a “global strategic alliance” with Billabong to launch the Xperia Activ…
Posted in News Tags: Android, android 2.3, Android2.3, billabong, branding, ericsson, extreme, extreme sports, ExtremeSports, Gingerbread, mobilepostmini, partnership, sony, sony ericsson, SonyEricsson, sports, surf, surfing, xperia, xperia active, xperia Active Billabong Edition, XperiaActive, XperiaActiveBillabongEdition No Comments »Mobile Miscellany: week of January 30th, 2012
February 4th, 2012 Zachary Lutz Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This week, we’ve spotted a leaked Android 4.0.4 ROM for the Nexus S 4G, and we’ve also come across …
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android 4.0.4, Android4.0.4, app, Apple, Apps, Canada, ClockworkMod, clockworkmod recovery, ClockworkmodRecovery, droid 4, Droid4, england, Galaxy Nexus, GalaxyNexus, google, htc, HTC Rezound, HtcRezound, Ice Cream Sandwich, IceCreamSandwich, iOS, iPhone, koush, Lumia 710, Lumia710, mm, mobile miscellany, MobileMiscellany, mobilepostmini, mobilicity, motorola, Motorola Droid 4, MotorolaDroid4, nexus s 4g, NexusS4g, Nokia, Nokia Lumia 710, NokiaLumia710, Peter Alfonso, PeterAlfonso, price, pricing, release date, rezound, Sprint, Sprint Zone, SprintZone, UK, Verizon, verizon wireless, VerizonWireless, Videotron, wind, wind mobile, WindMobile No Comments »Path for Android updated for proper 720p displays, adds Tumblr sharing
February 4th, 2012 Phil Nickinson The Android Path application got itself a sizable update on Friday, bringing proper support for high-resolution 720p displays, as well as the ability to post to Tumblr blogs. Here's the full changelog for Version 2.0.30: New features: Full setti…
Posted in News Tags: Android, Applications, check-in, display, HD, lbs, location, path, path for android, smartphone, update No Comments »Late night poll: Do you keep your phone for the duration of its contract?
February 4th, 2012 Jerry Hildenbrand It seems like there's a new Android phone coming out every week. As with all things electronic, the new stuff looks better than the old stuff. It's enough to drive anyone, especially an Android blogger, insane. But it's d…
Posted in News Tags: Android, carrier, contracts, late night poll, off-contract, smartphone, Smartphones No Comments »What is tethering? [Android A to Z]
February 4th, 2012 Jerry Hildenbrand What is tethering? Besides the grounds for a giant debate about ethics (the kind that you can only find on the Internet) tethering, in this case, means to share the Internet connection from your phone with other devices. There are several ways t…
Posted in News Tags: Android, android a to z, featured, How To, smartphone, tethering, wifi tether No Comments »ComScore: Android and iOS gallop ahead, US smartphone usage approaches 100 million
February 4th, 2012 Zachary Lutz The latest report is in from ComScore, and as you might expect, the news is sunshine and roses for the crews at Google and Apple. Both companies platforms charted some worthwhile month-over-month gains, as Android is estimated to account for 47.3 perc…
Posted in News Tags: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, comScore, google, iOS, LG, metrics, microsoft, mobilepostmini, motorola, Nokia, Numbers, Rankings, results, RIM, Samsung, Stats, symbian, Windows Phone, WindowsPhone No Comments »
