
Since the time Google released the source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich we have seen a rush in the Android developer community to bring the latest and greatest in the Android OS world from Google to the currently available handsets. Since then ICS has been ported to number of popular devices such as HTC HD2, HTC Desire, Nexus One, Nexus S and a handful of other devices. However, it should be mentioned that Ice Cream Sandwich port for most of these devices is still in alpha stage and you can expect a number of features to be broken Read More >

Nook Tablet is a successor to one of the most popular Android tablets around namely Nook Color that was for sure one of our favorites as we brought you a ton of tips&trick, rooting, custom firmware installation guides and what not! Nook Tablet has been available from November 17 for US$249. This is basically a device with a 7 inches (18 cm) screen, 16 gigabytes of internal storage, a microSDHC slot compatible with cards up to 32 GB in size, 1 GB of RAM, and a 1 GHz dual-core processor. In terms of the computing power it comes packed with Read More >

Last week, we brought you a number of interesting guides relating to the new kid on the block in the tablet market – namely Kindle Fire. One of the cheapest tablets around with the dual-core processor and all the rest of the key features that you might expect from a modern Android tablet. Coming back to the topic in our previous guides we reported a simple method that allows to side-load (install) android apps without rooting the Kindle tablet. Later we provided a simple guide for rooting the Kindle Fire using the SuperOneClick. Rooting gives you much more freedom in Read More >

Samsung Galaxy Nexus is actually considered as a showcase smartphone to show the capabilities of the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich capabilities in its stock glory without the added layers of GUI that we usually expect from other Android manufacturers on their phones, for instance HTC Sense and TouchWiz. US customers are while still anxiously waiting for this first ICS device but as you might know that Samsung Galaxy Nexus has already been released in UK. It didn’t take much time for the first performance benchmarks of the device to appear online and its comparisons to the current crop if Read More >

Tegra 2 SoC brought major success for NVidia and allowed it to enter and gain market share in the highly competitive mobile CPU+GPU SoC market. In fact, its so popular that until recently we used to see some android devices released based on Tegra 2 chipset. Earlier, in this year there were even some rumors floating around that Samsung might release a version of the Galaxy S2 with the Tegra 2 chipset for some markets. Although, it didn’t turn out to be true. NVidia has now moved on to its successor called Tegra 3 (Kal-E1). It was expected earlier that Read More >

I guess it was in this week just a few days back we broke the story that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich AOSP or source code has been released to the developers and we can expect much more momentum for the community-driven firmware ports of the ICS at least for the popular devices such as Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S and many HTC devices such HTC Desire, HTC Sensation and Android device from other manufacturers. From that time on developers have been hard at work to make working port of the Ice Cream Sandwich for the Samsung Galaxy S2 Read More >

A lot of time of has passed since iPhone 4S was released by Apple. Till now many users are anxiously waiting for an unlock solution for the iPhone 4S for example in the form of Ultrasn0w a popular software unlock tool that can be installed on jailbroken iPhones to unlock the device. We are not sure that how much time it will still take for such a tool to be available for the iPhone 4S. But luckily for us there are indeed some clever people out there that managed to unlock the iPhone 4S without using any jailbreak and posted Read More >

Recently, I noticed that Intratech from XDA forums has posted a huge list of stock firmware available for download for the Samsung Galaxy S2 (SII) for the different regions also including the relevant stock kernels and modems if required. Just in case you messed up your Galaxy S2 device or just want to roll-back to the stock firmware for some other reason this is the right place. Here we are going to provide you a simple step-by-step method to flash the stock firmware on your SGS2 device using the Odin. Procedure is actually pretty simple to follow even for the Read More >

Yesterday, we brought you a simple method to run almost any Android app on your newly acquired Kindle Fire and also listed the currently known list of Android apps that seems to work well with Kindle Fire. No doubt that Kindle Fire is generating so much hype these days, first official tablet from Amazon that marks its entry in to a market that has traditionally been dominated by the likes of iPad. Kindle Fire does have a few tricks up its sleeves including the significantly lower price as compared to the iPad 2 and in fact can be considered as Read More >

As in the previous article we reported a simple method to install almost any Android app on your shiny new Kindle Fire. Just have a look at that article if you happen to own a Kindle Fire or expect to buy it in the near future as the procedure is rather simple to follow. If you are wondering that which Android apps are compatible with the Kindle Fire and work with no issues or minimal issues? We don’t have the exhaustive list but PC Mag has listed some of the apps that do work without issues according to their testing. Read More >