Koush giving us a quick preview of a touch-enabled Clockwork Recovery |
 Posted by Felix Akinyemi - Jan 27, 2012 - 7:36pm |
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Koush is giving us an early preview on the official touch-based recovery, meaning no longer will we need to use the volume and power buttons. Koush posted a teaser video on his Google+ account and the feedback seems to be overwhelming positive in anticipation. And this is just the start, a revamped UI to accommodate the feature is also coming. |
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Google wishes us a Happy Holidays and shows off the Galaxy Nexus |
| Posted by Felix Akinyemi - Dec 21, 2011 - 5:56pm |
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A very crafty way for Google to wish us a Happy Holiday and show off the Galaxy Nexus features, such as beam, panorama pictures, video huddles in Google+ and more. |
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Nexus Ninjas return to unbox the Galaxy Nexus |
| Posted by Shawn Scoot - Dec 19, 2011 - 3:46pm |
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Google has a tradition with every release of a Nexus phone. The Ninja Unboxing. If you are new to this, check out the Nexus One Ninja Unboxing and the Nexus S Ninja Unboxing.
The Ninja Unboxing 3 for the Galaxy Nexus is a new experience. Google went 8-bit on us and turned the Unboxing into an old-school arcade style first person beat-em-up Ninja game. Before you go to the page, make sure you have the next 10-15 minutes free, and ... well, you'll find out how it ends.
Ninja Unboxing 3: http://www.youtube.com/ninjaunboxing3
If that wasn't enough, the game is available in the Android Market, incase you happen to have 15 more minutes to kill. ... |
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AOSP Ice Cream Sandwich build for the Motorola XOOM over at XDA |
| Posted by Shawn Scoot - Dec 17, 2011 - 5:53pm |
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Google has been relatively quite about Ice Cream Sandwich for tablets, so most developers have taken it upon them selves to create a ROM right from the source. Developer, razorbladex401, over at XDA build a ROM from the source for the Motorola XOOM, the "original" Android tablet, which by the way, no official word from Google regarding timeframe for the update.
The ROM looks to work very well, it's fast, hardware acceleration seems to be working, at it's early stage, you can use it as a daily driver. Only thing now quite working yet are the cameras, there seems to be a green overlay from time to time and there are some missing proprietary binaries that Motorola ... |
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3 new commercials for the Galaxy Nexus and official Verizon statement |
| Posted by Felix Akinyemi - Dec 14, 2011 - 5:09pm |
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Samsung and Google released three new commercials for the Galaxy Nexus, to feed our hunger while we wait for Verizon to release it here in the US. Verizon released an official statement regarding the Galaxy Nexus:
The new commercials highlight the 720p HD display on the device, the new panorama feature on the camera and the Google+ interrogation with video hangout for up to 9 of your friends.
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Ice Cream Sandwich leaked for the Samsung Galaxy S II |
| Posted by Shawn Scoot - Dec 14, 2011 - 10:21am |
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The big question on everyone mind is, what's will Ice Scream Sandwich look like with an OEM overlay? Well thanks to SamMobile, we get a preview of an early build of ICS, with TouchWiz on a Samsung Galaxy S II.
Overall it looks the same as Gingerbread, until you go in to settings. The home screen, notification bar and app launcher. The lock screen is from ICS, and it seems that it can be unlocked from anywhere on the screen, not just on the bottom like ICS, what's noticeably missing from the app launcher is a widget tab, right now, all you get is an app launcher with infinite scroll. To notice it's ICS is when you go into settings and see the layout, the menus, etc. ... |
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Google’s response to Siri will be unveiled before the end of the year, codenames Majel |
| Posted by Felix Akinyemi - Dec 13, 2011 - 11:44pm |
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Over at Android and Me, they have been tipped of that Google is working on revamping the Android Voice Action from the ground up, with the project codenames Majel. The way it looks, this is the answer to Apples Siri. Right now we only have a text message command, navigate, listen to, call, etc., just basic commands.
Its not quite clear how Google will implement this, because when Apple announced Siri on the iPhone 4S, Google publicly said that they didn't like the idea of having a conversation with your phone, it just wasn't natural.
If the name Majel doesn't ring a bell, Majel is the name of a computer in Star Trek who interacted with voice commands. ... |
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Early port of Ice Cream Sandwich running on the Amazon Kindle Fire |
| Posted by Felix Akinyemi - Dec 7, 2011 - 5:24pm |
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For the many of you guys out there that bought the Kindle Fire for all the wrong reasons, as in bought it with the hopes of having Ice Cream Sandwich running on it, that hope is soon to be realized. A developer that's not very well knows yet, goes by the name G1011999 on YouTube, managed to get it up and running on his Kindle Fire.
Like all early ICS ports it's far from stable. There are still some issues to work out like Wi-Fi, sound and optimizing it a little more since it seems a little laggy. He will be working on this and pushing his code out to open source. We'll bring you more as it comes. In the mean time we have the video after the break.
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Ice Cream Sandwich running on a ZiiLABS Jaguar Reference Tablet |
| Posted by Shawn Scoot - Dec 1, 2011 - 11:15am |
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Does the tablet ZiiLABS Jaguar ring a bell, well it really shouldn't unless your a big time Android nerd, like us. The folks at ZiiLABS developed the ARM-based ZMS-20 chipset early this year and was design specifically with Honeycomb tablets in mind, but a new video was released by ZiiLABS demonstrating the power of the CPU running Ice Cream Sandwich, on what looks like a 7-inch tablet.
The ZMS-20 chip is a 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with Open GL ES 2.0 3D graphics support and 1080p HD video playback. It runs ICS smooth with no lag, and from watching the video, it can handle 3D games like nobody's business, navigating through the OS is smooth, and pinch-to-zoom on the ... |
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December 19th confirmed for the ASUS Transformer Prime, by ASUS |
| Posted by Shawn Scoot - Dec 1, 2011 - 9:31am |
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After yesterdays (false) report of the ASUS Transformer Prime being released today in Taiwan and December 8th here in the U.S., ASUS has been reaching out to Android news outlets stating that we should look towards the week of 12/19/2011 for availability here in the U.S., and likely to be available online the week of 12/12/2011.
Circle those dates on your calendar, and expect to fork out $499 for the 32GB version and $599 for the 64GB. Still no word on a 16GB version, but it looks like they are keeping that spot empty for the original Transformer, will is currently $399. Check out the promo video after the break.
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