The HTC Dream was launched late 2008 on T-Mobile (as the G1 in the US) and the UK as the world’s first official Android phone. It originally ran Android 1.5 Cupcake but now developer jcarrz1 from XDA-Developers has ported CyanogenMod 10-(based on the AOSP code of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean) on the oldest Android device hardware possible! It is pretty buggy and laggy (Cellular radios and Rotat... »
Have you ever wanted to achieve higher download speeds on your mobile device? Well now you can with this relatively simple application written by XDA-developers member elban that allows you to download files faster using your WiFi and Cellular (3G/4G) data connection. The only downside is that the device must be rooted in order for the application to use both WiFi and Data simultaneously. Please ... »
The Nexus 7 is Google and ASUS's latest (and cheapest) 7-inch tablet running the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean build. The NVIDIA Tegra 3 it's rocking is known to be very powerful and fast, but now it's even faster with a new kernel from Morfic, the Trinity Seven. This new kernel provides a lot of backend improvements compared to the stock kernel the Nexus 7 ships with by default including ... »
New benchmark results from GLBenchmark reveal that HTC is planning to release a phone that may be the new King of Android. The benchmarks reveal an HTC device unfortunately running Android 4.0.4 instead of the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, with model number HTC6435 (follow up to the Verizon HTC ReZound in the US), a 5-inch screen size with a massive resolution of 1794 x 1080 pixels (126 pixels ... »
Apex Launcher. Known to be one of the most popular 3rd party launchers for Android (along with its alternative being NOVA Launcher), recently had its code based off of the launcher in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. This new Beta release (version 1.3.0, beta 2) brings a lot of new visual and performance improvements that give users who are still running ICS some of the features Jelly Bean brings to the h... »
One of the members of the Raspberry Pi foundation recently announced that its inexpensive, credit-card sized Linux computer will be able to run Android 4.0 soon. Naren Sankar has been working on the port and is making great progress with hardware accelerated graphics and video working just fine. The only missing thing as of now is AudioFlinger support, which is responsible for sound on Android. Be... »
Once again Google’s open Android platform broke new ground for the market share lead, according to the latest press release from Canalys. This time Android surged by 20.5% from last year’s Q2 report to be at a whopping 68.1% of the global smartphone OS market share, due to the shipment of 107.8 million devices resulting in a 110.4% increase over last year (only 51.2 million shipments)... »
Recently after a few developers found several files containing code for Multiple User account support in Android 4.1 Jellybean, zanderman112 from XDA-Developers found a way to actually put the code in action. Just like on Desktop OS's, if the tweak is enabled, the device you are using would have a login screen with many accounts to choose from, with a profile and customized settings for each use... »