After teasing users on Facebook a few days ago, ASUS updated their Facebook page in less than 12 hours to announce that the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OTA update has been released for the Transformer Pad 300 (TF300) series. It’s great news to hear this because this is the first Non-AOSP tablet to receive the latest OTA Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update (Motorla Xoom was the first AOSP tablet to get... »
Mozilla’s new smartphone OS, Firefox OS isn’t due to be released until 2013 but it is already running on the Raspberry Pi. In a post on their blog, the team behind the project show us a video in which Firefox OS is running on the Raspberry Pi. In the video it showcases the running of some HD animations at 60fps. There is also an early iteration of the new home screen and some of the ... »
Adobe Flash was really, believe it or not, a major selling point to pick an Android device over a device running iOS or WP7, when it had announced back in 2010 that all devices running Android 2.2 and up would be able to support Flash. Today this is not the case, as Adobe previously announced it would no longer be supporting the platform after Android 4.0, and Google silently emphasizing it... »
The Galaxy S3 is an excellent mobile phone, I actually have this phone myself, but having used Jelly Bean on my Nexus 7 tablet over the last month or so, I’m disappointed to see that the Galaxy S3 currently comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as standard. Well, my disappointment has been lifted. Yesterday it was announced on SamMobile that there is an official Jelly Bean test firmware ... »
Last month, LG had sent out a tweet regarding the availability of Android 4.0 on its Optimus 2X smartphone; that it won’t be receiving the promised Android 4.0 ICS upgrade. But now, LG Korea has reaffirmed its original statement, explaining in a korean tweet that they are still in the process of testing the software on the phone and it would be soon released to the Korean market. Even though... »
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 ... »