Hugo Barra on stage announcing Android 4.1 Jellybean at Google I/O Only a month ago, Google had updated the Android Distribution chart to list ICS installs at 10.9%. Now three weeks after the official release of Android 4.1 Jellybean, Google has once again updated the chart, revealing that Android 4.0 (up 5 percent) now powers 15.9% of Android devices and Jellybean at 0.8%. Unfortunately,... »
[hr] The Samsung Galaxy S III is well-known to be among one of the best feature-packed smartphones of today, with features like “Smart stayâ€, “S Beam†and “Pop up playâ€, users experience things included in Samsung’s Nature UX that Stock Android and other Android skins currently just don’t offer natively. Fortunately, you can now get “Pop up playâ€-like functionality on y... »
Anthony Esposito from the No One Here Yet blog has very kindly created a RefuGeeks Android app for us. Version 1.0 was released last night and I’m currently working on getting it added to the play store. It is basically an app interface for the website along with some really cool links to our social media sites, contact page and an awesome about page where you will be able to learn a little... »
I GIVE UP!!!! Today I’ve been working through my mountain of daily emails and in the process I’ve been doing things like manipulating documents in QuickOffice Pro, sending and receiving emails and also general things like checking Google+. With it being Monday today, I have been much busier than on previous days, so I have really felt it today. I’ve just finished posting the Jump... »
[hr] 22/07/2012 17:45 Ok, so it’s a sunny Sunday afternoon here in England, I’ve been out at the Zoo all afternoon with my lovely girlfriend so I haven’t really had a chance to do much geekery on my tablet. Plus my in box has been quiet due to it being a Sunday. However, I have been doing general things like catching up on Google+, replying to the few emails I have received and a... »
[hr] 19/07/2012 23:57 Ok, so this is the second post I’ve written on my tablet, the first being the announcement of this week with only my tablet… Unfortunately it’s a case of so far, not so good. The announcement post of around three paragraphs would have ten mere minutes to bash out on my laptop – on my tablet it took over 45 minutes! This is because I couldn’t uplo... »
Guest author Mike Stone recently wrote about his experiences of using only his tablet whilst on holiday. So, that got me thinking, I wonder how I would get on using only my tablet for a whole week? I received my shiny new Google Nexus 7 last week so this seemed like the perfect time to try it out. So for the next week, I will be using only my tablet whilst at home. I obviously can’t use my t... »
Firefox OS, codenamed ‘Boot 2 Gecko’ is a fully web-based mobile OS that Mozilla hope will take the smart phone market by storm. This of it like ChromeOS for your phone.Having Linux underneath (like Android), Firefox OS will support all of the good stuff you have become accustomed to in your smart phones including open HTML5 web apps (again, like Chrome).Firefox are releasing daily bui... »