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 ... »
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... »
With the boom in the Android market, every company producing Android applications is making its own efforts to come in the approach of all the users of smartphone running on Android Operating System to boost their profits. These android applications are usually used by the users to create and share music, pictures and video with their friends. The main idea behind the whole concept is to provide a... »