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... »
For those that don’t know, a live wallpaper is an animated background for your desktop. These kind of wallpapers have been a regular feature on Android for quite a while now, but as of now, you can use live wallpapers in Ubuntu also! The tool we use to accomplish this is Slidewall. Slidewall is a tool that has a couple of tricks up its sleeve – not only does it support live wallpapers ... »
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... »
Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS back in April, every now and then Ubuntu tells me that it has experienced an ‘internal error’ and asks me if I want to send an error report to Ubuntu. The exact error reads “Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced an internal error. If you notice further problems, try restarting your computer.” But that’s the funny thing, I neve... »