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The HTC One is everywhere right now and if HTC can get the supply chain sorted out they are onto a sure fire winner.  One little piece of criticism it has received is the fact it ships with Android 4.1.2 when 4.2.2 had been out so long, it is also one of the areas that puts it behind the Samsung ... Read More »

Big news, and while 24 hours have not yet passed since this happening, I feel bad for posting it this late. Nexus 4, Google’s amazing device which is being sold at the Play Store for only £239 (8GB) and £279 (16GB) is now available in the UK Stock. It went live at 3pm GMT two days ago, and while we ... Read More »

Samsung today, have released the Samsung Xcover 2, their most durable device to date. This is for those of you that love the outdoor lifestyles whether, climbing, walking the hills or underwater. Let’s not forget all of you that work out-doors as well, this could well be the ideal smartphone for you. The GALAXY Xcover 2 is optimized to endure ... Read More »

Sony, Sony, Sony. You do like your developer community and they do love you judging by a popular XDA vote too recently. Sony have now been giving back to the community more and more since last year. The official Jelly Bean update for the Xperia T isn’t done and ready yet but, a little sneak peak, an early alpha ROM ... Read More »

Chrome for Android. We all wanted it and we all got it. Where is the continued improvements and experimental features like we see the desktop platform’s bigger brother? Well with the new Chrome Beta Google released we now have that too. Changes that will make their way into the stable version you can now test and see first with the ... Read More »

Tapatalk HD for tablets, has finally come out of beta testing and will be releasing final 1.0 to Google Play with launch price of $0.99 (£0.62) on Jan 14. The following days the price will increase. Jan 15: $2.99 (£1.87) Jan 16: $4.99 (£3.12) (Final price) Built specifically for Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean I can tell you it ... Read More »

Continuing on from the success of the EOS ICS & JB roms, Team EOS present to you EOS4, based on JELLYBEAN MR1! Early in December TeamEOS let loose to the Motorola Xoom MZ604 community EOS4 Jelly Bean MR1.  This was a major update from the ICS EOS3, which is still being use today. Now as all JB users will know ... Read More »

HTC didn’t have much to do with it – instead, it was quite often reliable Twitter leaker @Football4DPA, who has delivered a list of HTC devices that are scheduled to get updates to Jelly Bean. There are a lot of devices covered with this list, so a number of HTC users should be getting an update to Jelly Bean at some point ... Read More »

Android 4.2 is here and it’s been received with mixed feelings. I have it on my Galaxy Nexus and although I love it, I can see and have replicated a lot of bugs. One feature that has been introduced in Android 4.2 is the lockscreen widgets. Now some would call this a bug, simply bugging them with disdain and not ... Read More »

When it comes to news feeds, everyone has their preferences. Some prefer for their content to be saved for offline viewing. Others may like Google Reader compatibility or require that a widget be included. No matter the case, there is a news application out there for just about everyone. Recently, an application was released that brings simplicity and size to ... Read More »