This time last month the percentage of active Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich was 7.1%. The latest figures show that this percentage has more than doubled at 15.9%. Jelly Bean has also made it’s first appearance. Below is the full breakdown… Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean): 0.8 percent Android 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich): 15.9 percent Android 3.1-3.2 (Honeycomb): ... Read More »
Charlie Miller, a veteran smartphone hacker and principal research consultant at security firm Accuvant has said that it will be difficult to write exploits for Jelly Bean as it is the first version of Android to include full ASLR and DEP. ASLR randomizes data structure memory locations, and as a result hackers are unable to know in advance where their ... Read More »
If you are reading this thinking “what the hell is Takju and how to I know if I’m a Takju GNEX user” then stop reading and pop over to HERE where all will be revealed. The US GSM version of the Galaxy Nexus is now pushing out the 4.1.1 update to those who were running the 4.1.0 preview build. Not ... Read More »
The developers over at XDA have been hunting through a system dump of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, digging out some of the updated Google apps, and making them available for users of rooted ICS devices. First came Google Sound Search (also known as Google Ears) which identifies the song playing (like Shazaam / Soundhound) and links to the album in ... Read More »
If you are after the Nexus 7 Tablet from Google then the Play Store has just been updated to allow UK buyers a piece of the action. At £159 for the 8GB version and £199 for the 16GB this is an offer not to be missed. I did just try to pre-order however sadly, the devices arent ready for that ... Read More »
Here’s what’s happening at Google IO for those who missed it and develop apps, Read More »
Jellybean has been announced and should be arriving OTA in July for the Nexus+Xoom devices, so if you missed it here’s the massive differences! Read More »
A recent screenshot on the Google I/O App as discovered by Phandroid could well be one showing of Android 5.0 (Jellybean) if rumours are anything to go by. The suggestion that it’s Jellybean comes from the fact that the Holo theme at the search bar has been swapped out for a more transparent search bar and that the stock browser ... Read More »
About a week ago news broke that many thought was a hint towards ASUS being the first company to release a device with Android 5.0 Jellybean on it. When the news broke I said that I believed people were reading too much into what was said however that may well come back and bite me on the bottom according to ... Read More »
According to a recent post by TechRadar it would seem that ASUS’ Corporate Vice President, Benson Lin, just let the flavours out the bag. In an interview with TechRadar, Mr Lin said “Asus is very close to Google, so once they have Android 5.0 I think there will be a high possibility that we will be the first wave to offer ... Read More »
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