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XDA Provides Working Ice Cream Sandwich On Your WiFi XOOM, Ready To Flash At Your Leisure

Eric December 19, 2011 42

The Motorola XOOM may not be the best tablet on the market, but it is Google's developer tablet, that means that it was the likely candidate for getting the bump to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich first. While nothing official has been released yet, the Android...

Adobe Flash Player Updated For Ice Cream Sandwich And Galaxy Nexus

Eric December 15, 2011 44

What is one way to make your new Samsung Galaxy Nexus better than it already is? How about adding Flash onto it? That's right, head on over to the Android Market now and you can download the application that was one of the biggest Android selling points as an...

Astro File Manager Update Adds Themes, Amazon MP3 Adds ICS Support

Eric December 9, 2011 18

A couple of all time favorite apps are receiving updates in the Android Market right now. Astro File Manager, one of the longest running file managers out for Android is adding themes and icon sets into their application. No need to fear though, if you like...

Android OS Shoehorned Into A USB Stick, Android Army Invades PCs Everywhere

Eric November 18, 2011 37

We are watching mobile phones that run Android get smaller, all while trying to stay as fast as possible with the latest technology. I think we have found the smallest piece of hardware that runs Android ever; it has a 1.2Ghz dual-core processor, Bluetooth,...

Video: Ice Cream Sandwich Easter Egg Uncovered, Nyan-Andy Here To Save The Day

Eric November 16, 2011 78

We have finally found it! With the release of the Galaxy Nexus just around the corner (for the UK at least) it seems that the easter egg that Google likes to throw into all of their flagship phones has been uncovered for their latest update, Ice Cream Sandwich...

Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Android Effort Started Before iPhone Effort”

Eric November 8, 2011 262

A lot of things came out in Steve Jobs' biography that was published after his passing last month. One of the things that was more prominent than others was that he really, really wanted Android to do poorly: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to,...

Apple Says $199 Amazon Kindle Fire Will Help Apple Sell More iPads

Eric November 3, 2011 116

If you ask me, Android fragmentation is so last year. But Apple keeps hammering away at it as a way to knock against Google's operating system, even as Android's market share keeps growing. The latest news out of Apple's camp is that Amazon's upcoming Kindle...

Republic Wireless Calls For Revolutionary War Against Traditional Cell Phone Plans [from AL]

Eric November 2, 2011

*This has been cross-posted from Android Life because well, it's a crazy interesting concept. Feel like the plans that carriers offer these days are just too locked-down? Do you need some freedom? Republic Wireless is looking to change all of that for you. The...