Eric, Author at Droid Life

Nokia CEO: Dual-Core and Quad-Core Chips Simply Drain Batteries, Aren’t All That Useful

Eric March 14, 2012 113

Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop has been quite the figurehead as the company's near collapse was saved by the Windows Phone 7 boat. Now that his company is all-in with Microsoft, his latest comments aren't that surprising. In an interview with a Chinese news outlet,...

Minecraft – Pocket Edition Update In the Market, a Few New Features and a New Mob

Eric March 14, 2012 13

There are not a lot of games out there that can claim the lives of so many people other than Minecraft. The mobile edition of the game has been fantastic since its release and has seen tons of good updates to keep us coming back. After releasing a survival...

Developer Provides Flashable Zips To Turn Your Galaxy Nexus Into a Miniature Tablet

Eric March 13, 2012 48

Do your friends make fun of the size of your Galaxy Nexus? Saying that 4.65" is enough screen space for a tablet? Well you can show them and show off Android's flexibility with this new list of flashable zips. Once flashed, this will force the ROM that you are...

Tag Hueuer Introduces Android Powered Racer, Another Overly-Expensive Phone You Don’t Want

Eric March 13, 2012 44

Some project designer from Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer must have gone to an F1 race with their Android phone and had an epiphany. What if you took a race car and made it into a phone; carbon fiber, metal and titanium included? What you have is the Tag Heuer...

Can’t Wait For Google I/O Registration? Input/Output Will Keep You Busy, Could Get You a Trip to the Event

Eric March 13, 2012 15

Back when Google I/O 2012 was first announced, there was mention that developers and coders would have an easier route to getting in to the event than everyone else. Input/Output seems to be what they were hinting at. They are encouraging you to "dust off your...

Samsung Starting to Rollout Ice Cream Sandwich Officially, Coming to Tabs 10.1 and 8.9 “Soon”

Eric March 13, 2012 57

With the announcement that a few European countries would have Ice Cream Sandwich rolling out to their Samsung Galaxy SIIs, Samsung also gave us a friendly reminder about a few of their other devices. Android 4.0 for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 will "follow...

Amazon Stricken With DROID Madness, DROID Branded and Other 4G Verizon Phones On Sale Today

Eric March 12, 2012 44

Not to be outdone by Sprint's Amazon sale today, all of the Motorola DROID phones are on sale, some even going down to the low low price of $.01. For new activations, you can get the DROID RAZR MAXX for $149.99 and the original RAZR for $49.99, both packing...

DROID X2 Soak Test From Motorola Set to Begin Shortly

Eric March 12, 2012 12

Motorola and their infamous soak tests, they hardly ever hold anything of significance but we still get excited each time they message us telling us about secret projects. Even though they don't stay secret for long we wait and watch for what is updated, and...