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When is the Verizon Galaxy Nexus Going to Receive Jelly Bean?

Kellen July 19, 2012 292

Verizon's version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released on December 15, 2011. At that time, Big Red customers all thought they had hit the jackpot. This was the first time since the original DROID that they would be able to lock into a 100% stock Android...

Chameleon Beta Arriving “Beginning of August” for Those That Pre-ordered

Kellen July 19, 2012 71

Backers of Chameleon, the Android tablet home replacement app, mark "beginning of August" on your calendars. Announced today through the Chameleon blog over at Kickstarter, a beta version will be made available in the coming weeks to all those that pre-ordered...

Thursday Poll: Which Android Update Has Been Most Important to the OS?

Tim July 19, 2012 201

When Droid Life first started, we began with the Motorola "OG" DROID. It came running Google's Android 2.1 "Eclair" operating system. That was fine, but what had thousands of people rabid was the talk of an update to Android 2.2 "Froyo." It had live wallpapers...

Verizon Q2 Bullets: Sold 2.9 Million Android Phones, 2.7 Million iPhones, Mid-2013 Full LTE Rollout, Share Everything a Hit

Kellen July 19, 2012 213

Verizon announced their Q2 2012 earnings this morning, which included a 50-minute earnings call with CFO Fran "ShamWow" Shammo. We are about half way through it, but wanted to start up this post to share some of the bits of info that you may not find in the...

The Google Experience [Opinion]

Ron July 18, 2012 58

With the release of the Nexus 7, Google set its sights on Amazon to try and reclaim control of the Android tablet space. Ever since Amazon forked Android for the Kindle Fire there has been some confusion about what OEM software customization means. There seems...

Swiftkey 3 Updated With Jelly Bean Compatibility

Kellen July 18, 2012 31

Swiftkey 3 received an update today that makes it fully compatible with Jelly Bean (Android 4.1). They also tossed in UI fixes, squashed some bugs, and fixed prediction popup issues. And yeah, that's pretty much that. This is one of those apps that I actually...

Yes, the Nexus 7 has Auto-Rotate – Just Not From the Home Screen

Kellen July 17, 2012 56

When your Nexus 7 arrives this week, try not to freak out that it sits in portrait mode and won't rotate to landscape from the home screen. The device was built to be a portrait tablet, just look at the back side and the front facing camera location. Think of...

Tip: Type “Weather” Into Google From Your Tablet and See Beautiful Weather Visualizations

Kellen July 17, 2012 16

Weather searches from your tablet are now more beautiful than ever. The Google Search team introduced weather visualizations to bigger screened devices today, which as you can see, look a heck of a lot like the cards that are found in Google Now. These new...