Saturday, March 30, 2013

Android Phone Fans

Android Phone Fans

Report: Facebook will unveil custom Android interface using proprietary camera and messaging apps

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 12:01 PM PDT

Facebook is hosting an Android-oriented event next week and speculation is sure to run wild. Reports emerging today may shed some light on what we can expect come April 4th. According to the most recent chatter, Facebook will unveil a custom version of Android with a focus on the social network’s apps and experience. Think [...]

LG Optimus G2 for T-Mobile spotted running Snapdragon 800 CPU

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 11:11 AM PDT

A benchmark report is shedding light on T-Mobile’s LG Optimus G2, the rumored followup to last year’s Optimus G. The phone, which will reportedly launch with Key Lime Pie sometime during the second half of the year, made an appearance in the GL Benchmark database as the LG D801. The most notable detail gleaned from [...]

Hands-on: OUYA unboxing and software review [VIDEO]

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 11:03 AM PDT

After abandoning the OUYA launch party for the pure purpose of getting our OUYA gaming on, we resisted our urge to tear the box in half and performed the obligatory yet often chastized unboxing video. We’ve seen the Dev Console unboxed, but we couldn’t go without an official unboxing of the retail-ready OUYA. It’s built [...]

Behind the scenes at the OUYA launch [VIDEO]

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 10:49 AM PDT

Last night was the official launch of OUYA, the long-awaited Android gaming console that started as a Kickstarter project. While our friends at OUYAboards.com and GameFans.com have been ferociously devouring all the OUYA they can get, we decided to roundup some of the OUYA news in consolidated posts. OUYA Founder’s Pre-Launch Speech Prior to the [...]

Game for Fame: Beat our Beach Buggy Blitz high-score to win a ASUS Transformer Pad (TF300) [Contest]

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 10:37 AM PDT

We are happy to announce the next round of Game for Fame! Thanks everyone for making last week’s Game for Fame a big success!  We would like to congratulate Phandroid.com reader Alan Farris on winning a Nexus 7″ Tablet as part of last week’s contest. In case you missed it, the concept is pretty simple: [...]

Latest factory images posted for Sprint and Verizon’s Galaxy Nexus

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 10:16 AM PDT

For those that like to live life on the edge, it’s always good to have a backup plan. In the case of Android users, that comes in the form of an official factory image, which can be flashed to restore a phone to its original state should anything go awry. Considering the Nexus line of [...]

US Cellular Galaxy S4 pre-sales begin April 16th

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 09:05 AM PDT

While much attention has been on the plans of major carriers Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile regarding the Samsung Galaxy S4, a number of regional carriers will also receive the handset. The first to announce a pre-sale of the device is US Cellular. The Galaxy S4 will be available for preorder from the carrier beginning [...]

Google pledges not to sue open-source developers for patent infringement

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 08:18 AM PDT

These days it seems every time the word ‘patent’ is mentioned it is usually followed by ‘lawsuit.’ In a refreshing change of pace, Google is doing just the opposite. Today the company has taken the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge, which states that they will not take legal action against distributors and developers of open-source [...]

Samsung Exynos 5 Octa supports LTE, why not on the Galaxy S4?

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 07:50 AM PDT

The Samsung Exynos team’s official Twitter account has confirmed that the new Exynos 5 Octa  chip not only supports LTE, but all 20 bands of it. So what gives with the Galaxy S4? The phone, as we all know by now, will be released in two variants: the GT-I9500 and the GT-I9505. The latter will [...]

PrimeTime for Google TV gets Amazon Instant Video support

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 07:16 AM PDT

Google TV’s PrimeTime app seeks to be a total replacement to your TV guide, and it’s slowly getting better at doing the job. Aside from incorporating your television operators channel lineup, Google has slowly been adding providers like Netflix and HBO Go to the mix. The latest is Amazon Instant Video by way of Amazon [...]

HTC One teardown is not for the faint of heart

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 07:05 AM PDT

The folks at iFixit have torn apart HTC’s latest flagship, and they have one piece of advice: don’t try this at home. Any self service to be performed on the phone is not for the faint of heart. The HTC One’s solid, gapless construction creates quite a few issues when it comes to getting inside the [...]

Official: OUYA begins shipping, hits retail stores on June 4th

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:57 PM PDT

We’re at the OUYA launch event and heard a speech from founder, Julie Uhrman, just as she pressed the “publish” button on the last Kickstarter blog post. We heard from Julie directly: “Nobody knows about this,” she said, “Although the Twitter universe will soon know… we actually started shipping the OUYA yesterday.” That’s right, folks. [...]
Posted by at 8:15 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)