If the Samsung Galaxy S family had a red-headed stepchild, Verizon’s Continuum would win the honors. The phone’s unique secondary ticker display didn’t make as big a splash as Samsung might have hoped, relegating the Continuum to the back of our minds. It’s Android 2.1 software isn’t helping much either. Now, a leak of a [...]
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Light Flow Allows You to Take Control of Your Notification Light
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
I’m probably not the only one who has been annoyed by the lack of flexibility when it comes to today’s notification lights inside smartphones. Back when I had a G1, I could access a vast array of colors. Apps could tap into the LED light with ease and allow you to choose exactly which color [...]
Courtesy of Wimm Labs: The World’s Smallest Android (Wear it as a Watch)
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
We’ve seen some pretty small Androids, but they’re just big enough to be considered phones and to be considered usable. Apparently, the industry hasn’t gone small enough. Wimm Labs took it upon themselves to squeeze Android onto a device so small you could wear it as a watch. It has a 1.4 inch display, a [...]
What’s Keeping You on the Android Side?
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
I won’t lie – as a fan of technology period, it’s easy to be swayed from one platform to another, whether it be in smartphones, desktop computing, gaming or what have you. I’d hate to admit this being a writer for an Android enthusiast site, but I’ve strongly thought about adopting other smartphone platforms before. iOS [...]
Tattoo Tycoon Android App Review
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
The Tattoo Tycoon Android App by HandyGames is a simulation game where you design and run your own tattoo business. In this game you are not only responsible for servicing the customers but you also need to manage the entire store and add elements to your shop in order to make more money. [...]
AT&T starting to change unlimited data users plans who tether with jailbroken apps
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
We knew AT&T was warning users a while ago who were using their unlimited data plans to tether iPhones to Macs and PCs; without an official tethering plan. It now looks like AT&T is upping the stakes and starting to move habitual offenders from an unlimited plan to a tethering plan without the need for [...]
Amazon Expected To Ship As Many As 3 Million “Coyote” Tablets By October
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
Amazon is prepping for a massive invasion of their 7-inch Android tablets in Q3. Apparently, Amazon’s manufacturing partner Quanta (who also makes the Kindle and Playbook) expects to ship around 3 million of their dual-core tablets to the online retailer by October. This translates into roughly 800,000 to a million units every month for [...]
TouchWiz UX Update for Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (WiFi) Is Now LIVE
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
It’s only a few minutes after 12AM and the TouchWiz UX update for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is right on time and officially live. The update brings a few added features and a “love it or hate it” TouchWiz skin on top of the normally stock Honeycomb experience. Some of these new features include: [...]
Android not that “open” after all
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
Google’s biggest pride when it comes to Android has definitely been that it’s “open source.” Android is without a doubt the most successful smartphone OS currently, partly due to the fact that it is open. But just how open is our favorite smartphone OS? Open source is defined as a software with a shared source [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Coming to Rogers This Month
Posted by ryan on August 5th, 2011
While the Wi-Fi-only version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is already available in Canada, a lot of Canadians are wishing for the 3G or 4G version. That Canadian wish may come true this month, according to a photo of an internal document leaked to MobileSyrup.com this week. The document allegedly is a product brochure [...]
