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Saturday, 31 December 2011

Happy New Year!

If it didn’t Bring you Joy, Just Leave it Behind.Let’s Ring in the New Year With Good Things in Mind.Let Every Bad Memory Go That Brought Heartache and Pain.And let’s Turn a New Leaf With the Smell of New Rain.Let’s Forget Past Mistakes Making Amends for This Year.Sending You These Greetings To Bring you Hope and CheerHappy New Ye...

Friday, 30 December 2011

3 new LG devices get CyanogenMod nightly support; Optimus Black makes its return

Ricardo Cerqueira, a member of the CM team and LG Android device guru, has added official CyanogenMod nightly (CM7 for the time being) support for three new LG devices -- The LG Optimus 3D, the LG Optimus Pro, and the LG Optimus Hub -- and has once again made support for the LG Optimus Black official after a short hiatus.  Here in the states...

Android 4.0 Port Gives DROID Bionic Taste Of Ice Cream Sandwich Glory

The list of devices running some sort of Ice Cream Sandwich build is steadily growing by the day. While most Android users are anxiously waiting for their particular phone to be graced with ICS— whether an official version or through a port, at least owners of the Motorola DROID Bionic have reason to smile today. We already know Motorola plans on upgrading the device...

Amazon Enjoys Record Year For Kindle Family

The celebration continues at Amazon. In addition to the Kindle Fire outselling the competition, Amazon can now lay claim for its Kindle family having record-breaking sales. While not giving a specific number, the company claims “customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers”. It isn’t as if it’s a complicated formula for Amazon either. That...

[Deal] Gameloft Offers All Games for 99 Cents Through Sunday

Gameloft is having the sale of all sales this weekend where all Android games are only 99 cents and it starts…NOW! That’s right, all Gameloft games found in the Android Market are on sale through Sunday so you better start adding to your collection.If you’re anything like me, your first inclination is to grab the new Modern Combat 3 at a whopping $6 discount. Whoa there fella...

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Get 50GB of Storage Through Box.com/net Without Root With This Sneaky App

If you are the owner of a Sony Xperia Play or any one of the various LG smartphones then you should be aware of the deal where Box is giving away a 50GB upgrade to its cloud storage service until the end of this year. This means that you have until the day after tomorrow to get in a 50GB lifetime storage limit. This deal however, did leave the rest of us out in the cold....

Firmware Update Now Available For Asus Transformer Tablets

 A new firmware update has been released by Asus for their original Transformer tablet PCs and is now available OTA as version 8.6.5.21-20111216. (This device should not to be confused with its successor, the Transformer Prime.) The update addresses HDMI problems some owners experienced while operating the tablet with newer HDTVs and it enhances stability and incorporates...

Andy Rubin: “There were 3.7 million Android activations on 12/24 and 12/25″

A week ago Andy Rubin told us that Android activations are now at 700,000 per day. Of course as one might expect Christmas should see a boom. If you’re wondering how many Android devices were activated, according to Andy, it hit 3.7 million for just 12/24 and 12/25. If you’re doing the math, that’s an average of 1.85 million per day or a 164% increase. Don’t expect these...

HTCDev Site Announces that All Phones Launched After September 2011 are Now Unlockable

Great news coming out of the HTC camp today as they updated the HTCDev website confirming more devices are officially able to be unlocked. Today’s update is as follows:All HTC Android devices launched after September 2011 are unlockable. The website will be updated accordingly to reflect this in the coming weeks. We continue to work on models launched prior to September...