If you had your heart set on a new dessert codename for Android come Google I/O next month, we might have a dose of bad news reality to bestow upon you. According to an article from Android Police founder, Artem Russakovskii, it looks like we’ll be seeing Android 4.3, rather than the big version bump to 5.0 many folks assumed would be announced at the search engine giant’s annual devel... »
Heads up Android fanatics! An updated version of Gmail just went live on the Google Play Store. Before you rush over to grab it, here’s a quick note on what’s new. If you’re running a device on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or greater, you can now reply, archive or delete from directly from the notifications tray. Similar to the SMS functionality that we’ve had for some time now, ... »
So, you have yourself a device running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) or greater, but it’s not running the latest and greatest, Android 4.2, and you’re green with envy over the settings toggles you’ve been seeing and reading about all over the Internet? Well, thanks to the work of a savvy developer, you can now get a taste of the goodness, without having to shell out the cash to pick ... »
ASUS, a company long known for its quickness in updating its hardware to the latest version of Android, is living up to its reputation once again; this time becoming the first manufacturer to roll out Android 4.2 to a device which does not bear the ‘Pure Google Experience’ Nexus moniker — the Transformer Pad TF300T. If you happen to own one of these bad boys, this is your officia... »
The time has come to officially lay to rest any doubt about what was or was not included in Android 4.2.2, as Google as finally posted the official changelog. Some of the changes were obvious and easy to spot, while some we hadn’t even noticed until reading the list, which is freakin’ huge by the way, so make sure you have a few minutes before attempting to tackle it. Rather than overl... »
Rumors Suggest a Second Generation Nexus 7 is Coming Very Soon! Brace yourselves, kids. We’re about to take another trip to the rumor mill. What you’re about to read in this article may or may not be true. If the latest buzz on the Internet is right, Google and ASUS are back in the lab together once again, this time around to work on an upcoming second-generation followup to the Nexus ... »
No that really isn’t a spelling mistake! According to Sammobile the Galaxy Fonblet is the next strangely named smart phone to be announced by Samsung. From what I can tell on the write-up this is basically just the Galaxy Media player with a dialer and radio added to it to turn it into a phone. If this is indeed the case, it will have a 5.8″ screen, 3MP camera, possibly dual SIM suppor... »
Apparently, the next version of Android, 4.2.2 is beginning to pop up in the wild this week. Reports of some Nexus 4 devices being shipped with the latest version of Jelly Bean in Brazil and Malaysia was met with some skepticism earlier this week. However with more sightings of the newest OS showing up on newly shipped models in select countries, and even videos popping up online (though they hav... »
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Yes you did indeed read the title correctly. We all know the name Polaroid from cameras and film, but now the company is branching out into the tablet market with the M7 and M1o. Despite the skin or UI in the pictures both are indeed android tablets, with Jelly Bean 4.1. The M7, as you may have already guessed, is a 7″ tablet with a dual core processor, 8GB internal storage, SD card slot, Wi... »
![ZTE Grand S [ CES 2013]](http://www.omgdroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screenshot_2013-01-09-16-09-52-1-533x200.png)
ZTE have decided to jump on the phablet bandwagon with the announcement of the Grand S. According to the company it’s going to be the worlds thinnest quad-core smartphone, guess we’ll have to wait and see about that. Specs wise it sounds pretty good. It’s main features will be a 5″ HD screen, LTE capabilities, a 1.7 GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, 13 MP rear facing ca... »
