Sony has been extremely dev friendly recently, helping people developer AOSP for their devices and even releasing alpha ROMs. The next phone to get an alpha ROM is the Sony Xperia T. The ROM is based on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and has everything ripped out of it. Here are some of the things that are not included or turned off: Google Mobile Services… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFx4HUgVWjg&feature=player_embedded#! Looks like XDA has done it again. The ancient (by tech standards) Nexus One has gotten a Jelly Bean port! It’s being called an alpha build, but it seems to be quite stable. The only things that may be problems are browser rendering issues (fixed by using Chrome) and possible broken… Read more
We’ve been hearing about the custom music app that has been slated to hit CyanogenMod 9 soon, and an alpha version of “Apollo” has been released to the public. It’ll work on any ICS phone, rooted or not, CM9 or not, which is great for the stock crowd running official ICS. You can grab the APK here. The app is very similar to Google Play Music. One… Read more
Boid is a free Holo themed Twitter app for Android 4.0 and above. Holo, if you aren’t familiar, is the visual scheme of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This incorporates swiping left and right between tabs, the dark and light themes the action bar at the bottom of the app and more. I’m a fan! It’s missing a few critical features right now, but it’s in Alpha… Read more
There are a couple of acceptable methods of accessing Reddit from an Android phone. Reddit is Fun (at least the paid version with widgets) is arguably the best current choice, beating out mobile browser access to a stripped-down site optimized for user script customization. But neither of these two options are both elegant and full-featured…. Read more
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