Yesterday, Android tech blogs were up in arms over news that a number of Samsung Galaxy Android devices had become vulnerable to a hack that could remotely wipe all data. This hack would simply conduct a hard reset when users clicked on a particular link in the browser. Well Samsung, understanding the damage this could cause, has quickly responded in… Read more
Motorola’s new Vice President of Product at Motorola Mobility Punit Soni is promising owners of the DROID Bionic on his Google+ page that the company can do better, and will do better on his watch. As the company releases an updated software upgrade page, Soni recognizes that Bionic owners have gotten a “raw deal” and that Motorola plans to… Read more
Motorola’s not wasting any time in getting in front of the Android software update promises they’ve made with a brand new update to their device software upgrade page. Unfortunately, for owners of the Atrix 4G and Atrix 2, the end of the road may nigh as the newest update only says “Further plans coming soon,” which sounds anything but promising…. Read more
It is official – Verizon Galaxy Nexus devices are being updated to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean as of this writing. Originally earlier today, numberous sources on the web were claiming to have received the update. Additional research found that in fact the update was live and is labeled as build JRO03O. As some may recall, that same build had shown up as a… Read more
When Sony released the Xperia Ion with Gingerbread pre-installed, many Android users were left asking why? The Japanese tech giant, however, promised it would be updating the device to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich before the end of the year. Now shortly after the international Xperia Ion began receiving the Ice Cream Sandwich update, the AT&T model has… Read more
It was reported a few weeks back, that a number of Verizon customers that have replacement Galaxy Nexus devices were experiencing significant signal issues. Unfortunately if you were one of these people to have this major issue, you were seeing you were unable to hold a 4G connection for more than a few minutes before it would drop. Users of the… Read more
Owners of the T-Mobile version of the Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 have already received their update to Android 4.0.4, leaving owners of the Verizon variant still waiting for when their units would receive their update. As always, Verizon’s updates never share the same sense of urgency or timliness as its rival carriers. Never the less, the Big Red has… Read more
I’m sure that there’s probably more than a few HTC Thunderbolt owners out there who have been hitting that system updates button wondering if their Ice Cream Sandwich update is here yet. Luck isn’t on their side today as HTC has confirmed that they missed their August deadline for Android 4.0 on the Thunderbolt. They did make sure to mention that… Read more
Time to get your happy dance ready if you’re an owner of a Samsung Galaxy S III or a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 as amid all the other announcements today, Samsung confirmed that the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update is coming “very soon”. This isn’t too surprising as both are very new and high-end and there have already been several leaks for the Galaxy S… Read more
Even though it was never officially a Nexus tablet, the Motorola XOOM (at least the WiFi version) still gets updates very quickly. Now that the tablet has got it’s bump to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, we weren’t expecting any sort of update for awhile. It looks like that could be changing for the better though as a new email is being sent out to soak testers… Read more
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