Think about it for a minute. Ice Cream Sandwich has been available to manufacturers for a year now. And it has taken them this long to roll out the update to two respectable phones, the LG Lucid and Motorola DROID BIONIC. Sure, they may not be the best phones out there, but it shouldn’t take a full year to get them an update. Anyway, on to the news…. Read more
Google+ has had some major growth over the last year, but one thing that has been missing is a native app for Android tablets. Google’s changing that today, as they have just announced at their I/O keynote that they have developed an app just for tablets. Hitting Android today, it brings numerous enhancements, like new Hangout features. iPads will… Read more
Unlike Toshiba, ASUS actually cares about its customers, and has kept its tablets well in the loop of Android updates. Hell, the Transformer Prime was one of the first devices to receive the Ice Cream Sandwich update, and ahead of schedule at that. Now ASUS is back, this time sending out a maintenance update to the Transformer Pad, or TF300. Here’s… Read more
Every month the Android Developers release the Android distribution charts. These charts contain statistics on where Android is at, and one of the most important is what Android version is powering devices. Back in November of last year, Android 4.0 was released to manufacturers. Now, almost 6 months later, we learn that Android 4.0 is only on 5% of all… Read more
ASUS has taken to Facebook to tease owners of the popular Transformer Prime about an upcoming update, something we haven’t previously heard of. Said to contain “Awesome new feature”, the update should be more than your typical bug fixer. What will it contain? We have no idea, but there is the possibility of custom ASUS software on there. We could be wrong,… Read more
When many people think of AT&T, they think of an evil corporation, looking only to make money while ripping customers off. Everyone has a different opinion though, and there are many fanboys to AT&T. It’s a weird mix, as they’ve been known for poor service in high population areas. One of the biggest issues they’ve had is the lack of updates on its Android… Read more
At this point, if you own a Transformer Prime from ASUS, then you’re probably perfectly comfortable getting a notification for a software update. In fact, this update right here, which brings the software build to 9.4.2.15, is the third update released for the quad-core toting Android-powered tablet this month. All of them are bug and enhancement fixes, but… Read more
Toshiba’s 10-inch Thrive tablet is still running Honeycomb, and up until now there hasn’t been much said about a release date for an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. But, thanks to their Twitter account, that has finally changed. The company has confirmed that the tablet is indeed planned for an update, but while they don’t have an exact date quite… Read more
The Motorola DROID X has turned into arguably one of the most popular DROIDs Verizon has released, and Motorola is keeping up the support. A new maintenance update is coming soon to the device, and it brings some hefty bugs fixes. Some of the larger ones include improved browser security and various fixes with the music app. While it isn’t the update to… Read more
By now, updates for the Transformer Prime by ASUS are pretty common. After all, it’s only been about nine days since the last software update landed on the quad-core tablet. ASUS is working as hard as they can to fix all the issues that owners are reporting, and the only way to do that is to issue software updates to address them. This latest build is… Read more
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