By Brandon Russell |
Soon after HTC announced the One, the company revealed Android 4.2 and Sense 5 would migrate to other handsets, including the One X, One X+ and Butterfly/DNA. A newly leaked list of devices getting the next-gen treatment backs up HTC’s earlier promise, with even more…
By Sean P. Aune |
ASUS Announced today that the Transformer Pad TF300 will begin receiving an update to Android 4.2 beginning today in the U.S. While the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update is rolling out to the Transformer Pad in the U.S., users in other territories will have to wait a…
By Todd Haselton |
Flipboard has updated the tablet-friendly version of its application with support for Daydream mode. In other words, you can now take a quick look at the latest stories to pop into your Flipboard application without even unlocking your Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 (two tablets…
By Brandon Russell |
Google’s latest version of Android, Jelly Bean, is currently on 6.7-percent of devices. It’s not a considerably high amount, but the OS is continuously being molded to support more devices on the market, meaning adoption will only go up going into the new year. Gingerbread…
By Brandon Russell |
A cheapo Nexus 7 has been hinted at for a few months now, but with Google’s stormy event in the rearview, no official word has been given as to whether or not it’ll one day exist. It seems that, for now, Google is more than…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just sent an email alerting customers who are interested in the Nexus 4 that the device can be ordered today at 12:00 noon Pacific. The Google Play Store still says the Nexus 4 is out of stock, however, so we’re guessing that you’ll need…
By Todd Haselton |
Wow, that was fast. T-Mobile USA is already sold out of Nexus 4 units, according to its website. The same demand was seen when Google first began selling the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean handset direct from its website. We’re guessing you might be better off…
By Killian Bell |
Google has announced that it will finally fix a networking bug that has been present in Android for two and a half years in the platform’s next software update. The bug was first reported to the company back in April 2010, but because it only…
By Todd Haselton |
The Nexus 4 is Google’s first smartphone to run pure Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The operating system offers a few features that the previous iteration of Jelly Bean didn’t, and the phone itself packs a serious hardware punch. Still, it doesn’t come equipped with 4G…
By Todd Haselton |
The strangest thing happened recently; after Google issued Android 4.2 to devices, users noticed a glaring absence: the month of December was completely missing as an option when entering a date into the People app. Google has admitted to the mistake and said that it will…
By Todd Haselton |
We just brought you our unboxing of the 16GB Nexus 4, Google’s first Android 4.2 Jelly Bean smartphone, and now it appears a special white version is set to launch next month on Dec. 13. U.K. wireless retailer TalkTalk has the white Nexus 4 listed…
By Todd Haselton |
We just had a chance to unbox the brand new Nexus 4 from Google, the first smartphone to launch with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean installed. The device is available (if you can find it) for $299 with 8GB of storage or $349 with 16GB of…
By Todd Haselton |
Google’s Nexus 4 sold out just minutes after it was available for purchase and, now, both models of the 10-inch Nexus 10 tablet are sold out. The Google Play Store currently has the 16GB and 32GB models listed as “sold out” with a note stating:…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced Tuesday that it has started to roll out Android 4.2 Jelly Bean to the Galaxy Nexus and existing Nexus 7 tablets. Until now, the operating system was only available from new Nexus 10 and Nexus 4 devices sold directly by the firm. It’s…
By Brandon Russell |
An extra $50 will get you an cellular-capable 32GB Nexus 7. That’s a pretty impressive bargain, and keeps Google’s aggressive bottom-dollar approach in tact. It also makes Apple’s iPad mini with cellular look insanely inflated. A comparable 32GB iPad mini with cellular sells for $559.…
By Roy Choi |
T-Mobile-locked Nexus 4s have begun arriving in stores ahead of its Nov. 14 release date. A contract-tied Nexus 4 is currently only available on T-Mobile for $199. The LG Nexus 4 will be available unlocked for both T-Mobile and AT&T for $249 and $349 on…
By Brandon Russell |
As Motorola works to upgrade its latest devices to Jelly Bean, the company outlined a new program, dubbed Test Drive, that will give users the opportunity to trial major upgrades before the software is finalized and launched. Now this is the kind of treatment Motorola…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just released its latest Android install base figures. The company revealed that 54.2 percent of all Android devices are still running Gingerbread, which is now four generations old. 1.8 percent of all Android devices run Honeycomb, 25.8 percent run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and…
By Todd Haselton |
Earlier this week Google officially announced the Nexus 4. It’s a beautiful device on paper and comes equipped with a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor clocked at 1.5GHz, a 4.7-inch True HD IPs display, 8GB or 16GB of storage, an 8-megapixel camera and 2GB…
By Killian Bell |
When Google unveiled Android 4.2 on Monday, it demonstrated an awesome new keyboard that allows you to swipe across its keys to type. Most of you have probably used third-party keyboards with this functionality — such as Swype — but it’s part of the operating…
By Brandon Russell |
The remains of Google’s event that never was reveals a desolate, lonely picture. A few days before the search giant’s execs were set to unveil what we now know to be the Nexus 4, Nexus 10 and Android 4.2, Hurricane Sandy’s presence down the Eastern…
By Brandon Russell |
The violent beauty of Mother Nature pays no mind to highly anticipated Google Events. You know the story by now: Vicious hurricane whips into powerful force, converges with additional storms, and wreaks havoc up and down the East Coast. So Google cancels its fall barn-burner,…
By Todd Haselton |
I was pretty baffled this morning when LG and Google officially announced the Nexus 4, the new flagship Android 4.2 device, without support for 4G LTE networks. But it’s starting to make sense to me why the company didn’t include it. You see, Google…
By Todd Haselton |
Google unveiled Android 4.2 Jelly Bean today, which is really just a smaller update compared to the move from Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (yes, the name of the OS remains the same). So what can you expect? Well, it…
