Mobile

LG Optimus 2X ICS update once again delayed, Q3 2012 is the new ETA

While LG seems to be looking towards the high-end smartphone future with great ambition, the company’s high-end devices from back in the day are being ignored big time. The Optimus LTE2, unveiled last week, looks pretty great on paper, and the LS970 Eclipse, leaked yesterday, has some out of this world specs, but what about [...]

Increase Volume+ Compatibility With HTC One X

While some users enjoy Beats Audio, many others enjoy having more control over their music. OEM music settings like Beats Audio and Sony XLoud have made many users happy, but others still believe that they should have more control over the equalizer. Unfortunately, on devices such as the popular HTC One X, popular equalizer apps such [...]

ReadItToMe Notifies You of Text and Calls Over Headphones or Bluetooth

If you use your device to listen to music either via headphones or Bluetooth audio, having to take the phone out of your pocket to see who is calling or texting you is probably a common and tedious occurrence. Similarly, if you stream audio while driving, wouldn’t it be great to be able to know [...]

Survey: One out of two customers wants an iPad Mini. Where does this leave Android tablets?

Cnet For all the rumors about the iPad Mini that we’ve been furiously subjected to, aren’t you just a tad bit curious to know if there’s an actual demand for it? The price comparison website, PriceGrabber, has taken that curiosity further and surveyed 2,063 online shoppers on the question of public demand for the miniature iPad. [...]

Samsung touts the virtues of its hardware, takes a subtle jab at Apple [Video]

Samsung is not only the largest smartphone maker in the world, but also a top supplier of electronic components, from hi-resolution displays to processors and memory modules. It’s no secret that Samsung provides many of the components found in Apple’s wildly popular iPhone and iPad devices, including the much-touted Retina display and the A5X chip [...]

Samsung Galaxy Note ICS Update Comin’ At Ya!

Samsung’s finally rolling out their ICS update for the Galaxy Note. The update will include all those awesome Premium Suite features we’ve written about in the past, including features like S Note, Shape Match and My Story which make it easier to take notes, draw graphs and share 3D cards respectively. All that in ADDITION [...]

[Head-To-Head] ASUS Transformer Prime Vs. Acer Iconia Tab A510

Last week, I threw the Acer A510 and the ASUS TF300 in the ring together for a head-to-head battle. After claiming the A510 as the victor, several readers wanted to know how it compares to the Transformer Prime (referred to as the TF201 from here on out). Since you probably already know what a head-to-head [...]

Updated Adreno 220 ICS GPU Driver Speeds Up 2D Rendering

With Ice Cream Sandwich quickly spreading across Android devices like wildfire right now, new drivers for the Adreno 220 GPU found in the Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 have surfaced. These drivers can potentially lead to improved 2D UI rendering performance in ICS and, of course, increased benchmark scores. XDA Senior Member gjcamp has produced recovery-flashable update.zip files that work [...]