Late last month, Acer announced the modest Liquid Gallant and Liquid Gallant Duo, a pair of Ice Cream Sandwich-based phones that are identical except for a second SIM card on the Gallant Duo. The 4.3-inch devices are now rolling out in parts of Europe — where we're told they'll go for less than...
Not all experiments work out
O2 will not update the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, Ray, or Neo to Android 4.0, despite Sony greenlighting updates to its own customers throughout the world. In a blog post, O2 says it has been testing the updates over the past few months, but they...
When Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru revealed an "experiment" that would bring Sony's flagship Xperia S into the Android Open Source Project, Sony immediately announced its support for the initiative and pledged to help wherever possible. Today marks the first step in that process, as Sony has made the device's binaries — resources necessary to bring a stable, native Android experience to the X...
The LG Splendor, a variant of the LG Optimus L7, is on its way to US Cellular according to documents from LG's website that were quickly spotted by Smartphenom before they were taken down. The product brochure reveals similar specs to the international Optimus L7 — a 4.3-inch 800 x 480 display, Android 4.0, and a 5-megapixel camera with 720p video recording.
The most important difference between the Splendor and the international model is the switch to a 1GHz Snapdragon S2-class processor, which may improve the phone's performance slightly over what we saw in our review of the Optimus L7. Another change is a bit less on-board storage — 2GB instead of 4GB — but since the phone has microSD card support, it's mostly a non-issue. The product brochure didn't contain any information on pricing or availability, but the device's...
Perhaps a little change is for the best
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Samsung was widely expected to unveil a cloud service called S Cloud alongside the Galaxy S III in May, but it didn't materialize in the end. We've just seen the first solid evidence of its existence, however, courtesy of a hands-on video from German site BestBoyZ where S Cloud appears in the G...
There isn't much wrong with the Nexus 7, but one drawback for some might be the lack of mobile data connectivity — such that we questioned the Android tablet's suitability for the camping trip shown in its first commercial. Well, if you've been...
As the US Army prepares to bring Android phones into battle, Russia is working on its own military tablet based on Google's mobile operating system. While a consumer version of the tablet is on the way, the main customer for the device — dubbed RoMOS — is expected to be...
