Monthly Archives: January 2012

CyanogenMod 9 is almost ready – HP TouchPad video demo shown

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/14/2012

Cyanogenmod Dev team is almost ready with their current project CyanogenMod 9 that is based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In a video released by CM Dev team they successfully ported the CM 9 to HP TouchPad. The HP Touch Pad was discontinued because of low sale and HP stops developing the WebOS which [...]

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CyanogenMod installed in more than 1 million devices

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/13/2012

Like any other open-source project the community is always behind in the success of the project. Android community is a big and strong. Koushik “Koush” Dutta one of the member of the Cyanogenmod team and developer of the Clockworkmod Recovery and Clockworkmod Tether announced that the world’s number after market Cyanogenmod firmware has been installed [...]

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Galaxy Nexus GSM – Android 4.0.2 OTA update now available

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/13/2012

A new update for Galaxy Nexus GSM version has been released. Google update Android 4.0.2 is a minor update at 8.8mb via OTA and it fixes some issues in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and with some improvement on the performance of the Galaxy Nexus. If you haven’t check it yet go over to Settings > About [...]

Posted in Android News, Android Phone, Firmware Updates, Google Nexus, Samsung | Tagged Android 4.0, Galaxy Nexus, ICS, Samsung | Leave a comment

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0N – launched in Germany

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/13/2012

Samsung Germany launched the newest member of the Galaxy Tab family. The Galaxy Tab 7.0N is a smaller version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N with a twist. The new design added a front-facing speaker compared to non 7.0 version. The OS is Android 3.2 Honeycomb and upgradable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich once the update [...]

Posted in Android Tablets, Samsung Tablet | Tagged Android 3.2, Android 4.0, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 7.0N, Honeycomb, Samsung | Leave a comment

Lenovo K800 – the first smartphone to be powered by Intel Medfield ‘SoC’

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/12/2012

Intel is now officially in the System on a Chip ‘SoC’ business. Introduced at Intel Keynote in CES 2012 is the Intel ‘Medfield’ Atom Z2460 chip with its partner Lenovo. Lenovo launched the K800 Android smartphone and the first smartphone to be powered by Intel Atom Z2460 ‘SoC’. Lenovo packed the K800 with some awesome goodies, [...]

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[CES2012]SONY XPERIA S – officially announced and girls would love this

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/10/2012

CES 2012 – SONY just announced a gorgeous Android smartphone and officially called as the SONY XPERIA S. The XPERIA S was leaked before as SONY ERICSSON “Nozomi” though the specs has been transferred to the XPERIA S. It has a display of 4.3- inch display “zero-gap” and powered by a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor. This [...]

Posted in Android Phone, SONY | Tagged Android 2.3, Gingerbread, Sony, Xperia, Xperia S | 1 Comment

[CES 2012]Huawei Ascend P1 S – world thinnest smartphone at 6.68mm

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/10/2012

The battle for world’s thinnest smartphone rages on. First it was the Samsung Galaxy S II, followed by Fujitsu Arrow, Motorola Droid Razr and now the Ascent P1 S. CEs 2012 – HUAWEI announced the 6.68mm thick Ascend P1 S Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone. Lets start with its processor TI OMAP 4460 Cortext-A9 CPU clock at 1.5 [...]

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[CES 2012] Lenovo Ideaphone S2, Lenovo IdeaTab S2, Lenovo K91 Smart TV – jaw dropping Android devices

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/10/2012

CES 2012 – Lenovo started the week long event by announcing three gorgeous Android devices. From small to shall I say massive Android devices! Lets start with Lenovo IdeaTab S2 10. This is a 10-inches Android tablet powered by a dual core Snapdragon 8960 processor. The OS is Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Lenovo added their [...]

Posted in Android Phone, Android Tablets, Featured, Lenovo | Tagged ces 2012, Ideaphone s2, Ideatab S2, K91, Lenovo, Mondian | 1 Comment

Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus – specs, price, release date, overview

By PinoyDROID | Published: 01/04/2012

Samsung started the new year in announcing the new Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus. The original Galaxy Ace is one pretty mid-range Android phone from Samsung and the second generation Galaxy Ace Plus is a good upgrade from its predecessor. The specs is somehow same like the Galaxy S and Galaxy Ace. The Galaxy Ace [...]