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  Samsung Mobile may need to better screen their developers seeing how yet another Ice Cream Sandwich build for the Samsung Galaxy S II (international version) has begun making the rounds across various Android forums across the net. Software version I9100XXLPB, dated January 29th, is fresh out of Samsung’s engineering offices and gives us a good [...]

Motorola’s promised that some of their latest 2011 handsets would be getting Ice Cream Sandwich and the RAZR series was one of them. Someone was able to get their hands on an early Ice Cream Sandwich-based build of an update for the GSM RAZR and, as you’d expect, there are bits of BLUR sprinkled throughout. [...]

ASUS always has plenty of goodies on hand for their yearly trek to CES, and we’re looking at one possibility here in the form of a 7-inch slate with 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor. The tablet is rumored to be the Eee Pad Memo and will feature storage options ranging from 16GB to 64GB, 3G and [...]

PocketNow has leaked another device today. This time, US Cellular’s LG Majestic has been leaked to be a variant of the LG Optimus Black It’s a super thin and super bright device with Android 2.2 (sorry) and a 1GHz processor. It won’t exactly blow your socks off at this point but I remember this being [...]

What do you get when you cross the design of the Droid RAZR with that of the Droid 3? The Motorola Droid 4, which is already posing for its pictorial debut. DroidLife got the goods, and along with a first look at the device comes a first look at its specs…and they are enough to get [...]

An updated firmware version for the Samsung Galaxy S II on AT&T has surfaced online. Tagged as build I777UCKJ1, the software is based around Android 2.3.5 and Samsung’s TouchWiz UI. It addresses some of the initial bugs popping up on the phone, which has only been available since mid-September. Fixes include a reduction in Home [...]

When HTC announced their Flyer tablet amidst a rash of Android Honeycomb tablets, its Gingerbread OS was perhaps one of its main shortcomings. Since its launch, Google has updated Honeycomb to Android 3.2, optimizing the tablet-only OS for smaller displays, such as the 7-inch screen found on the Flyer. Now the first build of the [...]

In Huawei’s efforts to help turn the public eye about their products (they’re known as the “cheap” OEM that everyone steers clear of for Samsung, HTC etc.) they look to be bringing another decent Android phone to Asia and possibly Europe. It’s called the Huawei Honor and at first glance could be mistaken for a [...]

The Motorola Droid 2 Global has been feeling a bit left out as Verizon has blessed several other members of their lineup with an update to Android 2.3. Lest D2g owners think they have been forgotten, a leaked build of Gingerbread has surfaced over at RootWiki.  The update is marked as build number 4.5.606. While [...]

Another build of the Gingerbread update for the HTC Thunderbolt has been making its rounds among the Android developer community. The latest Android 2.3 build goes by version number 2.10.605.1, a slight bump up from the intial build leaked earlier in the week. The necessary files and instructions are available over at XDA, but given [...]