Android News

The Samsung Galaxy Note for AT&T won’t be here until February 19th (presales begin on the fifth of this month) but its source code is already available for developers to download. This will allow folks to get started on creating ROMs well before its launch but don’t expect to see a lot of that happening [...]

Hello, everyone! Since the next time I’ll be seeing you it will be 2012, I just wanted to say — Happy New Years! You’ve managed to find yourself in the last Android Overload of 2011. This is the place you can always turn to when you want to catch up on everything Android/mobile related. We [...]

Earlier today Google announced Android 4.0.3, and now the source code of the latest Ice Cream Sandwich version is available via the AOSP. For the first time ever, the push includes four separate versions of the source, including builds for the Motorola XOOM, Nexus S, and for the two versions of the Galaxy Nexus. It [...]

All of the pieces are starting to fall nicely into their places. We’ve been hearing rumors that the Galaxy Nexus will be headed to Verizon on December 8th or 9th and it looks like those rumors could turn out to be true. First up, our own anonymous source who has been reliable and has provided [...]

Some great news, folks. Remember when I said to take Notion Ink’s word with a grain of salt regarding Ice Cream Sandwich’s release date? Well, it looks like I was right in suggesting that as it was completely wrong. But not in a bad way as the source code is available starting from today! Google’s [...]

We can’t even be mad at or surprised by Microsoft at this point. Huawei joins their fast-growing list of OEMs who manufacturer Android phones that are directly infringing on their patents by doing so. Microsoft has been putting licensing deals in place with not only many popular OEMs, but also some we’ve never heard of. [...]

Well, lookie here. Seems HTC has just released the Gingerbread kernel source for the my one of my old time favorites — the HTC Thunderbolt While this may not mean much to the average user, this comes as great news for flashing addicts and ROM developers as they can now start cooking up some wild [...]

Samsung wasn’t the only OEM dropping source codes today — Motorola has also stepped up to the plate and released the kernel source for the Droid Bionic. Normally, this would mean would-be hackers and modders could get to cooking up some tasty custom ROMs for the device but I’m not so sure how far this [...]

Samsung may not have the best history record when it comes to promptly updating their devices with the latest versions of Android but if you gotta hand it to ‘em — they know how to drop that source code. The Samsung Galaxy S II on AT&T hasn’t even officially launched (October 2nd) and Samsung has [...]

Well, that was a lot quicker than what we were expecting (but trust us, we aren’t complaining). The Samsung Epic 4G Touch is now out in stores and online and Samsung has made the source code available at their developer portal for all to download. With this, the hardworking Android development community will be able [...]