Tag Archives: Ice Cream Sandwich

Toshiba fatten up with the AT300

Toshiba’s brief tenure as maker of the thinnest tablet du jour has been undone by…Toshiba. They have announced an oddly early refresh of the svelte AT200 in the form of the Tegra 3 packing AT300. Well at least there’s consistency in the naming conventions. In fact, that is a little harsh because there is consistency elsewhere too. In fact, the tablet looks nearly identical to the AT200 which begs the question, why the refresh? Well, mnaybe the original 1.2GHz Read more [...]

Acer ICONIA A510 Olympic Tab incoming

Acer are going for gold with the news of an olympic special edition of their A510 tablet. Not much has changed with the Android device; you still get a 1.3 gigahertz Tegra 3 prossesor and a 10.1 inch IPS display. the stand out feature is the massive 9800mAh battery which gives a huge 15 hours of usage which should get you through a good couple of days video and browsing. The key differentiator is the Olympic insignia emblazoned on the back and the exclusive Eurosport bundle which will provide mobile Read more [...]

Get a real Ice Cream Sandwich calendar

If you cannot stand the excuse of a calendar that your phone has then have no fear! A version of the official Ice Cream Sandwich calendar has been extracted and is now available on Google Play. The free app is a mind blowingly fresh bit of design on the part of Google and it largely stamps the efforts by most hardware vendors into the ground. Perfect if you can’t stand the TouchWiz effort that is present on the latest Samsung versions of Android 4 and use a custom launcher to ease the pain. Via Read more [...]

Budget HTC Desire C Android Phone Out Soon

Following HTC’s Android smackdown in the form of the One X, there needs to be a phone for paupers. That phone is the Desire C for HTC fans. The phone that should replace the Wildfire S and Explorer (which can only be a good thing) is due to hit the shops in the next couple of weeks. Taking it’s name from the once premium line of handsets, the Desire C is a smaller beastie featuring a 3.5″ screen. Serious users will be dismayed to find a lowely 600MHz processor firing the Ice Cream Sandwich device. Read more [...]

7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 on pre-order in UK

Samsung may just have gotten the right idea with the Galaxy Tab 2. Carphone Warehouse in the UK has the 7 inch tablet up for preorder now for a release this week and it is shaping up to be the budget tablet of choice. It’s a neat little beast too, with a dual core processor and Ice Cream Sandwich. Being 10.5mm thick and weighing in at only 345g, it is hardly going to snap your wrist off giving it viable ebook reader status, unlike most other fondle slabs. It is just a shame that it took Samsung Read more [...]

LG Optimus 4X HD

LG Optimus 4X HD hits UK in June

LG have indicated that the Optimus 4X HD will be hitting British shores in June. This is LG’s first quad-core smart phone, and follows in the footsteps of the first dual core Android phone, the X2, which landed like a dead duck last year. Let’s hope this one is not buggy as Hell like its predecessor. Utilising the same core as the impressive HTC One X, the NVIDIA 1.5GHz Tegra 3 should mean there are no performance issues to wonder about. There will be a True HD IPS display to combat the Pentile Read more [...]

HTC One X

HTC One X for £382

In case you were wondering whether to go go for the HTC One X over the newly announced Galaxy S III, then here’s your push in the HTC direction. Phones4U has an extremely good offer on Vodafone over a 12 month contract. The premium was originally £149.99 but this has been reduced to free. This package will give you 300 minutes, unlimited texts and 500MB of data. When you add this up it comes out at £432 which is cheaper than buying SIM free. There is no guarantee that you will get an unlocked phone though, Read more [...]

Samsung rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich for the Galaxy Note in Germany

The Galaxy Note is finally getting an upgrade to Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich as of right now for European users. The Achilles heel of the Note is finally being addressed and fingers crossed it will be good enough not to flog the AndroidGenus device in favour of a HTC One X. On top of Google latest and greatest Android version, it will come with a “Premium Suite” of apps geared up for use with the increasingly maligned S-Pen. I say maligned because I see fewer and fewer uses for it, Read more [...]