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It’s Friday, the weekend is so close you can taste it, so we thought you’d enjoy this ~ 7 minute video below that depicts a building pulling a Michael Bay stunt by transforming into a robot. It’s over a year old and has over 2 million views, but we don’t remember ever seeing it. The [...]

When Google and Samsung unveiled the new Galaxy Nexus they mentioned this bad boy will be available all around the world. We’re happy to inform you that three of the leading British operators announced they will be among the carriers offering the first Android Ice Cream Sandwich-powered smartphone. The “lucky” three carriers are Vodafone, O2 [...]

Google and Samsung recently took the wraps off of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and to say that the search giant has stepped up its game is an understatement. Ice Cream Sandwich covers many of the bases that Android needed tending to, and keeps going. This update shows that the Android operating system is maturing [...]

Samsung managed to ship over 20 million smartphones in Q3 2011, one report says, and this means it shipped more smartphones in that quarter than any other company, including Nokia and arch-nemesis Apple. The two latter manufacturers cranked out 16.8 million and 17.1 million smartphones last quarter, respectively. Samsung has proven itself to be the [...]

As promised, the HTC Wildfire is now available at U.S. Cellular’s website and will be in the carrier’s stores across the country this Friday, October 21. The entry-level smartphone is available for free after a $ 100 mail-in-rebate and there’s no activation fee as part of U.S. Cellular’s “Switch for Free” promotion that runs through [...]

We’ve been waiting a long time to see an actual product with the quad-core Kal-El Tegra 3 processor and Asus just showed off the sequel to the Transformer at the AllThingsD conference in China. There aren’t many details about the next generation Transformer – to be called the Transformer Prime – although Asus Chairman Johnny [...]

During a briefing on their involvement with Android on the PlayBook tablet, a RIM exec at DevCon 2011 made a somewhat bold statement: BlackBerry App World would be the first professional market for Android applications. This stemmed from a line of questioning around security – how does RIM propose to stop just about anybody from [...]

Google and Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy Nexus last night and the device features some lust-worthy specs including a 720p HD screen but what is making many Android fans’ hearts beat faster is Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and is wealth of new features and design. Well, even if you don’t have the cash for [...]

Several hours ago on a stage in Hong Kong, Google and Samsung held a joint press conference to announce the Galaxy Nexus; the third device in the Nexus family of products. What does a smartphone need to have in order to earn the prestigious Nexus label? First, and most important, it has to run Android [...]

It’s official, folks. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has been unveiled to the world and while we pretty much knew almost everything there was to know about it, we’re still excited. The Galaxy Nexus is the first handset to launch with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and packs a mouth-watering specs-sheet. The expected 4.65 inch Super [...]