Both the Korean mobile manufacturers have confirmed their Android devices will be updated to the recently released Gingerbread OS. LG has issued a “public notice” saying that its cheapest Android smartphone – Optimus One will receive the Android 2.3 update. The upgrade schedule is unconfirmed but will be announced in “due course.” Meanwhile, Samsung […]
Google releases Android 2.3 OS with lots of new features
Google today announced the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS along with their new Nexus S device built in collaboration with Samsung. The Android 2.3 brings some new features for the end-users as well as developers. Users can expect the UI to be more refined and fast, improved on-screen keyboard with one-touch word selection and copy/paste, […]
Google Nexus S gets official, runs Gingerbread OS
Google’s Android 2.3 OS aka Gingerbread has gone official on Samsung’s Nexus S device. Nexus S will be the first phone to run the new Android OS and will be available to consumers in US and UK starting from December 16 and 20 respectively. Nexus S is in a way a revamped Galaxy S […]
New pictures of Samsung Nexus S surface, confirms Android 2.3
More pictures of Samsung’s Nexus S device have surfaced on the web. Images were first published by XDA-developers who got it from an anonymous source. Although the pictures are blurry, we do get a look at Nexus S’ curved front as well as a confirmation about Google’s upcoming Gingerbread OS aka the Android 2.3. […]
Nexus One will get Android 2.3 Gingerbread soon?
Apparently, we’ve got one of the first phones confirmed to run Google’s Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS. According to a tweet from Open Handset Alliance official Alvaro Fuentes Vasquez, Google will release an over-the-air update of Android 2.3 to Nexus One users using the developer version. The translated tweet reads “Prepare your Nexus One (Developer […]
Sony Ericsson’s PSP phone will come out this year, run Android 3.0
The existence of Sony Ericsson’s PSP phone has been a mystery but Engadget’s “trusted source” claim the phone exists and is “pretty damn sexy.” Going by the description, the PSP phone will be a very serious entry from Sony Ericsson that will go head to head with Apple’s iPhone. Interestingly, Sony Ericsson will adopt […]
Android 3.0 Gingerbread detailed, releasing in mid-October?
It’s not official yet but Unwiredview has got the intrinsic deets from a transcribed podcast of mobile whiz Eldar Murtazin, who’s known for his inside knowledge in the mobile industry. According to him, the Gingerbread update will be released in mid-October with the first handsets expected by Nov-Dec. With the new update, Google will […]
Android Gingerbread update scheduled for Q4 2010
Google is yet to set a date for Android’s 2.2 Froyo release but this hasn’t kept them from revealing the release timeframe of the update after Froyo. In the FAQ page of WebM, Google slips out Android’s next update, termed as Gingerbread for Q4 2010. The big word in the FAQ is “planned”, which […]