Android The Android platform grows and gets better each year. From the days of laggy Froyo to the bearable Gingerbread to the smooth Ice Cream Sandwich to the snappy Jelly bean, it’s been an upward journey and truth be told, and don’t see any drop any time soon. In 2012 two major iterations of Android … Read More …
After my lengthy rant on the often unspoken side of Android, Google unveiled the most beautiful, sleek and praise-worthy version of its famed flagship mobile operating system, Android, the Android 4.1 codenamed Jelly Bean. This has set the tech world on fire as the developments of the Google I/O conference this year are slowly being … Read More …
It is no secret that I am a big Android fanboy. It is now almost a year and a half since I joined the Android bandwagon. I have been able to use the awesome open source operating system from Google on several low-end and high-end devices though I only own the latter. The general conclusion … Read More …
Simple, sleek and generally impressive. Those are the first few words I can use to describe a member of LG’s L series phone family. Announced earlier in the year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, this stylish Android-powered smartphone is set to debut in Kenya and other African markets this May. In Kenya, … Read More …
I have written a lot previously on the Huawei U8150 IDEOS on this blog. From a review to an overview of the rooting process and a not-so-detailed outline of the procedure of installing custom ROMs. Today I want to make that not-so-detailed part well detailed and expounded. I have been receiving many comments, emails, tweets … Read More …
The same way I bid a tearful farewell to my long time buddy, Retro Camera app when Instagram became available on Android is exactly what I did with my favourite news reader application on Android, Pulse. This is after the .apk file of the most popular news aggregation application on iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) … Read More …
All the reviews, the hands-on and the obsessive posts on Samsung’s latest smartphone are in and it is no wonder that the Samsung Galaxy S III has blown everyone away, save for the arrogant Apple fanboys who will scream “iPhone” at anything. Forget about those, here are my two cents on this device and the … Read More …
The month of April has come to an end. Like March, this was a great month for this blog as there were more articles that attracted a lot of interest than before. Let’s take a quick look of what made people coming over the whole of April. Since the month had to start on a … Read More …
You have heard this term root and its sister rooting. If you own an Android device then you hear these words almost on a daily basis. If you use any Linux-based system then you must also be familiar with the term rooting. Rooting your Android device is a gateway to very many things that your … Read More …
It is now official after three days of a lot of online buzz that Facebook really means business when it comes to photos. Case in point? Nothing further than its recent acquisition. The emergence of the so-called Facetagram, a term that has popped in the blogosphere for describing the new found partnership of a startup … Read More …
Well after all the wait, the yawns, the murmurs and everything, we got excited a few weeks ago when the Systrom-led makers of popular camera application Instagram announced that it will finally debut on the Google Play store. It did drop and was an instant success; raking in over one million downloads in under 24 … Read More …
Not long ago, I was over myself as I subscribed on the Instagram waiting page to be among the first to be notified should the number one camera app make its way to the Android platfrom. Well, it eventually did. Folks, however late this news maybe from my side, I am very happy that Instagram … Read More …
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