Posts Tagged ‘froyo’

First Generation Samsung Galaxy Ace Android Smartphone Only £135 at Asda

First Generation Samsung Galaxy Ace Android Smartphone Only £135 at Asda

Grocer and online department store Asda is once again at its backside slapping best with its latest deal on Samsung’s original Galaxy Ace smartphone. The chain leaves a few extra quid in your pocket, whilst undercutting rival Tesco to bring the first gen Ace down to just £135.

Asda has certainly pulled an Ace out

LG Optimus 3D Interactive Guide – An Online Manual to your Android Smartphone

LG Optimus 3D Interactive Guide – An Online Manual to your Android Smartphone

Whether you’ve been deliberating on getting a LG Optimus 3D mobile phone or you already own one and need some help on using the device we at Gadget Helpline are here to help. We have just launched an interactive online manual on everything you could possibly want to know about the Andorid FroYo or Gingerbread …

Dell Finance Boss Suggests New Tablet Before End of 2012

Dell Finance Boss Suggests New Tablet Before End of 2012

Dell will attempt to take another assault on (and recover) its tablet market “toward the end of the year” – this following a dramatic post-Christmas price drop of its Streak 7” which saw the slab drop below £100 at PC World (half of it’s original asking price) here in Britain just a short time after …

Google’s Android Market Now Carries More Than 400,000 Apps

Google’s Android Market Now Carries More Than 400,000 Apps

Google’s Android Market is chasing down the leading mobile software supplier Apple by reaching the impressive 400,000 mark. It’s true that this feat was also achieved by the rival App Store back in June 2011, but the figures revealed today really boast of Android’s rapid growth and distribution – and it’s something Apple should take …

Android Running PS Vita Knock-Off Surfaces In China (Where Else?)

Android Running PS Vita Knock-Off Surfaces In China (Where Else?)

Is that a PS Vita…? Ahead of schedule and flaunting it’s gaming stuff over in China? Sure looks like it. And on first glance you’d be easily fooled into believing so. But no, this is actually an Android-running Chinese rip-off called the Yinlips YDPG18 – and not the anticipated Sony next gen portable currently prepping …

Live Dictation With Voice Typing for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Live Dictation With Voice Typing for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Google’s mobile OS Android has had some pretty fancy voice based features including calling, texting and navigating. And for a while now one of those features has been voice typing, this as far back as May 2010 in fact, with version 2.2 Froyo.

But with Apple’s iPhone 4S and its little pocket Jeeves known as …

Xperia X10 Gets a Piece of the Ice Cream Sandwich

Xperia X10 Gets a Piece of the Ice Cream Sandwich

Sony Ericsson were struggling for ideas when they decided to jump on the Android bandwagon, but their first attempt was kind of disappointing.

The X10 was released when Android 2.2 Froyo was starting to take over from Android 2.1 Eclair. Even though Froyo was predominantly the most used version of Android at that point in …

Optimus 3D Gets Gingerbread Update Next Week

Optimus 3D Gets Gingerbread Update Next Week

LG’s first flurry into the world of 3D was the Optimus 3D, which is a flagship handset that LG intended to use to compete with HTC’s EVO 3D.

Both the EVO 3D and the Optimus 3D handsets were (and still are) clever phones and came with glasses-free 3D technology. The experience of 3D in your …

Gingerbread overtakes Froyo as top distributed Android OS

Gingerbread overtakes Froyo as top distributed Android OS

According to a post on the Android Developers Blog, distribution of Google OS version 2.2 Froyo has finally been eclipsed by its successor 2.3 Gingerbread.

It’s just over a week since the new edition Ice Cream Sandwich was announced along with Google and Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone and it been around a year since Gingerbread …

LG Optimus range gets Android 2.3 Gingerbread update in UK and Europe

LG Optimus range gets Android 2.3 Gingerbread update in UK and Europe

Just as new Google OS Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is starting to whet the appetites of mobile gadget owners, LG in the UK and Europe has started the roll out of current software 2.3 Gingerbread for its range of Optimus smartphones – appearing on 3 mobile models throughout November.

Android 2.3 Gingerbread started to …

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