2012 is the year of quad core superphones, and battery life that goes out in 2hrs after a full charge. LG is currently planning to upstage Samsung and HTC to become the first manufacturer to release a smartphone with a quad core processor inside, this phone is known as the LG X3.
Owners of the Google and Samsung joint Galaxy Nexus are being plagued by random reboots, the cause of the problem is unclear at the moment, but we do know for a fact that owners of the GSM version are mostly facing this unfortunate problem.
We’ve seen Liquipel, a sort of coating that makes your phone waterproof, now here is something similar called HzO that appears to use similar technology to get the job done by the looks of things. The company behind HzO, ZAGG, have spoken to Samsung and are planning to have words with Apple on incorporating HzO in future devices.
Microsoft is playing dirty and it seems to be working out just fine. The latest victim in Microsoft ongoing onslaught against Android is LG, the company agreed to a patent deal with the big bad boss from Redmond for Chrome OS and Android. With LG falling by the wayside, who else is left?
Finally Google seems to be taking Android’s fragmentation a little bit seriously. Today Google introduced some application design guidelines for Ice Cream Sandwich, Google is hoping that developers and hardware manufactures alike would follow these guidelines to ensure a more consistent user experience.
Asus made a splash at CES with several Transformer tablets, but something else popped up while many weren’t looking, the Asus Eee Pad MeMo 7 was right there secretly making an impression. The MeMO is Asus’s first 7-inch Android tablet, and the first 7-inch tablet to launch with Ice Cream Sandwich.
If you thought the Motorola Droid Razr was the thinnest smartphone on the planet, think again, that crown now falls to an unlikely source, Huawei. At CES, Huawei showed off the Ascend P1 S smartphone running Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, and we are impressed with it.
