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Google says Siri like Star Wars, Android more like Star Trek

, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [45]

While the rest of the world was running around crashing its head into a wall in excitement over the just-revealed Galaxy Nexus and finalized Ice Cream Sandwich from Google, we had a sit-down with several Android authorities, one of whom, Matias Duarte to be exact, had a rather interesting take on the difference between voice controls in Android and Apple’s Siri. As you well know, one of the biggest features on the newest set of Apple mobile hardware and software is Siri, a voice-controlled assistant, where Android still totes several voice-activated features across the board. What we heard from Duarte in Hong Kong was that he’s thought long and hard about this situation and has come up with the nerdiest explanation of all.

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Galaxy Nexus vs White Galaxy Note Hands-on

, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [74]

Samsung has just given the Galaxy Nexus its European unveil, along with the white Galaxy Note, and we couldn’t resist putting these two rare Android smartphones up close for a video comparison. Both have their distinct appeal: the Galaxy Nexus is the first Ice Cream Sandwich device, of course, bypassing TouchWiz for the pleasures of Android 4.0, while the Galaxy Note has a tablet-aping, 5.3-inch display with a stylus using Wacom technology for perfect digital inking. Check out our hands-on, including video, after the cut.

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Samsung confirms Galaxy Nexus hits Europe November 17

, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy Nexus will go on sale across Europe on November 17, having given the Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone its European debut in London, UK today. The phone – which was officially announced earlier this month in Hong Kong – will also go on sale in the US sometime in November, as a Verizon exclusive, though the carrier is yet to confirm exactly what date.

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Verizon confirms Galaxy Nexus exclusive

, Oct 27th 2011 Discuss [20]

One of the coolest Android phones to surface in the last few months is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. If you are wanting to get your hands on one as soon as you can you need to hop over to Verizon and hit the Galaxy Nexus sign up page. Once registered Samsung will send you emails about the smartphone telling you when the phone will be available. Read The Full Story

Google: No Ice Cream Sandwich for Nexus One

, Oct 26th 2011 Discuss [10]

Google’s original Nexus One will not get an official upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, it has been confirmed, with only the Nexus S getting the latest version of the smartphone platform. While the Nexus S will get updated “within weeks” of Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) going live, Google’s Hugo Barra confirmed to the Telegraph, the exec admitted that the Nexus One hardware was simply too old to support the new OS.

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Three UK takes a hands-on look at the Galaxy Nexus [Video]

, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [8]

It's time for the carrier videos showing off the next hero device for Google to be shown off, this simple set of explorations starting as a hands-on with Three UK and Brendan Arndt. What you'll get to see here is no less than the Samsung Galaxy Nexus as it'll be showing up in the UK. This is a slightly different configuration than the USA is going to see as the carrier here in the USA will be on Verizon Wireless and running with a 4G LTE connection. What this video will afford you is a another close-up look at the first device, or perhaps the second, running Ice Cream Sandwich out in the wild, starting before the end of the year. Read The Full Story

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ported to Nexus S

, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [5]

It appears that the folks at XDA Developers Forum have gotten a radically early port of the newest and still unreleased version of Android, that being 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, working on the Samsung Nexus S. It makes sense that this would be the first device to get the newest Android working since it is the second-newest Google hero device having been released with Android 2.3 Gingerbread back quite a few months ago. Now that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has been announced and Ice Cream Sandwich is officially heading to the wild, it's been caught early via the released-to-developers SDK environment and converted to a working ROM by no less than a couple of intrepid developers hacking away all night. Read The Full Story

Samsung Galaxy Nexus on sale in UK, shipping November

, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [6]

It appears that the first place to formally offer up the Galaxy Nexus for sale is Phones4u in the UK, complete with shipping date of November 16th. For those of you who are unaware of the world of Android, this Galaxy Nexus device is Google's next hero device, the one to run their next-level mobile operating system Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This device was introduced earlier this month in Hong Kong, China to throngs of ravenous online viewers and a room full of publishers snapping their cameras furiously. Read The Full Story

Motorola offers both Ice Cream Sandwich updates and Bootloader Unlockability

, Oct 24th 2011 Discuss [4]

Believe it or not, all you lovers of both hacking of Androids and updating of Androids, Motorola has today offered clarification of its future with unlockable bootloaders and updates for its products to no less than Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It is Motorola itself that today speaks to the world saying that “without a doubt” the two “hottest topics in [their] world right now” are Ice Cream Sandwich and bootloaders. Imagine that! Having just spoken with Sanjay Jha this past week, I can tell you firsthand that it wasn’t the first (and it certainly wasn’t the last) time he’d spoken with someone about Motorola’s bootloaders and their unlockability as a hot topic.

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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich / Galaxy Nexus Launch Wrap-up [Videos]

, Oct 22nd 2011 Discuss [32]

We’re now a few days out from the first big impact of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as it’s launched formally with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in Hong Kong, China, and here we’ve got a complete wrap-up of the events and the waves that’ve come after. First we’ll get down to brass tacks on what it feels like to handle Ice Cream Sandwich and the phone Google has chosen as it’s hero device to run the system without any sort of modification from the manufacturer on top of it. Then there’s a few comparisons that need to be made – both to the top device at Apple, the iPhone 4S, and the alternate hero device from Samsung, the Galaxy S II. Devour it all here!

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Galaxy Nexus confirmed for Verizon 4G LTE

, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [15]

In an announcement that basically confirmed what everyone on earth already knew, Verizon let known that the Galaxy Nexus would be coming to the top carrier in the USA by the end of 2011. The date at which the device will be released OR put up for pre-sale is not yet known, but we can bet that the specs will be sticking from when we saw them first earlier this week in Hong Kong. The Galaxy Nexus is a Samsung device that will be Google's hero phone for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, an operating system that brings together functionality from both tablet and smartphone Android OS versions for one future system. Read The Full Story

HTC aims for Ice Cream Sandwich with high expectations

, Oct 21st 2011 Discuss [11]

As many HTC devices as possible is what HTC is saying they're going to try to update to Ice Cream Sandwich in the coming weeks - or at least that's what they've got in mind. This week has been both the formal introduction to Ice Cream Sandwich as a final build and a showing of the hero device for this version of Android, and now HTC wants in on the party with an announcement on their plans for the immediate future. Through their Facebook page they let the world know the basics about upgrading a device to a new version of Android as well as what they basically have in mind for how they're going to do it and how many devices they're going to do it to. Read The Full Story
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