Recently I talked about running ROMs and images as virtual machines (VM) on our phones.  All of that is still in the early stages of development but running Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) on your Windows 7  PC is a reality today.  Thanks to the free virtualization software VirtualBox by Oracle and Dinesh from the Sysprobs site [...]

The Galaxy Nexus has a huge developer community. Like the OG Droid, Nexus One, and Nexus S before it, the stock nature of the phone has led to some amazing ROMs. After switching ROMs daily on my Galaxy for the last few weeks, I have finally found the one for me. And that ROM is [...]

Ice Cream Sandwich is the greatest version of Android yet. That should be obvious since Android has always gotten better every release, but 4.0 is an incredible shift in the evolution of Android. ICS is the first version of Android that truly threatens Apple’s iOS.

About three days ago, I woke up to see an update notification on my Nexus. I was even happier to see that it was the much awaited Ice Cream Sandwich update for the GSM version of the Nexus S. I updated the phone, waiting for my first real taste of ICS and excited at all [...]

Owners of the Samsung Droid Charge have been waiting a long time for Gingerbread to officially come to their phone. Word on the street is that the update is now rolling out now. That being said, I have actually been running the official updated version for a few days now via a manual update. I [...]

I like to think that I’m not like a lot of the other Nexus phone users out there: I’m not always out looking for the latest fix, the next cool ROM, or living on the edge of development hell.  Quite the opposite, actually.  I dove headfirst into the Nexus S – and paid full price [...]

It was just two months ago when electronic outlets had their ”Fire Sale” of the discontinued HP Touchpad. Many speculated that Android would arrive on the HP Touchpad before too long and it was just a matter of when. Well the CyanogenMod 7 project for the HP Touchpad has reached public release with their Alpha ROM. This was the custom ROM many Android users [...]

If you haven’t heard about this ROM yet then check out the videos in the 2nd post to see it in action!  This is an excellent ROM if for no other reason than it introduces the first non-CyanogenMod/carrier/manufacturer framework overhaul of Android 2.3.5 and boy what an overhaul.