As promised, yesterday Canonical unveiled the first version of their Ubuntu smartphone operating system. The new OS takes many design cues from the desktop version of Ubuntu Linux, but uses a much different interface designed from the ground-up for use on a smartphone. Like the ill-fated Meego OS that we saw on the Nokia N9 [...]

If you wanted to identify a song on Android, you previously had two good options – Shazam and Soundhound. Both worked well, but were sometimes slow and had ads. Now there’s a better option from Google themselves, called Google Ears or Google Sound Search. It works in the same way, identifying music in your environment [...]

Have you been looking for a new style for your Android tablet? Well, if you’re running Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich and you’re a fan of Microsoft’s Metro UI, then developer BroBot175 has something over at the XDA forums for you to see. It’s a fully functional Metro UI theme for Android tablets. The custom [...]

Did you know that Android isn’t just for phones and tablets any more? Thanks to the efforts of the Android x86 team, you can now install the popular mobile operating system onto your netbook or laptop as well! The free OS is surprisingly effective on a netbook, and offers a much easier-to-use experience than Linux [...]

An internal copy of the official Android 4.0.1 ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2 has been leaked. Dated from 7 December 2011, this Ice Cream Sandwich is an unfinished version and thus it still has some issues to be solved like some random reboots and some slow responses from time to time. But if you are [...]