For a long time, CyanogenMOD has been the salvation for many users on aging Android hardware, cutting through the bloated, slow OEM experience to bring you a clean build of Android’s finest.
Despite needing to know your way around a command prompt, Android hacking has become somewhat mainstream over the last couple of years; processes have shortened and become more straightforward and users feel more comfortable ripping the bloated sheath from a brand new phone to find its AOSP guts underneath.
As MobileSyrup reports, Milestone builds are available to users who want the latest feature [...]
To ensure that their invited developers show up at the conference Microsoft gave away Windows 8 based PCs to all the attending devs. The company announced during its keynote that it’s giving away 5,000 Samsung-built developer “PCs” to attendees, and that will also include AT&T sponsored year of 3G service (2GB per month). Microsoft is calling every Windows 8 device a “PC,” even tablets.
Specs of this freebie include
Intel Core i5 processor 11.6-inch 1,366 x 768 Samsung Super PLS display 64GB SSD 4GB of RAM Dock with a USB, HDMI and Ethernet ports. Its one of those moments where [...]Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky after a quick announcement and a simple demonstration explained that Win8 demanded fewer system resources than Win7 with the same hardware specs
With a Lenovo S10 in his hand he showed that an early-gen Atom CPU and 1GB of RAM is “enough” to run the new OS (AKA Windows 8 )
Microsoft has announced at the Build 2011 that the new Windows 8 store will be home to both apps that are based on the new Metro style UI along with traditional Windows Apps that you have grown to Love/Hate.
It kind of reminds us a lot of a certain “Mac App Store” but hey thats just us !
With the commencement of the Microsoft Build conference, the company has also launched the Developer version of Windows 8.
Widows 8 is a remained version of Windows, that offers a practically new way to interact with the personal computer. The new platform also bring a new range of capabilities that can let developers bring the easy and graphics of the Windows Phone 7 Metro UI .
Steven Sinofsky- President Windows.
Get Your version of the Dev Preview Here : Link – Microsoft Dev Downloads
#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: [...]Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky will unveil the company’s latest Windows 8 operating system running on a tablet during Microsoft’s BUILD conference in California next week
Investors are hungry to see how [Microsoft is] going to join where the market’s going, they’ve been lagging and they need to catch up and surpass what’s going on, to demonstrate they truly are an innovative company.”
-MS portfolio manager Todd Lowenstein
The Conference starts on Sept 13 and MS is all set to showcase the Tablet manufactured by Samsung a log with Tabletized Win [...]
Google’s latest update to its Android Platform is all set to come to a tablet near you. The new version is an incremental release which adds several new updates for developers as well as users. The new version includes many changes to the Android API.
A few highlights for the new version:
Support for multiple screen sizes which allows developers to create apps for various screen sizes, not just 10.1 inch. A new compatibility mode which renders applications in a smaller screen area and then stretches the rendered image to fill the screen. Media files can be directly loaded from the SD Card in apps that use [...]
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