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Stream Everything To Your Chromecast With This Clever Workaround

People are greedy. We just are. What we want is all the content. All the content streaming to our Chromecasts. And as the dog days of summer have slowly ticked by Vimeo, Redbox Instant and Hulu have been the main streaming services to promise apps for our precious little dongles. Which is great, but we…

Google Android 4.3 Update: Bluetooth, Profiles, and Other Minor Stuff

Google is continuing the Jelly Bean reign with today’s Android 4.3 update. It’s shipping with the new Nexus 7, and is for the most part, very incremental. Here’s what’s up: Google is adding restricted profiles, which are basically just more comprehensive parental controls. It forces an app to behave differently, based on what a parent…

HTC One Google Edition Brings Stock Android to the Best Android Phone

On Stage at the D11 conference, Google’s Android chief Sundar Pichai confirmed rumors that an HTC One Google Edition running vanilla Android will be available on June 26th for $600. That means the best Android phone in the world will be available unlocked and without the often clunky HTCSense skin. Heck yeah. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-review-the-beauty-is-a-beast-updated-5990716 Today’s announcement…

How Android’s Multitasking Experience Could Be Even Better

Lately I’ve been thinking about the multitasking experience on Android and I feel like there’s still a lot to improve. I love how the thumbnails come up, but in 4.2.2 they made it so that the current app joined the list of “Recent Apps”. This looks great on phones and small-sized tablets, but it looks…

The Verizon Galaxy Nexus just got an Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update—finally.

Sony Xperia Tablet Z Hands On: Thin, Light, and Not Quite There

We’ve known about Sony’s Xperia Tablet Z for the last month or so. It promised incredible lightness, thinness, speed, and beauty. Guess what? It deliveres. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-new-xperia-tablet-an-android-slate-slimmer-than-5977556 The Xperia Tablet Z is a 10.1-inch tablet that will launch with Android 4.2 (the most recent Jelly Bean update). It boasts a redesigned 1,920×1,200 screen, Qualcomm’s beastly quad-core…

How Google Makes Android Understand You

It’s the future, and that being the case, you’re going to want to talk to your smartphone and have it make heads or tails of what you’re saying. Getting that to work can be a pretty tough job however, unless your phone can learn like a human. And as Wired explains, that’s exactly what Google’s…

Sony Xperia Z and ZL Hands On: Two Phones Worth Getting Excited About

Last year Sony kept finding itself behind the curve with Android phones. The new Xperia Z and ZL are the company’s attempt to break that trend. These two phones basically check off every box a spec-hungry geek could want and then some. It’s hard to say which of these phones is the flagship since their…

Turns Out That $100 Acer Tablet Is Actually $130

A few weeks ago, reports trickled down from the mount that Acer was prepping a $100 7-inch tablet with specs that were juuuussssssst decent enough to be usable. The Iconia B1-A71 seems to fit the bill. Except, well, for the bill. https://gizmodo.com/you-wont-be-able-to-buy-the-first-decent-100-tablet-5970992 The Iconia B1-A71 has a 1.2GHz processor, a 1024×600 display, 8GB of storage,…

Android Adoption: Jelly Bean now over 10% with ICS nearing 30% while Gingerbread has finally ducked under 50%. [Android]

Toshiba’s New Excite 10 SE Looks Like a Sweet Tablet On a Budget

We’ve been digging Toshiba’s line of Excite tablets, and the newest member of the family has a lot to offer. Not only does it appear to measure up to its competition on specs, but this ten-inch tablet only costs $350. Color us intrigued (which is kind of a brownish red). https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-toshibas-new-excite-tablets-come-in-small-re-5899445 The Excite 10 SE…

Nexus devices are finally starting to receive Android 4.2.1 — along with the month of December.

Android 4.2 Is Missing a Very Important Feature: December

Android 4.2 Still-Jelly Bean is pretty sweet. You’ve got your Photo Sphere Camera, you’ve got your Gesture Keyboard. But there’s one thing you might notice is missing. Android Jelly Bean 4.2 doesn’t know what December is. Now that glaring absence isn’t everywhere. Google Calender is still fine, for instance. The problem lies chiefly in the…

HTC Droid DNA Review: Verizon’s Big, Beautiful Beast

AT&T has the One X. Sprint has the EVO 4G LTE. But it’s been a long while since Verizon customers had an HTC flagship to call their own. https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-4g-lte-lightning-review-the-phone-that-would-b-5910015 The Droid DNA would very much like to grab that mantel, please. And it’s got about every spec a geek could ask for. As we know,…

You Can Test Drive New Motorola Software Ahead of Official Releases Soon

You know how it takes OMG like foreverz to get the newest version of Android on your phone? Motorola has a new plan that’ll get you its latest and greatest software long before you normally would. It’s called Test Drive. See normally, it takes a while for manufacturers to apply the newest Android update to…

HTC requires phones to have at least 512MB of RAM for a Jelly Bean update. Bad luck if your phone packs less. [HTC]

Is This Google’s Nexus 10 Tablet?

BriefMobile got its hands on what it says is the upcoming Google Nexus 10 tablet. Supposedly manufactured by Samsung, the tablet is said to have a dual-core 1.7GHz Samsung Exynos processor, a 2560×1600 retina-grade display, 2 gigabytes of RAM, 16 gigs of storage, a 5 megapixel camera, NFC, and Android 4.2, which is still called…

Galaxy Note II Review: Bigger Got a Lot Better

When the Galaxy Note came out earlier this year, well, it was a giant, laggy jumble with a bum stylus. But the Note II might just have what it takes to win over our cold, size-ist hearts. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-note-lightning-review-wait-who-ordered-5886054 Note: Testing was done on the T-Mobile and AT&T versions of this phone. It is also coming…

Acer’s 7-Inch Android Tablet Will Cost $230

We’ve known it was coming for months, but the Acer Iconia Tab A110 finally has a due date and a pricetag. It’s going on sale October 30th, and it’ll only cost you $230. That puts it squarely in Nexus 7 territory. But what does that extra $30 get you? Well, more. And less. The Iconia…

Is This the Next LG Nexus Phone?

We’ve already heard that the next Nexus phone will be made by LG and be kinda, sorta similar to the powerful LG Optimus G but this might be the first time we’re getting a good look at it. A gallery of photos of an LG Android phone that looks like the Optimus G and runs…