Have a loved one overseas or business partner that requires sending consumer electronic goods back and forth across the pond? If USPS is your current shipping choice, you’re going to want to find another. According to FastCompany, after May 16th, the USPS is refusing to ship any electronics with lithium batteries abroad due to the batteries’ highly volatile nature. The USPS also cites two fatal airline incidents since 2006 which authorities say were caused by...
Dutch Galaxy Note user, @blue13x discovered something awesome on his international Galaxy Note a few hours ago — an alert by Samsung that the Galaxy Note Android 4.0 ICS update is officially ready! The update weighs in at a stout 318 MB (be sure you have a WiFi network handy) and is only for the GT-N7000 international device at the moment. AT&T’s own SGH-i717 will almost certainly be delayed many more days to weeks as the carrier has to go through its own...
Google and Apple may not be the biggest of friends, but that doesn’t mean Google can ignore their frenemy in Cupertino. Supporting iOS is a very important thing for Google to do, as while many people may eschew their in-house mobile platform, there is still plenty of cash to be made in online services spread across platforms. Today, the company pushed out their new 2.0 (2.0.0.5888 exactly) update for Google+ for iOS. And wow, what a change it brings. Every ounce of...
Wow. Google ads are soon going to be the new go-to source of leaked consumer electronic information. The hell with actual people. First it was the alleged LTE + quad-core North American Galaxy S III coming to Rogers Wireless in Canada and now the same ad service is apparently spilling the beans on Sony’s Xperia Ion’s AT&T U.S. release date too — June 2012. If you can’t remember to way back in January when the device was initially announced for a...
AT&T may have made (easily) accessing root level on your One X a burden, but it’s far from an outright ban. As with all great things mobile, XDA exists to make sure mobile enthusiasts always have the last say with their device. While the bootloader on AT&T’s HTC One X is still in an unlocked state, the new root hack available over at XDA in this thread will at least allow root level access. Removing things like AT&T’s stock crap apps and...
