Android in Canada Blog

By Ryan Moore on October 21st, 2011

Tom had recently written about how HTC may or may not get ICS on their phones.  And we had seen that the Nexus S will get it [the image shows 4.0 benchmarks on both Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S]. So, Sony has jumped on a similar ‘non-committal’ answer by saying that: when it comes to future…

By Ryan Moore on October 21st, 2011

I’m an ‘eee’ guy. I had 3 of their netbooks, and now the pad. Love it [especially now that it has Netflix officially]. And like many of you, I nerded out over ICS being shown off the other day [did you answer my poll on G+ - which were you more excited about?]. It left…

By Tom Gray on October 19th, 2011

This is great news. No more will Canadians have to search for the American Netflix APK files, to find out if they happen to be among the lucky few who could stream outside of the U.S. Netflixs has updated to V1.5 and is now available via the Canadian Android Market for the first time. Along with…

By Gordon McCague on October 19th, 2011

Kobo has announced a new eReader based on Android 2.3. At the price of $199 it may turn the low cost tablet market on it’s head in Canada. Features Include: open access to Android 2.3 and full-featured email (POP3, IMAP4) integrated music and video player 2.2 million eBooks – 1 million free eBooks 7″ display…

By Ryan Moore on October 18th, 2011

So here we are on the eve of the big event.  What I have called ICS’eve. We’ve seen the statue arrive at the Googleplex [as a math minor, I just love that term... 1 with a googol zeros]. Googleplex gets a new visitor So, with the delay of what was supposed to be released on…

By Tom Gray on October 17th, 2011

If you follow me on Google+, you will notice that I have been experimenting with many versions of black or ‘Inverted’ Google applications. I have been asked a few times to share my findings and links, so I decided to make a post about it for everyone. The following modifications require your phone to be…

By Tom Gray on October 15th, 2011

I was cruising around the internet this morning and found some pretty interesting news. It appears Mobilesyrup stumbled across some news which will make a lot of people happy. As you may know, there is a Ice Cream Sandwich event being held on Oct.19 and the Nexus Prime is said to be announced during this event as well. You…

By Ryan Moore on October 15th, 2011

This past week hasn’t been a treasure trove of litigation But let’s look at the few – and there’s some interesting twists in them too. Thanks to all the various blogs for keeping up with the news, I’m just here to help try to put ‘em together. Amazon Kindle Fire under the gun already.  Acacia…