The smartphone market isn’t like it was back in the years when Apple first unveiled the iPhone. This revolutionary handset had other smartphome manufactures scrambling for a good couple of years before they could reach its level. Nowadays however, the smartphone market is littered with competition, and good competition at that. If you had to [...]

Remember the iOS lockscreen fiasco? A bug discovered in iOS 6.1 that lets a user bypass the lockscreen passcode and view phone contacts and photos. There’s a new one now, but it’s much worse than the iOS 6.x bug. A certain Sean McMillan discovered this lockscreen bug on the Samsung Galaxy S3, which completely bypasses the [...]

Samsung recently announced, via a Press Release and a photo released on Flickr, that their range of Galaxy S smartphones have sold over 100 million units. The numbers isn’t as big as it seems when compared to Apple’s iPhone, but it is a big deal nonetheless. In the world of Android smartphones, Samsung is a [...]

The Galaxy S III is probably the closest iPhone competitor to date and actually has a lot of people raving about it. Out the people I know who have Galaxy S III’s, I have heard mixed reviews, but nevertheless it is arguably the best Android handset available. It looks like the Galaxy S III may [...]

Samsung announced a brand new smartphone this morning that is essentially a hybrid between the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note, called the Galaxy Grand. This particular smartphone is catered towards users “with fast-paced mobile lifestyles who demand more from their phone.” Visually you will notice that the phone resembles a larger version of the [...]

The fact that there’s only one major competitor for the Samsung Galaxy S III – the iPhone – makes Samsung’s marketing team’s job pretty easy. They haven’t shied away from direct attacks on the Apple smartphone, from the Apple Store lineup TV spots on iPhone 5 launch day, to this most recent example of advertising [...]

The last thing any Android user wants is their Android device to be SIM-locked. A SIM-locked phone is useless when traveling to a place where the original carrier’s network is not supported. Usually, XDA Developers’ member are known for releasing custom ROMs and other Mods, but information on unlocking handsets is released occasionally. However, when [...]

Android users are familiar with excess battery drainage on their devices. Most of the time this has to do with the cores of the device consuming battery life, even when it is idle. Owners of the Sprint Galaxy S3 SPH-L710 are in luck thanks to XDA Developers’ member eugene373. He has developed a mod that puts [...]

A never ending list of ROMs is present at the XDA forums for the Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300. Today another custom ROM joins the ranks, this time developed by Turkbey, an XDA Developers member. It’s called the Turkbey ROM. This new Android Jelly Bean based custom ROM has increased speed, smoothness, stability and many new features. A [...]

There are so many custom ROMs released every week that it’s hard to label a single one as the best. A new ROM has been released for the Verizon Galaxy S3 SCH-i535, which goes by the name of CleanROM 5.0. As its name suggests, it brings clean features and is based on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean build [...]