Huawei disappoint - No Jelly Bean for the Ascend G600

Telecom NZ Huawei G600

Huawei recently released the Ascend G600 (U8950D) here in New Zealand through Telecom NZ for the reasonable price of $399 NZD.

Official Jelly Bean starts rolling out to the Galaxy S3

Jelly Bean.
It has arrived.

The news Galaxy S3 owners have been waiting for is finally here - as of now the official Jelly Bean update is rolling out starting with Poland. It will no doubt roll out over other regions in the coming days, but if you just can't wait to get a taste of Jelly Bean you can naturally download the Polish ROM - PDA I9300XXDLIB CSC I9300OXFDLI1 MODEM I9300XXDLIB - here now and install it to your Galaxy S3 in Odin (or better yet, Mobile Odin using the EverRoot option to make sure that your Root privileges don't evaporate in the update process).

Via: Sammobile.com


UPDATE: Just flashed this to my International S3 minutes ago, can confirm that flashing in Odin with EverRoot/inject Super SU/inject Mobile Odin and wipe went swimmingly. All up and running, completely perfect so far. Just running some benchmarks now and thought I would leave you with this one, a little something to show your iPhone 5 toting friends who seem suddenly to have started caring about benchmarks this week...

[At Your Own Risk] How to install Jelly Bean to your Huawei MediaPad/T-Mobile Springboard

(Bonus 'beginners guide to Fastboot' included!)

In our MediaPad Rapid Review I mentioned that I was running a near-perfect CM10 build of Jelly Bean on my MediaPad. If you're a present owner of the MediaPad/Springboard, I can imagine that may have grabbed your attention. Since we're giving sorts here at AndroidNZ, you'll find the promised guide for installing the latest flavour of Android on your MediaPad just over the break. 

Rapid Review: The Huawei MediaPad/T-Mobile Springboard

So, as promised a couple of weeks ago, here is our inaugural Rapid Review.

First up? The Huawei MediaPad (also known as the T-Mobile Springboard Stateside).

It might seem an odd choice to review now, being an end-of-life (EOL) product, about to be relegated to the side-lines as Huawei refreshes its tablet line up. But then, it might just be one of those unappreciated gems worth grabbing at EOL prices, mightn't it? You'll have to read on to find out I guess. Well, actually, I know you're clever enough to realise we wouldn't even be here if we didn't like it, but there still might be a few tasty surprises just past the break nevertheless...

The Nexus 7 "Real-user" Review: Part 2 - User Interface and Entertainment - Media, Gaming, Browsing and Jelly Bean

Welcome to Part 2 of the Nexus 7 review. We'll be covering the abilities of the Nexus 7 when it comes to Music, Video, Browsing, Gaming and Other Media. If you missed Part 1 of the review you can find out about Murray's Initial impressions, Design/Build quality, synthetic benchmarks and performance in actual-use right here

If you want to know how the Nexus 7 performs when it comes to media consumption then keep reading after the break

The Nexus 7 "Real-user" review: Part 1 - Initial impressions, Design/Build quality, synthetic benchmarks and performance in actual-use

The first device to sport Android OS version 4.1, Jelly Bean, and a
serious salvo fired over the bow of Amazon - is it good enough?

So we come to part one of the Nexus 7 review. If I'm not very much mistaken a great many of you are watching this device eagerly, and I'm quite sure it is already well on its way to achieving its goal of making inroads for Android into the tablet market. But does it deserve to? That's the fundamental question here really. Is it good enough for the asking price to deserve your dollar, or do the inevitable compromises for cost harm the end result in the Nexus 7 too much?

Read on to find out whether our early impressions suggest this is the best way to spend your $200...

[Oh, and if you've already made the leap and purchased an N7 you might like to head to our guide for Rooting the N7 so you can start making the most of your shiny new toy]

[At Your Own Risk] ROM Release: AndroidME v1.2 Galaxy Nexus GSM

Hi everyone!

This is pretty exciting day here at AndroidNZ, not just because we've posted a great guide to Rooting your brand spanking new Nexus 7, and will be posting the first part of our "real-user" review later tonight, but also because we're able to announce that we'll now be hosting some custom ROM goodness right here at the blog. If you've been living under a rock it may have escaped your notice that a talented ROM developer joined our writing crew a little while back - none other than CdTDroid of AndroidME ROM fame! [Sorry Chris, I know you'll be squirming at being praised publically like that when you get to reading it, but your many fans will back me up here - Ed]. Anyways, without interfering with his ROM post any longer, make the jump to grab yourself AndroidMe v1.1 for your Galaxy Nexus!

Jelly Bean is here! And what a wonderful taste it is...

Editors note: On the eve of the Nexus 7 arriving here at AndroidNZ we thought we'd take a little look at some of the clutch features of the newest iteration of Android, Version 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Anyways, we'll let renowned Android ROM developer, and fresh AndroidNZ contributor CdTDroiD take it from here, since he has actually been doing some development work on a Galaxy Nexus and is the first of our crew to really get some hands-on with Jelly Bean...


Ever since getting into Android I must admit there was always some things that I wished I could have that the iPhone had… Super-fast scrolling was always an issue with Android, we could get it fast but not super “Buttery” smooth. The new SIRI got me a little emotional, I wanted a phone that would talk back to me and be accurate enough to actually be useful.

All this has changed with Jelly Bean, I no longer feel I’m missing out in certain aspects, Google has bought it even closer to the perfect device. So lets talk about Jelly Bean’s.