For some time now Sony has announced that its console / smartphone Xperia Play  would be passed to Android 4.0 , but until now had not been particularly accurate news spread. Finally came the first beta of the update directly from the developer site asking users to send feedback and test the ROM waiting for the official launch which should not be waiting too.

In particular, developers will be asking to verify how the games, whether they resolve problems of execution, system crashes and so on to optimize the new Android distribution.
Within the page to download the ROM you will also find a short guide that will help you to finish the process of upgrading to this first beta of Android Ice Cream Sandwich for Xperia Play .

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 owners who would like to bring a little more of a Windows feel to their Android tablet-top. Might be interested in this new user interface that has been created for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Asus Transformer tablets.

The Metro Android theme brings the look and feel of Microsoft’s Metro user interface theme to the tablet. The latest  Metro Android theme has been created by XDA Developers user BroBot175 and can be viewed in action after the jump.

The Metro Android theme is currently in its beta launch version and supports Android tablets running Google’s latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich (ICS) operating system.

“Metro UI is based on the new look of windows 8 and bits of windows phone. i have tried to style it as i think it should look on our tabs so it is not an exact replica of windows 8.”

Comparing Apple's iPad two with Motorola's XyBoard and Amazon's Kindle Fire is fraught with peril. But here goes anyway. Let me preface my review by saying that a few overzealous readers (I am being charitable with that description) invariably call the writer (me) an fool for not being as savvy and/or perceptive as they claim to be. That is par for the coursework. But let's receive a few things straight here. First, this is not an official review. Like the kind you would find at CNET Reviews. Second, I don't favor manufacturer over the other. So, let me state the obvious (though, I recognize, this will seldom satisfy conspiracy theorists). If Product X makes what I need to do simpler, then I will favor it over Product Y. &, third, as a corollary to the above, I have personalized needs, like someone. A graphic designer will place a very different set of demands on a tablet than I would. So, my use case doesn't necessarily apply to everyone. That said, I have used the iPad two, the Motorola XyBoard (aka Xoom two), & the Amazon Kindle Fire long to understand their strengths & weaknesses for my particular needs. I have had the iPad two for ten months (& in the event you count the original iPad, that is about 22 months of iPad use). The XyBoard for about two months. The Amazon Kindle Fire for a tiny over two months. & availability addresses an important point. Apple has been making 10-inch-class consumer tablets longer than someone. That gives Apple an advantage. Based by myself personal preference, I had to wait until Motorola came out with the second-generation Xoom to justify the acquisition of a 10-inch-class Android tablet. (Motorola didn't ship its original Xoom until about a year after Apple announced the original iPad.

 The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was unveiled in October 2011 during a Samsung + Google event and it made its market debut along with search engine giant’s flagship smartphone, Galaxy Nexus.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has still not been rolled out to many handsets, though already we are conference rumours of a subsequent Android chronicle named Jelly Bean. Its being pronounced that Jelly Bean Android 5.0 is approaching in a second entertain for a year, that is April to June.
This news comes from Digitimes that generally keeps us adult to date with a latest gossip. Digitimes goes on to discuss that a Taiwan-based supply sequence makers who are articulate about a news due to a imminent recover of Windows 8.

If so, then we would see hybrid notebooks and netbooks running on both Windows 8 and Android 5.0. Rumor has it that the the switch between Android and Windows will be made without restarting the machine. Android 5.0 might be the operating system that replaces Chrome OS, as the latter one failed on becoming a popular platform.

Arcade stage here in a United States is yet a fragment of what it was behind in a heyday, yet that does not meant that a adore for those classical games has only evaporated. Capcom’s CPS2 arcade house has achieved fable standing in certain retro gaming circles since of a catalog of present classics, and a developer named Cpasjuste has only given those games a new franchise on life with a new CPS2 emulator for Android.
Before we go any further, know that I am not here to discuss a legality of possessing ROMs, it is been a adhering indicate for a simulation village for years. Suffice it to contend that CPSEmu was able of using each retro shooter and beat-em-up we installed onto my Galaxy Nexus (purely for contrast purposes) though so most as a hiccup. Your mileage might change there though, as some people have remarkable some issues with crashing on inclination like a Asus Transformer.

To help Rovio and a billions and trillions of fans applaud a second birthday of a launch of a weird Mad Birds, a mobile developer has updated a primary chronicle of a diversion with a preference of new content. We get 15 new levels themed around birthday cakes, since it is their birthday of sorts.

You also get “spiffy new menus and graphics” along with some new achievements, and Rovio says it has unbarred all episodes “as a birthday present to a fans.”

So pleased birthday, even if, in all likelihood, it is not indeed your birthday. Mad Birds is on a Android Market here. It is still giveaway and ad-supported. They never did get around to releasing a paid chronicle on Android outward of a US, did they?

Link around Droid Gamers.