CyanogenMod is a popular Android-based operating system designed to run on dozens of phones and tablets. There aren’t any devices that ship with CyanogenMod. Instead you can unlock the bootloader on many Android devices and replace the default operating system with CyanogenMod. There are currently two main branches of the operating system. CyanogenMod 7 is based on Android 2.3 while CyanogenMod 9 is based on… Read more »

The HTC One X is one of the hottest smartphones around. It has a large 4.7 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel display, a fast processor, and a high capacity battery. It also uses the latest version of HTC’s Sense software, which blends in with Google Android 4.0′s default look and feel much better than earlier versions of Sense. Unfortunately while HTC offers official tools that… Read more »

Apple released iOS 5.1.1 today. It fixes a number of bugs in iOS 5.1, but doesn’t add any major new features. Unless you’ve jailbroken your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad there’s no reason not to upgrade. But if you do have a jailbroken device, upgrading to iOS 5.1.1 will remove your jailbreak. The good news is that you can already re-jailbreak Apple’s latest mobile operating… Read more »

Apple has released a minor operating system update for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. While iOS 5.1.1 doesn’t add any major new features, it does offer a few bug fixes. The improvements include an update that sometimes prevented the new iPad from moving between 2G and 3G wireless networks, and one that sometimes prevented users from streaming video from an iOS using the Apple… Read more »

The CyanogenMod team introduced a theme manager in CM7, allowing users to change the look and feel of Android 2.3 by installing custom themes. Now the theme manager has been updated for Android 4.0. It’s available in the latest nightly builds of CyanogenMod 9, which is still in pre-release testing. You can try out the theme manager by downloading a nightly build of CyangoenMod for… Read more »

HTC offers tools that let users unlock the bootloaders on many of its phones. This makes it possible to install custom recovery tools or custom ROMs or make other changes. Unlocking the bootloader will void your warranty, but if you’re cool with that, HTC is cool with letting you do it on about 45 handsets. Unfortunately the AT&T version of the HTC One X smartphone… Read more »

When Apple released iOS 5.1 in March, it took almost no time at all for hackers to figure out how to jailbreak older iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad models running the new operating system. But at the time there was no support newer devices with Apple A5 processors — and the jailbreak was tethered, which means you have to connect your device to a computer… Read more »

Research in Motion is rolling out a software update for BlackBerry users in the UK. No, it’s not BlackBerry 10 — no current handsets will get that as a software update. But BlackBerry 7.1 does include a number of nifty new features, and it’s available today for half a dozen existing phones including the latest BlackBerry Torch, Bold, and Curve devices. BlackBerry 7.1 includes a number of… Read more »

The Daily is a daily news publication that’s only available in digital form. And I don’t mean a website. When Rupert Murdoch launched The Daily launched last year, it was billed as the first major tablet-only news source. It was billed as the (or at least one possible) future of news. Instead of simply taking images and text from a printed paper or magazine and… Read more »

Research in Motion is starting to show off its BlackBerry 10 operating system this week, and the company is actively courting developers in hopes of bringing some high quality apps to the new operating system. But what if you already have a phone that’s running the recently released BlackBerry 7 operating system? Will you be able to upgrade to BlackBerry 10? No. PhoneScoop reports that… Read more »