Mobile Magazine » hummingbird http://www.mobilemag.com Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Tue, 21 May 2013 12:48:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 T-Mo goes 4G crazy with Galaxy S 4G, G-Slate 4G http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/02/02/t-mo-goes-4g-crazy-with-galaxy-s-4g-g-slate-4g/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/02/02/t-mo-goes-4g-crazy-with-galaxy-s-4g-g-slate-4g/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:00:31 +0000 Michael Kwan http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=113658 Taking advantage of the T-Mobile HSPA+ 4G network are a new Android smartphone and, you guessed it, a new Google Android tablet too.

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]]> It may be early in 2011, but it’s clear that at least two key phrases are going to pop up everywhere: 3D and 4G. We’ve already seen the LG Optimus 3D, so now we turn to T-Mobile for no fewer than two simultaneous 4G unveilings.

Taking advantage of the T-Mobile HSPA+ 4G network are a new Android smartphone and, you guessed it, a new Google Android tablet too. First up, we have the Samsung Galaxy S 4G. If you were to place this new phone next to its Vibrant predecessor, you probably wouldn’t notice any major differences. It has the same 4-inch touchscreen, 1GHz Hummingbird processor, 5MP camera, and 16GB microSD card. The only real difference is the 4G ST-Ericsson radio found within, as well as the front-facing VGA cam and pre-loaded Inception.

On the tablet side of the equation, we get the T-Mobile G-Slate with Google by LG. This is rocking a 3D-capable 8.9″ capacitive touchscreen, but it’s not the glasses-free variety on the Optimus 3D; you need to use the pack-in glasses. As expected, it’s got Android 3.0 Honeycomb too, as well as dual cameras, Tegra2 processor, and 32GB on-board storage.

If you like Android and you like 4G, it looks like T-Mobile is a good bet. Then again, Verizon has quite a bit of 4G (albeit a different kind of 4G) and Android happiness going on too. So, the question remains, where’s the 4G-capable iPhone?

[Wired]

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]]> http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/02/02/t-mo-goes-4g-crazy-with-galaxy-s-4g-g-slate-4g/feed/ 0 Google Nexus S overclocked to 1.3GHz with Bionix NS1 ROM http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/01/04/google-nexus-s-overclocked-to-1-3ghz-with-bionix-ns1-rom/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/01/04/google-nexus-s-overclocked-to-1-3ghz-with-bionix-ns1-rom/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:47:44 +0000 Michael Kwan http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=111710 Maybe you're one of the lucky folks who managed to snatch up a shiny new Google Nexus S (by Samsung) smartphone over the holidays. Maybe you're loving that curvaceous display and the Gingerbread-flavored OS, but you want a little more. You want a speed boost. Well, you can now overclock the Nexus S, but it comes at a price.

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]]> Maybe you’re one of the lucky folks who managed to snatch up a shiny new Google Nexus S (by Samsung) smartphone over the holidays. Maybe you’re loving that curvaceous display and the Gingerbread-flavored OS, but you want a little more. You want a speed boost. Well, you can now overclock the Nexus S, but it comes at a price.

The guys and gals over at XDA Developers have managed to take that 1GHz Hummingbird processor and boost it up to 1.3GHz. That extra 300MHz of juice may not be all that noticeable to the average user, but it can give you even more street cred among your other Android-fueled compatriots. The price? You lose Bluetooth functionality.

If you have any intention of using a headset or streaming your media to some kind of speaker system, this hack probably isn’t for you. If you can do without Bluetooth and don’t care about the potential degradation of battery life, though, an extra 300MHz might be nice. All you have to do is “flash from recovery, reboot, [and] enjoy,” assuming that you’re running the Bionix NS1 ROM.

Don’t know what that is? Not particularly experienced in smartphone hackery? It may be best to leave this overclock alone, then, because you don’t want to end up with a $500+ paper weight.

[IntoMobile via XDA]

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