Take Back Your App Privacy with Android Custom ROMs
At this point in time an Android custom ROM probably won’t protect you from NSA spying. There are some steps you can take to protect yourself in that regard, but I’ll leave that for another post. Today...
View ArticleA Belated Happy Birthday to Android
Five years ago yesterday the Android mobile OS was introduced to the public on the HTC/T-Mobile G1. Today it’s the world’s dominant operating system, with a larger user base than Windows desktop...
View ArticleThe LG G2 Reconsidered
Yesterday saw a big leak of specs for the forthcoming Nexus 5. Each new tidbit seems to reaffirm that the next Nexus will follow in the footsteps of the 4 and 7 rather than the original Nexus One — it...
View ArticleGo Pro with Paranoid Android
After flashing my girlfirend’s Galaxy Nexus last night I can proudly say that all Android devices in our household — that’s a pair each of Nexus phones and tablets — now run Paranoid Android. I...
View ArticleIt’s a Nexus Thing
What we’re looking at here is a Nexus 5 with a newly-unlocked bootloader, courtesy of Droid Life. If you read their walk-through of the procedure then you will begin to understand the unique selling...
View ArticleThe Sometimes Rocky Road to Root
For all my bluster in a previous post about how trivial it is to make a Nexus your own, I seem to have conveniently forgotten that achieving root is sometimes not as easy as I’ve made it out to be. My...
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