As with the Galaxy SII extended battery, not only do you get a 2,000mAh battery, but you get a whole new back cover to hide it.  By all accounts, the Nexus’ version doesn’t add a great deal of size or weight.

The good news is, as soon as they’re available, we’ll have one for testing and review!

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AOKP Rom - Build 23 at present, but this will likely be updated to a newer version very soon.

LeanKernel - I forgot to mention this in the video.  Makes the phone much smoother.

Nova Launcher - Will only work on Android 4.0.1 and newer.

TV Show Favs – Great for tracking your downloaded DVR’d TV

Astrid – How I keep up with all my tasks at work.  Along with the Power Pack to give me a better widget.

Simple Calendar – The much asked about agenda widget on my front homescreen.

Palmary Pro Weather – For some reason the Pro version isn’t available in the Market, so here’s their website.

BeyondPod – It’s a little expensive, but the best I’ve used.  Also, use Presto to be able to hear them in faster modes.

Swype – Apply for beta here.

KM Launcher – To allow different keyboards in different orientations.

The wallpaper background is here -

This will likely change very soon, in fact as I type I’ve changed it to this -

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The good people at Gametel sent me one of their new bluetooth gamepad devices to try with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus, very nice it is too!

It pairs up very easily, has QR codes on the box for the drivers (App) and a demo video and then clamps your phone in place above the controller.

Take a look after the break for more photo’s and my video of it’s unboxing and it in action.

All in all I really like the device.  The pressing on the volume keys is a little annoying, but it’s the only fault I can find.  It’s a well designed, well built, well implemented device that really increases the gaming potential of your Android device.

I’m not sure who holds the responsibility of increasing compatible apps, the app developers of the Gametel people, but hopefully more and more games will be added.  It could really do with some sports games, a FIFA type game would be much more playable with this pad, for sure.

The full set of photo’s can be seen on our Google+ Album.

Right now this Gamtel pad is £49.99 on Amazon.  If you’re a big gamer, you need this device.

Well, if you’ve faced that issue before, you’ll be happy to know that now there’s a solution to that problem, thanks to Scalado. Keep reading for more information and a very cool video.

What the application does is removes unwanted people from a photo! You simply select the people you want removed and abracadabra, they magically cease to exist, in your photo that is.

So how does it work, the concept is pretty easy to understand. It’s safe to assume the person your taking a picture of, will stay still, Scalado will then interpolate the “clean” version of the scene by watching the moving objects. Unfortunately, it wont be able to remove anything stationary from the picture, but in most cases that’s never the problem.

Have a look at the video below to see how it’ll work.

Pretty cool ha? But wait, before you get your hopes up, this isn’t just some standalone application that you’ll be able to install on your phone. Scalado will provide the technology to their OEM partners which include Sony Ericsson, Motorola, HTC and a few others. You might not see it being released anytime soon, but it’ll be demonstrated at MWC in just over a week, so stay tuned to find out more.

Let us know what you think.

Source: Scalado

Via: AndroidCentral

4412 in Quadrant is pretty good, but then again just yesterday I ran the test on the Samsung Galaxy Note with the latest Quadrant, giving me a score more than 4000 and that’s from a dual-core device.

Regardless of the Quadrant results, the X3 appears to be a beast of a phone, keep reading for more information.

As far as specifications go, LG isn’t holding back, according to Modaco, the X3 is said to be featuring a:

• 4.7inch HD 720×1280 screen
• Tegra 3 Quad core processor
• 2000mAh battery
• 16GB internal memory + microSD slot
• 8MP camera with ultra fast shutter
• 1.3MP Front Facing camera
• Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3

The specifications are really good and it’s what we expect from high-end devices coming out this year but should you take the Benchmark results seriously? Well, I wouldn’t, as they don’t always represent the real world performance of a device, but it should give you some sort of perspective. Running the latest Quadrant optimised for multiple core devices and ICS gave me a result of 3100 on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and just over 4000 on the Samsung Galaxy Note.

I understand Quadrant isn’t something everyone likes, but as it is, what do you think of the results? Did you expect something higher for a Quad-core device? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.

Via: Modaco

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