Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!
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Well that didn’t take long. The Google Edition of the HTC One has really only just gone on sale in the US, but already some enterprising hackers have dumped its ROM and made a version any GSM HTC One owner can install on their non-Google Edition devices. You didn’t exactlylove Sense, right?
CyanogenMod 10.1 For The HTC One XL
Posted in: Today's ChiliHTC has revealed the HTC One Glamour Red, a new color variant of the flagship Android smartphone, headed to the UK initially. The handset, otherwise identical to the existing HTC One – which so far has come in far more sober black and silver hues – will go on sale as an exclusive with UK
HTC One launches in ‘glamour red’, arrives in the UK next month (update: pricing)
Posted in: Today's ChiliFlush from launching in the US in a Google-heavy iteration, HTC is rewarding its UK fans with a sultry “glamour red” option of the One smartphone. It’ll arrive at retailer Phones 4U in mid-July, although there’s no specifics yet on storage (16 or 32GB?), or whether there will be any price difference between the new colorful hue and existing silver and black options.
Update: Phones4U has confirmed it’ll be selling this boudoir of a phone starting at £33 per month on contract.
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Officially, the HTC One Google Play edition exists for tinkering with an unfettered Android experience. Owners need the code to do that, of course — and HTC has quickly followed up by posting the kernel source code for its Sense-free phone. The release helps developers optimize their apps for the hardware, modify its vanilla Android 4.2 build and produce custom firmware. If you have one of those goals in mind, the kernel source is ready to download at HTC’s developer portal.
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Source: HTCdev
If you had been waiting for the Google Edition smartphones to come available — today is your day. The stock Android running Samsung GALAXY S 4 and HTC One have recently landed in the Play Store and according to the details included in the listings they are both are set to ship soon. Or more