CyanogenMod – possibly the most popular third party ROM for Android – has made a release candidate of their newest offering available. CyanogenMod 10.1 is based on Android Jelly Bean 4.2 and is currently said to support just over 40 devices – as you’d expect, this includes mainstream Samsung devices, various Nexus devices, and a [...]

On the 5th of April Vodafone annoubced that they had approved the Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S II for both the Vodafone and 3 models. Unfortunately at the time, no date was given on when the update would be rolled out but today the information has been updated to advise that the [...]

You may have heard of a little family of devices from Samsung called the “Galaxy S” range. Well, apparently they’re pretty popular, with Samsung shipping over 100 million Galaxy S units in total. Other cool numbers from Samsung include selling 190,000 Galaxy S IIIs each day, and 40 million Galaxy S II and Galaxy S [...]

We heard a rumor a little while a go that the Galaxy S II would be getting a Jelly Bean Update around Q4 this year, well it seems as though you can download a near to perfect test release of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S II. SamMobile have some instructions for how [...]

If you wanted to see if that factory reset from the browser exploit is actually a thing, then watch the video below — it’s kind of mind blowing to think this is possible. The issue is clearly there on the Galaxy S II, however, the Galaxy S III is immune from this exploit from within [...]

There hasn’t been much official word on any types of updates for the most popular phones that Samsung has sold in the last year, we’ve seen insane profits reported for the last quarter by Samsung and sales figures for the Galaxy S II and III seem pretty fantastic and the surprise hit the Galaxy Note [...]

Samsung aren’t just proud of their current flagship device, the Galaxy S III, they’re also very proud of their previous flagships in the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, as well as the Galaxy Note, which is a flagship in a category of its own. SammyHub have confirmed some sales numbers of these devices with [...]

I’m a late comer to Kickstarter projects but I’m starting to have a great time looking through the many wonderful projects that are out there, in particular in regards to Android based projects. I just came across this project from Melbourne based company, Studio Proper, which aims to produce a mounting system for the Galaxy [...]

Red Bull MOBILE Australia have added a new device to their lineup: the Samsung Galaxy S II. It joins the fairly bare lineup that includes only the HTC Salsa and HTC Explorer, so it’s certainly a high-end device in comparison. You can’t buy the Galaxy S II outright, instead you can get one starting at [...]

MobiCity have released some interesting info regarding their best-selling phones over the previous 3 years. Unsurprisingly it’s all Android at the top; leading the pack is the Samsung Galaxy S II followed by the HTC Desire — the device was a huge success when it first launched back in 2010. Behind that is the Desire [...]

Want to get Samsung’s new TouchWiz Nature UX on your Galaxy S II because you can’t justify upgrading to the Galaxy S III? Well you’re in luck. A developer has ripped TouchWiz UX from the leaked Galaxy S III ROM and has managed to get it working on the Samsung Galaxy S II (amongst other [...]

It was my first attempt at hosting the Ausdroid Podcast, and I think it went down pretty nicely: take a listen for yourself. We were lucky enough to be joined by Kieran McIlwain, Vodafone’s Device Introduction Specialist, to talk about the Android OS update process for devices on their network. Oh, we also did some [...]

With Samsung letting the cat out of the bag in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S III — the successor to the Galaxy S II — we thought it would only be fair to compare it to two other recently released devices — the HTC One X and Sony Xperia S — as well [...]