![Android Design Team Makes Ice Cream Sandwich Stencils Available [Developer News]](http://cultofandroid.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/icsstencils.jpg)
Google and the Android team have been working hard to provide all the necessary tools for developers to create beautiful looking Android apps to fit the new Android 4.0 theme. That’s the reason they created Android Design, a central location for developers to go for UI tools and tips. After its launch, the Android team began to receive numerous requests for Ice Cream Sandwich stencils. Being the amazing Android team that they are, they have made these stencils available and they can be downloaded now by heading over to the Android Design site.
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Our favorite little social app was updated today and while it didn’t include any new features, it did fix a few bugs and improve performance. So if you haven’t done so already, head over to the market and grab the latest Google+ for Android. While you’re at it, don’t forget to add +Vincent Messina and +Cult of Android to one of your favorite circles.
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Toshiba is finally bringing its super thin tablet to the U.S. market after many trade floor showings and a minor name change. Previously known as the Excite X10, Toshiba has been touting this device as the world’s thinnest and lightest 10’ tablet available. At only 0.3 inches (7.7mm) thick and weighing just 1.18 pounds (535g), it certainly has reason to brag, but as we all know, being the thinnest doesn’t always equate to being the best. Other specs for the 10 LE include:
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![Samsung Galaxy II And Apple iPad 2 Win Top Spots In 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards [MWC 2012]](http://cultofandroid.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gma2012.jpg)
The GSMA has announced the winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards which took place yesterday at Mobile World Congress. The top mobile products and services were showcased and there was even some entertainment with comedian/songwriter Tim Minchine as the host. Categories ranged from Best Consumer Mobile Service to Best Mobile Innovation for Publishing and while we love hearing about innovative products, it’s really the hardware categories that had us talking.
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We have another leap day deal for you! This one comes to us courtesy of Google Music and discounts 29 albums to the low price of $2.99. I know what you’re thinking, and no, they aren’t a bunch of no name lame albums that no one wants. You’ll find albums like Taylor Swift’s Speak Now, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon and Bob Marley’s Legend. This sale is for today only so act fast if you’d like to grab some great music at an incredibly low price.
![uTest Compares User Satisfaction Between Android And iOS Apps [Infograph]](http://cultofandroid.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/uTest_Infographic1.jpg)
Ever find yourself alone in your positive review of an app? Maybe you think the price of a mobile game is too high while others think it’s a steal. User satisfaction in the mobile ecosystem is quite a roller coaster of information and emotion. That’s why uTest, a software testing company, decided to crawl hundreds of thousands of apps and user reviews to see just how happy or unhappy users of the top two mobile operating systems were with their app experience. uTest has laid out this information in a nifty little infograph showing user satisfaction across Android and iOS with side-by-comparisons of the two. Check it out and tell us what you think.
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![This Monstrous, Sex-Crazed Alien Wants To Take A Crack At Siri [MWC 2012]](http://cultofandroid.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/spoony.jpg)
![This Monstrous, Sex-Crazed Alien Wants To Take A Crack At Siri [MWC 2012]](http://cultofandroid.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MWCbanner2CoA.jpg "MWCbanner2CoA")
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — In Russia, if you want to come up with a mascot for your company or a character for your app, there’s no focus groups or testing: it all comes from the top down.
That’s why when Russian app development and publishing company iFree wanted to release a new virtual assistant for Android and iOS to take on Siri, i-Free’s Kirill Petrov dictated the design of i-Free’s latest character. He would be an all white, gremlin-like humanoid with huge flashing teeth and glowing yellow eyes. He would hail from the planet Edelweiss (named after a beer), and he would come to Earth in the time-honored tradition of many alien invaders before him: namely to kidnap our women for his own lascivious pleasure.
Meet Spoony. He’s terrifying. He uses much of the same core technology as Siri, the distant relation he’d eventually like to kill, or at least surplant. Presumably after making out with her first.
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![The Killer Feature Android And iOS Have To Steal From Windows 8 [MWC 2012]](http://cultofandroid.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_1783.jpg)
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — On the surface of things, Asus’s Eee Pad Transformer Prime is just a wonderfully swell idea. Why have both an ultrabook and tablet when you can have one that is both? What if you could take your iPad, snap it onto a keyboard + trackpad, and have a MacBook Air?
It’s a nice dream, and, in actuality, the Transformer Prime is a beautiful piece of hardware. But the challenges aren’t hardware: they lie in software. And in software, neither Android nor iOS is yet up to the challenge of driving both a mobile and laptop OS. But after Windows 8 sets the bar higher, they both could be.
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![Verizon Celebrates Leap Year With $100 Off Any 4G LTE Device [Deal Alert]](http://cultofandroid.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/vzleapyear.jpg)
Leap year comes but every four years and what better way to celebrate than with $100 off a 4G LTE device on Verizon. That’s exactly what Verizon is offering in their Leap Year Promo which will be running all day today. This deal is online only and discounts all 4G LTE devices by $100 for anyone signing up for a new 2-year contract and data plan. New customers will also be able to take advantage of Verizon’s double data promo which offers double the data allotment when you sign up for a data plan of 2GB or higher.
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BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Fujitsu’s made the first Android phone that I, as an iPhone lover, found myself drooling over… which makes it a doubly good thing that the phone in question is waterproof. And not just waterproof! As thin and light and as perfect in the hand as a dream.
The only problems? Because of Fujitsu’s bizarre way of selling their devices, this phone, which has been on sale in Japan for months, doesn’t even have a set name. And forget about getting one Stateside. How does a company make a phone this beautiful and then have no idea how to market it?
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![Read "Ditch Those Crappy Video Subscription Services And Grab Yourself A Slingbox SOLO [Review]"](http://cultofandroid.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/slingboxr-300x250.jpg "Read \"Ditch Those Crappy Video Subscription Services And Grab Yourself A Slingbox SOLO [Review]\"")
