ASUS Transformer Prime bootloader unlock tool now available

Folks weren’t happy when they discovered that the ASUS Transformer Prime shipped with a locked bootloader. Users launched a flood of complaints to ASUS’s social media channels, eventually leading to a reversal and promise that an unlock tool would be delivered soon. ASUS has released the unlock tool for the Transformer Prime (TF201) here . Users looking to unlock the bootloader and await custom ROM’s can simply enter Android as the OS, click the Utilities link, and then follow instructions for the Unlock Device app section.

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LG Optimus 3D Max remixes LG’s first 3D device: adds NFC, subtracts size

LG was the first Android smartphone maker to release a 3D phone, and it will be the first to release a second 3D phone. LG announced today the Optimus 3D Max, a thinner, faster, and slighty more feature-rich successor to last year’s model. The Optimus 3D Max will be unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2012, but LG couldn’t wait to show it off to the Internet. The phone offers glasses-free 3D on a 4.3-inch 3D WVGA screen with high brightness.

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The iPhone is (still) saving the mobile industry

FORTUNE — The iPhone has been, by many measures, one of the most successful products in business history. Nearly 200 million iPhones have been sold in four and a half years, 37 million of them in the last three months of 2011. Apple's market cap has soared from $104 billion in June 2007, when the first iPhone was sold, to $480 billion today.

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NEC showcases three smartphones in Japan, set to be on display at the MWC as well

NEC is a leading smartphone and tablet manufacturer in Japan, but for the time being their products are still unknown to the European and American public. That might well change in the near future, as no less than three NEC smartphones have been shown at a conference in Japan today with the promise that all three will be on display in Barcelona for the 2012 MWC event next week. All three gadgets are unnamed for the time being and have been teased at the conference by some of their most important features. First off, there’s the ‘’best cloud device’’, a smartphone which promises to integrate better than anyone else cloud services. This first smartphone features a pretty unique design, with two screens that can be folded from inside to the outside. You can therefore use this gadget either as a smartphone or as a tablet, which is the kind of functionality that we have only seen before at Sony’s Tablet P

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Android Overload: Simpsons Game Coming Soon To Android, Samsung Learning Hub Coming Soon To Galaxy Tabs and More

If you don’t know what this Android Overload thang is all about, this is the place where we stash all the important Android and mobile related news from throughout our day. You know, the ones that didn’t make it onto our front page. Because we believe well informed readers are the best kinds of readers — we post them here for you to give the once over. If you find an interesting article, join the convo and leave your thoughts. With that — goodnight! The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has received a pre-alpha build of CyanogenMod 9

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