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Galaxy S III dev edition sales page goes live, ‘coming soon’ for VZW freedom-lovers

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Galaxy S III dev edition sales page goes live, 'coming soon' for VZW freedomlovers

Even if you have $600 in your pocket and plenty of reasons to want a custom ROM on your Galaxy S III, you still can't quite get hold of Samsung and VZW's promised developer edition. That said, the tinkerer-friendly device has now appeared on Sammy's US mobile sales site, with the promise that it'll be ready to order "soon," with its unsigned bootloader wrapped up in pebble blue alongside 32GB of storage, and with support and a 12-month warranty provided directly by the manufacturer. There's no reason to think that other colors and sizes won't follow suit, or that there'll be much longer to wait for availability, and we'll keep you alerted as soon as that page gets updated.

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Galaxy S III dev edition sales page goes live, 'coming soon' for VZW freedom-lovers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Baidu custom ROM for Nexus S swaps Google’s apps for Baidu’s own, gets few fans in Mountain View

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Baidu custom ROM for Nexus S swaps Google's apps for Baidu's own, gets few fans in Mountain View

The Nexus S was supposed to be the definition of Google's perfect phone circa late 2010, so we can't imagine that too many at the Googleplex are enthused with the potential impact of a new custom ROM from Baidu. China's search giant has replaced many of the stock Google apps in Android 4.0 with its own examples, ranging from media players through to navigation. Google will take some consolation from knowing that the firmware can't be pushed out over the air and has to be sideloaded over USB. All the same, with plans from Baidu to expand to other Android 4.0 devices, we can't help but think Google faces a minor Kindle Fire effect where it's cut out from its own ecosystem.

Baidu custom ROM for Nexus S swaps Google's apps for Baidu's own, gets few fans in Mountain View originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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