At the upcoming MWC, NVIDIA looks to build upon Tegra 2’s success by debuting their new quad-core technology, Tegra 3. Their past year’s sales reached $360 million dollars and NVIDIA is looking to build upon that by increasing sales over Tegra 2 by 50% with their Tegra 3 chipset. NVIDIA plans to have Tegra 3 cores running inside many “superphones” and tablets during the 2012 fiscal year.

We have barely had our first tastes of Ice Cream Sandwich and already we're begging for more sweets. The Jellybean (aka Android 5.0) mill has been churning hard this week and the latest tidbit from SlashGear is a doozy. The site has strong reason to believe that the next iteneration of Android is going to include some incredible home automation features in the form of Android@Home...

As true gadget geeks, we're all waiting for the day that we can take the plunge and start mixing the virtual and physical worlds into one. Advances in virtual reality and augmented reality are beginning to make that possible, and the day that we begin combining those two worlds is fast approaching, if Google has anything to say about it.

Home replacement apps are a dime a dozen these days. Most tend to replicate and then attempt to slightly improve on their predecessors, causing many custom launchers to behave quite similar to each other minus a transition effect or two. TSF Shell Pro 3D is not your typical home replacement application however. This launcher brings some incredibly unique features to the table, many of them are sure to make the Android fanboy inside you go ballistic. Even better news, TSF has announced that they will finally be gracing a device near you starting February 29th.

Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100) owners will be excited to see their device software get upgraded from Android 2.3.X Gingerbread to 4.0.X! This will be one of the first phones to be getting the OTA update to Android's most current OS. Eldar Murtazin, tech insider, has confirmed this update starting on the first of March depending on the country and carrier.

Shortly after the release of the Transformer Prime, ASUS said in a statement that they would be releasing an unlock tool for the device's bootloader. They've made good on that promise today, and the unlock tool is now available!

NVIDIA has used "The way it's meant to be played" for their marketing tagline for several years. With their recent introduction of the Icera modem family and the popularity of their Tegra series of SoC solutions, their motto could shift to "The way it's meant to be called." The Icera platform currently consists of three different modem variants and will be debuting on ZTE's Mimosa X, giving that phone the distinction of being the first phone available powered completely by NVIDIA.

If you're one of the many unlucky people who's had to resort to the HTC unlock method for rooting your phone, then you surely know the woes of being unable to flash kernels from recovery. Presently, we've had to resort to options such as FlashImageGUI or booting recovery from a PC, but that's all about to change. Thanks to the geniuses over at Team Win, your flashing experiences are about to get a lot easier.

Panasonic is pretty much a household name when it comes to electronics, but we don't really tend to think of them when it comes to mobile phones. Well it seems that might change since they're supposed to announce a few new devices at MWC. While details are slightly scarce at the moment, we can definitely tell you everything we know. And probably some things we don't.

Android and Linux is really a marriage that should have come about a long time ago. Android runs a Linux kernel, so the transition between the two should be pretty seamless. And now it is. No more will you need virtual machines or dual-boot systems. Canonical is introducing a parallel system that allows Android for mobile, and Ubuntu for the desktop, all in one device. With some extras.