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Many of you big gamers clicked just because you saw the game name “Portal.” That is just fine by me. Seems the guys over at AndroidPolice have snagged up an Alpha port of the famed game being developed and created for Android. Sadly, this alpha build isn’t under construction by VALVe. That doesn’t mean it isn’t any less awesome though. The alpha version that is floating around the outer reaches of the web isn’t necessarily worth the time to dig out, at least not yet.

While it looks great and seems to play well, it doesn’t really give you much to do. The build is more of a proof-of-concept just to prove that it is feasibly possible to bring the game to Android. It has been ported over on the Unity Engine by a team of developer in Russia. It will most likely never make it to the official Android market, ever. Which is sad, but we hope that maybe VALVe will take notice and see that there is an interest in making this game mobile. Until that day, check out the video of the alpha below.  (The choppiness is related to the recording software not the game.)

How many of you would love to see a true version of Portal land on Android from VALVe?

Via AndroidPolice

Owners of the Samsung Epic 4G will be excited to learn that an alpha version of CyanogenMOD 9 was made available yesterday, thanks to the hard work and efforts from the EpicCM team. Granted, there’s still a long list of bugs and issues that need to be dealt with — this is far from a stable release — but, none of the problems are what we consider to be deal breakers if you’re just itching to get a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich. To get your paws on the instructions and files you’ll need to make the deal happen, head over to the download page on the EpicCM site. Check out this video review, uploaded to YouTube by qbking77.

Via Phandroid

Among the many phones rolling out over the next couple of months a popular theme is found. There’s still a lot of them debuting with Froyo builds. The HTC Thunderbolt was a victim of this, right in the wake of select Gingerbread updates a new flagship device emerges with the same ol piece of software. Granted the Thunderbolt came sporting a second gen processor and additional RAM making it run circles around predecessors, it was still capable of so much more. Most of the popular devices already had successful versions of CyanogenMod 7  making them speedy, efficient and damn sexy might I add. Leaving the Thunderbolt with another disadvantage. Or maybe not?

Although HTC has said that Verizon’s first LTE device would be getting a swift upgrade to Gingerbread it looks like TeamDouche is going to beat them to the punch as an Alpha version of the popular AOSP ROM is now available for this phone. As we’re seeing with many phones now that CM7 has reached a stable release, CyanogenMod is spreading like hot doughnuts in a police station.

If you’d like to check functionality of this new build or just simply read more information check out the XDA thread. Just a reminder this is an alpha build, do not expect to get a daily driver out of this.

Source: XDA via XDA Thread

faux123 has released an update to AOSP Gingerbread 2.3.3 v1.0.1 beta. The latest version is now 1.0.1 beta.

This release is supported on the following Device(s):
- HTC Glacier/T-Mobile myTouch 4G

ChangeLog:

< Alpha Version 0.1 (deprecated) >

Initial Release…

< Beta Version 1.0.0 (green) >

(Hybrid) Framework Folder is derived mostly from CM7 NB41+
Hardware Folder is 100% from CM7 NB41+
Packages Folder is 100% from AOSP source

Kanged the following apps from CM7:
Camera (need this for FFC to work)
SuperUser (duh…)
Torch (Ok…)
DSP Manager (Because It`s just awesome)
FileManager (why not…basic built-in util)
ROMManager (because it`s convenient)
Theme Chooser (Yeah… why not again)
WiFi Calling (not sure if it is working or not…)
Terminal (because again, it`s a handy tool)

< Beta Version 1.0.1 (Current) >

Rolled back: AOSP fonts used instead of CM7 (Hybrid Framework)
Updated WiFi Calling App
Incorporated latest fixes from CM7 Framework to Hybrid Framework
incorporated latest CM7 kernel RAM disk updates to my built-in kernel
Zip Aligned the all apks

< Beta Version 1.0.2 (Coming Soon) >

Rolled back: AOSP System UI used instead of CM7 (Hybrid Framework)
Rolled back: AOSP System Policy used instead of CM7 (Hybrid Framework)
Incorporated latest GPS fix from Zinx to utilize full 10 bit input to Hardware Folder

 

Head over to faux123′s CommunityRelease Developer Homepage for more information and downloads.