There’s no denying the rapid decline in camera sales since the birth of the Smartphone because the new era of mobile phones can not only make the calls and browse the web, but also do a mighty fine job at […]
Android
Android is one of the world’s most popular mobile operating systems that runs on smartphones, tablets and now even convertible laptops. Even though Google technically owns Android, it is also open source and based on the Linux kernel. Android being open source means that other developers can modify the code—we see this happen all the time with custom ROMs.
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Here you can find thousands of tutorials for Android customization, firmware files, hard resetting, Android tools, and general tips.
How To Get Android 4.4 On Galaxy Nexus [Verizon Only]
When we covered the launch of Android 4.4 we also listed all of the devices it would and would not be compatible with. One of the devices it would not be coming to be the original Samsung Galaxy Nexus Smartphone. […]
Android Smartwatch On Its Way As Soon As next Month
Smartwatches are looking like being the next big thing in tech, and starting next month, we will see our first one come from Android according to sources. The good thing about this one is that it will be compatible with […]
Ashton Kutcher Will Be Product Engineer For Lenovo
Ashton Kutcher has been hired by Lenovo for something other than his good looks. This time he is going to be Lenovo’s product engineer. Ashton is actually an avid tech fan and has been in the scene for quite a […]
Verizon Not Expected To Be Picking Up Nexus 5
In a strange turn of events, one of the biggest carriers across the U.S. Will reportedly not pick up the new Google Nexus 5 mobile. The Nexus 5 was suppose to be one of the best mid-ranged phones money can […]
Nexus 5 Bumper Covers Listed Over At Google Play Store
Just hours after the event took place which saw the Nexus 5 announced, Google has now listed some cases for it. The only dilemma here is that they are not yet available to be purchased, even though the actual device […]
Android 4.4 Won’t Support The Galaxy Nexus, Google Confirms Today
The original standard Galaxy Nexus will not be getting upgraded to the newly announced Android 4.4 a Google spokesman had confirmed for the live event today. Google is still standing by their previous statement which involved one of the best […]
Google Play No Longer Supports FroYo
Now that the big launch of the Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 has happened, Google is going to be making some changes to the services surrounding it to better suit what is happening. Unfortunately for some people this will cause […]
Android 4.4 KitKat For Nexus 5, Nexus 7 & Nexus 10 Download Available In The Coming Weeks
We were told per sources earlier today that a good thing about Android 4.4 is that it will improve performance on the lower end devices. That gave us hope that it would also be coming to most of the lower […]
Nexus 5 Round-Up Including Price, Features And Release Date
The Nexus 5 was announced today with a Snapdragon 800 with quad-core Krait CPU and Adreno 330 GPU. This is some serious hardware packed inside. Furthermore, it has been confirmed to come with stock Android 4.4 KitKat — the latest […]
Mobile Devices Can Be Used During Take-Off And Landing On Flights Now Says FAA
When it comes to flying, nobody I know is gain enough to take any risks. If we date back to a decade ago, mobile phones were not permitted at all on flights. The captains managed to drill the point in […]
Features For Android 4.4 KitKat Will Include Support For Wearable Tech
The next few years are shaping up to be an interesting one. For starters, I’m personally in love with what we are seeing in smartwatches and I think there is a strong future there for sure. That’s not to say […]
Android 4.4 KitKat And Nexus 5 Coming Today, October 31
Happy Halloween! We should have known Google would have picked this occasion to drop what we have all been waiting for — KitKat Rom and the new nexus 5 smart phones. We posted several days ago about an alleged invite […]
Google Donates 17,000 Nexus 7 Tablets To Victims Of Hurricane Sandy
Fortunately for most places in the world, they aren’t subject to copping the brutal force of these hurricanes we see so often across the United States of America. Although Sandy didn’t leave the destruction of Hurricane Katrina that we saw […]
Lebron James Featured In New 2-Minute Ad, Likely Part Of The 100 Million Deal Between NBA & Samsung
We reported yesterday about the national basketball association and Samsung agreeing on what seemed to be a rather hefty deal with a $100 million price tag along with it. One of the extra involvements that had the deal so the […]
Samsung Galaxy Gear Will become Compatible For Smartphones Outside Of Galaxy Range, Nexus Could Be Next
The plan is to make the Samsung Galaxy Gear compatible for all different types of Smartphones and not just the current Galaxy range, a Samsung spokesman has said. For the time being, we are seeing some big restrictions being applied […]
64 Million People Will Own Wearable Tech By 2017, Reports Suggest
Remembering that we are only a whisker away from being part of 2014, at Berg Insight has predicted that the world we live in will have sold 64 million bits of wearable tech like smart watches and Google Glass by […]
This Is The Reason Why You Want To Buy A Curved Display Smartphone
We are now seeing flexible OLED displays being introduced to our cell phones. This started off as only having one strength: being unbreakable. It didn’t have any other use because it was in a hard shell still. LG were the […]
Samsung Now 35% Marketshare, A New Record & 45% Shipment Growth For Q3 2013
Normally when we hear about market shares we are hearing about the Apple’s and the Android’s, but we aren’t hearing about the device manufacturers. Today a startling figure has come to light in Q3 of 2012: Samsung now has a […]
Google Glass Will Be Prescription-Compatible By November 2013
Wearing Google Glass and not having good eyesight was always one of the big concerns that would have to be addressed sooner than later. We recently informed you about the Glass Explorer program, where every day civilians could arrive at […]
Rumour: Galaxy S5 To Sport The 64-Bit Exynos Processor, Could Also have 4GB Of RAM
The Samsung galaxy S5 — which will be the new flagship model — could be coming to the 64-bit processor called Exynos. Samsung, of course, will have their own version of the special chip. This one is claiming to withhold […]
Google Glass Explorer Now Offers The Chance To Invite 3 Friends, Plus A New Pair Of Glasses
It would be perfectly understandable if you were a bit frazzled on the release of Google Glass. We are always told that they are not out yet, but then we flick the TV station and see certain people walking around […]
November 5th Will Be The Launch Date Of Nexus 5 & Android 4.4 Kit Kat
New invites are sent out to Tel-Aviv press conference by Google look like the one’s that will include the release of the Nexus 5 and Android 4.4 to go along with it. These two things — device and software — […]
Curved Battery Made For Inside The LG G Flex, First Smartphone To Incorporate This Inside
It was only a matter of time: Now we are starting to see the first pieces of inside the mobile phone start to gain some curvature so that we can start looking at making the phone’s bendable to a certain […]
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Mini Gets Tenaa Certification, Shows Specs
The Active Mini will be another Samsung device under the flagship S4 name. This new Smartphone will be given the model number of GT-I8580. Mini phones generally not only drop in size but also stature, and this one according to […]
NBA Using Samsung Tablets As Monitors In 3 Year $100 Million Deal
The NBA’s fast paced nature has referee’s frequently checking the sidelines for video footage of earlier plays. Up until now this was done with rather outdated, flat screens — nowhere near as bad as the NFL screens look still to […]
New Samsung Galaxy Round Advertisement Shows Why You Want A Curved Display
The age of the round Smartphone — that is where we are according to popular manufacturers, Samsung. It’s also at a time where many skeptics are calling it a bit of a fad era. Sure, the curved — or round […]
How To Stop Blinkfeed From Operating In Sense 5.5
With so many heads being buried in Smartphones these days, HTC had the idea of creating a new feature called Blinkfeed. What this did was try to lay everything out in one place for easy access via the home screen. […]
Blackberry Has denied Allegations Of Leaving Their Own Paid Comments On BBM For Android & iPhone
Yesterday if you managed to be logged onto social media at the right time, and have certain tech blogs liked, you may have witnessed some accusations that Blackberry had paid off people to spam the comments section of the BBM […]
3/10 Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned
Sometimes being first on the scene isn’t always best. That’s what we seem to be seeing here on the smart watch front for Samsung. Normally in tech, people love to be the first one’s out with a new generation of […]
