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Amazon Fire Phone Finally Recieves Android Update
Amazon, global online e-tailing giant has taken a dip into a multitude of different markets with varying success rates. Its own branded product range includes the highly regarded Kindle range, which in its own right is massive. Then you have the Fire smartphone and tablet range; the Fire Tablet was…
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Xiaomi Launches 40-Inch Android-Powered Smart TV for Only $320
Rising Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has launched a new Android-powered 40-inch smart TV at a very affordable price. The Xiaomi Mi TV 2 is available for the bargain price of $320, and boasts a 1080p Sharp LED display with 5000:1 contrast ratio, Cortex-A9 quad-core 1.45GHz CPU, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB…
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Sony Xperia E4 to Have Two-Day Battery Life
Sony’s forthcoming mid-range smartphone, the Xperia E4, will have a 2,300mAh battery that can handle up to 48 hours of active use. The Xperia E4, due to go on sale later this month, could even run for longer, using its STAMINA and Ultra STAMINA power-saving modes. “With Xperia E4, we…
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Creator CI20 From Imagination – the New Raspberry Pi Rival
The Creator CI20, developed by UK chip designer Imagination, is a microcomputer set to rival the Raspberry Pi. Although slightly bigger in size, Imagination’s project packs more processing power, more RAM, and its own onboard flash storage. Like the Raspberry Pi, the CI20 can support various Linux operating systems,…
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Lenovo Announces The YOGA Tablet 10 HD+ Sporting a 1920 x 1080 Pixel Display
Aside from its battery life, the Lenovo YOGA Tablet 10 has been quite a disappointment in terms of performance and expectations. Nonetheless, the company has just announced that it will try its luck one more time with the announcement of its successor, the YOGA Tablet 10 HD+. The HD+ version…
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Recent Rumors Point To Both Google Nexus 8 and Android 4.5 Rolling Out In July
The latest Android 4.4 KitKat is still running on a very small range of devices, having some manufacturers still working on updates for their previously released handsets with a lower Android version. Even so, Google is undoubtedly working on another Android version, namely the 4.5, an operating system update schedule…
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New Nvidia Tegra Tablet To Be 4G LTE Compatible And Roll Out With Android 4.4 KitKat
Apparently the Nvidia Tegra Note will receive a hardware refresh which will include a 4G LTE capability, having the new 4G enabled tablets available from Nvidia partners starting from Q2 2014 at an estimated price tag of $299. While Nvidia isn’t selling the tablets themselves, they will ship to partners…
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Three Out Of Four iPhones Now Run The Latest iOS 7 Firmware
Apple released the statistics gathered through the App Store usage tracking feature. The result gained were that devices running iOS 7 have a 74 percent share, and given the short amount of time the iOS 7 has been on the market, its adoption rate is astonishing. Apple first released the…
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Android 4.4.1 Will Reportedly Fix Nexus 5 Camera
Nexus 5 users should be pleased to hear that Android 4.4.1 update should be rolling out shortly and that in addition to speeding up focusing, it will add faster white balancing, less shutter lag, and the ability to pinch-zoom the viewfinder in HDR+ mode. The company also shared a handful…
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Android KitKat’s ART Runtime To Make Apps Run Faster
Android 4.4 KitKat appears to come with a special feature that will help with the execution of programs on android devices. The key features it brings is faster and more efficient execution of apps, better battery life and a more fluid experience for users. ART, which stands for Android Runtime,…
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SwiftKey 4.3 Released And Available On The Google Play Store
SwiftKey has once again updated the third-party Android keyboard, releasing version 4.3 out onto the Play Store. Among the features in this update are a selection of three keyboard layouts, optimized for different screen and hand sizes. Particularly useful, I’ve found, is the Compact layout, which makes the entire length…
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Google Nexus 8 Tablet Seen On Android’s Official Web Page
Google might have accidentally leaked an image of their upcoming Nexus tablet, circulating under the name “Nexus 8”. Originally spotted on The Verge forums, a strange tablet was pictured in Google’s own promotional material for the revamped Android page promoting Android 4.4 KitKat. The picture is found at the bottom…
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Android 4.4 KitKat ROMs Now Available For Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Google have already stated the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will not get Android 4.4 KitKat support (because it is too old) but the guys over at XDA Developers have decided they aren’t going to accept that. XDA Developers forum user Gharak posted up an Android 4.4 KitKat ROM for the Samsung…
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Android 4.4 Ported To The Nexus 4, Nexus 7 And Nexus 7 – 2013 Edition
In less than 24 hours, a group of talented software geeks has been successful in porting Google’s latest Android OS, 4.4 KitKat, to three Nexus devices. Android 4.4 KitKat is not yet officially available for Nexus devices, but AOSP builds for the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 – 2012 and…
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Google To Announce Android 4.4 KitKat
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONcojECWXs[/youtube] Google released two long-awaited and hotly anticipated products. Already detailed earlier, the Nexus 5 runs on Mountain View company’s latest mobile OS. Android 4.4 KitKat has been in the news for quite some time now. It’s high time we learnt more about it, and officially now. One of the…
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