The Nexus 4, Google’s 2012 flagship phone, is being updated to Android 4.4 KitKat today, according to some users on Twitter and Android fan forums. Users of the Android Central forums posted screengrabs last night, and @fakeninjitsu on Twitter posted the above left photo. A quick straw poll of people I know with a Nexus …
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Related stories Hands-on with an early YotaPhone prototype Android, e-ink YotaPhone mashup arrives December Smartphones with unique designs We knew that YotaDevices, makers of the rather individual YotaPhone, had a December launch date in mind, but now it’s official. The event that kicks off one of the more interesting smartphone concepts we’ve seen this year takes place in Moscow on …
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Android tablet users should take the latest version of Opera for a spin around the Web. Launched Wednesday at the Google Play store, Opera for Android version 18 has been spruced up to take advantage of the full screen of larger tablets. The icons and menus are positioned so as to allow easy access whether holding your tablet in portrait …
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Virgin Media has unveiled special prices for the Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C if you’re already a friend of Richard Branson — but before you fling your TiVo remote aside and race to buy one, be warned they still ain’t exactly cheap. The new iPhones hit Virgin this Friday. Customers who get their broadband and telly piped in through …
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Toshiba is claiming smartphone-esque battery life for a laptop that will be released in Japan on Friday. The dynabook Kira V634 will run for 22 hours on a charge, according to a write-up at Nikkei Business. The V634 model 27KS comes with a 1.6GHz Intel Core i5-4200U Haswell processor, 8GB of RAM, a 128GB solid-state drive, and a 13.3-inch display …
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If you’ve been vested in the iDevice ecosystem for a while, you probably own a speaker dock that has a 30-pin connector — one that is now incompatible with your current-generation iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Those newfangled Lightning ports make docking out of the question. So, what happens to that perfectly good speaker? Craigslist? Garage sale? Landfill?! (Horrors.) If …
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HTC One owners in the UK mark your calendars — HTC has confirmed that its flagship smart phone will be getting an update to Android 4.4 KitKat in a few months’ time. Yesterday HTC tweeted, “We’re working with our local carriers to begin the rollout of Android 4.4 and Sense 5.5 for the #HTCOne from end of January 2014.” That …
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MediaTek, a processor maker, has partnered with ARM, a processor designer, to announce the first true eight-core mobile chip. Dubbed the Octa-Core 6592, the chip enables all eight cores to work simultaneously. The processor, which is based on ARM architecture, supports up to 16-megapixel cameras and the full-HD video spec H.265. Ultra-HD support on the H.264 spec is also supported. …
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Who knows what Apple’s app designers were thinking when they crafted Find My Friends to look like a leather glove, complete with stitching. With the arrival of iOS 7, all of the core apps (and most of the optional ones) got a much-ballyhooed “flat” redesign — except for Find My Friends. It remained, to many, the ugly odd-app-out. Well, today …
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Major mobile operators around the world say they expect to rely on Wi-Fi more than ever in the next few years to keep their data networks free from congestion. And new standards that make it easier for operators’ subscribers to use each other’s Wi-Fi networks are helping accelerate Wi-Fi offload adoption, according to a report released Wednesday by the Wireless …
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