May 17, 2013
The Galaxy S III was super popular, but can Samsung repeat last year’s success against renewed competition? The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is set to be the hottest smartphone of 2013, and considering the success of its predecessor, will likely cement Samsung’s place as the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world. It does face [...]
May 17, 2013
One of the many quirks about Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 is that it only has just over 7GB of its 16GB internal memory free, straight out of the box. Samsung’s official party line was that so much space was necessary to deliver the Galaxy’s ‘more powerful features’, although I think truthfully it was just badly-written [...]
May 14, 2013
In another of their famous apk teardowns, Android Police have discovered what is probably the best thing to come to Android since Mathias Duarte — app data syncing. There are some other interesting reveals too, but for me this one is where it’s at. According to their post, the updated Google Play Services comes with [...]
May 13, 2013
Samsung’s latest beast, the Galaxy S 4, with its 1.9GHZ quad-core Snapdragon 600 should be the fastest device you’ve ever used. But sadly, for a lot of people, this simply isn’t the case. Whether the issue is one of perception, or if there’s something wrong under-the-hood, the device seems quite laggy a lot of the [...]
May 9, 2013
Google Translate is one of the best things ever invented, and its Android application just got even more awesome today with an update that adds support for 6 additional languages, bringing the total to 70. The update also added a new feature called ‘Phrasebook syncing’, which lets you save a number of common phrases for [...]
May 9, 2013
The HTC One seems well-loved by everyone, but we think the world might be a better place if (a) it was rocking the latest build of Android, and (b) Sense 5 would come to other phones, as HTC promised. It seems that HTC might be preparing to deliver on both of these requests, as a [...]
May 8, 2013
According to Engadget and Phandroid, Google Glass units will soon receive a firmware update that is said to fix a number of bugs and optimisations, as well as two fairly significant changes. Firstly, Glass will only allow applications to upload data in the background when the headset is connected to both a power source and [...]
May 8, 2013
Google’s Glass concept was pretty neat, but I think we all were waiting to see what would happen once developers got their hands on the device. This morning, we posted that a developer had gotten Glass to expose itself to him, detailing all its sensory secrets, and now Android Police have gotten native Android applications [...]
May 8, 2013
As amazing as Glass is, there are some fairly significant limitations to what it can do currently. The most noticeable of which is that the device can only update your location every 10 minutes. This effectively means that Glass would be useless for any location-based applications such as augmented reality apps, or that Glass port [...]
May 7, 2013
There were rumours a while back of a red HTC One, which was said to be exclusive to Verizon Wireless in the US. It’s not unusual for one of the major US carriers to have a markedly different variant of a flagship device, especially considering the size of their user base – Verizon has over [...]
May 5, 2013
When Android first emerged as a viable alternative to iOS, it was not an aesthetically-pleasing platform. It had features out the wazoo, but there was no cohesive design style, nor any guidance from Google about how an Android app should look. The story these days is very different, however, with Google having a set of [...]
May 2, 2013
Facebook does a lot of things wrong, but one thing it has gotten right of late was the introduction of ‘Chat Heads‘ for their instant messaging client on Android. Paranoid Android, a relative newcomer to the custom ROM scene, look to be adding support for Chat Heads for all notifications, as well as their own [...]
April 30, 2013
A new phone manufactured by Huawei, known only by the identifier ‘P6-U06′ has made an appearance before the Telecommunication Equipment Certification Centre, the Chinese version of America’s FCC, which French blog NowhereElse are tipping as the Ascend P6. According to its specifications, the P6-U06 is said to be the world’s thinnest smartphone, at only 6.18mm [...]
