Android Jelly Bean, the latest and greatest Android that has been running on all the Nexuses of this world, has been slowly trickling down to other OEM Android devices for the past few months. We saw it getting listed by Samsung for the Galaxy S3, and it was widely rumored to arrive for HTC’s flagships – the HTC One X and the HTC One S. But now, it has been confirmed along with the launch of HTC’s new phone – the HTC One X+.
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Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 officially priced in Italy and Russia, available mid-November
Texas Instruments backs out from the smartphone space, no more OMAP
Dallas, Texas-based Texas Instruments is a pioneer in the chip industry. It has been part of the major shift in the smartphone industry which introduced the “System on a chip” concept into the mainstream. But the chip maker has started to wonder about the prospects of its future, when it comes to the insanely competitive smartphone business. And the company has made a decision to switch gears, moving away from the smartphone business and concentrating more on a more profitable and stable, embedded chip business.
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Qualcomm announces quad-core Snapdragon S4 play chips, the specs race gets hotter
Just after the news about MediaTek prepping its entry level quad-core chips, the largest SoC maker in the world Qualcomm announced its new entry level quad-core entries into the ever competitive SoC market. And these new chips are added to the Snapdragon S4 play family of SoCs. The specs race gets way interesting after this announcement.
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MediaTek to make quad-core chips starting Q4 2012
MediaTek, the company behind those ultra cheap single and dual core system on chips launched recently, is prepping for another round of competition. Yes, they are now in the quad-core game, well, at least they will be, when they start making those sweet quad-core chips starting Q4 2012, according to reports from China Times.
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Google Play celebrates 25 billion downloads with $0.25 discounted apps for 5 days
With the ever burgeoning Android smartphone marketshare, it is inevitable that the Play Store will have some insane amounts of downloads too. Continuing with that upward trend of app count as well as app downloads, the Google Play Store has hit 25 billion downloads of about 675,000 apps and games. To celebrate this achievement, they have started to offer some discounts for the next five days.
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BlackBerry 10 details revealed at the BB Jam event
BlackBerry 10 has been more or less a mystery in the past few months, with a number of delays and continuous “death threats” to RIM from various blogs, but everything has been put to silence by the details and demos from the latest BlackBerry event – the BB Jam Americas, currently happening at San Jose, California.
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Samsung Galaxy S III TouchWiz remote wipe hack patched with OTA update
There was mighty uproar yesterday about a dirty USSD hack that enabled links with a simple USSD code wipe the entire phone back to factory reset. It was widely reported to have affected all the major Samsung devices that were running the company’s custom skin called TouchWiz. But the good news is, the exploit has been immediately patched by Samsung, with an OTA update for its recently released, and massively successful Galaxy S3. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S III TouchWiz remote wipe hack patched with OTA update”
Instagram updated for iPhone 5, removes live filters
Instagram, the most loved photo app/social network, which debuted on the iPhone, has been updated for the latest and the greatest iPhone, the iPhone 5. It adds support for the taller screen, meaning the resolution of the app is now 1136X640. While you are now able to see more of the app, weirdly, they have removed support for live filters. Continue reading “Instagram updated for iPhone 5, removes live filters”
Barnes and Noble takes on the Amazon Kindle Fire with Nook HD and Nook HD+
Barnes and Nobles was recently in the lime light for making a partnership deal with Microsoft with respect to the “Nook” category of devices the book giant produces. We were wary of what the outcome might be, but in an obvious move, they are trying to battle their competitors again, with the announcement of the new Nooks, name the Nook HD and the Nook HD+. Clearly, these new Nooks are the answers to the latest Kindle Fires from Amazon, their arch rivals in the e-reader world. Continue reading “Barnes and Noble takes on the Amazon Kindle Fire with Nook HD and Nook HD+”