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During Mobile World Congress, Samsung announced SDKs for its newly launched products. The new SDKs include: Samsung Gear 2 SDK – For creating apps for the new Tizen-based Gear 2 and Gear Neo. It ensures everybody a level of openness and flexibility in the ecosystem of apps for Samsung wearables. S-Health SDK – Opens up…
The newly announced Nokia X series may be Android-based devices but that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to run all apps out of box. According to the Finnish company, around 75% of existing Android apps will work without a problem, while 25% will require certain tweaks. As far as I can tell, the problem occurs…
Marvell is the latest chip maker to join the 64-bit craze with its new Armada Mobile PXA 1928 platform. The SoC consists of four ARM Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz, full HD-capable GC5000 GPU and a 5-mode LTE modem that also supports older 2G and 3G standards. If we can take Marvell’s track-record for…
BlackBerry is investing some serious resources into its instant messaging client. Just when we saw it getting optimized for secure communication in the enterprise environment (BBM Protected), we’re hearing about some new plans involving mobile payments. That’s right, the Canadian company is apparently exploring an option to allow BBM users to beam money to one…
Samsung announced two new chips – Exynos 5 Octa (5422) and Exynos 5 Hexa (5260). The first of the two will find its way to the latest Galaxy S5, with at least some versions sporting that SoC instead of the one made by Qualcomm. Chances are these will be non-LTE variants offered across Europe, Latin…
AT&T will start rolling out Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Samsung Galaxy S4. As that’s usually the case, the new software will come to users’ devices in stages, but nothing stops you from checking it now – hop over to “Settings” -> “About phone,” and take it from there. As for what you’ll get…
A few days ago BlackBerry announced two new phones, the Z3 for Indonesia, and QWERTY keyboard-equipped Q20. Thus far we’ve only seen the former while the latter will be unveiled later in the year. That, however, doesn’t stop designers from coming up with their own mockups. And what you can see on the image above…
During last year’s Mobile World Congress, Samsung unveiled its first Knox solution to make it more secure for enterprise and government customers to use Sammy-made devices and implement BYOD policies. Now the Korean company is out with Knox 2.0 that adds a number of new features to the mix, including: Two-factor biometric authentication that requires…
Wow, that was fast. Only two days after Samsung’s official announcement of the Galaxy S5, China’s GooPhone managed to clone it. The end-result is actually pretty decent, though you should refrain from buying it at any cost. We can’t support this form of blatant IP infringements and you shouldn’t either. Anyway, the newly unveiled GooPhone…
You may think Moto X is Motorola’s best-selling phone ever; think again – that title goes to Moto G. Yup, this low-cost Android smartphone is apparently selling like crazy, with the handset maker saying it’s their highest-selling smartphone ever. Motorola still manages to keep some of the profits, hinting us how cost-effective their operations became…