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Last month, Android Jelly Bean became the most used version of the mobile operating system and its now climbed more than 5% to 45.1%. Now Android 4.0 and up take up 66.8% of all Android devices, with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and below holding on to 33.1%. There’s a good chance that Honeycomb won’t be shown…
The fine folks over at XDA Developers have a treat for NVIDIA Shield owners. The crew has developed a method to unlock the bootloader and root the Shield, allowing users to take full advantage of the Shield’s amazing hardware. They’ve created an awesome and easy to understand video that will help brave Shield owners unlock…
The Monocle is the latest from accessory maker Native Union. The company’s made its business catering to the hipster crowd with its line of pseudo vintage peripherals, most famously the “Pop Phone” old timey telephone handset. But the Monocle serves more than just a kitschy purpose, it’s actually kind of neat. Up to 10 Monocles…
For gamers of a certain age, Konami’s Contra is burned into our brains. Whether we played it on the NES or in our local pizza parlor’s game room, the marriage of run and gun action with unforgiving difficulty proved to be the perfect combination to keep the sauce-covered quarters flying into arcade boxes and NES…
AT&T has just announced the pricing and availablity of the highly-anticipated LG G2, and if you’ve been patiently awaiting its arrival, you don’t have much longer to wait. The LG G2 will land on AT&T shelves starting on Septemeber 15th for $199 with a two-year contract. AT&T customers can also pay $27 monthly via AT&T…
Verizon announced today that it will start selling the LG G2 on September 12 in stores and online. LG’s flagship handset was announced late last month and is packing some beefy specs. It will definitely be giving the upcoming iPhone 5S and the Galaxy Note 3 a run for their money. The LG G2 includes…
Aside from the new MeMo Pad tablets and Transformer Book Trio, ASUS has also unveiled a pair of updates Fonepads at IFA in Berlin. Basically the hardware has been slightly revamped to make for a faster user experience. The Fonepad 7 comes with Intel’s 1.6GHz ATOM Z2560 dual-core chip, 1GB of RAM, 7-inch 1280×800 screen,…
Xiaomi has officially announced the MiPhone 3, its next flagship device that will (at least initially) be sold only in China. The powerful smartphone rocks some of the best hardware out there, including a 5-inch full HD screen from Sharp, 13-megapixel Exmor RS CMOS camera sensor from Sony, and a super fast processor made by…
For some reason ASUS used IFA to re-announce the Transformer Book Trio, a device that acts both as a tablet and laptop, running Android and Windows. The tablet/laptop combo comes with a 11.6-inch full HD 1080p screen and has two processors to make this magic happen, but the storage can be shared. Unfortunately, the Taiwanese…
Deutsche Telekom has announced that it will soon upgrade its LTE network to LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), supporting download speeds of up to 150Mbps. And guess which device will be the first to support this infrastructure boost – yup, it’s Sammy’s Galaxy S4 LTE-A, which is already selling in South Korea. If you recall, this model doesn’t…