So it’s been a few days since your ex went all Kano on you and ripped your heart out of your chest, proudly raising it to the sky before throwing the lifeless mass on the ground. In the old days, getting over that heartbreak was a little more visceral; you could burn the photos, love…
Google to open retail stores to sell Nexus and Chrome devices by end of the year?
Now this is one juicy rumor if you ask us. According to 9to5Google, the search giant will begin to open retail stores by the end of the year. The Google Store will apparently sell Nexus-branded devices as well as Chromebooks and upcoming products to get them into the hands of the public in an easier…
HTC One (M7) Spotted in black?
We’re less than a week away from HTC’s February 19th event, where we’re expecting to see what the company has been cooking up. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been seeing a few renders of what is apparently the HTC M7, and now we have another one all done up in black. Some may make…
Ubuntu Developer Preview Coming to Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 this month
The Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 are getting the Linux treatment, at least for developers at the moment. Canonical is releasing a developer preview of its Ubuntu mobile operating system available on February 21st. Since the release is a developer preview and not finalized code, it may be awhile before we see Ubuntu running a…
Skype Rolls Out Video Voicemail Service on iOS, Android, and OSX
Skype users in the US and UK using the iOS, Android, and OSX apps can now send video messages up to three minutes long to each other, bringing a new way to communicate over Skype’s well established service. For now, Windows and Windows Phone users are not seeing the feature, and there’s still no word…
Dead on Arrival 2 demoed on NVIDIA Project Shield
In another addition of Android Thursdays, NVIDIA took some time to demo an upcoming game on the Project Shield, Dead on Arrival 2. It really doesn’t matter if you haven’t played the first iteration of this game, as one rarely needs an excuse to kick zombie ass. While we’ll likely see the game land on…
Samsung SCH-I545 spotted in benchmarks — is this the Verizon Galaxy S IV
A new Samsung device with designation SCH-I545 was spotted in a recent benchmark at Nenamark. The device was rocking a 1.9 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, an Adreno 320GPU, Android 4.2, and a full HD 1080p display. As noted by Droid-Life, this model may be the Verizon variant of the Galaxy S IV. It shares the…
Vertu opted for Android over Windows Phone 8 because it was simpler
Vertu has recently announced its first Android-based smartphone, Vertu Ti, which will sell for whopping 7,999 EUR (about $10,500) despite the fact it has mid-range specs. Of course, with devices like these, specs don’t matter that much – rather, it’s the precious materials used for the casing. Anyway, according to this article at ZDNet, the…
Archos unveils a new line of Platinum tablets, all of which sport quad-core processors
Just when we’ve heard that Archos is working on its first smartphone, the company unveiled a new line of tablets. Unlike the earlier Titanium range which counted 4 devices, the new Platinum series consists of 3 devices, each packing a quad-core processor clocked at 1.2Ghz and 8-core GPU, 2GB of RAM, dual cameras, HDMI out…
HTC One (M7) US launch details leaked
According to the HTC Source blog, the rumored HTC M7 will land in the US starting March 22nd. The device will launch as the HTC One on AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. It will be available in two different storage capacities and price points. The 32 GB model will retail for $199, while the 64GB model…









