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LG’s Brazilian arm has announced that few of the company’s older phones will get KitKat updates in the near future. Among those “affected” are the LG Optimus G, Optimus G Pro, L7 II and dual-SIM G Pro Lite. Some others won’t be so lucky though, including the LG Optimus 4X HD and Optimus F5. The…
ASUS has started rolling out Android 4.4 KitKat update for the aging Padfone 2, which will go straight from Jelly Bean 4.1 to the latest version of Android. Alas, this comes with a caveat and users will see their data disappearing like it’s nobody’s business. Something gotta give I guess; but we’re certain installing all…
The newly released Android “sub-platforms” — Android Auto, Android Wear and Android TV — may be based on Google’s mobile OS, but they won’t allow OEMs to change stuff around. Forget about TouchWIZ and Sense UI – Samsung and HTC (respectively) won’t be able to do those sort of things with their car, watch and…
The other day, Google announced its Android Auto platform and the first thing that came to mind is how it will sing along iPhones. There are plenty of families with members who have different phones, some of which may run iOS and some others – Android. It’s only obvious car makers want to make everyone…
Blu Products has started rolling out Android 4.4 KitKat updates for few of its phones, including the Life Play, Life 8, Dash 5.0, Dash 5.5, Vivo IV, Neo 4.5, Studio 5.5 and Studio 6.0 HD. While we applaud the move to upgrade from Android 4.2.2, we can’t help but notice that some of the newer…
Lenovo has announced a new smartphone today with quite an impressive name and a design that just screams GS5. The Lenovo Golden Warrior A8 packs a octa-core MediaTek processor with Android 4.4.2 KitKat running the show. The Golden Warrior A8 features a 5 inch HD display with a 720 x 1280 screen resolution, 16GB of internal…
Surprised? Amazon’s 3D-ish smartphone, the Amazon Fire Phone isn’t doing so hot in the sales department. While we don’t have cold hard numbers to go on here, we can see that the Fire Phone is number 68 on Amazon’s Best Sellers in Electronics list, and that’s just the 32GB version. The 64GB doesn’t even make it…
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 tablet will be landing on T-Mobile soon, with pre-registrations for the tablet beginning today. The Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 will be available for order on July 16th and will land in selected T-Mobile retail locations on July 23rd. The Tab 4 8.0 rocks Android KitKat and touts 1.5GB of RAM a…
US Cellular has cleared Android 4.4.2 KitKat updates for two Samsung smartphones, Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy Mega 6.3. This isn’t the latest available version of Google’s mobile platform, though most users can’t tell the different between Android 4.4.2 and 4.4.3. The newer version mostly fixes some small bugs, so you won’t be missing much…
Sony has started rolling out Android 4.4.4 KitKat updates for three of its phones – Xperia Z1, Xperia Z1 Compact and Xperia Z Ultra. Google has only recently released this version of Android, and it contains just a security patch for an OpenSSL bug. So you shouldn’t expect any notable changes… Nevertheless, we advise you…