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In just under an hour, Motorola will be holding an event with Moto 360 smartwatch designer Jim Wicks wherein he and other staff members will shed some more light on the Android Wear powered smartwatch, the Moto 360. Many manufacturers are on board with Google’s new Android Wear platform, with LG showing off its smartwatch…
Sony has unleashed Android 4.4 KitKat upon its Xperia Z devices this morning, bringing an enhanced Google Now experience, a new launcher and Hangouts SMS support to Sony’s Xperia Z smartphones and tablets. The update will land on the Xperia Z Ultra, Xperia Z1 and Xperia Z1 Compact first, with the Xperia Z, Zl, Tablet…
Ladies and gentlemen, Oppo has announced the Find 7 and it’s the best phone ever! Not only does it have a Gorilla Glass 3-protected 5.5-inch Super Screen 2.0 with QHD (2560 x 1440 pixels – 538ppi) resolution, but also the super-fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor clocked at 2.5GHz. That’s the same chip that will…
Skype has updated its Android app to tackle the problem many users have experienced – the application has been killing their battery like it’s nobody’s business. No more, Skype 4.7 for Android fixes this bug, though it comes with a caveat. To make this happen, the Skype team had to temporarily turn off instant notification…
As part of its marketing efforts for the upcoming All New One, HTC has managed to convince — as in pay for product placement — the producers of Captain America: The Winter Soldier to feature their fancy new gadget in the upcoming blockbuster. Using the tagline “Only the best for the first Avenger,” the Taiwanese…
We’ve told you that Meizu may allow other vendors to use its Flyme OS and voila – we have the first non-Meizu phone running the Chinese firm’s software. Meizu’s first target is no other than Xiaomi Mi3, which has apparently successfully managed to handle the task. The Mi3 pictured above is China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA variant…
Apple has quietly pulled the iPad 2 from its device lineup, offering the 16GB iPad 4 with retina display in its stead. The iPad 2 has maintained a $400 price point ever since the iPad Air was unveiled last year. The WiFi only iPad 4, also called iPad with Retina display is now priced at…
The tech news feeds are all a twitter with news of Google’s Android Wear platform, and of LG and Motorola’s Android Wear touting smartwatches that are set to bring the fledgling wearable market to the next level. If LG’s got anything to do with it, the wearable market is going back to the 90’s, as…
Google just announced the company’s Android Wear platform, an Android based Google Now heavy environment with a keen focus on wearable devices. The platform will make its debut in the LG G Watch, which will be arriving in the second quarter of 2014. “The opportunity to work with Google on LG G Watch was the…
Instead of launching its own smartwatch as rumored, Google is taking wearables to the next level by announcing its Android Wear platform, an Android based Google Now heavy environment with a keen focus on wearable devices. Android Wear will make its debut in smartwatches, which will appear on smartwatches manufactured by a host of smartphone…