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Good news for owners of Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone. The Taiwanese company is still thinking about you and will get your the Android 4.3 update in mid-February. The information — in case you wonder — came from Jason Mackenzie, the President of HTC America, who shared this little nugget via Twitter. HTC will…
Sony is apparently working on two different high-end devices, both of which will be launched in the first half of 2014. These two don’t include the already announced and available in some markets, Xperia Z1 Mini aka Z1s, and are rather something “completely new.” According to Digi-Wo, the Japanese company will first release a flagship…
Accessory maker Belkin announced its new Miracast Video Adapter, a small HDMI dongle that wirelessly displays content from an Android phone or tablet directly to an HDTV. If you haven’t heard before, Miracast mirrors the screen of your Android device, enabling you to enjoy movies, TV shows, video clips, photos, games or apps, in full…
Meizu badly wants developers to bring apps to its own app store, so it decided to take no cut from app sales. Whereas most other services like Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store take the 30% cut, the Chinese firm will give 100% of app sale revenues to developers. Considering we’re talking about store…
It’s New Years eve, one of the biggest party nights of the year! Unfortunately it’s also one of the biggest nights for drunk driving. As the DUI checkpoints start setting up and the celebratory champagne bottles are popping, an easy to use breathalyzer peripheral would be a great accessory. While it might be a little…
The all too short tale of the Dreamcast is one with many brilliant points of light. Sega’s final console, doomed as it was, had an incredible line-up of games. Shenmue was possibly the brightest of those lights, an RPG set in late-80’s Japan with realistic martial arts combat. Now it looks like the game’s protagonist…
It was another great year for Samsung. The Korean electronics giant maintained its tight grip on the Android smartphone market, increased its sales of tablets and other devices, and continued to make inroads against Apple. Samsung began the year strongly with the hype around the Galaxy S4, and it’s closing the year with the rumor…
The HTC One was clearly one of the most popular smartphones of 2013, but it didn’t come easy for the manufacturer. HTC began the year in the hot seat, with smartphone sales facing a slump. Once top of the heap in the Android smartphone game, the last few years had left HTC a little empty-handed.…
While LG officially came out of the shadows with one of the best smartphones of 2012, the Optimus G, we saw some incredible devices from the company in 2013. Not only did we see some rather dramatic design changes in some of LG’s devices this year, but certain technologies that we’ve been patiently waiting for…
Just yesterday, a leak showed us the packaging for the Verizon version of the Moto G, Google and Motorola’s little KitKat touting smartphone. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the Verizon variant of the Moto G will be going on sale at Best Buy stores for the unbelievable price of $99, off-contract. The phone…