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LG is bringing the Knock feature (formerly known as KnockON) to its affordable L Series II smartphones. Initially introduced in the company’s flagship G2 device, the feature will be included in the forthcoming Maintenance Release upgrade, rolling out starting from January 2014. Knock allows users to turn the smartphone on and off by tapping twice…
Samsung is preparing to announce some Exynos news at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas. We’re not sure whether this will be a whole new processor, or just an update to existing Exynos 5 Octa series. For those who don’t know, the Exynos 5 SoC uses ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture and is found in some versions…
A new, still unannounced Samsung tablet has been caught at the FCC. Marked as the SM-T320, this could be the upcoming Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, which could either be a mid- or high-end tablet. If there were no for the Galaxy Note 8.0, we would be certain this is a high-end device. Since that’s not…
Ladies and gentlemen, the Meizu MX4 rumors have started! We’re hearing that the Chinese company will have not one but two different versions of its 2014 flagship device. The Pro model will, obviously, be the one to look for, as it may sport a 5.4- or 5.5-inch screen with resolution of 2560 x 1536 pixels…
After the iPhone 5s was launched, everyone and their mama started talking about fingerprint sensors. LG doesn’t want to be left out from this game and is apparently looking to include that capability in its forthcoming G3 flagship, which will launch at some point next year. According to Korea Herald, the company is in the…
Samsung Knox may still not be ready for prime time. According to cyber-security researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Korean company’s enterprise solution has a “serious vulnerability” that could allow malicious attackers to track emails and record data communications. In the worst case scenario, the researchers are saying, this security flaw would…
The Xbox One has been one of the hottest items of the year to get your hands, with the gaming console being in limited supply at most retailers. The demand is so crazy that Microsoft’s latest machine sold one million consoles on launch date. Now Amazon once again has the device up for sale, and…
Nokia has decided to yank its Here navigation app from Apple’s App Store because it claims iOS 7 “harms the user experience of HERE.” This decision is eerily close to the deadline Apple gave to developers in making their apps iOS 7 compatible by February 1. Nokia says users can still use it via the…
LG don’t want to be left out from the smart watch race, and may launch its own such product at some point next year. According to Korea Herald, the company will unveil a G-Arch smart watch and G-Health fitness band alongside its next flagship smartphone, LG G3. The paper goes on to suggest that we…
Oppo announced that existing N1 owners can now join the CyanogenMod party. That’s right, you can ditch the built-in Color OS for CM using a simple installer. This, of course, is a special version of CyanogenMod, tailored to sing along the N1’s specific hardware, including that sweet, rotating 13-megapixel camera. Moreover, the O-Click Bluetooth remote…