A glimmer of hope for Xperia M and Xperia M dual SIM owners shines on the horizon While some companies tend to forget about their older devices and focus on bringing software updates for the new ones, this is not the case with Sony. Recently the Japanese company brought back the hype towards its one year old Sony Xperia SP...
Samsung fixes the issue that disabled compatibility with third-party accessories for Galaxy Note 3 Few months ago, Samsung started working on a policy that would prevent any non-officially certified third-party accessories to work on Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as well as any future devices. For that matter, the handset works only with accessories that feature the official Samsung identification chip...
The 4.4-RC1 release is based on the Android 4.4.2 Call it a gift for ST Valentine’s Day; the team behind the Android-x86 project released an image for its faithful followers. After long numerous months of development an image for Android-x86 4.4-RC1 surfaced online to reveal the next stable release of the port of the operating system for devices running on...
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by Phones Review · Published 01/23/2014
Samsung denies any correlation between the KitKat update and the reported incompatibility of the third-party accessory for Note 3 Yesterday we reported that due to Samsung’s new policy that prevents non-official accessories to work on Samsung Galaxy Note 3, the Spigen S-View cover no longer work with the handset once updated to KitKat. In all, this will happen to all...
The Android 4.4 KitKat update on the phablet seems to disable all third-party cases completely If you remember, recently Samsung initiated a new policy that would allow only officially certified accessories to work on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as well as future devices. In all, if an accessory doesn’t include the official Samsung identification chip, it won’t work on...
The Galaxy Note 3 issue has been finally solved As we’ve seen it happening so many times before, the software featured in Samsung’s devices is quite easy to be modified. Fortunately for Samsung, an internal flash-counter gave the company a hand in order to keep track of any changes made to the stock software whether a developer decides to show...
Android 4.1 is the most popular version of the operating system in the week ending of January 8 Google just published its statistics for January that point out the Platform versions information about number of devices sharing certain characteristics in order to help prioritize efforts for supporting different devices. The statistics actually reveal which devices are active in the ecosystem...
The update arrives with major improvements that reportedly increase the whole performance of the device Owners of Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in Poland rejoice because the Android 4.2.2 KitKat update is finally rolling out for their devices with model number SM-N9005. For everyone else, Samsung promises that the operating system will soon receive its update, starting with European countries. Few...
Intel doesn’t want partners to be held up As 2014 started rolling out, we’re already staring seeing things in 64-bit. OEMs and chip-makers are following Apple’s example for a powerful 64-bit SoC and it appears that in the Android world, it is Intel that will go ahead of everyone. It’s no surprise; it’s the micro-processor giant we’re talking about. According...
Polaroid announces new quad-core models running Android 4.4 Kit Kat Polaroid, the company popular with its photo cameras and accessories, is preparing brand new Q series tablets for spring 2014. According to the press release, three new Android based models will be introduced at CES 2014 next week. Polaroid Q Series tablets will be manufactured by a licensee called Southern...
