Posts by Joshua Levenson

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Motorola is currently pushing out the much-anticipated Android 4.4.2 KitKat update to all the unlocked variants of its flagship smartphone, the Moto G, in the United States. The upgrade is a relatively minor bump up from 4.4, and doesn’t pack much in terms of new functionality, but it does bring a multitude of bug fixes, stability improvements and speed optimizations, in addition to the implementation of Google’s Cloud Print service.

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Developers love getting their hands on a kernel source code, primarily because it allows them to develop some great new custom ROMs with awesome features that we don’t usually get as standard on our devices. As of today, the official Android 4.4 kernel files for both the Wi-Fi and LTE-enabled variants of the Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 and Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 can be downloaded directly from Samsung’s Open Source Release Center.

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The Sprint MVNO operator, Ting, has just announced that it is now selling the Nexus 5 on its own website, but, strangely, it doesn’t want to you to buy it from its online store. Instead the carrier would prefer if you went to Google itself and purchased it directly from the Play Store for $349 and, then, popped a $10 pre-paid Ting SIM card into the handset upon its arrival.

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HTC has officially started rolling out the much-anticipated Android 4.4.2 update to all its factory unlocked and Developer Edition models of its flagship smartphone, the HTC One, currently located in the United States. In addition to the hefty bump up from Jelly Bean to KitKat, this particular upgrade brings a newer version of the Sense 5.5 user interface, as well as a multitude of bug fixes, speed optimizations and stability improvements.

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According to a report just published by The Wall Street Journal, Nokia, the Finnish smartphone maker, is set to finally show off its first Android-powered device, codenamed the Normandy, at the Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona.

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