Posts by Killian Bell

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Get your Moto X today! Photo: Motorola

Get your Moto X today! Photo: Motorola

Amazon has slashed $100 off Motorola’s new Moto X Pure Edition for one day only. The discount reduces the price of the 32GB model to just $349.

Hangouts won't be your do-it-all messaging app anymore. Photo: Cult of Android

Hangouts won’t be your do-it-all messaging app anymore. Photo: Cult of Android

Google Hangouts could lose its ability to send and receive SMS and MMS messages on Android.

A “trusted source” claims Google has decided it’s no longer a good idea to make Hangouts a do-it-all messaging app, but it’s not totally clear why the company has had a change of heart.

Split-screen multitasking could come to Android sooner than expected. Photo: Google

Split-screen multitasking could come to Android sooner than expected. Photo: Google

Google recently revealed that it is working to bring split-screen multitasking to pure Android, and now “trusted sources” are promising it will arrive next June with Android 6.1 Marshmallow.

Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon 810 will have an all-new GPU. Photo: Qualcomm

Qualcomm’s next-generation Snapdragon 810 will have an all-new GPU. Photo: Qualcomm

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 820 chipset, which is a significant improvement over the Snapdragon 810 in almost every way, could be exclusive to Samsung at first.

A new report claims the South Korean company has agreed a deal that provides it with exclusive rights to the chip until April 2016, preventing rival device makers from using it before then.

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