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Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been hearing an awful lot of rumors about an upcoming Android 4.4.3 update, and now, thanks to a source familiar with the situation, we have obtained a leaked changelog revealing that the forthcoming release will be entirely targeted at fixing some relatively major bugs that are currently present in the open-source operating system.

Xiaomi Redmi Note

Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi has reportedly sold over 100,000 units of its ultra-affordable Redmi Note handset within 34 minutes. While this is not a major feat in comparison to the first gen Redmi, which sold the same amount within four minutes, it’s still something noteworthy for the manufacturer, at least by international standards.

New-HTC-One-M8-Sense-6

It was only last week that HTC announced the new HTC One (M8) with immediate availability in Verizon stores. However, like any other Verizon device, the One (M8) also comes with a locked down bootloader that makes find a rooting process for the device a very challenging task.

Nevertheless, thanks to the hard work of Jon and beaups, owners of the brand new One (M8) from Verizon can now gain root access on their handset via WeakSauce

MIUI_N5_final

MIUI is a relatively popular custom ROM from some Chinese developers with a very unique UI. The ROM looks completely different from all the other ROMs and OEM skins out there and to a certain degree feels inspired by iOS. In fact, it can be argued that MIUI feels more polished than even stock Android to a certain extent.

s5_sam

Just a couple of days ago, the folks over at iFixit did a complete strip down of the new HTC One (M8) revealing all its internals and mentioning that the handset is extremely difficult to repair. Now, a Russian website has managed to disassemble the One’s (M8) chief competitor — the Galaxy S5 — revealing all its internal in their full glory. 

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