Our home broadband routers are somewhat primitive things; they’re connected to every wireless device in our home, and yet they do very little with them. Soap hopes to change that. It’s the world’s first “smart router” powered by Android, and it adds a whole host of clever functionality to what was once little more than a basic white box.

Soap lets you avoid hackers, hide your home Wi-Fi network, block online ads, and control all kinds of electronics around your home — including your garage door, your lights, and your locks.

A new revelation on Twitter has revealed that the newly announced HTC Desire 610 handset will make its way to American carrier AT&T. It is not known as to when this variant will be launched exactly, as the Twitter source only gave away news of its arrival. But AT&T users will be glad to know that the latest midrange offering from HTC will make its way to their favorite carrier in the coming weeks.

BlackBerry has confirmed that sponsored content will soon be coming to BBM Channels after ads were spotted in its latest BBM beta release. The Canadian company also insists, however, that it will not be inserting advertisements into your instant messages, and that it will be “very strict” about the amount of content that is pushed to the BBM community.

Has your smartphone’s battery life been draining unusually fast since you updated to Android 4.4.2 KitKat? It’s likely its camera is at fault. A nasty bug introduced in Google’s latest Android update can cause the camera app to continue running in the background after you’ve closed it, maxing out your handset’s CPU and eating up power.

The Humble Bundle team has released its latest mobile bundle for Android users allowing them to purchase six quality games for any price they want to pay. Out of the six games, two of them can only be unlocked if you decide to purchase the bundle for above its average price.