Samsung’s new black Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S4 mini — which made an early appearance in Russia late last month — is coming to select markets later this month, the South Korean company has confirmed.
The handsets are identical to the originals on the inside, but they’ve been given a new lick of paint and a “leather-like textured black back cover and bezel” just like the Galaxy Note 3’s.
Google made a surprise announcement at the end of January that confirmed it was selling Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion, but the search giant seemingly forgot to tell us that it made a big investment in the Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer the following day.
Reuters reports that Google will pay Lenovo $750 million for a 5.94 percent stake in the company.
A leaked screenshot taken from the upcoming HTC One Plus (M8) confirms reports that the device will sport virtual navigation buttons. Its predecessor, the One, and most of the HTC smartphones that came before it, had capacitive touch buttons beneath the display — but the company’s next flagship is set to be the first to buck that trend.
Verizon has at last started rolling out the much-anticipated Android 4.4 over-the-air (OTA) update to all its carrier-branded HTC One handsets located in the United States. Folks in the U.S. have reportedly already been receiving this hefty 617MB upgrade which brings KitKat and Sense 5.5 to the handset, in addition to a multitude of additional bug fixes, stability improvements and speed optimizations.
According to reports we’ve received from many loyal readers, Motorola has just started seeding the much-anticipated Android 4.4.2 firmware update to all dual-SIM variants of the Moto G currently situated in Malaysia. This upgrade is exactly the same build as the one that was rolled out to the single-SIM model two weeks ago, and brings the latest version of KitKat with Project Svelte optimizations, as well as a multitude of bug fixes and stability improvements.
