Global smartphone shipments grew 41 percent to reach a record 990 million units in 2013, and Android-powered devices accounted for a whopping 79 percent of them. Despite the lowest growth rate in the platform’s history, Android phones still managed to ship four times the amount of iPhone and Windows Phone devices combined.

AT&T is giving new and existing customers a $100 credit when they activate a new postpaid line for your smartphone, tablet, wireless home phone, or MiFi device. The offer starts today and ends on March 31.

HTC has begun rolling out its Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update with Sense 5.5 to the original Butterfly, just over a month after it arrived on the more recent Butterfly S. The update weighs in at just over 500MB, and it brings a whole host of new features and improvements, including the ability to disable BlinkFeed.

Samsung’s new NotePRO 12.2 tablet is now available to pre-order in the United Kingdom, priced at an eye-watering £649 ($788). That’s for the Wi-Fi only model, which will be leaving Samsung’s warehouse and making its way to your door on Tuesday, February 4 — and it comes with a free Gamepad worth £59.

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S5 could get a pretty nice camera upgrade, according to a leaked test photo that has surfaced online. The photo’s accompanying EXIF data shows it was taken with an “SM-G900-V” — which is believed to be the model number of the Verizon Galaxy S5 — with a 21-megapixel camera.