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Just days after rolling out the Android 4.2.2 update to the flagship HTC One in Europe, HTC has made the same software — with the latest Sense 5 user interface baked in — available to the Butterfly, the Taiwanese variant of the Droid DNA.

It’s the first time Sense 5 has been ported to an older device.

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The Samsung Galaxy S4 Active is now available to purchase in the United Kingdom. The waterproof handset is priced at around £500 ($745) if you want it SIM-free, but you can get it free on a two-year contract from £33 ($49) per month.

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With Samsung and HTC launching “Google Edition” variants of their latest flagships, many expected Sony to do the same. But the Japanese company is keeping very quiet about any such plans. Thankfully, Xperia Z owners can now take matters into their own hands, thanks to an unofficial Android 4.3 Google Edition ROM.

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Garmin has officially announced its new revolutionary forthcoming product that is guaranteed to blow your socks off.

What we’re looking at is a small HUD (Heads-Up Display) unit which connects directly to your Bluetooth-enabled smartphone and beams applicable navigation information onto a small transparent film which attaches to your cars windshield or to a reflector lens that attaches directly to the HUD both of which are included.

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Not everybody is a mobile phone enthusiast, and majority of the people out there can only afford to buy a new phone only once every couple of years. So, by the end of the first 12 or 18 months, the phone that was so blazing fast when you first got it, might just start crawling.

There can be thousands of reasons why an Android device slows down over a period of life, including poorly coded apps, less free RAM etc. However, majority of the times, the slowness can be fixed by following a few simple tips and tricks.

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