Google’s Nexus 4 has undoubtedly been one of the hottest Android handsets on sale this holiday season, and it’s been selling rapidly since its release back in November. The search giant has even had to apologize for the difficulties LG is facing in keeping up with the impressive demand. Exactly how many Nexus 4 handsets have been sold, however, is somewhat a mystery.

Google never announces its device sales, and LG’s been keeping quiet when it comes to the Nexus 4, too. However, some Android enthusiasts have been keeping track of Nexus 4 serial numbers, and they estimate that around 400,000 units were produced by the end of 2012.

WhatsApp, the hugely popular cross-platform messaging system available to Android and iOS, saw out 2012 with an incredible bang. The company has announced that it processed a staggering 18 billion messages on New Year’s Eve alone, exceeding its previous record of 10 billion messages processed last August.

This old video, bubbled up via Reddit, is a perfect look back at the all-manual past of photography as we head into yet another amazing year of easy iPhoneography.

It shows the most common method for focussing SLR cameras, using a split screen and microprism etched into the focussing screen that lays horizontally at the bottom of the camera’s pentaprism (the top-mounted turret that houses the viewfinder assembly).

When Samsung sat down to design its original Series 3 Chromebox, a desktop powered by Google’s Chrome OS, the Korean company clearly took a lot of inspiration from Apple (and not for the first time). The device looked very similar to the Mac mini, Apple’s entry-level desktop, only with lick of black paint here and there. But that’s no longer the case.

Samsung has overhauled the Chromebox with a brand new look, and I have to say, I think it’s pretty nice. Just don’t look forward to any improvements on the inside.

According to Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Creative Director, Trent Oster, the development team has “hit a snag” in getting the game up and running on Android OS.

According to a Tweet on his Twitter account, Oster says that the Android version of the highly regarded RPG will be a bit longer in development.