According to a report just published by The Wall Street Journal, Nokia, the Finnish smartphone maker, is set to finally show off its first Android-powered device, codenamed the Normandy, at the Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona.
Verizon Wireless has at last officially announced that will be offering the LTE version of Google’s flagship tablet of 2013, the Nexus 7, on its super-fast 4G network, from this Thursday, February 13, 2014. The American carrier will be listing the slate for $349.99 upfront, which will get you a factory unlocked model of the device, or $249.99 on a two-year data only contract. Customers can also add the tablet to their Share Everything Plan for an additional $10 per month.
Unlike on iOS, it’s easy to change your homescreen’s theme on Android without a jailbreak using apps like Themer. Well, at least it was: Google has pulled Themer from the Google Play Store following a copyright complaint from Apple, which made Android devices look almost identical to iOS 7.
Huawei isn’t exactly the manufacturer that comes to mind when we think of tablets; the Chinese manufacturer is synonymous with midrange and high-end smartphones and phablets — mostly limited to Asian and European markets. But it could now be making the switch to slates according to a new leak, which hints at the launch of a 7 inch tablet called the MediaPad X1.
The leak also reveals a rendering of the tablet along with the hardware specs sheet and it looks fairly impressive for the most part.
LG has just trademarked the G3 moniker for the upcoming LG G3 smartphone, thus clearing all doubts regarding the naming of its next-generation flagship. Despite the LG G2 being hardly six months old, then, a successor is already in the making — and could be right around the corner.
