It’s never a good idea to leave home without a charging cable for your smartphone, but who wants to have to have to untangle a cable that’s been rolling around in the bottom of their bag all day? That’s not something you need to worry about if you have a ChargeCard.

This credit card-sized micro USB cable slips right into your wallet, ensuring you always have a charging cable with you wherever you go that never gets tangled or broken. And thanks to Cult of Android deals, you can get yours for just $24.99 for a limited time — that’s 21% off its usual price.

Nintendo refuses to bring its immensely popular games to smartphones and tablets for fear of damaging its own hardware sales, but the Japanese gaming giant isn’t against building mobile companion apps. The much-anticipated Mario Kart 8 will be accompanied by Mario Kart TV for Android and iOS, allowing players to replay their favorite races, view screenshots, and share gameplay with their friends.

Wondering when your Samsung Galaxy-branded smartphone will receive the much-anticipated Android 4.4 KitKat update? Well, hopefully this post will help to shed some light on the answer to that question. Thanks to a series of recent leaks and rumors, we’ve compiled an ‘update guide’ containing the handsets that we believe are set to receive the beefy upgrade over the course of the next few weeks.

Look at all those IR emitters (we think those are IR emitters). Photo: Eli Milchman/Cult of Android

In the race to bestow absolute control over your home entertainment paraphernalia, the Blumoo device is a sort of a jack-of-all-trades standout.

Similar to the now-discontinued Griffin Beacon, Blumoo lets you control all your devices that normally work with a remote control — TV, DVR, Bluetooth player, stereo, etc — from an Android phone or iPhone. But it also does double-duty as a Bluetooth streaming device, giving you the ability to stream music to pretty much any set of speakers it’s physically connected to.

We had a little hands-on time with the Blumoo, and came away impressed with the device — but frustrated by the software. Also, unfortunately the Blumoo Android app is a few weeks away from availability, so we played around with its iOS sibling instead; we’re not expecting any major difference when the Android app eventually arrives. Here’s what we liked, and didn’t.

The latest Android distribution figures are in!

Google has published the latest distribution figures for the Android operating system. The numbers, were uploaded to the official Developer Dashboard blog and reveal a consistent growth in the amount of users running KitKat (4.4), whilst older versions of the OS continue on their long path towards extinction.