The HTC One M8 broke cover roughly a week ago in the U.S., UK and the company’s home region of Taiwan. While there are no sales figures available for its sales in the U.S. or the UK at the moment, retailers in Taiwan are claiming that the smartphone is moving along quite well.
The popular education based portal, Coursera has now found a new home on Android with the official app making its way to the Play Store. Previously available only on web and iOS, this has certainly come as good news for Android users.
American online retailer Amazon is now offering decent discounts on the Kindle Fire HD and HDX tablets. The 7 and 8.9 inch Kindle Fire HDX tablets have received discounts of $30 and $40 respectively, while the standard 7 inch Kindle Fire HD gets a $40 discount.
A new leak has revealed that the Nexus 5 and the Nexus 7 handsets will receive the Android 4.4.3 update relatively soon. This confirms several rumors over the past few weeks which have hinted that Google could be rolling out the Android 4.4.3 update with a fix to the Nexus 5 camera issue.
If you have been a long-time Android user who is not afraid of jumping into the world of custom ROMs and kernels, you’ve probably come across the work of “jcase.” He has released rooting procedures for a bunch of HTC devices — and more recently, Motorola, too — that work using various exploits in the firmware.
Recently, he released a very unique security app for Android devices — TimePIN — that automatically changes the lockscreen PIN depending on the time.
Today, we sit down for an interview with jcase, a.k.a Justin Case (his name on Twitter), and talk to him about the process of finding exploit-based root procedures, the idea behind TimePIN and the level of security in today’s mobile OSes.
