Posts tagged android

HTC Desire 8

According to renowned source of HTC leaks, LlabTooFeR, HTC’s latest Desire 8 smartphone could find a home in the U.S. soon — thanks to its support for AT&T’s and Sprint’s wireless bands.

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The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is still some distance away from its official unveiling, but a new patent filing might have given away some early hints of what’s to come from the new phablet. Samsung has just patented a stylus packing built-in microphone and speakers, which could well be its next-generation S Pen.

Fingerprint Scanner

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is expected to break cover next week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. While there has been plenty spoken about the smartphone’s hardware specifications and its other variants, there was some doubt over the implementation of the fingerprint scanner in the smartphone.

But those doubts have seemingly been cast aside today after a Samsung insider confirmed the existence of biometric security built into the handset’s home button.

Yes, it's over, Michael.

Koushik Dutta, one of the core members of the CyanogenMod team and developer of apps like ROM Manager and AllCast, is now working on bringing Android mirroring to Chromecast. In a video posted on Google Plus, he gives us a sneak peek into this upcoming feature by playing Flappy Birds on his Nexus 5, which was mirrored to his TV via Chromecast.

Tegra K1

NVIDIA’s Tegra K1 superchip was announced last month during CES, and the company mentioned at the time that the chip wouldn’t make its way to the market for another few months. However, the AnTuTu benchmarks app appears to have already stumbled across a tablet running the new CPU — hinting at a launch sooner than expected.

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