BBM for Android and iPhone

 1/1  “BBM is a very engaging messaging service that is simple to use, easy to personalise and has an immediacy that is necessary for mobile communications,” said Andrew Bocking, executive vice president for BBM at BlackBerry. “With more than a billion Android, iOS, and BlackBerry smartphones in the market, and no dominant...

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Download iOS 7 For Android Devices

Want your Android to look like iOS 7? There's an app for that "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!" as Charlton Heston says at the end of Planet of the Apes, and we are sure that's exactly what thousands of Android users will say when they realise that they too can get in on the iPhone iOS 7 craziness that is going...

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Android 4.4 KitKat Update Leak Spotted

Thanks to a discovery inside the Google Chrome browser bugtracker, we now know that the upcoming Android 4.4 KitKat update is likely going to be coming to the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10, something that should not come as much of a surprise given that the two devices are still less than a year old. Earlier this month, Google...

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Angry Birds Star Wars 2 launches for Android

Angry Birds Stars Wars II is now available worldwide for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 devices. Angry Birds Star Wars II follows the story of Star Wars Episodes I-III and introduces Angry Birds versions of iconic characters such as young Anakin, Jango Fett and Darth Maul. Players can join the Pork Side and play as both the birds ad the pigs....

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Download The latest Update for Youtube

YouTube adding offline viewing to mobile apps Soon, YouTube is going to let you download videos from your mobile devices to watch offline. The company announced today that the feature would let users “add videos to their device to watch for a short period when an Internet connection is unavailable.” Until now, downloading...

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64-bit support coming to Android 4.4 KitKat?

New reports say that 64-bit support is coming to Android in the near future – maybe as soon as Android 4.4 KitKat – or at least that’s what a recent Intel presentation seems to imply. The image above is taken from a presentation given by Intel at its Developer Forum last week, where the company talked about its computing plans for the future,...

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LG G Pad 8.3 release date at the end of the month; priced “very competitively” [Update]

The new LG G Pad 8.3 will be launching towards the end of the month at a 'very' competitive price. At IFA last week, we got to spend some time with LG’s new tablet, the G Pad 8.3, and we have to say that we came out quite impressed. The G Pad 8.3 is solid and well designed, boasts a decent spec sheet, and some of its software features,...

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CyanogenMod Accounts go live in latest nightly builds

In a Google+ post, CyanogenMod announced the availability of CyanogenMod Accounts in the next nightly builds of CM 10.1 and CM 10.2 released on September 10 and later. CM Accounts, that was announced a few weeks ago, will introduce the much-needed security feature that will give users the ability to locate, as well as remotely wipe, their...

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Confusion clears over LG D820, a.k.a. the next Nexus (5)

A new FCC filing and @evleaks’ own retraction dispel the confusion around the device codenamed LG D820, which is not just an LG G2 variant after all. The odds that the upcoming Nexus smartphone is made by LG just got better. Thanks to a newly discovered regulatory filing, we are now certain that the device with the codename LG D820 is not a...

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Virgin Mobile goes 'Supreme' with a new ZTE 5-incher

Virgin Mobile this morning announced the ZTE Supreme, a 5-inch smartphone running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. It's running for $299 on Virgin's no-contract plans, which start at $35 a month. In addition to the 1280x720 display, the Supreme sports a 13-megapixel rear camera and is powered by a 2,500 mAh battery. It also comes preloaded with Real...

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Thin, flexible, and a higher PPI than ever before: the displays of AUO at Touch Taiwan

Forget full HD and thin bezels, the displays our friends at Mobile Geeks saw during their recent trip to Taiwan blow anything you see now out of the water. Flexible, ultrathin, and with a pixel count double anything you’re looking at now. They also have deep viewing angles and colors that pop off the screen, leaving us wishing we’d see...

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Of course Samsung is going to use 64-bit chips in phones next year

Mobile boss JK Shin confirmed that some Samsung smartphones coming next year would be powered by 64-bit processors, though that shouldn’t surprise anyone. The new iPhone 5s features a 64-bit processor, which is impressive, but it will be years until the jump to the new architecture proves truly useful. Yes, the 64-bit A7 chip...

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More tablets to be shipped than PCs during last three months of 2013

According to new data released by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the number of tablets to be shipped during the last quarter of this year will exceed the total number of PCs (desktops plus laptops) shipping in the same period. But this doesn’t mean that more tablets are being sold then PCs, not yet. At the moment the predicted...

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Intel Baytrail vs. NVIDIA Tegra 4: too close to call

The NVIDIA Tegra 4 chipset has had some trouble catching on. While the Tegra 4 is snappy, OEMs are favoring the likes of Qualcomm, or making their own chipsets. Intel also looms on the horizon, and recent benchmarking shows their new 22nm chips are primed to keep pace with the Tegra 4. In Geekbench testing, the Intel Baytrail T chips (byt_t) were...

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Sony Rolling out Jelly Bean 4.1 Update for Some Xperia Phones

Sony Mobile says that it has started rolling out the maintenance release for Xperia S, Xperia SL & Xperia acro S smartphones to fix some bugs. After making Android JB 4.1 available for these smartphones, the company  received feedback on a few issues within the build, which they say they have now fixed, and also made a few...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 hands-on

  Putting an end to another series of rumors, Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Note 3. As the name would imply, this marks the third-generation for the phablet and this time around we are seeing the continued support for the S Pen as well as goodies such as a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display and quad-core processor....

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