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So, how about that HTC M4 huh? HTC has announced today that they are making the HTC Desire 600, a mid-range phone that will be heading first to Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East, and reports that there will be variants heading to China too. The Desire 600 will be the first phone outside of the HTC...

In news that should surprise no one, 10 million Samsung Galaxy S4‘s have been sold in the first month since its launch. That is insanely fast. And that’s only in 110 of the 155 countries that the Galaxy S4 will be eventually available in. For the record, the Galaxy S3 took 50 days to match...

Ever since the introduction of AOKP, then the boom of the PACman Roms, AOSP builds with a thousand features from different roms loaded into one has become somewhat of a… well, accepted practice, if not expected. It is the norm to expect an all inclusive rom on your device. Nothing wrong with that,...

In the wake of the various hacking stories of high profile Twitter accounts being hacked and abused, Twitter has begun the roll out of its new Two-Factor Authentication service. Similar to Google’s Two-Factor Authentication, users will need to enter a 6 digit code, which is sent by SMS to the...

Just when you thought there couldn’t be any more smartwatch concepts… Enter Agent, the self proclaimed “World’s Smartest Watch” which aims to combined newer technology that doesn’t compromise battery life for power. Secret Labs + House of Horology has embarked on...

Now that Google I/O is over, I guess there’s no better time to reignite the hunt for Motorola X-Phones. It was just over a week ago that the Motorola XT1058, or XFON, was picked up at the FCC. This phone was widely suspected to be the AT&T variant of the Motorola X-Phone (whatever that actually...

Although still in closed-beta, Google‘s team at Niantic Labs added an update to its game, Ingress. Described as a “global game of mystery, intrigue, and competition,” Ingress combines socially-driven interaction with strategic planning. The story involves a controlling, “mysterious...

Remember all that talk about flexible displays at CES this year? The concept has potentially quite large (mostly good) consequences for the mobile world, but till now, we’ve been waiting for a real example of it. Well, LG has shown off its take with a 5-inch flexible display at SID today and engadget...

Earlier this month, we wrote about the announcement of a game coming to us from Sawfly Studios called Men’s Room Mayhem. Well, that game is almost upon us, coming to the world via the PlayStation Vita, iOS and of course, Android. Publisher Ripstone has announced that the game will be launching...

One of the most well-known electronics companies in the world has finally entered the smartphone market. Panasonic has this week launched its first smartphone offering called the Panasonic P51, a 5-inch, quad-core offering which comes with Android 4.2.2. Key features of the P51 are: 1.2GHz quad-core...

ParkMe was started as a startup to make real-time parking information available to us all, first on the Web, then on iOS, and now finally on Android. In concept at least, the ParkMe app appears to be incredibly handy; who knows how many times I’ve been stuck in a new neighbourhood not knowing where...

Entertainment media company, and creators of the Angry Birds series, Rovio, have launched their game publishing initiative Rovio Stars. The program accepts third-party games from developers and gives them the tools needed to promote their game. Starting out, Rovio will release Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage...

Made you look! Ok, so we’re not actually talking about the highly anticipated 5.0 build of Android. But we are talking about Google I/O. Rather than the fully fledged software build we’ve all be dying to get our sweaty hands on, throughout the event were easter eggs that served only to whet...

We all love our apps, and with more than 800,000 available in the Play Store, there are plenty to choose from.  But some things about them still bug us users. App Permissions. During the Google I/O Fireside Android Chat, Android Framework Engineer Dianne Hackborn said about the idea of optional app...

Battery life is always going to be the major issue we run into when we are dealing with our portable devices. The batteries in our devices nowadays keep getting better and better, but it is when we have to found a power outlet to charge them, is when it can get really frustrating. Well a 18 year-old...