Category: Android
Celebrities paid to promote new HTC One M8 “Champions League” model both prefer iPhones instead
On Sunday HTC is expected to finally reveal the HTC One M9 to the world - so it is curious that today the company has announced a special "Champions League" edition of last year's phone: The HTC One M8. The early announcement is some canny PR - if the company kept it secret until Sunday,…
What phones will be announced at Mobile World Congress?
This Sunday marks the start of Mobile World Congress - one of the biggest dates of the year in the gadget calendar. But what can we expect to see? The short answer is essentially everyone but Apple, but it does appear that Sunday will be a blockbuster day - with several major players letting us…
LG G Flex 2 pre-orders start at Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse has announced that it is now taking pre-orders for LG's latest curved screen phone. The phone looks set to be available from £34.50/month (with no upfront fee). Here's how the retailer describes the phone: "Announced at CES, the LG G Flex 2 has a futuristic curved shape and a stunning screen that uses…
Sony announces new Xperia E4g smartphone
Another week, another new smartphone gets announced. And this week it's Sony's turn, with the company unveiling its new Xperia E4g. Sony says the new E4g will be simple to set up and use, will feature fast 4G connectivity and will have a battery life of up to two days. “Xperia E4 set out to…
Console OS will let you run Android on your PC – and is now free!
There have been a number of attempts over the last few years by developers to get Android running on desktop PCs and laptops. I mean, why not? Android has millions of apps available so it would make perfect sense. One of the best attempts at making it a reality is known as Console OS, and…
LG announces four new “mid-range” phones: Magna, Spirit, Leon and Joy
LG has announced a bunch of new mid-range phones, and like every mid-range phone, the company is claiming that it will offer "premium" features at mid-range prices. In all honestly, the phones aren't very remarkable. I mean, they will probably be a bit cheaper than LG's top of the range phones, and have spec in…
Here’s what the Samsung Galaxy S6 looks like… sort of.
We're now mercifully less than a week away from the final reveal of the Samsung Galaxy S6 - and the Samsung marketing machine is continuing to generate hype by drip-feeding fans images like the above. The latest, which you can see above, which shows off the S6 Edge variant with a curved screen, was posted…
HTC hints at a bigger screen on HTC One M9
This is the M8 because we don't know what the M9 will look like yet. The marketing is cranking into gear ahead of the March 1st reveal of HTC's new flagship phone, which we expect to be called the HTC One M9. Let them stare. The new HTC One revealed 01.03.15.…
Graphics stack change paves the way for Android on Raspberry Pi
Could Android soon be available for Raspberry Pi? That's the speculation following the announcement that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working on a completely open source graphics stack for the diminutive computer. According to Reddit, RPi's Eric Anholt is working on open sourcing the graphics drivers - which means that eventually it'll be possible for…
Ifttt launches “Do” button for Android homescreens
If-That-Then-This, the useful service which hooks your various web services and internet-of-things gadgets together has launched a new Android app to make triggering actions even easier. Do Button by IFTTT will essentially take your "recipes" and put a big button on your Android homescreen. So if you want to, say, turn on your Belkin Wemo…
