News & Reviews: Android
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Dec 02, 2016
We have talked about the Helio X25 SoC before, which was used in the Meizu Pro 6 smartphone. Today MediaTek has announced two new models that sits in the same family line – the deca-core Helio X23 and Helio X27 mobile processors.
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Dec 02, 2016
If you are currently subscribing to Netflix, and wished you can bring your favourite show or movie along with you while you are travelling – good news. Netflix now allows users to download shows onto your smart devices for offline viewing. This feature is now live for both the Android and iOS apps, and regardless of the subscription tier.
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Dec 01, 2016
You should check your account, as a new bug has made headlines with Android accounts across the world. Thanks to the Gooligan bug, several malicious apps have been downloaded by Android users allowing the malware inside them to wreak havoc with as many as 1.3 million Google accounts.
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Nov 30, 2016
While most people uses the Facebook Messenger as a chat service to talk with friends, Facebook thinks that it can be more than just for words. They have now rolled out an update for Android and iOS that will allow users to play a number of classic and current games directly in Messenger.
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Nov 30, 2016
As the latest Android now supports Adoptable storage – external storage that can extend the size of the internal storage – and even some integration SD cards into the phone itself – the Secure Digital Association, the body that governs the SD Card standard, has announced a new specification called SD 5.1 that introduces the Application Performance Class.
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Nov 29, 2016
If you are a constant user of Waze – this will be a treat for you. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are now on Waze as a voice pack that you can download to give you navigation on the road.
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Nov 28, 2016
After announcing their free data allocation for video streaming services, u Mobile now introduces Music Onz, their free data service for music streaming for u Mobile customers. Just like Video Onz, Music Onz provides free unlimited music streaming on both prepaid and postpaid plans.
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Nov 28, 2016
We have talked about the various patents that Samsung has garnered over the past year or so for flexible displays for their future smartphones. Now a new patent has been granted to Samsung that seems to incorporate their previous patents into a single design.
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Nov 28, 2016
As part of their next wave of product announcement, MediaTek is currently designing a new mid-tier processor for its helio range. The new Helio P35 is said to have a deca-core CPU, with two Cortex-A73 64-bit cores clocked to 2.2GHz for heavy processing work.
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Nov 23, 2016
While we may just saw the launch of the latest and greatest SoC from Qualcomm, we have yet to know how the SoC is like in terms of performance. A new report has been spotted online, showing the possible specs of the 835, as well as the mid-tier 660 as well.
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