In a surprising move, Twitter account @evleaks has leaked a few images of the Galaxy S IV, along with some specs to accompany them. And confirming the suspicions made by the leaked cases, it is indeed quite square. Though seeing it as a phone instead of a case makes a bit more attractive. In the image, the specs listed are a full HD Super AMOLED… Read more
With Android 4.2 came a feature called Photo Sphere. Using the technology of street view trucks, it can take many images and stitch them into a sphere. It’s like taking panorama shots to the next level. And after taking these photos, you can either view them as a full shot or scroll around them like you would street view in Google Maps. While it doesn’t… Read more
Sony has released a few videos detailing the premium aspects of the Xperia Z, including its 5-inch 1080p “Reality Display”, 13MP rear-facing camera with an Exmor R sensor, and invulnerability to water. These videos are very similar to the original promo video Sony released, but these go more in-depth into the features of the device. The first… Read more
The next Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update will bring a much anticipated fix to the operating system. The update will fix the Bluetooth audio issue that has been plaguing Jelly Bean since its release. The issue mainly centers around A2DP audio streaming, where the audio lags and/or cuts out frequently. Google has confirmed that the next Android 4.2 Jelly… Read more
The developers of the highly popular custom ROM, AOKP, released the first Android 4.2 builds for four Nexus devices Wednesday night: Galaxy Nexus (maguro), Galaxy Nexus (toro), Nexus 7 (grouper), and the Nexus 4 (mako). Since they had to start over moving onto 4.2, AOKP developer sethyx stated that they mostly focused on features which is why… Read more
Let’s add another bug to a growing list of problems with Android 4.2 and up. You probably already know about all the reports of random reboots, lag, inoperable Bluetooth, and the such. One bug was fixed in 4.2.1, and that’s Decembergate. However, the rest remain, and now we know about a brand new one. This only applies to secondary accounts that… Read more
The wonderful Android community has once again graciously provided us with manna to bring all things Googleness to our devices running custom ROMs. As we know, our favorite developers are working hard to bring us Android 4.2, and we need gapps with those ROMs. So, just as custom 4.2.1 ROMs are beginning to appear, an updated gapps has been loaded to… Read more
The developer of the Nexus Root Toolkit, WugFresh, has updated his one-size-fits-all Nexus toolkit on Monday to include all the new Nexus devices (Nexus 4, Nexus 7 3G, and the Nexus 10) and Android 4.2. If you’re not familiar with this toolkit, it’s a program that will run on Windows machines and helps you set up your drivers, and provides one-click… Read more
Every since Android 4.2 was released, developers have been rushing to integrate lockscreen widgets into their apps. From HD Widgets to Falcon, we’ve seen a lot of new support. Today, Plume released an update with lockscreen widgets. Plume is my favorite Twitter client, so I’m very happy about this. Aside from the (old and a bit outdated) widget,… Read more
StickMount is a root app made by the famous Chainfire that allows you to mount storage over USB. While Nexus devices lack microSD cards, you can add storage by using a USB OTG cable and adding storage with USB media.You plug a USB drive into the OTG cable, plug the cable into your device, and use StickMount to mount and use it. It’s a simple, if not a… Read more
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