In case you’re not familiar with the name OxygenOS, you should know that it is the latest custom ROM in the works from the company behind the OnePlus One flagship killer launched last year. The Chinese company organized a contest in December 2014 to try and find a name for the new custom ROM they were working on, after Cyanogen ...
Read More »OnePlus opening a store in Europe soon
OnePlus has begun their expansion in the Fall, opening up a few stores in India and China. Now, the Chinese company behind the 2014 flagship killer phone, the One, decided to expand even more into unknown territory: Europe. OnePlus has announced that it would be opening a new Research and Development center in Europe later this year, although Carl Pei, ...
Read More »Huawei (Ascend) P8 release date and specs revealed on Weibo
It seems leaks are flowing already as we start off a new week, the most recent of which involves the upcoming Huawei Ascend P8, without the “Ascend”. The upcoming flagship will be the first to drop the Ascend name from its branding, as Huawei announced that it would renounce the long moniker that has become a trademark for their flagship. ...
Read More »HTC One M9 leak suggests February release date, QHD phablet
A new HTC One M9 leak has surfaced today courtesy of @upleaks and the specs point towards a revamped device which doesn’t really corroborate previous leaks. While we’re not sure if upleaks is talking about the flagship HTC One M9 or about its phablet-version, the One M9 Plus or Ace or whatever, we’re still intrigued. The most interesting part of ...
Read More »LG L70 vs Moto G 2014: are cheap smartphones worthwhile?
The LG L70 and the Moto G are two of the cheapest smartphones you can get which also come with good reviews from thousands of users. Naturally, the Moto G is the more famous out of the two, and will probably end up with better grades at the end of this comparison, but we can’t say for sure until we ...
Read More »Galaxy S5, Note 3 and Note 4 prepping for Lollipop at US Cellular
Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 4 owners at US Cellular might have been surprised to see an update on their phones this morning. Don’t get too excited, as we’re not talking about Android 5.0 Lollipop, just a minor OTA update that doesn’t affect the software version, leaving it at Android 4.4.2 KitKat for the time being. Nonetheless, ...
Read More »Watch the Super Bowl live online
The Super Bowl is starting soon and many of you would rather watch it online or don’t have the possibility of getting to a big screen TV or the game itself in Glendale, Arizona. The game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots kicks off starting 3:30 pm ET on Sunday, so there’s not much time left. If ...
Read More »Android Wear: what needs to be changed
Android Wear is Google’s solution for wearable devices like the Moto 360, Asus ZenWatch and LG G Watch R and it seems to be a pretty comprehensive system that most users are content with. Still, the platform is fairly new, just as new the wearable market is at the moment. Well, the wearable market isn’t new, but it’s just kicking ...
Read More »Great Firewall of China getting even taller
If you’re not familiar with the Great Firewall of China, you should know that it is essentially a filter against all the bad the western world brings to the internet. The internet can bring bad stuff? Indeed, it can and China is really concerned about it. In a new report from the Wall Street Journal, we find out that China ...
Read More »Beware Android: Microsoft is investing in Cyanogen
Cyanogen stated that Android should be free from Google and become a completely open OS that people could truly take advantage of. Regardless of how your or me feel about that statement, it has caught the attention of one of the biggest companies on the planet: Microsoft. In a new Wall Street Journal report, it is unveiled that Microsoft seems ...
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