With this week's announcement of a Stock Android almost-Nexus version of Samsung's Galaxy S 4, we couldnt help but wonder if Google might be running along with this idea to more manufacturers, such as HTC. A Nexus edition HTC One would be pretty fantastic, no? Well, apparently you needn't hold your breath about it. When asked about a possible HTC One Nexus Edition, an HTC representative quickly shot down th ...

One thing that happened at Google I/O earlier this week that we didnt get the chance to talk about yet, was the new Google Hangout experience. Previously Hangouts were just video conferences or video chats between you and a group of people, but now the service has been updated to basically replace Google Talk (which it does on Android devices), and brings in video elements as well as photo sharing, emoticon ...

  SEGA have today released a re-mastered edition of the original Sonic The Hedgehog game onto the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store. Entitled Sonic The Hedgehog v2 it is a brand new re-master of the original SEGA Megadrive (Genesis) game with improved controls, faster frame-rate and Game Center support. Futher improving upon the original iOS version of the game this new v2 edition features a 'save ...

Angry Birds Seasons for iOS and Android got a nice little update today, bringing in a huge "Abra-Ca-Bacon" episode with lotsa levels. The description goes: What's in this version: Abra-Ca-Bacon! It's a beautiful spring night, and the bad piggies have learned some magic tricks -- and the first one is making the eggs disappear! Not to worry, the Angry Birds have some tricks up their sleeve... like the all new ...

We've already done a quick camera comparison between the new Nokia Lumia 925 vs the HTC One, a test which turned out to be greatly in the Lumia 925's favour. This was pretty impressive because last month we put the HTC One against the Nokia Lumia 920 and the results were pretty debatable, with both smartphones doing a pretty good job of handling low light. The Lumia 925 however, seems to be in an entirely d ...

Google announced a new 'Play Gaming Service' for Android, iOS and the Interwebs at Google I/O yesterday. The service is meant to be a cross-platform gaming service with multiplayer and achievements, kinda like Xbox Live or the game center on iOS (except that this one is cross-platform). There's cloud saves, Google Plus integration, the ability to add friends, leaderboards, achievements, match-making over Go ...

LG and Google launched the Nexus 4 in India today, for a price of Rs 25,999. The stock Android 4.2 Jelly Bean smartphone was announced back in October last year, and features a 4.7 inch (1280 x 768 pixels) True HD IPS Plus display, a 1.5 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor. Available in select LG exclusive brand shops, and multi-brand retailers in India. Doesnt seem to be available online via ...

Google has listened to millions of people's prayers, and finally given them the option of having high end hardware and bloat-free Stock Android. I'll admit I was a bit skeptical when  rumours of a Stock Android running Galaxy S4 started doing the rounds yesterday, but what do you know. Google will be selling a special edition of the (white color only, so far) Samsung Galaxy S4, that will run Stock Android, ...

The title says it all. At this year's Google I/O (which we couldn't attend, unfortunately :( ), Google's new Head of the Android (and Chrome) divisions, Sunder Pichai, had some interesting statistics. 900 Million Android device activations so far. That's a lot of devices by anyone's standards. Its comparable to the entire population of human beings on earth, in fact. More than one Android device for every t ...

So with the new Nokia Lumia 925 being announced today and the Finnish manufacturer talking about how much better the low light performance was (compared to the 920), I just had to compare it to the HTC One as well, just to see how it got along. We werent allowed to take the camera sample pictures from the Lumia 925 (it is prototype hardware after all, and Nokia told us that they're working to improve the lo ...

LevelBit has today announced that its cartoon horror styled side-scrolling shooter Jane Wilde will be available to download from both the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store later this month. The game, which is set in the Wild West, see's heroine Jane Wilde as she takes on the undead in over 30 zombie infested levels, futhermore the game also features a Survival Mode whereby it challenges players to see ...

BlackBerry has just announced that BlackBerry Messenger, the company's once-popular proprietary instant messaging client, will be launching on iOS (version 6 and later) and Android (version 4.0 and later) as a free app in "summer 2013". Support for basic messaging and groups will be implemented first, with other features such as voice, video and screen sharing to arrive later in the year. ...

Sony took the wraps off yet another variant of its flagship Xperia Z today, known as the Xperia ZR. While the ZR slots in below the Xperia Z and ZL in terms of hardware specifications, it sports a waterproof construction that is rated for up to 1.5m (IP55 and IP58 certified), a 4.6-inch 720p OLED display, the same quad-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU as found in the Z and ZL, 2GB of RAM, LTE support, ...

Qualcomm is a company that is intrinsically linked to the smartphone industry. They power devices from pretty much every manufacturer. You can find the Snapdragon S4 Plus in devices like the Lumia 520, 720, the Snapdragon S4 Pro in the Lumia 820, 920 and XPERIA SP. Their S4 Pro range even powers the HTC Butterfly, Droid DNA and Nexus 4. Then of course, their latest Snapdragon 600 is in the HTC One and US va ...

The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with almost 8GB of pre-installed apps and software, which is really bad news for folks that pick up the 16GB version of the device, since users only get about 8GB or storage space left for apps, music, videos or photos. As a result many users complained about how Samsung is misleading the public with their advertising and how the korean company states that the 16GB version of the ...