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No December – How Google stole Christmas

Nov

2012

As much as I am happy to immediately install all updates that Google provides for their Nexus devices was I shocked to hear about this nasty bug they built into the Android 4.2 release. In the middle of November, right before Christmas time did the contact app forget there has to be December between November ...

Jelly Bean 4.2 on Nexus 7 – what’s new

Nov

2012

While most of the Chinese phones still come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Google started to roll out the next next version if their operating system. Nexus device owners can install the shiny Jelly Bean 4.2 update since November 13th. For those of you who are curious what the small 0.1 step means, here ...

More Huawei phones get unlocked bootloader 1

Nov

2012

Huawei has added additional phones to their bootloader unlocking website. On this website you can enter a devices serial number and IMEI to request a code that enables unlocking a smartphone bootloader. After requesting a code via this website Huawei promises to send the the unlock code via e-mail within three working days. Previously this ...

ZTE launches Tegra 3 phone for below $160

Oct

2012

ZTE is surely one of the heavyweights of the Chinese mobile business. Thus it is a bit of a surprise that one of the major players fishes in the very low price region. However, ZTE teamed up with Beidu (well-known for the “Little Pepper” 699 RMB dual-core) in order to surprise us with the release ...

Huawei announces two quad-core phones

Oct

2012

Huawei does not leave any doubt that they strive for a top rank in the mobile phone business. In a pair of events they just launched two new quad-core phones. The first event took place in Shandong province. Here Huawei presented the new high-end of their product lineup, the Ascend D2 phone. It is powered ...

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No December – How Google stole Christmas

Jelly Bean 4.2 on Nexus 7 – what’s new

More Huawei phones get unlocked bootloader 1

ZTE launches Tegra 3 phone for below $160

Huawei announces two quad-core phones