Verizon is bringing an over-the-air update to Android 5.0.2 Lollipop to the LG G Pad 10.1 LTE. Aww yeah. Users can expect to see the usual Lollipop ornaments in full tow, albeit with a UI adorned by a thin LG facade. You know, to ensure users get that old-timey LG experience. The navigation buttons […]
When Samsung debuted their Galaxy S6 lineup this past April, they teased their own forthcoming mobile payment system (á la Apple Pay, Google Wallet), and now we have a projected launch window. Senior Vice President, Rhee Injong announced June 3rd that Samsung Pay will launch in the US and South Korea
The Android M developer preview has been released by Google and if you happen to have a Nexus device then you already know what time it is: update time! In this video, I’ll show you how to update any Nexus device to the Android M Developer Preview downloaded from Google.
The War of the Smartwatch rages on. It’s Google against Apple in a fight for survival and dominance in the smartwatch market. Google highlighted the latest improvements to their line of Android Wear watches at this year’s Google I/O conference, so here is a quick roundup of some of those advancements:
Announced at the Google I/O conference, Android M is the precursory name given to the newest Android OS. Likely to come out later this year with a dessert themed name (I’m betting on Mochi), M will likely look a lot like Lollipop –but have some new features added. A new developer build is available
Yowzers. YouTuber Dave Bennett has modded Windows XP to boot up on his Android Wear watch (an LG G Watch, specifically). The full 1.5 gb version of the OS, as Bennett mentions in his video, would’ve taken over 12 hours to transfer, so instead he boots up a slimmed down (100
Owners of Sony Xperia Z phones can now upgrade to the latest OS, Android Lollipop 5.0.2. At the moment, the firmware update is available only over the air, so make sure you have at least 1.2GB worth of space available and as always: back that biddy up beforehand! From GSMArena, some of the
Adventurers and incurable butterfingers alike can now breath easy! Thanks to a quickly fixed leak via Samsung’s Plus Program webpage, we know now that the Samsung Galaxy S6 Active is coming soon. No official word yet from Samsung as to availability, exact specs, or cost; however, Samsung historically tends to drop the tank-like Active versions of
If you haven’t heard, Uber just extended their free lunch delivery in Manhattan for another week to help promote their new UberEats service and this got me curious. How exactly does UberEats, from the people that take me to and from bars at ungodly hours, work to get me food
No matter whether it’s the original variant of the device or it’s a custom variant, you generally will get a root method when you have a really popular Android device. In this case, we’re talking about the Korean variant of the LG Optimus G. If you’ve got this version of the
More and more older devices are getting root access, all thanks to the universal rooting tools that combine several root exploits in a single package to be used for rooting multiple Android devices. Rooting the Huawei Honor 3X is now possible using the universal Root Genius tool that that is one
While Towelroot worked fine to root the LG Volt for some time, it seems it doesn’t work anymore to root that device. But, as with the norm in the Android world, there’s usually someone ready to step up to the challenge. The LG Volt now has a new root method that
There were some renders of various Avengers themed Galaxy S6’s floating around the web not too long ago, but no one was quite sure if they were the real deal or just a fanboy’s fantasy. Today, however, Samsung tweeted the following image on their official Twitter account: Welp. Guess that
Bob Dylan called it, you guys: the times they are a-changin. Increasingly, more people are sharing and listening to music and video via their phones’ – often craptastic – built-in speakers. For this reason, the music industry is placing a higher emphasis on song mixes tailored specifically for smartphone playback. Yet even with Taylor
Like so many Americans, Galaxy S6 users love their freedom. They take pride in their smart phone autonomy: the ability to govern how their phone looks and functions. These Android-given rights allow us to feel a degree of sovereignty when our lives feel stuck on a singular path toward an unavoidable end. They are a life vest that keeps us afloat in a
