Early last month, renders of the BlackBerry Venice were discovered. One image showed what the device would look like with the QWERTY slider closed, while the other showed the phone in both black and white with the QWERTY opened. Today, we get to view three new renders, including one that…
BlackBerry ‘Venice’ slider renders show off 18MP camera, Hub for Android and more!
Now that the BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition has been released, we were rather hoping we would all start to hear more about the upcoming slider from BlackBerry otherwise known as Venice and that indeed seems to be the case. We’ve managed to get our hands on some renders of the…
BlackBerry’s new Passport Silver Edition spotted running Android
The idea of BlackBerry dropping a smartphone that runs Android is one that piques the interest of many, and in the run-up to the all new BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition, it was believed that the Canadian firm might finally take the bait. It wasn’t to be on this occasion, with…
Math is never a problem with Calculator for Android Wear
Math is a part of all of our lives every day, in a hundred different inconspicuous ways. Usually you can get along with doing math in your head, or pulling out your phone. If you miss the days where your wrist held a calculator as well as told the time,…
Latest comScore data shows iOS getting even closer to Android in the U.S.
The latest data from comScore is out and it shows that iOS is continuing to close the gap with Android in the U.S. For the three months that ended in June, Apple’s mobile OS was installed on 44.1% of U.S. based smartphones owned by someone 13 years of age and…
Find out if your Android device is exposed to MMS attacks using Zimperium’s Stagefright Detector App
Last week, security researchers from Zimperium have reported on a vulnerability in Android’s Stagefright media playback library, one that is thought to affect about 950 million active Android devices. In a nutshell, potential hackers can take control of the affected smartphones by sending a malicious SMS. For more details on…
Android Pay will reportedly launch alongside the LG Nexus 5 (2015)
The blogosphere has been abuzz with details on the upcoming LG Nexus 5 (2015), with an earlier report out of Korea suggesting that the device will bundle a new fingerprint scanner. Further coverage from Business Korea indicates that Google will use the launch as a joint springboard for the impending Android…
Hackers Could “Harvest” Fingerprints From Android Phones
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As fingerprint authentication becomes more commonplace, two hackers have claimed that they have figured out how a compromised Android could be used to collect fingerprint data from unsuspecting users. ZD Net reports that FireEye researchers Tao Wei and Yulong Zhang are…
Microsoft Translator app now available on Android and Android Wear
Microsoft today released a Translator app for Android devices and Android Wear smartwatches, thus increasing the ever-growing number of apps that it’s offering to Android users. Available to download for free via Google Play, the new application can translate speech and text in no less than 50 different languages. If…
Love Crossy Road? Try these 7 casual obstacle games for Android and iPhone
The year was 1981 when the game Frogger came out. Its objective – to help a bunch of frogs cross a busy highway and a hazardous river – was simple, but innovative enough to draw the attention of players of all ages. And they couldn’t get enough of it. Frogger…