After much speculation, Google has finally gone on the record (via their Google blog) to confirm that they have indeed acquired Israel-based navigation app Waze. Though an official number is still known, rumoured to be around $1.3 billion, Google’s Brian McClendon stated they are “excited to announce we’ve closed the acquisition of Waze.” Waze has [...]

When LG announced that the white Nexus 4 was finally going to launch, I was elated to know that I could spend my hard earned money, needlessly, on something else that I just didn’t need. Then I found out that being north of the border was in-fact something negative, because LG planned on selling it [...]

Despite rumours of the contrary, an LG executive has confirmed today that the company is not working on a new Nexus smartphone for Google, according to TheNextWeb. The news comes from an interview with Won Kim, Vice President of LG Mobile in Europe, who told All About Phones that “The Nexus 4 was a great success… however we [...]

All my HTC One owners, today is our lucky day: HTC is starting to push a “system firmware update” to our beloved devices. This change brings our devices to version 1.29.666.17 from 1.29.666.17.5. According to reports from MobileSyrup “the finer details of the update brings a fix to the capacitive buttons sensitivity issues, plus the One [...]

After an illustrious life in beta, the ‘other’ popular Android browser Opera has officially entered the Google Play store as a more stable (usable) app. So what makes Opera the browser more worthy of your time over Chrome? Popular features like “Speed Dial” which allows quick access to frequently visited bookmarks, the “Discover” tab provides [...]

The white Nexus 4 is as sexy as it is elusive; it’s shown its face numerous times online in spy shots, yet never came with any expected launch date or price points for its ever-drooling admirers such as myself. Thankfully, courtesy of Android and me, we have something to work with now. During Google I/O [...]

We’ve known this was coming for quite some time now, but Google’s cross-platform messaging app - codenamed ‘Babel’ - has finally arrived and it’s officially called ‘Hangouts’. Replacing Google Talk and the “old” Google+ Hangouts, the new Hangouts becomes Google’s unified messaging service for all of their products. Hangouts is currently available as a native [...]

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With I/O just under 30-minutes away, the flood gates are slowly starting to burst with information leaks. The two big updates are Android 4.3, possibly maintaining the name JellyBean - although all the updates and new features are still unknown, and Google Games, which was leaked out last week. Stay tuned for more as it [...]

With Nokia’s Lumia 925 announcement out of the way and all the major BlackBerry announcements made yesterday, all eyes (and ears) are on Google today for their annual I/O conference taking place at the Moscone center in San Francisco, CA. What can one expect to be announced this year? A new Nexus 7 tablet? Maybe [...]