In the Windows Phone GDR3 feature list, we mentioned that support for an extra row column will be added in the start screen. This meant that you would able to fit three medium-sized square tiles in one row as opposed to the limit of two today. What was unclear until now was if this additional column will be for 1080p devices only or for 720p or WVGA devices as well.
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Samsung will soon be launching a new phone called Galaxy Light. This new phone is actually the Samsung SGH-T399 Garda that we posted few days back. As evleaks reported earlier, it would not have high end specs like the Galaxy S-lineup, nor it will be equipped with a huge display with unreal resolution.
Android 4.3 update was first rolled out by Sprint network, and then it arrived on AT&T. We were expecting T-Mobile and Verizon to follow the suit, but Cspire Wireless surprised everyone by churning out this update ahead of the giants. HTC One owners can now update by pressing the update button on their phones.
Folks at evleaks have revealed that another Android phone is headed to US carrier, and it Galaxy S4 Mini for Verizon. It even carries Verizon branding, which same as the one we spotted in Note 2. For some reason, the network provider did not use any such branding on Note 3 and Galaxy S4 that were launched this year.
A new batch of images purporting to be running on a Nexus 5 phone with Android 4.4 have shown up on Italian site, and they confirm transparent navigation and status bars with white icons. Right from the lock screen, there is a camera icon that can be dragged to fire up the camera application. You can still swipe the screen to the left to do the same action. On the home screen, there is a new app drawer icon, and the phone icon is new as well.
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Samsung could be looking to unveil their next Galaxy flagship phone, S5, less than half a year after it launched Galaxy S4. Korean giant has not experienced great sales with the S4, and if the reports are to be believed, the company could be launching its next device sooner than expected.
Are you are the one who feels that the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch is lacking application support? We all know third party app support is quite bad for the Galaxy Gear but if you are ready to some tinkering, you can get full size Android apps working on it just fine. Just keep in mind that you can only run those applications that do not require any Internet connection. Also, you will have trouble finding apps that look decent on its 1.63 inch display.
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Believe it or not, but Nokia has already started winding down support for their Symbian and Meego (now Tizen) operating systems as it goes all in for windows phone OS. This was bound to happen as MS is on the verge to purchase Nokia. Couple of years back, Nokia outsourced Symbian software development to Accenture, which has promised full support until 2016.
Folks at evleaks have done it again. They claim that it is codenamed Garda and is destined for T-Mobile network. Its test scores have also been spotted in the GFXBench database. Do not get too excited as it is an entry level phone and Samsung has used all the plastic they can in the SGH-T399.
Samsung has added a region lock on its Galaxy Note 3, but a lot of folks including this site, took offense about something like this. Even unlocked models incorporated region lock of approved countries. Fortunately, folks at XDA have churned out a little app called RegionLock away which does away from this unwanted feature.
You can download it from here or if you are feeling generous, you can also download it from Play store. Latter costs few dollars, but you encourage the developer to work on similar projects in future. Chainfire is the man behind this amazing app. He has even made a video of it.
