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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

We are all on the verge of official announcement of the Nokia Lumia 1520 and Evleaks has leaked its red variant. Until now we have seen its yellow variant (leaked in its press photo), and white. We are sure Nokia lovers will appreciate the red color. This is how it looks like, courtesy of evleaks.

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Last week, Nokia launched the Lumia 1020 windows phone in India, but for some reason, they did not announce its pricing. Nokia told us that they would be announcing it on October 10, but now, we have spotted that the phone is up for pre order from the Nokia’s own online shop for an unreal price tag of INR 49,999 (USD 810). This uber camera phone will go on sale on October 11, 2013.

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Telstra is offering a free Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch to those customers who pre order the Galaxy Note 3 phone on certain 24 month contracts. This offer is available to only those people who pre order it via Telstra’s website. Also, you to enroll yourself under plans where you have to shell out $80 or more.

So, for instance, let’s say, you go for the Telstra’s 80 dollar Every Day connect plan. Then, you would be paying additional $8 monthly phone charge for 24 months, bringing the total to $88 / month. This plan will give you $800 worth of calls, MMS messages, unlimited SMS messages and 1.5 GB of data per month as well.

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At the Galaxy Gear’s announcement, Samsung stated that the Galaxy Gear smartwatch (that right now works only with the Note 3), would launch with more than 70 apps (which are available through Samsung apps). Folks at droid-life have received a review unit from Samsung and they comment that only few of the important apps have been made available that includes Evernote, Path, Snapchat, Vivino and some more. Downloading apps to your Samsung galaxy gear sounds very easy – just open up the gear manager app on your Note 3, and open up Samsung Apps. Here are few of the screenshots of Samsung Apps user interface.

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