Update: The Samsung Galaxy Note listing has ended, but there are also great deals on tablets from LG, Amazon, and Lenovo in today’s roundup. Samsung may be busy pushing its second-generation 10 inch Galaxy Note tablet, and maybe working on an even newer model. But the original Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is still a pretty […]
AllCast for Android streams media from phone to TV (now in the Play Store)
Developer Koushik Dutta has been working on an Android app since this summer called AllCast that lets users stream photos, videos, and other content from a phone or table to a TV using a game console, Roku, Apple TV, or other box. Now AllCast is out of beta and available from the Google Play Store. […]
BLU Life Pure is a $349 smartphone with high-end hardware
BLU has made a bit of a name for itself by offering cheap but decent Android phones that don’t require you to sign up for a long-term service contract. Now the company is offering its most expensive phone yet… but also the first that has specs you’d normally associate with a $500 handset. The BLU […]
CyanogenMod hits 10 million users before shipping first phone
The Oppo N1 smartphone with CyanogenMod software will be the first device to ship with this custom version of Android preloaded when it goes on sale December 24th, 2013. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t already a lot of people running CyanogenMod — this weekend, the popular custom ROM crawled past the 10 million user […]
Jailbreak iOS 7 on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Team Evad3rs have released tools for jailbreaking an iPhone iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 7.0 through iOS 7.0.4. Evasi0n  7 is available for Windows, OS X, or Linux and lets yu jailbreak your device in a matter of minutes. Jailbreaking an iOS device allows you to access files and settings that would otherwise be […]
G-Box Midnight MX2 Android TV box giveaway
Android may be designed for smartphones and tablets, but that hasn’t stopped companies from slapping it on boxes designed for your TV. And there’s a reason for that: There are hundreds of thousands of apps for Android, and while most were designed for small screens, many look good on bigger displays. Netflix, YouTube, and HBO […]
Lilbits (12-20-2013): Goodbye Winamp (maybe)
After 15 years, Winamp might be shutting down soon. In the late 90s, the music player was pretty much the go-to MP3 player folks used to handle their ripped CDs and Napster downloads. But the app was eventually acquired by AOL and over the past decade it’s largely faded into obscurity. AOL announced plans to […]
Acer Iconia W4 8 inch Windows tablet launches (in India, Hong Kong)
Acer was the first company to launch an 8 inch tablet running Windows 8 software, but the Iconia W3 tablet suffered from a lackluster display and a mediocre processor. Now Acer is launching a new model called the Iconia W4 with a zippier CPU and better screen. The Acer Iconia W4 launched this week in […]
Samsung ATIV Book 9 Style is coated in fake leather
A few of Samsung’s latest phones and tablets include faux-leather backs. You can find them on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. Soon you may also be able to buy a Samsung notebook with a fake leather finish. A member f the Korean forum Seeko spotted a new notebook with […]
Google boots multi-purpose Chrome extensions from the Web Store
When Google launched the Chrome web browser in 2008, it was one of the fastest browsers around… and also one of the simplest. Menu buttons were tucked away out of sight. The URL and search bar were one and the same. And there was no support for add-ons or extensions. The eventually changed, and now […]