Week 43 in review: Galaxy S5 Plus, Android 5.0 whitelist

25 October, 2014

Week In Review is back to recap all the major announcements of the week, which you might have missed. Week 43 saw the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus, which features a Snapdragon 805 chipset and Cat6 LTE. With the dust starting to settle around the announcement of Android 5.0 Lollipop, we made a comprehensive list of the phones that are already confirmed to receive it.

In Apple-related news, the iPad Air 2 got benchmarked and reveals the full story behind its Apple A8X chipset. It was ahead of most competitors and neck and neck with the Nvidia Tegra K1.

Here are the droids confirmed to get 5.0 Lollipop so far

Google officially announced Android 5.0 Lollipop recently, and while that is great news and all, unless you are among the minority that is on Nexus or Google Play edition devices, what you are really looking for is when the OEMs, or the OEM of your device at least, will be pushing the update, if at all...

Samsung unveils Galaxy S5 Plus with Snapdragon 805

With a quiet whisper Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S5 Plus – a Snapdragon 805 version of the company's 2014 flagship. This is the small late season upgrade, similar to the Galaxy S4 LTE-A that launched late last year. Just like its predecessor the new Plus model brings a faster LTE connection in...

Nokia brand to be replaced with Microsoft Lumia

If you've seen Microsoft's recent articles about Lumia you know it was coming. The Nokia brand has been phased out by calling the phones just "Lumia" and redirecting Nokia online properties to Microsoft.com. This rebranding effort will expand and soon the lineup will become "Microsoft...

iPad Air 2 benchmark reveals 3-core CPU and 2GB of RAM

Apple iPad Air 2 made a trip to the popular Geekbench benchmark and revealed juicy bits about itself. The freshly announced full-size tablet from Cupertino sports 2GB of RAM and rather curious 3-core CPU. While 2GB of RAM are hardly a surprise due to a number of leaks that suggested the...

Apple iPad Air 2 GPU tested, outclasses Tegra K1

Someone has put the Apple iPad Air 2 through GFXBench's 2.7 T-Rex and 3.0 Manhattan's onscreen and offscreen (1080p) platform and we get to ogle at the framerates posted. The results show the iPad Air 2 is just as good and even at times better than the promising Tegra K1 chip and its Kepler GPU...

iOS 8.1 is now rolling out, ready to download and install

Last week during its iPad-related event, Apple announced that iOS 8.1 would be out starting today. And the company has kept that promise, for the latest version of its mobile OS has already started rolling out to devices. If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > General >...

Motorola Droid Turbo leaks out in live photos

Motorola Droid Turbo for Verizon Wireless made yet another unscheduled appearance. This time around, the soon to be revealed Android powerhouse showed up in number of live photos. In line with past leaks, the images showcase the upcoming device in black color scheme. The photos also confirm...

Google's Project Ara will have a store for its modular bits

Google's modular smartphone effort, codenamed Project Ara, seems to be chugging along nicely ahead of its expected release in 2015. Team leader Paul Eremenko said in an interview at Purdue University that there will be a special store for Ara components, complete with recommendations and...

Nexus 6 pre-orders confirmed to start on October 29

Google and Motorola unveiled the Nexus 6 phablet last week. During the blog post announcement, we were told that pre-orders for the device would start on October 29. And this date has just been confirmed by none other than the phone's listing in the Google Play Store. The Nexus 6 is in there,...

LG G3 gets a software update, improved UI responsiveness

LG has issued a software update for the G3. The major fix the company brings to its Android flagship is fixed user interface responsiveness, following a number of complaints from unhappy owners. The LG G3 update weighs 174MB, but sadly, there's no official changelog so far. Users, who've already...

Apple announces financial results for Q4 of the fiscal 2014

Apple announced its financial results for Q4 of the fiscal 2014. The Cupertino giant took home a quarterly net profit of $8.5 billion or $1.42 per diluted share from $42.1 billion of revenue. Its gross margin for the quarter is 38%. The above result is an improvement over the $7.5 billion of...

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