Ananthu Kurup, Author at Android Fan Network

MWC 2014 – The Sony Xperia Z2 is Here!

Feb

2014

After a lot of leaks and rumors, the Sony Xperia Z2 has finally been revealed by Sony at Mobile World Congress 2014. The new device builds on the design language of its predecessor, the Xperia Z1. The phone primarily made out of glass and aluminum and also keeps the IP58 water-proof certification of the Z ...

Sprint Announces Rollout of WiFi Calling for 2 Samsung Devices

Feb

2014

Sprint has now officially announced that two of its devices, the Galaxy S4 Mini and Galaxy Mega, will receive support for WiFi Calling. They have said that both the devices will receive an OTA sometime in the next few weeks, enabling the users to make calls using any WiFi network. Also promised are updates to ...

Sprint Galaxy Note 3 Starts to Receive Some KitKat Love

Feb

2014

Latest report suggests that the Sprint Galaxy Note 3 has started receiving a 503MB OTA that bumps it up to Android 4.4.2. The update brings slight visual and functional changes that enhance the user experience. The status bar icons have received a white colour and many other KitKat features have trickled down into this official build. ...

Reduce Your Data Usage up to 50% Using Opera Max Beta

Feb

2014

Opera has finally promoted the Opera Max app and service to open beta status. The app has been in private beta testing since December, limited to daring users in the US only. But now, Opera hopes to broaden their reach and tester base to Europe too. Opera has been using a feature called Turbo on ...

The Nexus 7 Will Finally Come to Verizon Next Week

Feb

2014

When the Nexus 7 was introduced back in July 2013, the LTE version was expected to work with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. But customers who made the purchase ended up not being able to activate their device on Verizon’s network. Later on Verizon stepped up and revealed that the Nexus 7 was not certified to ...

Google Now Ready for Sochi Winter Olympics

Feb

2014

The Google Now app received an update recently that adds a bunch of new commands and Sochi Winter Olympics cards. The new commands bring better, intelligent, and contextually aware features such as calling and messaging using commands like “call my mother”, etc (if you have someone designated as your mother). The app will ask for ...

Holofication of Your Apps

Feb

2014

Android 4.0 brought with it the Holo theme that we all love so much. It was one of the most significant changes to the OS in terms of user experience, and it started the trend of designing apps that better blend into our favorite OS. But now, there is nothing more frustrating to see than ...

The Moto G Finally Comes to India

Feb

2014

After a long wait, the Moto G has finally come to India. The phone was initially expected to be launched in India at the first half of January 2014. For some reason Motorola took their sweet time to launch the device. Moto G is now available in India, exclusively on FlipKart. Order it today to ...

Kepler Based Nvidia Tegra K1 All Set to Stir Up the Android World

Feb

2014

Not long back, Nvidia unveiled the Tegra K1 SOC which marks a paradigm shift in mobile GPU field. For people who aren’t up to date about the desktop world, Kepler is an Nvidia GPU architecture used in its GTX-600 graphics cards that replaced the Fermi architecture. It brought with it many changes that significantly ...

Android’s Transition to x64 Has Finally Begun!

Feb

2014

Android has been evolving at a tremendous pace since its creation, and that process might have slowed down some, but it hasn’t stopped. The latest commits to GIT suggest that Android will move on to 64-bit architecture in the very near future. This was an eventual transition that was bound to happen sooner rather ...