As the heading states, Word Lens which can translates text (scanned via Camera) to many languages has now been finally been released for Android as well – after enjoying tremendous success gained from iOS platform in two years. Much similar to Google Goggles using OCR to detect what’s in the image and utilizing Google Translate engine to translate [...]
Samsung Will Debut Galaxy Note 2 In August At IFA, Will Come With Jelly Bean
After numerous speculations regarding the release of Galaxy Note 2,a credible Korean news agency MK has reported that Samsung is going to debut the Galaxy Note 2 at the upcoming IFA 2012 in Berlin, a consumer electronics show that will be held late next month. As speculated before, Galaxy Note will indeed come with a 5.5-inch display [...]
Google: Banned Galaxy Nexus Sales To Start From Next Week
With Apple feeling threatened by the likes of Google-Samsung collaborated smartphone Galaxy Nexus, the fruit giant filed an injunction over Unified Search patent, as a result of which the Galaxy Nexus smartphone was banned in one of the most important consumer base, US. Despite an appeal lodged by Samsung over the matter, judge denied to continue the case. [...]
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RedSnow v0.9.14b2 Released With Improved Downgrade Capability, Download Now [Direct Links]
After releasing the Redsnow version capable of downgrading basebands on iPhone 3G and 3GS devices last month, the Dev team has pushed out an update to the jailbreak utility (bringing the version to 0.9.14b2) that greatly improves on this feature. The downgrading process has been made simpler, and now works on a much wider range of devices. [...]
Rumors Regarding Galaxy S2 Not Getting Jelly Bean Most Probably Fake, Here’s Why! [Updated]
Certain rumors have been circulating for the past few days regarding the fact that Galaxy S2 would not get, wait for it, Google’s latest OS Jelly Bean due to it Hardware Limitations. This rumor was originated from CP, which always cited non-credible sources. If it only had been CP spreading the rumor, it wouldn’t be [...]
Samsung’s New Galaxy Chat Smartphone Running ICS and Equipped With Qwerty Will Release This Month
After numerous rumors circulating yesterday regarding Samsung’s new low-end smartphone device, the Korean Giant today has officially announced that low-end ICS powered smartphone called Galaxy Chat and is its name suggests it’ll be equipped with a physical Qwerty keypad as well. Not only Galaxy Chat a.k.a GT-B5330 is just officially announced, it’s release date [...]
Windows 8 Pro Upgrade From Win 7-Vista-XP Priced At $39.99
Good news for every Windows users out there, those who are looking forward to ditch their old Windows 7/Vista, heck even XP to Windows 8 Pro would be glad to know that you can upgrade your ageing OS at a nominal price of $39.99 (online) as opposed to the previous rate of $120 last year. Likewise, [...]
How To Root Nexus 7 Running Android 4.1 Through ClockwordMod Recovery [Guide]
Despite the next Kindle Fire competitor Nexus 7 hasn’t been released yet, that didn’t stop the dev community from playing with Google’s shining new tablet. As a result, the dev community have been able achieve root, unlock its bootloader and flash ClockworkMod Recovery. For step by step procedure, head below and check out the tutorial before you even get [...]
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Sales Temporarily Banned In US, Courtesy: Apple
There have been lots of jabber regarding stupid lawsuits prevailing among smartphone companies (With Apple being the bully) which quite frankly doesn’t deserve any coverage anymore. However, Apple’s recent lawsuit action might be of some worth to those excited Android users willing to buy the Galaxy Nexus smartphone (yup, for Jelly Bean OS). So what about it?, [...]
How To Make Chrome Default Browser (sort of) On iOS Devices Without Jailbreak
We previously covered the way of making Chrome the default browser on iOS devices but that applies to Jailbroken devices only. Google Chrome is what everybody wants in their mobile devices and so does iOS users. Keeping in mind the needs of non-jailbreak iOS users, devs have come out a way through which you can [...]
How To Root Carrier Locked Samsung Galaxy S3 (Sprint, At&t, T-Mobile) [Guide]
While it was possible to root international Galaxy S3 devices before, the XDA devs have found out a way to root carrier locked Galaxy S3 on Sprint, At&t and T-Mobile neworks as well. Head below for the step-by-step tutorial. Disclaimer : Rooting will void you device’s warranty. Chiphazard will not be held responsible if [...]
Google Now Vs Siri Voice Assistants Initial Comparison [Video], Google Takes The Lead
With S-Voice (From Samsung) being the first competitor to Siri on Android Platform, Siri’s dominance became somewhat threatened. After the first blow, Google officially unleashed its own powerful voice assistant called Google Now for Jelly Bean powered smartphones/tablet. The initial comparison of the two voice assistants have appeared and it looks like Google has finally outdone Apple with [...]
How To Set Google Chrome As The Default Browser On iOS Devices
It was just yesterday when iOS users started to get a hang of Google Chrome on their devices and just after few hours, there’s already a jailbreak tweak available that allows you to make it the default browser in iOS as well. Developed by jailbreak dev Ryan Petrich , the tweak BrowserChooser allows you to get rid of [...]
How To Run Android Apps On Mac
While it has been possible to run Android Apps on Windows before, now Mac users can also run those Android apps too, thanks to the popular virtual machine BlueStacks. The team after enjoying immense popularity on Windows (1 Millions downloads in 9 days), got the inspiration to port Android apps on Apple’s domain as well. [...]
Download Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Official Wallpapers
This month Google brought impressive changes to their new OS “Jelly Bean” and like always we have discovered some goodies for those who won’t be getting the update to your Android device anytime soon. Here are the official Android 4.1 Jelly Bean wallpapers which have been extracted from the over the air update for the [...]
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