Month: October 2015

  • Huawei is working on Marshmallow beta for Honor 7

    Huawei recently unveiled the list of its devices that are going to be upgraded to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. At the time, the Chinese company said the first rollouts could happen in November, and now it’s reiterated just that – but with a twist. The first Huawei device to get a taste of Marshmallow is apparently…

  • Samsung Exynos 8890 for Galaxy S7 to hit mass production in December

    According to new reports out of its home country of South Korea, Samsung is set to start mass producing the Exynos 8890 chipset for the Galaxy S7 at some point in December. This SoC, also known by its codenames M1 or Mongoose, is going to be the first Samsung-made one to feature custom CPU cores.…

  • MIUI 7 global stable ROMs now available for download

    MIUI 7 global stable ROMs now available for download

    Xiaomi has released the global stable MIUI 7 ROMs for bunch of devices, including Mi 3, Mi 4, Mi Note, Redmi 1S, Redmi 2/Prime, Redmi Note, and Mi Pad. The ROMs are currently available to flash manually from MIUI Official Forum, with instructions on how to go about doing that. If you are not comfortable…

  • Lenovo phone with 5.5-inch display and 2GB RAM shows up at TENAA

    Lenovo phone with 5.5-inch display and 2GB RAM shows up at TENAA

    After Lenovo Vibe X3 (which, confusingly, has been certified twice by TENAA), an unannounced smartphone codenamed Lenovo K51c78 – which is allegedly the Vibe X3 Lite – has been spotted listed on the Chinese certification authority’s website. Specs-wise, the handset is powered by a MediaTek MT5653 chipset with octa-core 1.3GHz CPU, and sports a 5.5-inch…

  • Android 6.0 factory images arrive for Nexus 6P

    Android 6.0 factory images arrive for Nexus 6P

    Last week, Google released Android 6.0 factory images for the LG-made Nexus 5X, and now the company has also posted Marshmallow factory images for the Huawei-made Nexus 6P, which has recently started shipping in the United States. Unlike its smaller brother Nexus 5X, there are only two images available for the Nexus 6P: MDA89D and…