Nexus And Samsung Devices to Receive Monthly Security Updates

In past two weeks, a big vulnerability have been found in world's popular smartphone operating system, Android. This vulnerability is known as Stagefright through which a simple video MMS can be used by hackers to attack an Android device.

This security issue in Android has awaken the smartphone companies and the owner of Android, Google. So, to avoid further security issues in future, Samsung and Google has decided to release security updates for their devices every month. Both the companies will release security patches as OTA (Over-The-Air) updates and this will help the smartphone consumers to receive security updates faster as compared to past.

Google will release security patches through Android Open-Source project to the public. At first, Google will release the update to fix the recently discovered Stagefright issue to fill the security gap in Android devices. Google will release the updates for its Nexus devices which includes Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7, Nexus 9, Nexus 10 and Nexus Player.

According to Google, it will release the major updates for its Nexus devices for two years while these devices will receive security updates for three years from the date of initial availability or 18 months from the last sale of the device via Google Store.

Samsung has not yet revealed any clear details regarding their monthly update system but it is expected that the company will soon release all the details regarding monthly update system and specific devices which will be the part of monthly update program.

Tags: Android → Google → News → Nexus → Samsung → Security

Nexus And Samsung Devices to Receive Monthly Security Updates

By Usama Fayyaz → 6 August 2015

XBOX One Screenshots Coming to Android And iOS

Xbox One is one of the product of Microsoft and those who own Windows Phone can share their gaming screenshots by using Microsoft's Smartglass app.

Previously, this feature was only available for Windows Phone users but now this feature is soon going to come to Android and iOS users. It will enable the users to view, share and save their gaming screenshots via their smartphones. However, there would be some restrictions for Android and iOS users.

Tags: Android → Gadgets → Game Console → iOS → News → XBOX

XBOX One Screenshots Coming to Android And iOS

By Usama Fayyaz → 29 July 2015

Tired of overcharging of your Smartphone? Battery Notifier BT is a quick solution fo you.

Introduction: Overcharging of Smartphone.

As the world is moving towards modernization, the use of smartphones have also increased. Smartphones have made the life easier as all the work that was done on computers in past can now be done on this small device easily which is portable, easy to handle and the biggest fact that it can easily fit in the pocket. Smartphones can be used to play games, surf the internet, and off course calling and messaging. But the major problem is that the task done or the apps running on smartphones are battery hungry and as a result battery gets drained quickly at faster rate and has to be charged for further usage. On average every smartphone has to be charged once a day!!!  As the smartphones takes one to two hours to charge completely, so when the users put their phones on charging and get busy in other works so they may forget about their phones which were at charging, and this often happens. So it may lead to overcharging of their smartphones thus reducing battery life.

Solution: Battery Notifier BT.

But there is a solution to avoid overcharging of smartphones and reducing the threat to smartphone batteries and the solution is an app named Battery Notifier BT. This app avoids overcharging of phone as when the battery level reaches 100% an alarm is sounded to notify the user to disconnect the charger.Moreover another great feature is that when battery gets reduced to 15% , an alarm is sounded to notify the user to connect the charger. This not only avoids overcharging but also reduces the threat to battery life.

Tags: Android → Apps → Review

Tired of overcharging of your Smartphone? Battery Notifier BT is a quick solution fo you.

By Usama Fayyaz → 26 June 2015