Kyle, Author at Droid Life

Asus Posts Teaser Sketches of Smartwatch Ahead of IFA Unveiling

Kyle August 26, 2014 21

Not to be outdone by Motorola and LG, Asus is continuing to tease its first foray into the wearable market. Ahead of its September 3 unveiling at IFA in Berlin, Asus on Facebook this morning posted two images of its prototypical smartwatch, a sort of...

T-Mobile “Doubles” Data When Adding $10 Tablet, Expands Family Plan

Kyle August 26, 2014 72

T-Mobile's free data program has long been the carrier's most attractive tablet offering, but the company apparently wants to convert a few of those freeloaders to postpaid subscribers. To incentivize the switch, T-Mobile is expanding its Simple Choice...

Samsung Reportedly Working on Circular Smartwatch of Its Own

Kyle August 25, 2014 83

As if there were not enough already, LG and Motorola are not the only companies with plans to release circle-shaped smartwatches. The SIM-enabled Gear 2 Solo, expected to debut alongside the Galaxy Note 4 at next week's Unpacked, will retain the conventional ...

OnePlus One Receiving Update to Android 4.4.4 Starting Today

Kyle August 11, 2014 68

The lucky few who have been able to snatch a OnePlus One will be happy to hear that an update to Android 4.4.4 is scheduled to roll out within hours. The list of changes in firmware 30O is rather long, but it includes a new camera feature which was announced...

NVIDIA Partners With Acer to Launch Tegra K1-powered Chromebook 13

Kyle August 11, 2014 47

Cheapness, not performance, continues to fuel the popularity of Chromebooks. Their inexpensiveness relative to Windows and Mac laptops makes them an attractive proposition for light tasks such as document processing and web browsing. But NVIDIA wants to change...

Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 Will Leverage Spark LTE Technology

Kyle August 11, 2014 8

It is well-documented that Sprint's LTE network is not the fastest in our country, but the carrier's tri-band Spark technology has been helping to mitigate shortcomings by leveraging less congested bands during peak times. So far, the technology has been ...

YouTube, Android Device Manager, and Google+ Receive Minor Updates

Kyle August 7, 2014 19

Over the last couple of days, Google issued updates to YouTube, Android Device Manager, and Google+. In tow with the new versions are little more than minor usability improvements and minor stylistic enhancements. Complete design transformations are probably a...

Handcent SMS Receives Update to Version 6, Refreshed UI and Texting on PC Included

Kyle August 7, 2014 49

It's been more than two years since we last wrote about Handcent SMS, the venerable third-party text messaging app, but that doesn't mean the folks behind the 10 million downloads strong service have been resting on their laurels. A major update, version 6.0,...