Sunday
Jul062014

Rollout of Nokia Cyan Windows Phone update has begun

The latest software update from Microsoft is currently making its way out of the gate at select markets. The Nokia Cyan Windows Phone 8.1 update carries with it some Nokia-exclusive improvements and features with Windows Phone 8.1 still the underlying OS. Users from Taiwan, Spain, and Finland have reported that they have been getting the update with the Lumia 625 being one of the first devices to get a taste of the new update. According to a recent tweet from an official Microsoft account, widespread release of the Nokia Cyan update will happen in the second week of July.

Source: Ubergizmo

Sunday
Jul062014

Video: Rio proves to be perfect proving ground for Microsoft's Lumia camera capabilities

National Geographic photographer and Lumia pitchman Stephen Alvarez went to Rio armed with a Lumia 1020 and the Lumia 1520 (not sold outside of the US) and managed to capture some breathtaking photos and video of this year's World Cup host city. Beautiful scenery, beautiful people and stunning vistas all around and they're all displayed in the video above.

Saturday
Jul052014

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup 6/29-7/5

Saturday
Jul052014

Android devices might be leaking Wi-Fi histories

A new investigation conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that Android phones less than three years old could be broadcasting the Wi-Fi networks you’ve connected to. This is attributed to a feature called Preferred Network Offload introduced with Android’s Honeycomb operating system. The PNO sometimes blasts out the list of named networks your phone has connected to while searching for Wi-Fi connections and often during the time your phone is in sleep mode. What makes this particularly dangerous is it could show a person’s movement or activity based on the specificity of the Wi-Fi names.

The easy fix for the leak just requires you to head to the Advanced Wi-Fi settings and disabling the “Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep” option. This might also increase your battery power or data usage if you keep your data on.

Source: The Verge