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All the big news from MWC2017 in a neat little package

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So another annual Mobile World Congress has finished. MWC2017 proved to be another year of interesting announcements, surprises and…well there really weren’t many tears. New technology was shown off, new phones and powerful concepts as well. It’s always a great way to start the year with the promise of new toys and widgets. Hopefully none that explode with the force of 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7s. So here, in no particular order, are some of the best announcements MWC2017 had to offer. Samsung The Korean giant announced a new Galaxy Tab S3 tablet. There was also a new stylus and controllers for their virtual reality headset. But really, nobody in their right mind gets excited by Galaxy tablets. Everybody wants to find out what the next Samsung Galaxy phone will do. That hope was achieved, though it wasn’t through  official channels . At least we know Samsung has wisely decided not to call it the Supernova. Nokia’s phoenix rising Nokia is now on to its third iteration of being a phon...

Lineage OS 13.0 first build for android one first generation devices

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LineageOS  (also known as  LineageOS Android Distribution  and  Lineage  and abbreviated as  LOS ) is a  free and open-source   operating system  for  smartphones  and  tablet computers , based on the  Android  mobile platform. It is the successor to the highly popular  custom ROM   CyanogenMod , from which it was  forked  in December 2016 when  Cyanogen Inc.  announced it was discontinuing development and shut down the infrastructure behind the project.   LineageOS was officially launched on December 24, 2016, with the  source code  available on  GitHub . Since Cyanogen Inc. retained the rights to the Cyanogen name, the project rebranded its fork as LineageOS. ( source : wikipedia ) Our friend and XDA senior member Vipul Jha  developed the first build of Lineage OS 13.0 for Android one first gen devices, which is going viral in the android one community. If you a...