Chainfire Figures Out How To Root Lollipop Without A Modified Kernel

The newest beta of Chainfire’s SuperSU comes with a major improvement—as of v2.27, you no longer need a modified kernel to gain root on Lollipop devices. This is a beta, and as Chainfire says, there’s a chance you could break something and get in a bootloop. Still, this is ... Read More

Android One Android 5.0 Lollipop update arriving in January

You guys have been bugging us about this for weeks, but finally there is an answer to the question: when will Android One get the Lollipop update? The Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the first of the Android One devices will happen by the end of January, 2015. IndiaToday ... Read More

Leaked Screenshots Of Lollipop On The HTC One M8 Show How Sense May Look On Top Of Android 5.0

Our Nexus phones and tablets may have tasted Lollipop now, but we’re still waiting for other devices to get to the sweetness of Android 5.0. This update brings the most significant changes we’ve seen since Ice Cream Sandwich, only much of Google’s visual overhaul will disappear behind various manufacturers’ ... Read More

Yahoo Will Soon Become The Default Search Engine In Firefox

Starting in December, Firefox will use Yahoo as its default search engine in the United States on mobile and desktop. As a part of this five-year deal, Yahoo will also launch a new search experience for Firefox users in the U.S., which should go live at the same time ... Read More

Nova Launcher Beta 3.3 Brings Lollipop-Style Launcher Cards

When I switched over to Lollipop on my Nexus 5, I was too lazy to transition back to the Google Now launcher to get that Lollipop aesthetic. Instead, I stuck with Nova, knowing that eventually I’d get the look on TeslaCoil’s third-party launcher. Well, today’s the day, assuming you’re ... Read More

Samsung Launches Milk Video, The Tastiest New Media-Streaming App In Your Galaxy

Samsung has milked music before, and now it is ready to milk video as well. The company has announced another creamy media-consuming app intended to pump more value into the hands of millions of Galaxy device owners, and it goes by the name of Milk Video. This time around, ... Read More

Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 Lollipop update coming in December, but you can get it now

Our Samsung-obsessed friends at Sam Mobile are reporting that the first builds of Android 5.0 Lollipop for the Galaxy S5 will arrive in December. You read that right: not March 2015, not even in the New Year, but this coming December. Not a bad gift for the holidays at ... Read More

Code Commit Shows The Nexus 6 Had Tap-To-Wake Functionality, But Google Removed It

Tap-to-wake is one of the niftier features Google’s implemented on the Nexus 9, but its telephony-enabled sibling didn’t get the same treatment. We know that it almost did, though, thanks to a commit to the device’s source code made on September 10th. (We also pointed this out in our ... Read More