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Everyone thought that Nokia will announce the Lumia 928 at the May 14 event – well, it wont, the official announcement just occured. The phone is exclusive to Verizon and as expected is a beefed up version of the Lumia 920.

The Nokia Lumia 928 packs an 8.7MP image sensor that is optically stabilized and sits behind a 26mm wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens with F/2.0 aperture. Unlike the 920, the new model packs Xenon flash alongside the standard LED flash. Its quite impressive, considering that the Lumia 928 is just 0.5mm thicker than the Lumia 920.

The Nokia Lumia 928 can capture 1080p video at 30fps and record sounds as loud as 140dB thanks to its HAAC wide dynamic range microphones.

The screen is different too – its still 4.5" in diagonal with 768 x 1,280 pixels resolution, but its an AMOLED display with ClearBlack and a High Brightness mode for up to 500 nits of brightness. Its still super sensitive and works with fingernails and gloves.

Other than that, the Lumia 928 is not too different from AT&Ts Lumia 920 – it runs Windows Phone 8 on a 1.5GHz dual-core Krait processor with 1GB of RAM, packs 32GB of built-in memory and a 2,000mAh battery.

On the connectivity side theres Verizons fast 4G LTE along with dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC. The phone supports wireless charging too.

The phone will, of course, come with exclusive Nokia goodies like HERE Drive+ worldwide SatNav, Nokia Music, Transit, City Lens and more.

The Nokia Lumia 928 will be available May 16 from Verizon for $100 after a $50 mail-in rebate on a 2-year contract. For a limited time youll also get a $25 voucher for the Windows Marketplace. There will be two color versions at launch – Black and White.

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Samsung has just started to push Galaxy S4′s (GT-I9505) firmwares to the KIES server as the device is soon going to be launched in various countries. Samsung always releases the firmware before the device itself and it’s the same case

 with the Galaxy S4, as well. The firmware is based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with Samsung’s Nature UX 2.0 running on top of it. Currently, Samsung has only released the firmware for Germany, we hope other countries to follow soon.

Firmware Details:
Android Version: 4.2.2 – Build JDQ39
PDA: I9505XXUAMDM
CSC: I9505OXAAMDM

All the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) firmwares are available for download from our Firmware Section. Now as the official firmwares have been released, it’s going to rain custom ROMs and custom kernels for the Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505).

The official Android app for Adblock Plus - the favorite ad blocking solution for many Chrome and Firefox users – has just been released in the Google Play Store. Unlike most existing alternatives, Adblock Plus for Android is available for free as a fully functional version, and works on rooted as well as non-rooted devices. From the mobile viewpoint, Adblock Plus helps you get rid of intrusive and annoying ads, banners, ad-oriented notifications et al within almost the entire OS, including the notification shade, home screen, browsers and apps. Adblock Plus’ effectiveness is very much dependent on whether your Android device has root access or not. While users with rooted devices get the full monty, those with non-rooted devices have to face a few restrictions. Details to follow.


It should not come as a surprise that the app’s complete feature set is available only on rooted devices. If you’re thinking of rooting your device, you might want to go through our comprehensive compilation of Android root guides.
The mileage for non-rooted device owners however, may vary depending on the Android version they’re running. For instance, Adblock Plus is meant to block ads over Wi-Fi only on non-rooted devices running Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich or higher.
On the other hand, users currently stuck on older Android versions (Froyo, Gingerbread & Honeycomb etc) will have to follow the proxy tweaking guidelines to extract some benefit out of Adblock Plus. It’s also worth mentioning here that, the app neither works on certain SSL encrypted websites as desired, nor does it support running effectively on Firefox for Android unless you use an additional plug-in.
 
The app’s UI comprises just a toggle for triggering the Adblock Plus service, and another option to select the required filter from as many as 11 different available options. Proceeding to the app’s advanced settings screen, you get the additional options to automatically activate the app’s services on device reboot, specify the required subscription refresh mode, and a toggle to refresh content over Wi-Fi only. On a slightly annoying note, there is no option to get rid of the app’s icon from the notification bar. However, considering the utility of the app, this can be dismissed as merely a minor annoyance.
Overall, Adblock Plus could prove to be a godsend for Android users who find all the various on-screen ads on their devices vexing, and want to get rid of them without shelling out a penny. Hopefully, future updates of the app will bring the option to whitelist select apps for which ads should not be blocked entirely.
Adblock Plus has been successfully tested on Samsung Galaxy S running Android 4.1.1.
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