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Nokia's mobile phones based on Android, code-named Normandy, about which there have long been rumors spread, should supposedly become available later this month, and according to information published on the pages of one Vietnamese shop, the price will be around $100.

Microsoft last year organized redemption of Apple devices twice, in a way that they would issue a gift voucher that buyers can spend exclusively in their stores when buying a new Microsoft product in exchange for their iPhone. New promotion started in early February is based on the same principle, only this time instead of $200, buyers can replace their devices for Lumia 1020 or 1520 models.

Chinese Huawei made a deal with the patent consortium Rockstar to avoid a lawsuit for unauthorized use of patents. This is the first of eight device manufacturers with Android which has decided he does not want to be involved in a lawsuit.

Cisco has released the latest report in which they presented the results of research on malware on mobile platforms.

Consulting firm Gartner released its forecasts for the 2014, related to the sale of mobile devices. According to their data, during this year in the world to will be sold about 1.1 billion of various devices (smartphones, tablets, watches and other) that will have Android operating system. The greatest growth of this OS will be recorded in the Chinese market, analysts said.

Google intends to expand the influence of Android on automotive infotainment systems, navigation and multimedia. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has agreed to cooperate with the Audi around the development of automotive infotainment systems based on the Android operating system.

Alternative release of Android, CyanogenMod, has recorded more than 10 million installations, according to the statistics of the project site.

After receiving the latest updates,  Samsung Galaxy smart watch Gear has become even "smarter". The new improvements refers to the ability to display information about receiving messages via Gmail, Twitter, Facebook or Hangouts. However there is a small problem with Gmail notifications, when users receives more than one message at a time, informations for all those messages gets scrambled together into one notification.

Tegra Note 7 comes with Nvidia Tegra 4 processor running at the clock speed of 1.8 GHz, 72 core GeForce graphics, 1GB of RAM and a 7 inch IPS HD screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels.

Users of Gmail Android app until now could sent as an attachment only photos and videos, but with the new version 4.7 Google has finally allowed sending of other file types. The new version of Gmail allows sending of zipped files which can also now be downloaded directly to the Android device.