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HTC Sense 5 ROM Hits The Droid DNA
HTC Sense 5 was debuted in the Taiwanese company’s latest flagship device, the HTC One, and brings a much updated UI. While HTC hinted at a few phones receiving Sense 5, the Droid DNA was left out. Since it’s a fairly new device, the upgrade will happen at some point, but if you can’t wait, a developer by the username newtoroot has you covered. Porting Sense 5 to the Droid DNA has begun and a ROM is available. Everything is working except MMS and Zoe which is HTC’s new feature that allows you to snap still images and record HD video simultaneously. Keep in mind the Sense 5 ROM is in beta …
LibreOffice hits version 4.0, adds an Android app for remote controlling presentations
LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite for Linux, Mac, and Windows computers. The project split off from OpenOffice.org a few years ago, but in many ways LibreOffice (and OpenOffice) have been under development for more than a decade. Now LibreOffice 4 is ready to download, and it comes with a number of new features including support for themes, improved collaboration tools, and an Android app that lets you control presentations. LibreOffice includes apps for word processing, creating and editing spreadsheets, presentations, and databases. You can find a detailed list of improvements in the release notes, but here are some highlights: stuff
BlueStacks Android app player hits 5 million installs, could end up on Windows RT tablets
If you don’t remember BlueStacks, it’s the Windows application that makes it possible to use Android apps and play Android games on Windows-based PCs. The team made some pretty nice strides in app emulation and their hard work was rewarded with a great milestone achieved recently. The team has announced that the player has hit 5 million organic installs through its website in just 8 months — that’s no small feat for what initially appeared to be a niche type of product. There’s nothing niche about some of the deals the company has inked, though, including partnerships with ASUS and AMD that will see BlueStacks technology pre-installed on 100 million …
BlackBerry PlayBook 3G+ hits the UK
Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry brand, has officially launched a new version of its PlayBook tablet with integrated 3G connectivity. Designed to provide an internet connection in areas with no Wi-Fi coverage, the BlackBerry PlayBook 3G+ has some other tricks up its sleeve in addition to the network-neutral mobile broadband connectivity. The storage capacity has been boosted to 32GB as standard, up from 16GB in the previous generation, and the processor has been upgraded to a dual-core 1.5GHz chip from the original PlayBook’s 1GHz model. Beyond that, the device is largely unchanged. The display is the same 7in 1024×600 multi-touch capacitive model found in the original PlayBook …