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Samsung Galaxy S3 (III) (JB), Note 2 (II), S II Epic 4G Updates Tips/Video

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Update

Samsung is sending out updates to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited in some Samsung Exynos processors discovered in December. If you receive a notice of the update be sure to download it and install it. AT&T has also confirmed that its Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S III is out over-the-air (OTA) via Wi-Fi only (video and update directions follow).

Don't forget it is always a good idea to backup your data before and update as well as have your phone fully or at least 50% charged during the update. We also learned a new "don't try this at home."

Here's the update schedule so far for security updates:

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Nexus 4 Secrets & Tips JB Flinger, Photo Sphere & Google Now

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Nexus 4

Nexus 4The Nexus 4 continually sells out and is hard to find, except at the LG booth at CES. We met with LG's product trainer Brian Scollo who gave some excellent Nexus 4 tips.

There was a crew of several trained demonstrators showing all kinds of neat tricks with the LG Optimus G, showing that Scollo did a great job of training the demonstrators.

In this video, Scollo shows some secrets and how to unlock hidden Bean Flinger in Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean.

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Tip: Video Shoot-Out: Droid RAZR HD vs Samsung Galaxy S3 (III), Note 2, LG Optimus G & Nokia Lumia 920

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Rose Float

Rose FloatWe already know what the reviewers thought of many of the best reviewed smartphones, we thought that we could better help our readers by running the best smartphones around through a series of tests that many other places don't do. Or review of the best smartphones revealed different winners than this test.

If you look at the world around us, you see more people using their phones as cameras than anything else.  Often it's not for photographs but for videos of  special events or important moments.  The other day, a friend showed me her iPhone to show the her foster puppies, she didn't show a photo but a video of the puppies running around in the backyard.

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