In Other News: 04/06/2013.

• HTC's Russian branch has seemingly confirmed that the Android 4.2.2 update for the HTC One will arrive in the middle of this month!
  Twitter Via PocketNow.

• Intel have shown off their new and homemade LTE modem chip! The company has said that the new modem will be paired with 22nm quad-core Atom SoCs for tablets initially. These will have global roaming capabilities and will land on shelves "towards the end of the back to school season."
  Via Engadget.

• Intel has teased fanless tablets running Intel's Core line of processors at this year's Computex, which means that tablets of tomorrow will be a lot more powerful. The trick here though is that the processors are Intel's new Haswell chips!
  Via Engadget.

• Sky have updated their Sky+ app for Android with added support for proper advanced search functionality and Google-esque instant search results as you type.
  Via PocketLint.

• It seems that Zynga is shuttering the OMGPOP studio who were behind their cult game 'Draw Something'!
  Via TheVerge.

And finally, Three UK have been having data issues all day, but according to their Twitter team everything is back up and working how it should now!

The data issue has been resolved across the UK :-) We're so sorry to those who were affected! Any ongoing issues tweet @threeuksupport
— ThreeUK (@ThreeUK) June 4, 2013

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In Other News: 21/05/2013.

• The image above is of an upcoming phone for Sprint. It's the LG Optimus F3 a smartphone with a 4.0-inch 480 x 800p WVGA display, a dual-core processor and Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean all of which is powered by a 2,460mAh battery.
  Via PhoneArena.

• Finland are about to get the coolest postage stamps ever! The country has announced that they are planning on offering Angry Birds stamps! Check it out in the image to the right.
  Itella Via Stefan Constantine.

• Samsung have launched a new wallet app in Korea and the US! The app is basically a merger of Google's Wallet solution and Apple's Passbook!
  Via Engadget.

• According to the guys over SamMobile Samsung are planning to add fingerprint software into their upcoming smartphones if a torn down APK gives anything away!

• HTC's flagship the One is looking set to get Android 4.2.2 in the coming weeks according to some tweets which AndroidGuys have noticed from one of HTC's developers.

• Anonymous have supposedly taken action over hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay by prisoners who have had indefinite imprisonment without trial. As a result Anonymous threatened to take Guantanamo's computer systems down, this had led Guantanamo to shut down its wireless Internet network.
  Via Slashgear.

• According to Digitimes 10% of the notebooks shipped during Q1 had touchscreens on them!
  Via Slashgear.

• Huawei are supposedly planning to create a 6.5" smartphone, which would dwarf their 6.1" Ascend Mate.
  Digitimes Via AndroidBeat.

• Opera for Android has exited Beta and is now ready for mass consumption and it can be had here!
  Via TechCrunch.

• Twitter have been granted a pull to refresh patent, but the company has promised that they will only use it defensively! There's much more commentary on this at the source link below!
  Via TheVerge.

• Archos' 50 Platinum smartphone is now up for pre-order from their site here!
  Via Facebook.

And finally, the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active which popped up yesterday appears to have landed on YouTube too courtesy of the guys at MobileTechReview. Check out the video below for full details!
Via PhoneArena. 

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