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TeXPortal, a TeX system for Android

If you’re an Android user looking for a complete TEX system in a tablet, here is a glad news waiting for you . An application namely, TEXPortal in combination with TEXpert will make a complete TEX system in your Android tablet or smart phone. TEXPortal is a complete TEXLive distribution ported for Android and TEXpert is a full fledged text editor and integrated development environment within which the user can create, edit, run the compiler, view and debug without leaving it. The user interface is uncluttered, elegantly simple and very easy to use that will put to shame some of the cloud based frameworks that have germinated in the fertile soil of Internet in recent times.
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Jelly Bean on your Galaxy Nexus Phone

Galaxy Nexus phone comes with a lot of different firmware variants which are updated by Samsung except three which are maintained by Google. If you are fortunate to get a Nexus phone with Google maintained firmware, you will receive updates over the air (OTA) as soon as new releases are made. Samsung releases are usually delayed and will end up in long and frustrated waiting. My phone had a Samsung variant of Icecream Sandwich (4.0.2). However, one need not be frustrated about it, we can unlock the bootloader, update to Google maintained firmware and lock the bootloader when completed.

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