If your android gadget runs Android four.2 or later, you’ll routinely have the Miracast function. It may be renamed as WIRELESS DISPLAY, SCREEN SHARING or SHARE AND CONNECT. This is where MHL in, MHL merely means Mobile High Definition Link. MHL and SlimPort is simply a microUSB port on an android cellphone or pill that may produce an HDMI output signal.

Since Cyanogen Inc. retained the rights to the Cyanogen name, the project rebranded its fork as LineageOS. July – The BlackBerry Classic, the last system so far operating a BlackBerry OS is discontinued. January – BlackBerry releases their new operating system for smartphones, BlackBerry 10, with their Q10 and Z10 smartphones. BlackBerry 10 just isn’t backwards compatible with the BlackBerry OS used on their earlier smartphones.