Samsung Galaxy Gifts, exclusive gifts for the Samsung Galaxy S5 appeared on the official website last week. Today, Samsung has detailed these offers with their new partners, that would come bundled with the smartphone. Total value of these pre-paid and discounted subscriptions are worth $600. These include popular apps like Dropbox, Box and Evernote. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S5 to come with exclusive app subscriptions worth over $600”
UCWeb has updated UC Browser HD for Android to version 3.0, a major update, that brings gesture control on tablets and large screen phones. The new update also adds intelligent text zoom for easier reading, page preloader, cloud sync and more. Continue reading “UC Browser HD 3.0 for Android brings built-in video player, gesture controls and more”
Samsung has launched Milk Music, a new ad-free radio service with 200 radio stations in the U.S. It is powered by Slacker Radio. It has a new design, that lets you change station with a turn of a dial, and doesn’t require any set up or registration. It would be ad-free only for a limited period. Continue reading “Samsung launches Milk Music ad-free radio service for select Galaxy smartphones in the US”
Pebble, the company’s behind the most popular smartwatch has finally released their app store for Android on Google Play. The Pebble app store for iOS was released last month, and a beta version of the Android app was introduced alongside. The company had been updating the Pebble beta app for Android with new features and fixes since then, and the Android Beta 11 was the most recent beta version, that was released earlier this week. Continue reading “Pebble app store arrives for Android, Gets eBay and Evernote apps”
WeChat for Android has been update to version 5.2, that brings a lot of new features, including a new user interface, Real-Time location sharing, so that you can help your friends navigate their way on the WeChat map and through an integrated walkie-talkie session, option to search chat history with Android’s universal Search feature and more. Continue reading “WeChat 5.2 for Android brings new UI and features”
Google Play is now two years old and Google is giving some offers on the Play Store to celebrate the occasion. Unlike previous occasions where they used to offer popular applications for 5 cents, this time, they are offering offers on in-app purchases on relatively lesser know games.
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We brought you information yesterday that it had sold its Zite news reader application to Flipboard and today, we have contrasting news as BBC has just announced a new game – Top Gear: Race the Stig across popular smartphone platforms – iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
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Opera has updated the Opera browser for Android to version 20, that brings WebRTC (Real-Time Communications support) that lets the browser communicate peer-to-peer with encryption without plugins. This was first introduced in the Opera 20 beta for Android last month. This update also brings ability to configure UI layout to suit mobile phone or tablet, simple search feature that auto completes your search results, option select phone, classic or tablet layout and more. The discover ticker feature that was introduced in Opera 20 Beta has been removed, since it needed polishing, says Opera. Continue reading “Opera 20 for Android brings WebRTC support for video chats”
WeTransfer, a file sharing service, has just launched an iOS app that will allow the users to transfer images and videos upto 10GB. WeTransfer says the iOS app is just a first step and an Android app can be expected soon. WeTransfer app will make it very simple for the users to transfer high resolution photos and videos over the air.
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In 2011, CNN acquired Zite, a news reader app. The market for News reader app was fast growing at the time and the race is now settling down. Flipboard has emerged as one of the leaders of News reader apps and despite many acquisition offers, Flipboard is still alone and not acquired by any big players. As a turn of events, Flipboard has acquired CNN’s Zite for a deal that could reach as high as 60$ Million.
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Google has updated its Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to version 3.0, that brings the most expected background app refresh feature finally. This lets all your Gmail messages pre-fetched and synced, when you open the app. The background app refresh was introduced in the iOS 7. So this requires iOS 7 and at least one type of notification (badge, alert, or banner) to be turned on. Continue reading “Gmail 3.0 for iPhone and iPad brings background refresh”
SpiceJet, popular Indian airline, has launched their mobile mobile exclusively on the Windows Phone Store. The app has been available on the Store for over two months, looks like they have planned to officially launch it today. The app lets you book tickets, check flight status and also avail special promotional offers. Nokia has partnered with SpiceJet to launch the app to Windows Phone Store.
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RAR for Android was first introduced as beta last month. The app was out of beta recently, that brings a lot of new features including a new navigation panel with archive history, RAR 4.x compression options, new notifications and support for more languages such as Bulgarian, Dutch, Italian and Simplified Chinese. Continue reading “Official RAR app for Android out of beta, brings new features”
Google Now is Google’s idea of a personal assistant and it is very useful in countries like USA and Canada where all your travel data sync with Google. In India, all you could was weather updates and updates about your favorite football team. But it looks like things are about to change pretty soon. Jet Airways, one of the leading airline companies in India, has announced that it is integrating its flight booking details with Google Now.
Continue reading “Jet Airways is the first Indian Airline to integrate Google Now”
When Google announced their $35 HDMI dongle in 2013, everybody saw a lot of potential for Google Chromecast. But Google had been little slow in opening up the SDK for the developers and it looks like it is slowly catching up. As of March 2014, you can now stream the videos from a webpage on your Google Chrome browser to your TV.
