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You can now send Voice Messages on WhatsApp

WhatsApp has added an interesting new feature to the service in the form of push-to-talk Voice Messaging. You can send and receive voice messages with your contacts on WhatsApp for free.Users must start seeing a microphone icon next to the text input area and you can press and record your voice message and send it. You can play the messages too once they are sent.I’m wondering how operators would react to this considering this might have an impact on traditional calls. Continue reading “You can now send Voice Messages on WhatsApp”

LinkedIn app arrives for Nokia Asha full touch devices

LinkedIn has finally launched the native LinkedIn app for Nokia Asha full touch devices, including the latest Asha 501. The app offers rich, personalized stream of industry news and updates, Get to know who you are meeting by checking out their LinkedIn profile and quickly follow up with someone you’ve just met with connect on LinkedIn. The app was launched for Windows Phone devices back in April 2012 and got updated with Live Tile support, Speech recognition and more earlier this year. Continue reading “LinkedIn app arrives for Nokia Asha full touch devices”

Facebook for Android updated with Facebook Home cover feed support

Facebook has updated the Facebook application for Android with support for Facebook Home cover feed for select devices. The Facebook Home app that was released back in April is no longer needed. The latest update also adds option to save photos to your phone from the photo viewer. After the new update the status bar now shows at the top of your lock screen by default. Continue reading “Facebook for Android updated with Facebook Home cover feed support”

Wrap Camera is a photo editing app for iPhone and iPad

Wrap Camera for iPhone and iPad

Wrap Camera is an new app that lets you edit your photos on iPhone and iPad. The app is easy to use and lets you add effects to your photos in few taps.It has hundreds of filters, special effects and photo editing options . You can capture and image or import the pictures from the camera roll. There are lot of options including Undo and Redo buttons to check for a perfect image. Continue reading “Wrap Camera is a photo editing app for iPhone and iPad”

Twine, a flirting app for Android and iPhone launched

Twine for Android and iPhone

Twine is a new flirting app for Android and iPhone. The app has been developed by strategy and design firm called Sourcebits and the tagline of the app reads “Never miss an interesting stranger”. The app connects you with people nearby that share similar interests with you. It signs in with your Facebook account matches your account with a suitable stragner of the opposite gender based common interests and also gives you interesting things to chat about with them. The company calls it gender-balanced flirting app since it provides spam-free experience with an even ratio of guys to girls to always get the perfect match. Continue reading “Twine, a flirting app for Android and iPhone launched”

TimesCity acquires restaurant recommendation app Gawbl

TimesCity Gawbl

TimesCity, part of Times Internet has announced that they have acquired Gawbl, an Android app that lets users discover places to eat based on their mood. Gawbl was a start-up that began 7 months ago by Pune based team, led by its founder, ChiraghKirpalani. The Android app was launched back in April that offered recommendations in Pune. Continue reading “TimesCity acquires restaurant recommendation app Gawbl”

Microsoft Office for Office 365 launched for Android phones

Microsoft Office for Andorid

Microsoft has finally launched the Office app for Office 365 users using Android smartphones. Microsoft launched the Office Mobile for iPhone back in June. This would let you open and edit Microsoft Office documets such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. It also has support for charts, animations, SmartArt Graphics, and shapes just like the desktop app. You can open documents in the cloud on SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro. You can edit and view documents offline but you need to be connected to the internet to save the changes on the cloud. Continue reading “Microsoft Office for Office 365 launched for Android phones”

Viber for Android v3.1 update brings doodle, new emoticons and more

Viber for Android v3.1 Doodle

Viber, cross platform VOIP (Voice Over IP) app for Android has been updated to version 3.1 that brings new features including option to send doodles over photos or create drawings, new emoticons, option to see when a message have been viewed by the recipient, support for more languages and lots more. Viber for other mobile platforms go updated to version 3.0 back in May and Viber apps for PCs and Macs were launched. This update also brings support for the Viber Desktop application on Windows and Mac. Continue reading “Viber for Android v3.1 update brings doodle, new emoticons and more”

Saavn Pro for Android officially launched, offers ad-free offline listening

Saavn Pro for Android

Saavan, global music service announced their premium music service, Saavn Pro with offline and ad-free music listening back in February. The iPhone and iPad app got updated with Saavn Pro and new UI back in March, the Android app got updated earlier this month with Saavn Pro and New UI. This brings ad-free listening, offline downloads, improved audio quality and lots more. Unlike many other subscription services, users can opt-in to Saavn Pro directly on their mobiles. In addition to these features the app has received a new UI and lot of improvements and bug fixes. Continue reading “Saavn Pro for Android officially launched, offers ad-free offline listening”

Rockstar Mobile Sale: GTA III, Vice City, Chinatown Wars at $2.99 & Max Payne at $1.99 for limited period

Rockstar Mobile Sale for Android and iOS

Rockstar Games have started their discounted sale that offers four games for Android, iPhone and iPad at a discounted price. These games include, Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Max Payne. All the GTA games are available for $2.99 and Max Payne is available for $1.99 (Rs. 110). The GTA games usually cost $4.99 and Max Payne costs $2.99. This is a great deal if you had missed earlier deals. Continue reading “Rockstar Mobile Sale: GTA III, Vice City, Chinatown Wars at $2.99 & Max Payne at $1.99 for limited period”

State Bank of India launches State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone devices

State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone

The State Bank of India has launched their official State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone devices. This app lets you login to your account, trasfer funds, pay bills, book train tickets and lots more. There is a bit of registration process before you can use the app. The State Bank Freedom app was released for Android back in 2011 and for iPhone back in 2012. Continue reading “State Bank of India launches State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone devices”

Chennai Express Mobile game launched for Android and Java phones

Chennai Express Game

Disney UTV’s Digital arm has launched the official mobile game based on upcoming Chennai Express movie. The game is title Chennai Express: Escape from Rameshwaram, in which you play the role of Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan’s movie character) who goes on running adventure and fights his way through an army of thugs from Chennai while dodging obstacles like trucks, buses, cars, coconut carts, manholes and more. Continue reading “Chennai Express Mobile game launched for Android and Java phones”

SwiftKey 4.2 Beta brings SwiftKey Cloud with backup and sync, better personalization and more

SwiftKey 4.2 Beta Cloud

SwiftKey, popular Android keyboard maker has launched the version 4.2 Beta, four months after the release of SwiftKey Flow. The new Beta app introduces SwiftKey Cloud with the most required feature – backup and sync that back up the words and phrases so that you can sync it when you move to a new device. The trending phrases feature analyses treding topics online and Twitter to automatically auto complete it as you type. Continue reading “SwiftKey 4.2 Beta brings SwiftKey Cloud with backup and sync, better personalization and more”

M.WIZ app for iOS lets you build your own mobile website

M.WIZ for iPhone

M.WIZ is a mobile website building toolkit for iPhone and iPad. This , where all you create build your own mobile webpages and HTML file of the page. All need to do is drag and drop things from the list of elements such as header, footer, buttons and more. It also offers live previews that would let you make the changes easily and store templates for multiple websites. Continue reading “M.WIZ app for iOS lets you build your own mobile website”

VLC media player for iPhone and iPad is back in the App Store

VLC 2.0 for iPhone and iPad

VideoLAN has the VLC media player back in the Apple iTunes Store after it was pulled out for unknown reason when it was launched back in 2011. Now the company has released it as a new app with the version number 2.0.1 that has been rewritten from ground-up. This brings new features including WiFi upload that would let you upload media to your iOS device over WiFi, Dropbox integration to browse files and folders to download media for offline playback. You can also adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation in real time. Continue reading “VLC media player for iPhone and iPad is back in the App Store”