Primate Labs has released Geekbench 3, the company’s first major upgrade to Geekbench in 6 years. The new app has new benchmarks, a new scoring system that separates single-core and multi-core scores, new UI for iPhone and iPad and lots more. We start including Geekbench 3 scores in future benchmark tests. Continue reading “Geekbench 3 for Android, iPhone and iPad released”
Yahoo! released a new Yahoo! Weather app for iPhone back in April. Now the new weather app is available for Android as an update. This brings lot of new features including weather information and forecasts along with photos that match your location, Interactive radar, satellite, heat, and wind map. It also has new home screen widgets. You can swipe vertically for detailed weather information and swipe horizontally for favorite locations.
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PopCap games has finally released the Plants vs. Zombies 2 for iPhone and iPad. The game was supposed to be released on July 18th, but it was delayed. The sequel lets you join Crazy Dave on a crazy adventure to destroy zombies with an army of powerful new plants, super charge them with Plant Food and power up your defenses with amazing new ways to protect your brain. Continue reading “Plants vs. Zombies 2 for iPhone and iPad released”
Google+ for Android to get a major update to version 4.1 that would bring lot of new features including option to switch between Google+ accounts, Google apps admin support, Google Drive support to store photos and video, better location sharing and more. From this version Messenger support would be removed since Google Hangouts takes care of messaging and video calls. It also brings the most requested pull-to-refresh. Continue reading “Google+ v4.1 for Android to bring Drive support, improved location sharing and more”
3D Home for Android is a new 3D home screen launcher. This offers 3D experience including customization, different menu interface, scroll-able dock and lots more. Wish they could have added more customizable options, other this is a decent free launcher. It works on devices running on Android 4.0 ICS and later and 1GB of RAM is recommended. Continue reading “3D Home is a home screen launcher for Android”
Nimbuzz Messenger for Android has received a major update to version 2.6 that brings a new User Interface and features including Easy Swipe between chat screens, new emoticons, richer user profiles, notification center and a redesigned dialer. Nimbuzz has seen tremendous success on Android and with this product revamp, we are extremely confident that we will be able to add greater value to our users in their daily lives, said Vikas Saxena, CEO of Nimbuzz. Continue reading “Nimbuzz Messenger 2.6 for Android gets new UI and features”
SwiftKey released v4.2 Cloud Beta few weeks back with backup and sync and trending phrases feature. Now the company has released an update to the app that brings lot of improvements and bug fixes. These fixes includes better responsiveness for flow predictions, crash fixes in cloud preference and Gmail personalization and lots more. Even though there are lot of fixes, it also has some known issues, which would eventually be fixed in the final release. Continue reading “SwiftKey Cloud Beta updated with bug fixes and improvements”
Meru Cabs recently launched dedicated apps for Android and iPhone. The company has officially announced the official launch of the apps. Apart from instant cab bookings on the go these apps also offer unique, first of its kind service called ‘ICE Alert’ that would help the consumers be prepared for emergencies to alert their trusted ones immediately at the press of a button. Continue reading “Meru Cabs for Android and iPhone launched officially”
Gameloft has started rolling out a new version 1.1 update for the Gangstar Vegas, an open-world action game. This update is called Mojave Apocalypse, that brings eleven new missions with three new missions that has a new type of challenge, jobs, and races. This update also brings three new vehicles, new battle gear for Jason and a new three-tier weapon. Gangstar Vegas for iOS and Android was released back in June. Continue reading “Gangstar Vegas v1.1 update for iPhone and iPad brings new missions, vehicles and more”
Instagram for Android and iPhone got a huge update back in June that brought video support. Last month Instagram for iPhone was updated with landscape mode. Now version 4.1 update for both the Android and iPhone brings option to import your videos from the phone library, just like you do for photos. You get a new library icon next to the video to import videos, however it supports only selected video formats. This update also brings video recording support for ICS devices and automatic straightening for iPhone that corrects the photo when you tap the new Straighten icon. The straightening tool also includes a slider to rotate and adjust any photo. Continue reading “Instagram v4.1 for Android and iPhone brings option to import video from library”
Flipkart eBooks app is now available for iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 devices. Flipkart launched eBooks services called Flyte back in November last year and launched their Android app along with that. Eventually Flipkart lost the Flyte branding and also shut down the music store recently. The eBooks app for these new platforms offer similar features as the Android app, including, option to preview books to purchase, offline support and personalized reading experience. Flipkart has also released a web app called Web Reader to read the eBooks in your Flipkart library. Continue reading “Flipkart eBooks app now available for iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 devices”
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 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 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 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”
