Sometimes when you install an application on your Android phone, the thumbnails sometimes get saved into /sdcard/DCIM/.thumbnails and this is a real pain as these thumbnails will be visible inside your gallery in a pixelated which is very irritating to the eyes. Well now you can easily delete these thumbnails with a single click, read on to know more.
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Zync has launched the Z-930, their new 7-inch tablet running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Zync has also promised Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) update for the tablet. It has a 7-inch (800 x 480 pixels) TFT capacitive touch screen display, similar to the Z-900 that was launched earlier this year. Other features include a 1.2 GHz Cortex-A8 processor with Mali-400 GPU, 0.3MP front-facing camera for video calling and 3600 mAh battery. Continue reading “Zync Z-930 7-inch tablet running Android 4.0 launched for Rs. 5499”
Android Jelly Bean, the latest and greatest Android that has been running on all the Nexuses of this world, has been slowly trickling down to other OEM Android devices for the past few months. We saw it getting listed by Samsung for the Galaxy S3, and it was widely rumored to arrive for HTC’s flagships – the HTC One X and the HTC One S. But now, it has been confirmed along with the launch of HTC’s new phone – the HTC One X+.
If you were considering purchasing the Lava XOLO X900 – 1st Android phone powered by an Intel processor, the price of the handset has been cut to Rs.17500 on the official store just minutes ago. The handset was launched for Rs.22000 few months back.
Yandex, the leading Internet company in Russia has announced its own Android App Store. This would let them offer the new Store to OEMs for the Android tablets and Smartphones instead of Google Play Store and other Google Apps. Yandex already has a 3D user interface for Android called Yandex.Shell and other mobile apps, including Yandex.Search, Yandex.Mail, Yandex.Maps-based services. Continue reading “Yandex to open its own Android App Store”
NTT Docomo, Japan’s largest telecom operator has announced that they would launch 2 new apps, Hanashite Hon’yaku and Utsushite Hon’yaku for their customers. The Hanashite Hon’yaku is the world’s first commercial mobile service for translation that would translate the conversations between people speaking Japanese to other languages. NTT Docomo introduced a text translation app earlier this May. Continue reading “NTT Docomo to launch new Mobile Translation Apps”
Sony Mobile has has started rolling out Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update for Xperia P as they promised last month. This update would bring new features including, new lock screen with improved functionality, Resizable widgets, Extended standby mode, Recent Apps button, WALKMAN, Album and Movies apps. Sony started rolling out ICS update for Xperia S in June. Continue reading “Sony Xperia U, Xperia Sola and Xperia Go Android 4.0 update starts rolling out”
Halfbrick Studios, the creator of Fruit Nija has finally released the Jetpack Joyride, their most expected game on Google Play Store. It was initially launched for Android on Amazon App Store last month. You can suit up and start your trip to adventure by breaking into a secret laboratory to commandeer the experimental jetpacks from the clutches of evil scientists. Continue reading “Jetpack Joyride for Android finally arrives on Google Play for free”
Angry Birds creator Rovio has launched the Bad Piggies game for Android, iPhone and iPad. The Bad Piggies are after the eggs again. You need to create the ultimate flying machine and steer them safely to their destination. It has more than 60 levels, if you get three stars on every level you can unlock 30 more puzzles! Continue reading “Rovio launches Bad Piggies for Android, iPhone and iPad”
YouTube for Android has been updated to version 4.1.23 that brings new UI for Android Froyo and Gingerbread devices. The home page now shows recommended video on top. You can now add video to YouTube TV queue from the app and pick more channels from the YouTube picks. The new UI and Preloading features were released for Android 4.0 devices in June. Continue reading “YouTube for Android updated with New UI for Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices and more new features”
MediaTek, the company behind those ultra cheap single and dual core system on chips launched recently, is prepping for another round of competition. Yes, they are now in the quad-core game, well, at least they will be, when they start making those sweet quad-core chips starting Q4 2012, according to reports from China Times.
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With the ever burgeoning Android smartphone marketshare, it is inevitable that the Play Store will have some insane amounts of downloads too. Continuing with that upward trend of app count as well as app downloads, the Google Play Store has hit 25 billion downloads of about 675,000 apps and games. To celebrate this achievement, they have started to offer some discounts for the next five days.
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Foursquare for Android has been updated (v 2012.09.25) that brings new features including a new filter in the friends tab that only shows nearby friend checkins, social history for venue page that shows friend’s likes or dislikes and number of visits. The Foursquare app for Android got a major update in June with new UI and features. Continue reading “Foursquare for Android updated with nearby friend checkins, Social history for venues and more”
There was mighty uproar yesterday about a dirty USSD hack that enabled links with a simple USSD code wipe the entire phone back to factory reset. It was widely reported to have affected all the major Samsung devices that were running the company’s custom skin called TouchWiz. But the good news is, the exploit has been immediately patched by Samsung, with an OTA update for its recently released, and massively successful Galaxy S3. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S III TouchWiz remote wipe hack patched with OTA update”
Barnes and Nobles was recently in the lime light for making a partnership deal with Microsoft with respect to the “Nook” category of devices the book giant produces. We were wary of what the outcome might be, but in an obvious move, they are trying to battle their competitors again, with the announcement of the new Nooks, name the Nook HD and the Nook HD+. Clearly, these new Nooks are the answers to the latest Kindle Fires from Amazon, their arch rivals in the e-reader world. Continue reading “Barnes and Noble takes on the Amazon Kindle Fire with Nook HD and Nook HD+”
