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HTC First with Facebook Home announced, coming to AT&T in the US, EE in the UK and Orange in France

HTC First

HTC and Facebook has partnered for the HTC First, the first phone to feature Facebook Home, an Android Launcher with Cover feed that offers photos and updates from your newsfeed, Notifications, Chat Heads, App Launcher to launch Facebook apps and also comes pre-loaded with Instagram. The HTC First has a 4.3-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.4 GHz dual-core processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). It would run on 4G network in the U.S. with AT&T, France with Orange, and EE in the UK. Continue reading “HTC First with Facebook Home announced, coming to AT&T in the US, EE in the UK and Orange in France”

Facebook Home brings the social network to your Android homescreen

Facebook today announced its brand new Android Launcher called Facebook Home which will serve as a gateway to the social network’s services. The launcher is meant to replace the default skin on your Android device and hooks in with Facebook centric services. Predictably, the focus here is on sharing and keeping a track of whatever your friends are up to.

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Facebook Home Android launcher coming to select HTC and Samsung phones on April 12

Facebook just announced their Facebook Home Android product and only select HTC and Samsung devices will be getting it initially. The Samsung Galaxy S3 , Galaxy Note 2 and HTC OneX+ are existing devices which are supported.The HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 are new devices which will be compatible with the app. Facebook put rumors about a Facebook phone or an forked Android OS with the launch of this app.

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LG Optimus L3 II Dual and Optimus L7 II Dual now available in India for Rs. 7899 and Rs. 14990

LG Optimus L3 II Dual and Optimus L7 II Dual

LG Optimus L3 II Dual (E435) and the Optimus L7 II Dual (P715) are now available in India from online retailer Flipkart. These phones were priced on the official LG India website yesterday. The LG Optimus L3 II Dual has a 3.2-inch (320 x 240 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display and is powered by a 1 GHz processor. The Optimus L7 II Dual has a 4.3-inch (800 × 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen IPS display and is powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor. Both these run on Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) and have dual SIM support with a dedicated SIM switch button. LG unveiled theOptimus L Series II devices at the MWC 2013 in February.
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Samsung Galaxy Trend 2 and Trend 2 Duos with 4-inch display, Android 4.1 announced in China

Samsung Galaxy Trend 2 China

Samsung has announced the Galaxy Trend 2 (SCH-I739) and the dual SIM variant, the Galaxy Trend 2 Duos (GT-S7572) in China along with the Galaxy Win. Samsung has also announced the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082)in China, that we reviewed recently. These look like souped up versions of the Galaxy S Duos. These have a 4.0-inch (480 x 800 pixels) capacitive touch screen display, powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and run on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). These have a 3-megapixel rear camera.

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PhotoCal with Event app for iPhone and iPad lets you arrange and view photos in a calendar view

PhotoCal with Event for iPhone and iPad

PhotoCal with Event, is a new application for iPhone and iPad that arrange and view your photos more efficiently, while keeping you up to date on your events. It lets you arrange your images in chronological order and displays them on your monthly calendar view along with all of your upcoming appointments and errands. This app would be much useful to view photos based on a date, since it arranges the images according to the date they were taken and displays them on your monthly calendar view, instead of searching for a picture in the default camera roll. Continue reading “PhotoCal with Event app for iPhone and iPad lets you arrange and view photos in a calendar view”

Amazing Alex now available for Windows Phone 8

Rovio has finally launched the Amazing Alex physics puzzle game for Windows Phone 8 devices. Several games including Temple Run, Gravity Guy 2, 6th Planet, Propel Man, Fling Theory Orcs Must Survive and Drift Mania Championship 2 arrived for Windows Phone 8 devices last week. Continue reading “Amazing Alex now available for Windows Phone 8”

Angry Birds Friends coming soon to Android, iPhone and iPad

Angry Birds Friends soon on Android and iOS

Rovio has announced that Angry Birds Friends would be available soon for Android, iPhone and iPad. Angry Birds Friends was released on Facebook last year. It has new weekly tournaments that would let you win bronze, silver and gold crown on the levels, play new weekly levels and earn power-ups through tournament mode. There are also daily rewards and option to send and receive gifts of power-ups with your friends. You can also share details about your accomplishments with friends. Continue reading “Angry Birds Friends coming soon to Android, iPhone and iPad”

Chrome for Android updated with password and autofill sync

Google Chrome for Android Autofill and Password Sync

Chrome for Android has been updated to version 26 that brings the password and autofill Sync that was available in the Chrome Beta for Android last month. The Password sync would let you sync passwords easily, and the auto fill option lets you fill out forms quickly on a small screen. The new experimental data compression feature from the beta version is also available for the this stable version of Chrome for Android. It is based on SPDY proxy running on Google servers that would improve the page loading. Continue reading “Chrome for Android updated with password and autofill sync”

Firefox for Android updated with better private browsing and support for more devices

Firefox for Android v20 Private Browser

Firefox browser for Android has been updated to version 20. This version brings better private browsing and Per-tab private browsing lets you switch between private and standard tabs within the same browsing session. You can also without closing or changing your current browsing session. This version also brings support for Android devices with 384MB of RAM and QVGA displays. The Firefox for Android version 17 update last November brought support for devices with ARMv6 processors. Continue reading “Firefox for Android updated with better private browsing and support for more devices”

Samsung Galaxy Win with 4.7-inch display, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor goes official in China

Samsung Galaxy Win GT-I8552 China

The Samsung Galaxy Win (GT-I8552) that surfaced recently has gone official in China. It is listed on the Samsung China’s official website. All the specifications matches the leaked specs. It has a 4.7-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) TFT display, run on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with Touchwiz and is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor. It has a 5MP Auto Focus Camera with LED Flash and a 0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera. It has dual SIM support with dual standby and dual SIM Always On feature. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Win with 4.7-inch display, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor goes official in China”

LG Optimus G Pro (L-04E) goes on sale in Japan

LG Optimus G Pro L-04E Japan launch

LG has announced that the LG Optimus G Pro (L-04E) is now on sale in Japan from NTT Docomo. It was announced earlier this year as the part of NTT Docomo’s Spring lineup in the docomo NEXT series. It packs a 5-inch (1920×1080 pixels) Full HD IPS display, powered by 1.7 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor with Adreno 320 GPU and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The Japanese variant is smaller than the International version that was unveiled in February. LG announced recently that they have sold over 500 thousand units of the Optimus G Pro in Korea alone. Continue reading “LG Optimus G Pro (L-04E) goes on sale in Japan”

Twitter updates its mobile apps, Android version goes HOLO

Twitter, the world’s only realtime social network has updated its mobile apps today. It includes a major update for Android and minor updates for Twitter for iPhone and the mobile web app. The main improvement of the Android app is that it has finally went HOLO, the design language that Google has been preaching to third party devs since 4.0 ICS, with blessings from lead designer Matias Duarte. Minor improvements to all the apps is that they get improved cards support with deep linked app links inside the details page.

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Samsung Galaxy Win with 4.7 inch display, quad-core Snapdragon CPU images and specs surface

Samsung Galaxy Win leak

Samsung Galaxy Win (GT-I8552) press images and specifications have surfaced on a Vietnamese retail site mainguyen. The features of the are slightly better than the Galaxy S2 Plus that went on sale in India recently. It is expected to come with a 4.7-inch (800 x 480 Pixels) Super AMOLED Plus capacitive touch screen display and run on Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) with Touchwiz UI and Nature UX. The site listing says that it would be powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 chip with Adreno 203 GPU, but the Vietnamese site tinhte.vn speculates that it might feature a Snapdragon 200 processor. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Win with 4.7 inch display, quad-core Snapdragon CPU images and specs surface”

Viber for Windows Phone 8 gets VOIP calls with HD voice, lock screen notifications and more

Viber for Windows Phone 8 voice calls

Viber, cross platform VOIP (Voice Over IP) app for Windows Phone 8 has been updated to version 2.23.0.0 that brings support for voice calls, Option to pin conversations to your home screen, Lock screen notifications and lots more new features. Viber promises HD sound quality for voice calls that would offer crisp and clear sound. Viber also lets you send free texts including group conversations, share location in messages and also share photos from your phone’s gallery easily. It supports 30 languages. Continue reading “Viber for Windows Phone 8 gets VOIP calls with HD voice, lock screen notifications and more”