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DxO, the popular benchmarking website for cameras and smartphone cameras had ranked the Sony Xperia Z5 as the smartphone with the best camera. Now, Sony has released an update to the camera app which brings in a new UI and features to help make the best out of the camera.
Just yesterday, we reported the leaked roadmap for the Android 6.0 Marshmallow upgrade path for Samsung phones. In the roadmap, the Galaxy Note5 along with the S6 edge+ was scheduled to receive an update to Marshmallow in December 2015. However, one lucky user has apparently already received the update to Marshmallow on his T-Mobile Note5.
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OnePlus always strives to deliver quick updates for their smartphones to the latest Android version. In the case of Android 6.0 Marshmallow, they have kept mum until now. OnePlus has just announced their plans to bring Marshmallow to their devices.
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Cyanogen are apparently planning big things for the year 2016 as it aims to launch several smartphones in 2016 including a flagship product by partnering with various manufacturers.
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Back in 2012 there were rumors about Facebook working on Snapchat-like app for sending self-destructible timed messages, but it didn’t happen. Last year BlackBerry launched Timed messages feature for BBM that lets users set the time the message should be displayed to other users before it disappears. According to Buzzfeed, Facebook is testing a similar feature for the Facebook Messenger to give an option for the users to have their messages disappear one hour after sending them. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger testing Snapchat-like disappearing messages”
People are quite hesitant to make changes in their lives and changing your smartphone’s OS is one such change that many people prefer not to risk. Firefox has come up with a new developer preview for Android devices which will make it easier for you to decide whether to change your OS or not.
The day that many Xbox One users have been waiting for is finally here. Microsoft has now started rolling out Windows 10 for the console through a staged roll-out.
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Ola recently released Ola Money App for Android that lets you make prepaid mobile recharges and pay your postpaid bills with just one click. It also offers deals on merchants who have partnered with OLA. With the app it aims to compete with the likes of Paytm, FreeCharge and others. OLA Money is used for payments across all of Ola’s services such as taxis, auto rickshaws, food delivery venture (Ola Café) and grocery delivery service Ola Store. Back in August Ola said that is has nearly 20 million customers. Continue reading “Ola Money app released, offers money transfer, bill payments, mobile recharge and more”
Cyanogen apps package also known as C-Apps is basically a set of apps that bring some of the features from Cyanogen OS on phones with CyanogenMod devices.
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Periscope for Android got updated to version 1.3 earlier this week that brought a revamped Global Map feature and option to seek through a replay, now these features are available for iOS users as well in the latest update released today. In Global Map you can now zoom into an area to view more broadcasts, compared to 250 broadcasts earlier, and it also shows replays in the last 24 hours. The Android app also gets pinch to zoom feature for broadcasts. Continue reading “Periscope for Android and iOS updated with revamped Global Map, seek through in replays and more”
Yahoo has finally updated its Flickr app for iOS to support new 3D Touch feature in the iPhone 6s and the 6s Plus. Now you can preview photos, people, notifications and more with a light press of the screen. You can use 3D Touch to see a preview by light press, then move your finger left/right to preview neighboring photos. You can press harder to pop to full-screen. Continue reading “Flickr for iOS gets 3D Touch support, Quick Actions and more”
WhatsApp has added new Starred messages feature in the latest beta version of the Android app. This lets you star a message, which is similar to bookmarking, so that you can find it easily later. To star a message, you need to tap and hold on a message in a chat. This feature was released for iPhone last month. This was first reported by Android Police on Tuesday. Continue reading “WhatsApp for Android gets Starred messages”
Truecaller has introduced new transliteration feature that activates real-time Hindi transliteration of the caller ID function. To activate this new feature, you need to go to settings and enable the Hindi language option. Once enabled, your Next call will be available in Hindi. This feature is currently available only for Android devices that run Truecaller version 6.10 and above. Continue reading “Truecaller for Android gets Hindi Caller ID support”
Twitter has changed star icon for favorites to a heart, which is now called likes. Twitter’s Periscope uses hearts since the launch, so it is now bringing it to Twitter and Vine. Continue reading “Twitter rebrands favorites as likes, replaces stars with hearts for web and mobile apps”
Firefox has updated its Android app to version 42 that brings several new features, including Tracking Protection for Private Browsing. This feature is also available for Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux that actively blocks content like ads, analytics trackers and social share buttons that may record your behavior without your knowledge across sites. It won’t remember any history, but downloaded files and new bookmarks will be saved in your device. Continue reading “Firefox 42 for Android brings Tracking Protection for Private Browsing”
