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Google Hangouts 4.0 for Android brings material design UI, new features and improvements

Google Hangouts 4.0 for Android

Google has finally started rolling out Hangouts 4.0 for Android after it was leaked in June. It brings material design UI, improved message delivery speed and new features such as option to use Hangouts on Android Wear to send a Hangouts message using your smartwatch, outbound caller ID that lets you use your verified number as Caller ID so your friends know who is calling and more. It also brings back custom status messages. Continue reading “Google Hangouts 4.0 for Android brings material design UI, new features and improvements”

Google Maps for iOS receives new Night Mode feature

Google has introduced a new feature for Google Maps on iOS. The new feature is called Night Mode and it will make navigation a whole lot less strenuous on the eyes when people are driving at night or when its dark.

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Microsoft Translator for Android, iOS, Apple Watch and Android Wear released

Microsoft Translator for Android and Android Wear

Microsoft has released Translator app for Android, Android Wear, iOS devices and Apple Watch. The app is mainly for smartwatches since the Android and iOS apps have a simple layout. It lets you translate instantly in 50 languages using voice or text. You can translate even faster by pinning your most commonly used translations and settings to your watch screen for easy access, and browse your history of recently used phrases, said the company. It has option to select English accents spoken in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. Continue reading “Microsoft Translator for Android, iOS, Apple Watch and Android Wear released”

New job listing suggests that Apple might be looking forward to expanding its apps and service beyond iOS and into Android territory

A new listing has popped up on Apple’s website that gives us an insight on the company’s plans to expand to the Android territory as well. The job listing states “looking for engineers to help Apple bring exciting new mobile products to the Android platform.”

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HTC One M9 will receive update to Android 5.1 Lollipop today in EMEA Region

The HTC One M9 has already started receiving the update to Android 5.1 Lollipop in USA and now starting from today, consumers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) will also start receiving the update.

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ES File Explorer gets updated to v4.0 – Brings new material design

ES File Explorer is a nice and reliable file manager for Android but its interface was something that not many people liked. However the new update to v4.0 brings about the Material Design UI to the application.

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Twitter for web and Android gets support for Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil

Twitter has added support for four new languages – Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil for the web and Android. This joins Hindi and Bengali that were added more than a year back. This makes Twitter more accessible to Indians across the country. To change the language on Twitter for web, you can change to the particular language in the drop down menu on the profile from the settings. Continue reading “Twitter for web and Android gets support for Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil”

Instagram rolling out Quick Edit feature for Android

Instagram is now rolling out a new feature across Android smartphones called Quick Edit. The feature will be available to users who update or install v7.3.0 of the application.

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Microsoft Arrow launcher for Android released in private beta

Microsoft has started testing its upcoming Arrow launcher in private beta. It has three screens – People, Apps and Notes & Reminders. People screen shows recent and Frequent contacts, a dialer on the top and a menu to open contacts app. The Apps screen shows recent and frequent apps. The Notes & Reminders screen lets you add notes and add a reminder for them. All the screen have a row in the bottom for user-selected quick access apps.

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YouTube app gets three new tabs, full-screen playback for vertical videos

YouTube for Android v10.28.59

Google has updated YouTube mobile apps that adds three new tabs – Home, Subscriptions and Account to offer even better mobile experience for the users. The update also adds support to play vertical videos in full screen. This will be useful for videos shot in vertical mode such as re-uploads of periscope videos. Continue reading “YouTube app gets three new tabs, full-screen playback for vertical videos”

Google Spotlight Stories 360-degree movies app released for iPhone

Google Spotlight Stories for iPhone

Google has released Spotlight Stories 360-degree movies app for iPhone. This was originally developed by Motorola Mobility’s Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP) and was first introduced with Motorola Moto X as Spotlight Player back in 2013. It was released for Android in May. It has 360-degree movies created by critically-acclaimed filmmakers that offer 3D and 2D animation, full-sphere surround sound, and uses phone’s sensor fusion techniques. Continue reading “Google Spotlight Stories 360-degree movies app released for iPhone”

Skype 5.6 for Android brings refreshed look to aid usability

Skype 5.6 for Android

Skype for Android has been updated to version 5.6 that brings a refreshed look. It now lets you see more chats on the Recent tab that allows you to catch up on more conversations, especially when you have multiple chats going at the same time. You can now view friends who are online, on all the screen with unified avatars that is also now rounded. Chat bubbles now have new color. This gives chats more clarity, says Skype.

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Lenovo S60 now receiving update to Android 5.0 Lollipop

The Lenovo S60 was announced earlier this year and was released in the Indian market during May 2015. Despite being released quite recently, the smartphone still shipped with Android 4.4 KitKat out of the box. But now, the update to Android 5.0 Lollipop has begun seeding on units of the S60 already.

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Adobe Lightroom Mobile v1.2 now available on Android

Adobe has just announced the latest version 1.2 of its Lightroom Mobile app for Android smartphones and tablets. The update brings about a lot of new features, improvements as well as bug fixes.

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Smartspends expense manager launched for Android

Smartspends for Android

Times Internet has launched Smartspends, an app that lets you manage your expenses. It uses intelligent algorithms on the spend feed that is saved in the text inbox of the phone and automatically organizes all the spends into different categories viz. travel, eating out, entertainment etc. This gives a complete picture of the user’s spends in one single place. Continue reading “Smartspends expense manager launched for Android”