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Google has updated its Google News & Weather app for Android to version 2.2 that brings several new features. The latest update includes, new weather graphs, searchable news, dark color theme, curated stories from publishers and more. You can check out the complete changelog below. Continue reading “Google News & Weather for Android updated with weather graphs, dark theme and more”
Amazon Appstore is back with another free apps offer, this time for Black Friday. The company has announced that it would offer 39 paid Android apps and games worth over $130 for free on the Amazon AppStore only for this Friday, 28th November. Last month the company offered 39 apps worth $115 for free . This time it offers some interesting apps like, WiFi File Explorer PRO, MyBackup Pro and games like Sonic Jump, Angry Birds Seasons HD, Shredder Chess and more. Continue reading “Amazon Appstore offers over $130 worth apps and games for free for Black Friday”
Opera has launched Opera Mini 8 beta for Android that brings new user interface similar to the Opera Mini browser for Android. This is a lightweight browser that runs on Android 2.3 and higher. It has all the features present in the Opera Mini for Android, including data-saving compression, bookmarks, Speed Dial folders, private tabs and bookmark syncing. Continue reading “Opera launches Opera Mini 8 beta for Android”
Facebook released Room, an anonymous chat app for iPhone last month in the US, UK and few other English speaking countries. The app developed by Facebook Creative Labs team is now available for users in India. It has also been updated with support for three new languages – Spanish, French and German. The app lets you create rooms for the things you’re into, and invite others. You can add text, photos, videos and more.You can also add a cover photo, change colors, create custom pinned messages, customize member permissions, and more. Continue reading “Facebook Rooms anonymous app for iPhone now available in India”
Motorola has updated its Motorola Camera and Motorola Gallery apps with Material Design UI, soon after it sstarted rolling out Android 5.0 (Lollipop) updates for the new Moto X and new Moto G smartphones. Continue reading “Motorola Camera and Gallery apps updated with Material Design UI and new features”
Electronic Arts has announced Need for Speed No Limits, the company’s upcoming game for mobile in the Need for Speed franchise. The Need for Speed Most Wanted game was launched back in October 2012. The game is being developed by Firemonkeys, the studio behind Real Racing 3 and would release in 2015. It promises fast driving and incredible graphics. Continue reading “Need for Speed No Limits coming to Android, iPhone and iPad in 2015”
Japan’s LINE Corporation has launched LINE Trio, a new puzzle game for Android and iOS platforms. In this game you join detective Brown on an adventure to return the masterpieces stolen from the LINE gallery by the devious Phantom Thief X. Along with his assistant Romeo, Detective Brown will solve an increasingly difficult series of puzzles to clear the stages while gathering painting fragments along the way. Continue reading “LINE Trio puzzle game launched for Android and iPhone”
Rightware, popular for its benchmark tools like Basemark has launched Basemark ES 3.0 benchmarking software for mobile devices with new OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics API, which is available in the latest Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. This enables unprecedented graphical fidelity in graphically rich apps such as games and navigation. Continue reading “Rightware launches Basemark ES 3.0 with OpenGL ES 3.0 support”
Nokia launched the Z Launcher for Android in Beta back in June earlier this year and it has received several updated in the past few months after the launch. Today at the Slush technology conference in Helsinki, Nokia Technologies’s Head of Products Sebastian Nyström launched the Nokia N1 tablet and also announced that the Nokia Z Launcher Beta is available from Google Play Store. Continue reading “Nokia Z Launcher Beta for Android now available on Google Play”
Rovio launched Angry Birds Go! a kart racing game, different from other Angry Birds games in December last year. The games has crossed 100 million downloads across all the platforms and now stands at 107 million downloads. Continue reading “Angry Birds Go! crosses 100 million downloads, gets new team multiplayer”
Gaana music app for Android has been updated to version 5.0 that brings a new dark theme, Playlists of the Hour that’ll offer professionally programmed playlists that change every few hours at the top of Gaana, starting from the third time a user opens Gaana. The company has partnered with Paytm that enables users earn Rs. 20 talk time through referral program for each friend who joins via Facebook. You can also invite friends through Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and email, and earn up to Rs. 100 talktime. Continue reading “Gaana 5.0 for Android brings dark theme, playlists of the hour and referral program to earn talk time”
CPU-Z was released for Android back in June last year. Since then the app has been updated with new features and support for SoCs from several manufacturers. Few months back the app got improved support for Intel SoCs, option to view OpenGL ES version. Now the app has been updated to version 1.09 that brings improved support for processors based on big.LITTLE technology, adds new HiSilicon Kirin 920, Exynos 5433, Snapdragon 815 (could be upcoming chip) and SoCs, shows Adreno GPU clock speed and more.
YouTube has introduced YouTube Music Key, the company’s new subscription service for web, Android and iOS that lets you watch and listen to music without ads, in the background or offline. This was leaked back in August. Continue reading “YouTube introduces Music Key subscription service for Android, iOS and web”
Google has updated its keyboard app to version 4.0.2 that adds two new Material Design themes, improved design for suggestions and corrections and more. This adds Material dark and Material light Material Design themes in addition to existing Holo White and Holo Blue themes. You can head to settings and go to themes to select new themes. Continue reading “Google Keyboard 4.0 brings two new Material Design themes”
Google removed messaging app on Nexus devices and released an updated Hangouts app that combines SMS and Hangouts conversation. Now Google has released a separate messaging app called Messenger instead of using Hangouts as the messaging app. It can handle both SMS and MMS and lets you share pictures and videos from the chat dialog, search contacts and conversations, block SMSs, send audio messages, send emjios and more. Continue reading “Google releases standalone Messenger app for Android”
