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Samsung introduced a new feature named ‘Flow’ at its annual developer conference here in San Francisco. The latest software from the South Korean giant takes on Apple’s Continuity feature that was released a couple of months ago. Continue reading “Samsung announces ‘Flow’ – a feature similar to Apple’s Continuity”
LINE Corporation has launched LINE Maps for Indoor for Android. This lets users find location in complicated indoor areas, such as department stores, shopping malls and more places. This app initially offers indoor maps of 37 facilities in the Tokyo, Japan and is available in five languages that includes, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), English, Japanese and Korean. Continue reading “LINE launches LINE Maps for Indoor for Android”
Gionee has released the Android 4.4 (KitKat) update for its Elife E3 smartphone in India. Along with the Android 4.4′s features such as wireless printing, support for emojis and more, this update brings a new homescreen layout, Touchpal, Kingsoft Office and more, similar to other smartphones. It has also added nine Indian languages. Gionee released KitKat update for its M2 smartphone back in September. Continue reading “Gionee Elife E3 gets Android 4.4 KitKat update, brings support for 9 Indian languages”
HERE Maps for Android was launched as beta last month. The app has been updated to version 1.0.220 that brings support for Android 5.0 (Lollipop). This update also brings fixes to downloaded voice files that will not be cleared if the phone’s cache is wiped using a cleaner, as it promised. If you lost them during cleaning, you will have to re-download any non-English voices. Continue reading “HERE Maps Beta gets Android 5.0 Lollipop support, bug fixes and improvements”
Opera has updated the Opera Mini browser for the iPhone and iPad to version 9.0 that brings new video boost feature that brings down video buffering time. This uses Rocket Optimizer engine from Opera’s Skyfire that it acquired last year to reduce the size of video data, thus saving time and also the data. Continue reading “Opera Mini 9 for iPhone and iPad brings video boost to reduce buffering”
When it first came out, WhatsApp was being dubbed as the cross-platform sibling of BlackBerry Messenger but unlike the latter, WhatsApp didn’t show you when your message had been read. However that has all changed with WhatsApp now displaying 2 blue ticks when your message has been read. Continue reading “WhatsApp blue check marks mean your message has been read”
Flipkart, India’s e-commerce giant has launched its app for Android Wear platform. This lets users receive push notifications from Flipkart app pushed to the smartwatch and viewing Flipkart wishlist, but the company plans to include accessing order tracking related information, price drop notification and personalized offer notification for the Android Wear app soon. Flipkart becomes the first e-commerce website in the country to launch Android Wear app. Continue reading “Flipkart launches Android Wear app”
Details about Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for IMAP, POP3 email accounts like Yahoo and Outlook surfaced couple of weeks back. Even a promo video of the new Gmail app showed up. Now Android Police has got hold of the APK of the Gmail 5.0 app that brings all these new features, including support for Exchange accounts. Continue reading “Gmail 5.0 for Android with support for Exchange and other email accounts now available”
BlackBerry has rolled out an update for its BBM app on BlackBerry 10, Android and iPhone that gets new privacy features such as Timed Messages feature that lets you set a timer to control how long messages and pictures you share with contacts can be viewed and Message retraction feature that lets you cancel the message in case if you had sent it to the wrong person. Both these features were rolled out for limited beta users on Android and BlackBerry 10. Continue reading “BBM for BlackBerry 10, Android and iPhone gets Timed Messages, Message Retraction and more”
Google Camera app version 2.4.008 that was present in the Android Lollipop Developer Preview has Material design elements. Today Google has updated the Google Camera app to version 2.4.023 on the Play Store that brings the same material design elements to the app. This update also brings compatibility with Android 5.0 (Lollipop) that would roll out for Nexus devices in coming weeks and includes some improvements and bug fixes. Continue reading “Google Camera updated with Material Design, Android 5.0 Lollipop compatibility”
Amazon Appstore is back with another free apps offer. Today the company has announced that it would offer 39 paid Android apps and games worth over $115 for free on the Amazon AppStore starting Thursday, 30th October to Saturday, 1st November 2014. Last month the company offered 27 apps worth $135 for free . This time it offers some interesting apps like, Endomondo Sports Tracker PRO, Plex and games like Fruit Ninja, World of Goo, Plants vs. Zombies, Sonic Hedgehog 4 Episode I and more. Continue reading “Amazon Appstore offers over $115 worth apps and games for free for limited period”
Rovio, creators of popular Angry Birds game has launched Angry Birds Transformers for Android, couple of after it was launched for iOS, as it promised. This has a different gameplay, compared to other Angry Birds themed games. It has Autobirds, brave band of heroes that features Red as Optimus Prime, Chuck as Bumblebee and more. These have lasers and turn into cars. The Autobirds can’t save Piggy Island on their own – to stop the EggBots they’ll need to join forces with their arch rivals the Deceptihogs. Continue reading “Angry Birds Transformers now available for Android”
Developers of Truecaller Caller ID app has launched Truedialer, a smart dialer app for Android. It was launched for Windows Phone 8 few months back, it recently got updated with real-time Caller ID features for Windows Phone 8.1 users. It replaces the standard smartphone dialer with a new dialer that offers relevant information about contacts such as name, profile photo and more before placing a caller, since this has Truecaller technology built into the app. This requires data connection, similar to the Truecaller app. Continue reading “Truecaller launches Truedialer, a smart dialer app for Android”
Sony introduced the Xperia Z3 series that includes, Sony Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact and the Z3 Tablet Compact devices at the IFA 2014 last month. At that time the company announced PS4 Remote Play capabilities for these devices that lets you use the phone as a remote screen to connect to and control your games on PS4. Today it has officially released the PS4 Remote Play app on Google Play. Continue reading “Sony releases PS4 Remote Play app for Remote Play capabilities on Xperia Z3 series”
Futuremark has released PCMark benchmarking tool for Android. It has Work benchmark that lets you measure both performance and battery life. It also shows you how your device’s CPU clock frequency, CPU average usage, temperature and battery charge level changed while the benchmark was running. The app is 23 MB, and the Work benchmark is a 400 MB download, installed when you first run the app. More benchmarks will be added over time, says the company.
