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Rockstar Mobile Sale: GTA San Andreas at $3.99, GTA III and Vice City at $2.99

GTA San Andreas

Rockstar Games have started their discounted sale to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It offers all the three GTA games for Android, iPhone and iPad at a discounted price. These games include, Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Both the Grand Theft Auto III and the GTA Vice City are available for $2.99 each, while the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is available for $3.99. Continue reading “Rockstar Mobile Sale: GTA San Andreas at $3.99, GTA III and Vice City at $2.99”

SwiftKey for Android finally gets Material Design themes

SwiftKey Material Design Themes

Months after launching its own store called SwiftKey Store for themes, SwiftKey has finally released two new themes based on Google’s Material Design for its Android Keyboard. These two premium themes are called Material Dark and Material Light. These are inspired from the Material Themed Android L keyboard, but it has own unique SwiftKey touch, says the company. Continue reading “SwiftKey for Android finally gets Material Design themes”

Facebook Rooms anonymous app released for iPhone

Facebook Rooms

After Paper, Slingshot and Mention, Facebook has released Room, an anonymous chat app for iPhone developed by Facebook Creative Labs team. As the name suggests, it’s a chat room app that was popular a decade back. It lets you create rooms for the things you’re into, and invite others. You can add text, photos, videos and more. Continue reading “Facebook Rooms anonymous app released for iPhone”

Rovio’s RETRY game released for Android and global iOS users

Rovio RETRY

Angry Birds creator Rovio released a new game called RETRY, an 8-bit game similar to the Flappy Bird back in May for limited iOS users. Now the game is available for iOS users globally and is also available for Android users. In this game you fly through treacherous obstacles, and earn stars to unlock new levels. This is the first game to be released by Rovio Entertainment’s experimental publishing arm, Rovio LVL11. Continue reading “Rovio’s RETRY game released for Android and global iOS users”

Gmail 5.0 for Android to support Yahoo, Outlook and other email accounts

Gmail 5.0 for Android leak

Google is planning to release Gmail v5.0 for Android with support for all other email accounts like Yahoo and Outlook, a leaked promo video reveals. You can switch between either accounts by a simple swipe or by touching the account drop down, reveals the video. The app has material design, which is obvious since the upcoming Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update with Material Design UI is around the corner.  This has rounded avatars, refreshed iconography and more. Continue reading “Gmail 5.0 for Android to support Yahoo, Outlook and other email accounts”

BBM gets ephemeral messaging with new Timed Messages feature

BBM Timed Messages

BlackBerry has introduced new Timed Messages feature in BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) that lets you set a  timer to control how long messages and pictures you share with contacts can be viewed. There have been several ephemeral messaging apps after Snapchat. Recently LINE messenger got a similar feature called Hidden Chat. Microsoft even released an app for ephemeral messaging called WindUp for Windows Phone.

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Google Keyboard v3.2 update adds 8 languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and more

Google Keyboard v3.2

Google has updated its keyboard app to version 3.2 that adds several languages and brings fixes. It adds 8 additional languages including, Bengali (India), Hindi (Compact), Kannada (India), Malayalam (India), Marathi (India), Tamil (India), Tamil (Singapore), and Telugu (India). The brings new organization for the settings screen that has a separate menu for languages, appearance and layout, multilingual options and more. Continue reading “Google Keyboard v3.2 update adds 8 languages including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and more”

LINE Messenger finally released for iPad

LINE Messenger for iPad

LINE Corporation has finally released its first iPad app for LINE Messenger. You can login with your registered email and password to login, but you can create an account using the app yet. You can chat, send stickers, images, videos, voice messages and more easily with the app. Some features of the smartphone version of LINE, such as voice and video calls, the Sticker Shop, and the Timeline are not supported. Continue reading “LINE Messenger finally released for iPad”

Angry Birds Transformers for iPhone and iPad now available for Download

Angry Birds Transformers

Rovio, creators of popular Angry Birds game has launched Angry Birds Transformers for the iPhone and iPad, a day earlier than expected. The game was announced back in June. It would launch for the Android platform on 30th October. 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.

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Redmi 1S v45 OTA update fixes heating issues, improves RAM management for Indian users

Redmi 1s_fonearena-001

Xiaomi has finally rolled out an update for Indian users that fixes several issues, including heating issues with improved thermal control algorithm to regulate temperature, improved RAM availability in MIUI  to prevent background apps getting killed , better UI performance by fixing issues such as frame rate drops and UI lag when performing intensive tasks like gaming. Continue reading “Redmi 1S v45 OTA update fixes heating issues, improves RAM management for Indian users”

Official IRCTC app released for Android

IRCTC Connect for Android

IRCTC has finally launched the official app for Android called IRCTC Connect. Last year IRCTC app was launched for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 devices developed in partnership with Microsoft and it was launched by BlackBerry for BlackBerry 10 smartphones back in August. Similar to the app in other platforms, it lets you book tickets, make PNR enquiries, check booking and cancellation histories and more. Continue reading “Official IRCTC app released for Android”

HTC One M8 v3.28.401.6 update with Eye experience starts rolling out in Europe

HTC One M8 v3.28.401.6 update

HTC unveiled the Desire EYE smartphone with a new Eye experience yesterday. It promised to bring the Eye experience to other HTC smartphones, including the company’s current flagship, HTC One (M8). Now the company has started rolling out the update for the HTC One M8 smartphone. The Eye experience brings Face Tracking, Screen Share, Split Capture, Face Fusion, Live Makeup, Auto Selfie, Voice Selfie, Photo Booth, Crop Me In and more. Continue reading “HTC One M8 v3.28.401.6 update with Eye experience starts rolling out in Europe”

SwiftKey 5.1 Beta for Android adds 13 new Indian languages

SwiftKey 5.1 Beta for Android

SwitKey has finally released a new beta version of the Android app after a long time, after they have made it free. The first v5.1 Beta version adds 13 new Indian languages including, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Nepali and Sinhala (Indo-Aryan language family). SwitKey already supports Hindi and Hinglish. Continue reading “SwiftKey 5.1 Beta for Android adds 13 new Indian languages”

Cars: Fast as Lightning released for Android, iPhone and iPad

Cars Fast as Lightning

Gameloft unveiled Cars: Fast As Lightning a dual-genre racing and simulation game at the E3 2014 back in June. Now the game is available for download for Android and iOS platforms and would be available for Windows Phone soon. The game is inspired by Disney Pixar’s popular “Cars” animated movie franchise. It offers unique storytelling and the official voice of Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson).
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HTC Zoe 1.0 released for Android, coming to iOS later this year

HTC Zoe 1.0 for Android

HTC released Zoe (Beta) for select Android smartphones running Android 4.4 on Google Play back in August. The Zoe app is out of Beta and is available for more Android smartphones. The latest update brings new design and option to capture Zoes by selecting different lengths. Continue reading “HTC Zoe 1.0 released for Android, coming to iOS later this year”