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Back in August HERE announced its partnership with Samsung to launch HERE (beta) exclusively for the Samsung Galaxy devices. Now the app is available for Samsung smartphones. It has offline turn-by-turn navigation, live traffic info, location sharing and more features that are available for the Windows Phone app. Continue reading “HERE Maps Beta for Android now available for Samsung smartphones”
Samsung Gear S Tizen-based smartwatch has got the first web browser – Opera Mini. The Samsung Gear S is the company’s latest smartwatch that can also makes calls independently. The Opera Mini on Gear S lets you enjoy web browsing from your wrist, and includes many finger-friendly features. HERE recently partnered with Samsung to release HERE Maps for the Gear S. Continue reading “Opera Mini arrives for Samsung Gear S smartwatch”
Months after updating the Play Store with Material Design UI, Google has updated the Google Play Newsstand app with the new Material Design user interface. This brings bigger images, more contextual headers and smoother transitions. It has more than 2,000 free and paid, full length publications. Continue reading “Google Play Newsstand updated with Material Design UI”
Flipboard for Windows Phone that was released as private beta last month is now available for all the Windows Phone 8.1 users with at least 1GB of RAM. Flipboard for Windows Phone was announced last year, and it took more than year to release. The design is similar to other platforms, it lets you subscribe to different sources of curated content including social networks like Facebook and Twitter. You can swipe through all the news, articles, and updates. Continue reading “Flipboard app finally arrives for Windows Phone”
Asus has announced that it has started rolling out Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) update for the ZenFone 4 (A400CG), ZenFone 5 (A500/A501CG) and ZenFone 6 (A600/A601CG) smartphones. In India the update is now rolling out for the Zenfone 4 (A400CG) smartphone. The Zenfone 4 (A450CG) that went on sale in India recently runs on Android KitKat out of the box. The KitKat update the entire Zenfone series is available in China, Taiwan and other countries. It brings call blocking, video effects or filters, full dual standby with two SIM cards (dual SIM models only) and a special Do Not Disturb mode. Continue reading “Asus Zenfone 4, Zenfone 5 and Zenfone 6 Android 4.4 KitKat update starts rolling out”
Motorola has updated its FM Radio app to version 01.10.0060 that brings support for Bluetooth listening when your Motorola smartphone is paired with a Bluetooth headset or a speaker. Since Motorola smartphones doesn’t come with an internal antenna for FM, your headset acts as the antenna for FM, so it must be plugged in even if you are listening to FM via Bluetooth. Once paired, you can press the cast button to play FM over Bluetooth.
Motorola launched the new Moto G (2nd Gen) in India earlier this month running on the latest Android 4.4.4 (KitKat). Motorola has pushed out a minor software update for the smartphone in several countries, including India. According to the official changelog, the update replaces the default launcher with the Google Now launcher and also includes some bug fixes. According to XDA users, the update also changes the Powered by Android Bootimage with a new design and the has some improvements in the auto brightness. Continue reading “New Moto G gets a new software update, makes Google Now Launcher default”
Xolo has released beta version of KitKat update for the Q1200, Q900S and A500 Club smartphones. After offering KitKat updates for several smartphones over a period of about two months, the company promised to offer update for Q1200, Q900s, A500 Club, A600 and A550s IPS smartphones. These smartphones were released few months back running Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Continue reading “Xolo Q1200, Q900S and A500 Club get Android 4.4 KitKat beta update”
Amazon Appstore is back with its new free apps offer. Today the company has announced that it would offer 27 paid Android apps worth over $135 for free on the Amazon AppStore starting Thursday, 25th September to Saturday, 27th September 2014.. Last month the company offered 29 apps worth $100 for free for two days. This time the list is new, that includes Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode II , OfficeSuite Professional 7, Swype Keyboard and more. Continue reading “Amazon Appstore offers $135 worth free apps for limited period”
Gameloft has released Asphalt Overdrive, the company’s first spinoff in the Asphalt series for Android, iPhone and iPad. The Windows Phone version is expected to release soon. This is an endless racer and has portrait orientation, similar to other arcade games from Gameloft.. It brings new control schemes that lets you swipe to change the lanes. This lets you smash other cars off the road to perform takedowns, outrun the cops, compete with your friends, challenge bosses, avoid obstacles, perform crazy stunts and much more. Continue reading “Asphalt Overdrive for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone released”
Gameloft unveiled the Asphalt Overdrive back in June at the E3, today the company has announced that it would launch for Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms this Thursday, September 25th. It’s the first spinoff in the Asphalt series that is set in a “new ’80s” version of California. Continue reading “Asphalt Overdrive for Android, iOS and Windows Phone launching on September 25th”
Microsoft has updated the Skype app for iPhone to version 5.5 that brings support for interactive notifications for the users running the new iOS 8. The interactive notifications lets you answer voice and videos calls and open text in skype directly from the lock screen and the notification center. You can swipe left from the lock screen to reveal the notification options and swipe down from the notification center to reveal these options. You have to enable interactive notifications for Skype from Settings -> Notifications. Continue reading “Skype 5.5 for iPhone brings interactive notifications for iOS 8”
ICICI Bank has launched four new mobile apps for Android and iOS platforms. These apps include, ICICI Store, Insta Banking, Video Banking and mPassbook. These would let you initiate a transaction before visiting a branch, connect with a service executive over video call and view their transactions over the last 30 days on mobile phones. It aims to offer an enhanced banking experience for its customers with these new apps. Continue reading “ICICI Bank launches four new apps for Android and iOS”
Pebble, the popular E-ink Smartwatch has received a major update to version 2.5 that finally brings support for emojis, so if you receive an emoji in a message, your Pebble smartwatch will display it perfectly. The update also adds compass support that would let you access apps with compass and wayfinding features, introduces iOS 8 compatibility and lets you dismiss an alert from your Pebble, so that it will clear it from iOS Notification Center as well. This feature would be available for Android users soon, says Pebble. Continue reading “Pebble 2.5 firmware update brings emojis, iOS 8 compatibility and more”
Amazon has updated its Kindle app for iPhone and iPad to version 4.5 that brings several new features including a new Kindle Today Widget for iOS 8 users that makes reading multiple books easier.The update also brings ability to copy passages from books and paste into text messages, e-mail or other apps, new convenient translation feature, iOS 8 support, bug fixes, and stability improvements. Check out the official changelog below.
Continue reading “Kindle 4.5 for iOS brings Kindle Today Widget for iOS 8, Copy/Paste and more”
