Pimp up you phone with the latest mobile apps and games
UCWeb, popular for its mobile internet software and services has announced that the UC Browser has crossed 500 million users globally. Over 300 million UC Browser users are from Android, compared to 100 million in December 2012. It is among leading mobile browsers in India with market share of 32%, reveals StatsCounter data. 500 million user count is based on quarterly active users till March 2014, says UCWeb. Continue reading “UC Browser crosses 500 million users globally”
Chris Lacy, developer of the popular Action Launcher has released Link Bubble, a new browser for Android smartphones and tablets. This lets loads a webpage in the background when you click a link in your current app, so that you can read them once the page is completely loaded. It notifies you when the page is loaded, shows the amount time saved per link and makes sharing links, pushing links to apps like Pocket easy. Continue reading “Link Bubble browser for Android makes opening links in apps easy”
Motorola has updatedits apps for Moto X, Moto G and Droid phones with new features. The new update for the camera app (v3.2) lets users with Moto X, Moto G, or Droid Ultra capture images using volume keys, instead of touching the screen. Motorola has offered 48 updates since the Moto X launch in August, says the company. Continue reading “Motorola Camera now lets you capture images with volume keys, Gallery and Assist gets new features”
It just feels like yesterday, when almost all of us were in denial that a Nokia Android phone could exist, but Nokia has put forward its boldest bet ever, especially at a time when it has been acquired by Microsoft, a company that has been at odds with Google since forever. Anyways, the device was revealed to much excitement and curiosity at the Mobile World Congress event, and eventually arrived in India just few weeks later. We had unboxed the device and also showed you how to root it and get Google Play services and apps on it, but as you might have guessed by now, we were curious to find out more about the device over the course of our usage. So we made a few videos to showcase what we found and learnt, skip past the break to find them.
Google has added new voice commands to Google Search for Android that lets you launch the camera app to take a photo or record a video by speaking respective commands. Google Search already has an option to open apps just by saying “Open Instagram” or “Open Facebook”. With the new “take a photo” or “take a video” commands, Google Search will launch the camera app in the preferred mode. Continue reading “Google Search for Android gets voice actions to launch camera”
Sony has started rolling out the Android 4.4 (KitKat) update for the Xperia Z1, Xperia Z Ultra and the Z1 compact. It started rolling out the Android 4.3 update for the Z Ultra and the Z1 back in December last year, and the Z1 Compact was launched running Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). The Sony Xperia Z2 that was unveiled last month runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) out of the box. The KitKat update brings performance tweaks, lot of under the hood improvements, new skin and new features. Continue reading “Sony starts rolling out Android 4.4 update for Xperia Z Ultra, Xperia Z1 and Z1 Compact”
Microsoft made OneNote for Windows free and launched its first Mac client recently. It also introduced Office Lens for Windows Phone that scans your documents and save it as editable format in OneNote. This uses OneNote’s cloud-based optical character-recognition (OCR) software and the new OneNote Service API to make it a editable text. It also trims, enhances and makes pictures readable. Continue reading “Microsoft launches Office Lens document scanning app for Windows Phone”
OneNote, the note taking application that lives inside the office suite has now been unbundled on Windows and made free for the desktop, like it has been on other platforms and even the Windows Store. Talking of platforms, Microsoft has also just introduced OneNote for Mac, which has been a long standing request from Office for Mac users. The client will work just like the Windows client, with access to the OneDrive cloud, the familiar arrangement of notebooks and all the tools OneNote is known for. Apart from this, Microsoft has also opened up new APIs for OneNote, with which one can develop apps supporting the service and the cloud.
Continue reading “OneNote for Windows goes free, Mac client and new APIs introduced”
Facebook Messenger for iPhone got free voice calling feature in the US and Canada back in February 2013. It rolled out for Android users in Canada in March, it rolled out in the US and in 24 countries in April last year. You can make calls only to Facebook Messenger users on iPhone and Android over 3G or WiFi. It is not available for Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone that was launch recently. The Free call option is grayed out if you can’t call the person. This was first spotted by AndroidOS. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger for Android and iPhone gets free voice calling in India”
SwiftKey keyboard for Android already has personalization options to learn SMS, Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, RSS feed and more. The Beta app has been updated to version 4.5.0.43 to bring support for Evernote and Google+ personalization. It learns from your Evernote archives and public Google+ posts to make the auto predication better. This update also brings new theme selection menu with a preview image of how the them would looks like, better emojis and more. Continue reading “SwiftKey Beta for Android updated with option to learn from Evernote and Google+”
At the MWC 2014 earlier this year, Whatsapp were present and their CEO was just fresh from the 19 billion USD deal with Facebook. At the event, Whatsapp discussed their post Facebook acquisition plans and they also mentioned that they will be introducing VoIP calls in Q2 2014. According to an Italian blog, they were able to get their hands on the latest Whatsapp app with support for voice calls.
Continue reading “This is how Whatsapp Calls will supposedly look like”
Google Search for Android has been updated to version 3.3.11, that finally brings support for cricket, just in time for the upcoming ICC World T20, starting tomorrow in Bangladesh. This lets you get live updates of your favorite teams, just by adding them in the Sports Team list. It offers upcoming fixtures of your favorite teams too. This also had IPL teams. Continue reading “Google Search for Android updated with cricket support”
Google has started rolling out a new Google Play update for Android, that brings option to always require the account password for purchases, option to batch install applications from the my apps section and more minor changes. It also brings option to force update the app to check for the latest version. Continue reading “Google Play v4.6.16 brings require password option for in-app purchases and more”
Nokia has updated its Nokia Refocus app, that now brings support to all Nokia Lumia smartphones running on Windows Phone 8. The app was demoed back at the Nokia event in Abu Dhabi, back in October, and the app was launched in the Windows Phone Store in November. It was launched for PureView smartphones, the Lumia 920, Lumia 925, Lumia 928 and the Lumia 1020 running the Windows Phone 8 Amber update. Continue reading “Nokia Refocus app updated to support all Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphones”
Rdio, popular digital music service has announced they would to acquire Dhingana, one of India’s popular online music streaming service, that stopped the service recently. Dhingana’s team in India would be joining Rdio to extend their musical catalog, that has over 1 million songs in 42 languages and Indian genres. Dhingana founders Snehal Shinde and Swapnil Shinde will join the executive team at Rdio, to expand the service to India as well as other emerging markets. Continue reading “Rdio acquires Dhingana, to launch in India later this year”
