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Nokia has announced that they have started rolling out the most expected Amber update for their Lumia devices running on Windows Phone 8. This would bring lot of new features including improved camera, Nokia Smart Camera, Nokia Glance Screen with double-tap to unlock, FM Radio, Flip to silence and lots more new features. Nokia announced the Amber update back in May at the 925 launch event. Continue reading “Nokia Lumia Amber update starts for Windows Phone 8 devices”
Nokia introduced the Pro Camera app with Lumia 1020 that brought option to control various features for users who want complete control over the camera. Now Nokia has announced that the app is available for the other flagship Lumia smartphones, the Lumia 920, 925 and 928. Since all these phones have Optical image Stabilisation (OIS) and better low light performance, manual control offer freedom for users to capture excellent images. Continue reading “Nokia Pro Camera now available for Lumia 920, 925 and 928”
PopCap games has finally released the Plants vs. Zombies 2 for iPhone and iPad. The game was supposed to be released on July 18th, but it was delayed. The sequel lets you join Crazy Dave on a crazy adventure to destroy zombies with an army of powerful new plants, super charge them with Plant Food and power up your defenses with amazing new ways to protect your brain. Continue reading “Plants vs. Zombies 2 for iPhone and iPad released”
Google+ for Android to get a major update to version 4.1 that would bring lot of new features including option to switch between Google+ accounts, Google apps admin support, Google Drive support to store photos and video, better location sharing and more. From this version Messenger support would be removed since Google Hangouts takes care of messaging and video calls. It also brings the most requested pull-to-refresh. Continue reading “Google+ v4.1 for Android to bring Drive support, improved location sharing and more”
3D Home for Android is a new 3D home screen launcher. This offers 3D experience including customization, different menu interface, scroll-able dock and lots more. Wish they could have added more customizable options, other this is a decent free launcher. It works on devices running on Android 4.0 ICS and later and 1GB of RAM is recommended. Continue reading “3D Home is a home screen launcher for Android”
Nimbuzz Messenger for Android has received a major update to version 2.6 that brings a new User Interface and features including Easy Swipe between chat screens, new emoticons, richer user profiles, notification center and a redesigned dialer. Nimbuzz has seen tremendous success on Android and with this product revamp, we are extremely confident that we will be able to add greater value to our users in their daily lives, said Vikas Saxena, CEO of Nimbuzz. Continue reading “Nimbuzz Messenger 2.6 for Android gets new UI and features”
SwiftKey released v4.2 Cloud Beta few weeks back with backup and sync and trending phrases feature. Now the company has released an update to the app that brings lot of improvements and bug fixes. These fixes includes better responsiveness for flow predictions, crash fixes in cloud preference and Gmail personalization and lots more. Even though there are lot of fixes, it also has some known issues, which would eventually be fixed in the final release. Continue reading “SwiftKey Cloud Beta updated with bug fixes and improvements”
Meru Cabs recently launched dedicated apps for Android and iPhone. The company has officially announced the official launch of the apps. Apart from instant cab bookings on the go these apps also offer unique, first of its kind service called ‘ICE Alert’ that would help the consumers be prepared for emergencies to alert their trusted ones immediately at the press of a button. Continue reading “Meru Cabs for Android and iPhone launched officially”
Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.2.2 update for the Galaxy Grand Duos (GT-I9082) starting from Russia. The phone was announced in December last year running Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean). It was launched in India back in January. The Android 4.2.2 update for the Grand Duos was leaked recently. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos Android 4.2.2 update starts rolling out”
When HTC launched its flagship, HTC One, it introduced some software features like Blinkfeed and Video Highlights along with HTC Sense 5.0. With the latest Android 4.2.2 update for HTC One X+, it seems that HTC is not going to keep its new software features exclusive to the One. In the new Android 4.2.2 OTA update for HTC One X+, gets BlinkFeed, new lock screen and more that were available for the HTC One in the latest update.
Continue reading “HTC One X+ Android 4.2.2 OTA update starts rolling out”
Google has updated the Play Store app to version 4.3.10 that brings new features including recently updated section, combined updated notifications and lots more. This update also includes some UI tweaks to Play Books, Movies & TV and more. These are just minor changes, but the recently updated section would be more useful if you have lot of apps. The combined update notifications would save lot of space in the notification bar. Continue reading “Google Play Store for Android v4.3.10 update brings new features”
Here’s a surprise. Nokia has added one of the most wanted features to Windows Phone through a simple Extras+info update on Lumia devices running on the Amber update. It was previously revealed that Microsoft had added hooks to its Windows Phone GDR2 release for developers to latch on, and those were of the call and SMS blocking features that didn’t exist before. While we were hoping for some third party developer to do it, Nokia itself has come to the fore and added these much requested features to Windows Phone, which is much welcome. Yet another indication that Nokia is doing the work for Microsoft when it should be the other way in an ideal world.
Continue reading “Call and SMS blocking now available on Nokia Lumia Windows Phones running Amber”
Gameloft has started rolling out a new version 1.1 update for the Gangstar Vegas, an open-world action game. This update is called Mojave Apocalypse, that brings eleven new missions with three new missions that has a new type of challenge, jobs, and races. This update also brings three new vehicles, new battle gear for Jason and a new three-tier weapon. Gangstar Vegas for iOS and Android was released back in June. Continue reading “Gangstar Vegas v1.1 update for iPhone and iPad brings new missions, vehicles and more”
The Bing AppEx team had released its apps in preparation for the launch on Windows 8 last year, but they were nowhere to be seen on Windows Phone 8 which actually launched after Windows 8. It has been thus, a great example of how Microsoft, as a company, doesn’t work like a single entity. That has slightly changed now, with the team releasing their apps for Windows Phone 8. Following the latest update to the search app, the Bing apps, which were the only decently designed first party apps on Windows 8 like Bing News, Finance, Sports and Weather are now available on Windows Phone 8.
Continue reading “Bing apps for Finance, News, Sports and Weather now available on Windows Phone”
Instagram for Android and iPhone got a huge update back in June that brought video support. Last month Instagram for iPhone was updated with landscape mode. Now version 4.1 update for both the Android and iPhone brings option to import your videos from the phone library, just like you do for photos. You get a new library icon next to the video to import videos, however it supports only selected video formats. This update also brings video recording support for ICS devices and automatic straightening for iPhone that corrects the photo when you tap the new Straighten icon. The straightening tool also includes a slider to rotate and adjust any photo. Continue reading “Instagram v4.1 for Android and iPhone brings option to import video from library”
