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Rockstar Mobile Sale: GTA III, Vice City, Chinatown Wars at $2.99 & Max Payne at $1.99 for limited period

Rockstar Mobile Sale for Android and iOS

Rockstar Games have started their discounted sale that offers four games for Android, iPhone and iPad at a discounted price. These games include, Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Max Payne. All the GTA games are available for $2.99 and Max Payne is available for $1.99 (Rs. 110). The GTA games usually cost $4.99 and Max Payne costs $2.99. This is a great deal if you had missed earlier deals. Continue reading “Rockstar Mobile Sale: GTA III, Vice City, Chinatown Wars at $2.99 & Max Payne at $1.99 for limited period”

State Bank of India launches State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone devices

State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone

The State Bank of India has launched their official State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone devices. This app lets you login to your account, trasfer funds, pay bills, book train tickets and lots more. There is a bit of registration process before you can use the app. The State Bank Freedom app was released for Android back in 2011 and for iPhone back in 2012. Continue reading “State Bank of India launches State Bank Freedom app for Windows Phone devices”

Sony confirms Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update for range of 2013 Xperia devices

Sony Mobile would be one of the first companies to announce the upcoming Android updates for their devices. It started rolling out the Android 4.2.2 update for the Xperia Z and the Xperia ZL starting last month. Now it has confirmed that the Xperia ZR and the Xperia Tablet Z would start receiving Android 4.2 from early August. It has also confirmed the list of devices that would get the Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) update. Continue reading “Sony confirms Android 4.3 Jelly Bean update for range of 2013 Xperia devices”

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean announced , arriving on Nexus 4 , Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus today

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The much expected Android 4.3 update to the Android mobile operating system which has been leaked several times in the past few days has finally been officially announced at a Google event in San Francisco few hours ago. The new Nexus 7 or the 2nd generation Nexus 7 tablet which is shipping on July 30th will be the first device to ship with Android 4.3 out of the box. The main highlights of this Android update are Restricted Profiles , Bluetooth 4.0 low energy support , OpenGL ES 3.0 support and addition of several APIs for developers. The big change you would notice is the auto complete feature in the dialer and support for Hindi Continue reading “Android 4.3 Jelly Bean announced , arriving on Nexus 4 , Nexus 7, Nexus 10 and Galaxy Nexus today”

Chennai Express Mobile game launched for Android and Java phones

Chennai Express Game

Disney UTV’s Digital arm has launched the official mobile game based on upcoming Chennai Express movie. The game is title Chennai Express: Escape from Rameshwaram, in which you play the role of Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan’s movie character) who goes on running adventure and fights his way through an army of thugs from Chennai while dodging obstacles like trucks, buses, cars, coconut carts, manholes and more. Continue reading “Chennai Express Mobile game launched for Android and Java phones”

SwiftKey 4.2 Beta brings SwiftKey Cloud with backup and sync, better personalization and more

SwiftKey 4.2 Beta Cloud

SwiftKey, popular Android keyboard maker has launched the version 4.2 Beta, four months after the release of SwiftKey Flow. The new Beta app introduces SwiftKey Cloud with the most required feature – backup and sync that back up the words and phrases so that you can sync it when you move to a new device. The trending phrases feature analyses treding topics online and Twitter to automatically auto complete it as you type. Continue reading “SwiftKey 4.2 Beta brings SwiftKey Cloud with backup and sync, better personalization and more”

Ubuntu Edge revealed, with an ambitious crowd funded 2014 launch

Ubuntu Edge

Canonical, the company behind the highly popular Linux Distro has revealed its plans for a cutting edge high end smartphone running the Ubuntu OS for smartphones. The OS, formally launched at the Mobile World Congress(which we went hands on with) was in the alpha stage and a demo had been made available for some Android devices too, but it was never ready to be a daily driver. While that is supposed to change soon, Canonical wants to make a really high end device that would hopefully end the hunt for convergence, a single device that does it all. And that, my friends, is the Ubuntu Edge. Here’s a video of the Canonical boss explaining the whole idea behind the Ubuntu Edge –

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLe3iIMN7k

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M.WIZ app for iOS lets you build your own mobile website

M.WIZ for iPhone

M.WIZ is a mobile website building toolkit for iPhone and iPad. This , where all you create build your own mobile webpages and HTML file of the page. All need to do is drag and drop things from the list of elements such as header, footer, buttons and more. It also offers live previews that would let you make the changes easily and store templates for multiple websites. Continue reading “M.WIZ app for iOS lets you build your own mobile website”

Rovio Account now available on iOS and Android

Angry Birds has long been a staple game on most smartphones, and with increasing number of people using it on different device, the necessity of game save transfers were clear. Rovio acknowledged this need, and announced that they are releasing their own cloud service called Rovio account, which can save your game progress with a sign-in, and roam the saves through various devices you use. This has finally launched today, on iOS and Android. Initially supporting only the original Angry Birds and The Croods(which had it already), Rovio promises to work on adding it to all its other games real soon.

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Halfbrick debuts Colossatron: Massive World Threat game trailer

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From the makers of Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja, we have a new game which wants you to destroy the world. The upcoming game, titled “Colossatron: Massive World Threat”, is a mass destruction game helped by the concept of an Alien robot.

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Path is now available for Kindle Fire

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Path was launched in November 2010 as a social network to capture and share special moments with friends and family. Currently, Path has about more than five million users. Initially the app was available in iOS and Android, but now Path is officially available for Kindle Fire.

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Locket lets you make money through ads on your Android lockscreen

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“Why didn’t any one think of this before?” was the first thought that came to my mind when I read about Locket, a new innovative advertising platform that resides on your.. wait for it.. lockscreen! Yes, Locket is a simple app that displays ads on your lockscreen, and if you thought that was too intrusive, they make it up to you by letting you share their profits. With phones getting larger and larger, the screen real estate has indeed become prime property of advertisers looking at innovative ways to reach the end user. The lockscreen especially is almost always largely unused and a thing that’s always looked at, when you open the screen, and this is the exact space which Locket takes advantage of. Here is a quick promo to show how it works –

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoVrkTD7nF0

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Halo: Spartan Assault lands on the Windows Phone and Windows 8 Stores

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Halo has been a celebrated game franchise that was popularized during the original Xbox era. People had longed for a similar gaming experience on other Microsoft devices as the company slowly brought their different divisions together, and to much surprise, Microsoft’s own 343 game studio announced Halo: Spartan Assault for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. A trailer that was revealed along with the announcement showed off a much different type of gameplay, based in the Halo universe. And today, it has landed on the Windows Phone store at $6.99, and for the same amount, you can grab it for Windows 8 here, while watching the trailer below –

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxsYQtltOco

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VLC media player for iPhone and iPad is back in the App Store

VLC 2.0 for iPhone and iPad

VideoLAN has the VLC media player back in the Apple iTunes Store after it was pulled out for unknown reason when it was launched back in 2011. Now the company has released it as a new app with the version number 2.0.1 that has been rewritten from ground-up. This brings new features including WiFi upload that would let you upload media to your iOS device over WiFi, Dropbox integration to browse files and folders to download media for offline playback. You can also adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation in real time. Continue reading “VLC media player for iPhone and iPad is back in the App Store”

Twitter for Android v4.1.3 update brings new reply composer and better sharing

Twitter for Android got a major update to version 4.1.2 last week that brought lot of new features including Richer search results, Direct Messages sync across devices and lots more new features. Twitter has pushed a minor update to the Android app that brings New reply composer on the bottom in the Tweet details and option to share a tweet as DM in the new version 4.1.3 update. Twitter for iPhone got the new compose window feature in the v5.8 update last week. Continue reading “Twitter for Android v4.1.3 update brings new reply composer and better sharing”