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Google Play Music access brings streaming, tailored radio and more to Android phones, tablets and web

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Google has finally made its rumoured new Music streaming official, and it has called it “Google Play Music all access”. The Spotify like streaming service also has few more tricks up its sleeve, with Pandora like tailored radio with curated content with respect to taste. With this service announcement, Google has seriously stepped up its game in the music services field. Priced at 9.99$ per month, this will be available first in the United States and eventually in other markets. India might get it very very late though, as Google Play Music itself is not available here.

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Google Play Game services go official for Android, iOS and web

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Google just announced the Play gaming services for Android, iOS and web, which is a cross platform gaming service for achievements and multiplayer, like, for example, Xbox live and the iOS game centre. This was rumoured quite a while ago, and this includes various features like cloud saves, Google plus integration for adding friends, leaderboards and achievements. The service is going to be made available for iOS and the web too, taking advantage of Google plus in all the platforms. While the demo on stage failed misreably, the concept of multi-player gaming between three tablets with match making over Google Plus circles is really cool.

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ASUS Fonepad gaming performance review

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The ASUS Fonepad, the first calling tablet with a Nexus 7-like design left quite an impression on us, and you would know if you had read our review. But a lot of people were asking us how the performance of the tablet was, in terms of gaming, because, it being powered by the Intel Z2420 chip, only has the PowerVR SGX540 GPU which is pretty ancient in current terms. So, here you go, a gaming performance review of the ASUS Fonepad in video –

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Nokia Creative Studio gets a massive update for Lumia WP8 devices, we go hands on!

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Along with all the Lumia 925 stuff that happened yesterday, Nokia revealed some interesting software additions and updates in the announcement. While the highlight was on the Nokia Smart Camera lens, the picture editing app exclusive for Lumia devices, also called as the Nokia Creative Studio received a rather huge update yesterday. The new update comes with the version number 5.0.7.6, and is available for download here. The update is available for all Windows Phone 8 devices and introduces various new features. Naturally, we went hands on with it and found it to be quite nice actually, take a look –

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Wikitude Places beta released for BlackBerry 10

Wikitude Places beta for BlackBerry 10

Wikitude has released the Wikitude Places beta app for the BlackBerry 10 devices. It is a preliminary release of the next generation of Wikitude on BlackBerry’s new BB10 platform that brings whole new UI concept, location based services such as sights, restaurants and hotels and lots more. Wikitude AR SDK for BlackBerry 10 Continue reading “Wikitude Places beta released for BlackBerry 10”

Norton Mobile Security Review

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It’s been few years since Norton released the Mobile Security application for Android. Since then there are a lot of improvements and changes in the user interface. The Norton Mobile Security Lite is available for Android for free that offers limited features such as app scanning . You can purchase the license separately for the full version, activate it to enjoy enhanced Anti-Theft, Call and SMS Blocking and Backup features. The app was launched for iPhone and iPad last year. You can use the same key to activate premium Norton services for iPhone or iPad. Continue reading “Norton Mobile Security Review”

Instagram for Windows Phone might go official soon, hinted by @InstagramWP twitter account

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Only today did Nokia announce a new app in partnership with hipastamatic, which co-incidentally could share photos to Instagram. But as a surprise, we spotted this @InstagramWP account – which claims to be the official twitter account for THE official Instagram client for Windows Phone. While trying to check the credibility, we found that the official Nokia account was actually its first follower, adding more clarification to our doubts. So, yes, the official Instagram app for Windows Phone might be just around the corner then, yay?

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BBM Chat goes cross platform, to be available on Android, iOS alongside BB10

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BlackBerry’s core strength – the BlackBerry messenger, in a surprising move, is going cross platform with iOS and Android versions of the very popular messaging platform to be made available in the coming months. It was announced right now, at its BlackBerry live conference in Orlando. The iOS as well as the Android app will be free on the respective stores. BBM will be compatible on all iOS devices running iOS 6 and Android devices running 4.0 ICS and above.

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Nokia Lumia 925 has a “world’s first” 6 element smartphone lens and can go up to ISO 3200

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Right when we were thinking what was new with the Nokia Lumia 925’s camera, we just happened to see some tweets from Nokia’s Imaging team. Having launched the device in London today, Nokia have confirmed that the Lumia 925 has a slightly updated camera, both in terms of hardware and software. In terms of hardware, the Lumia 925 is supposedly featuring a “world’s first” 6 element lens, unlike the usual 5 element lenses on various smartphones. On the software front, apart from all the Smart Camera features, the camera can go up to ISO 3200 now, whereas ISO 800 was the previous limit on the Lumia 920. For comparison sakes, the Nokia 808 PureView can go up to ISO 1600.

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BlackBerry 10.1 update announced, brings HDR Camera, Keyboard Shortcuts and more

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BlackBerry has just announced the BlackBerry 10.1 update for the BlackBerry Z10 and the Q10 at the BlackBerry Live conference in Orlando. It brings HDR Camera, Better BlackBerry Hub features Support for PIN to PIN messages, Fine Cursor Control and lots more. It would also bring support for Skype finally and Keyboard Shortcutsand instant actions for the BlackBerry Q10. Continue reading “BlackBerry 10.1 update announced, brings HDR Camera, Keyboard Shortcuts and more”

UControl Weight app for iPhone lets you keep track of your eating habits

UControl Weight for iPhone

UControl Weight is an app that lets yo keep track of your eating habits. The app has vibrant icons that lets you add the food and quantity you eat just by tapping on them . You can also manually add the food item to the calorie counter if it’s missing. It can manually sort breakfast, lunch and dinner into their own categories, remind your about important events or tasks, add the calories to your overall total if you have eaten between meals and decreases your calorie counter after exercise. Continue reading “UControl Weight app for iPhone lets you keep track of your eating habits”

Nokia introduces Smart Camera app on the Lumia 925, coming to Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices

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Nokia introduced the Lumia 925 at an event in London just now. At the event Nokia introduced the Smart Camera, a new app that would come pre-loaded on the Lumia 925. Nokia has also announced that the app would also come to select Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices. The Smart Camera lets you shoots a sequence of photos, making it easier to capture great moments, choose your Best Shot or combine the photos into one picture, make a strobe effect to emphasize motion, remove unwanted objects or choose the best faces for great group shots.

Here is a quick hands-on demo of the app on the Lumia 925

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Nokia to bring ‘Amber’ Windows Phone 8 update in July to enable FM Radio and more

During the Lumia 925 launch event, the Finnish smartphone manufacturer announced an upcoming Lumia exclusive firmware update. Called the Windows Phone ‘Amber’ update, it will bring features that have been lying dormant in the phone. Continue reading “Nokia to bring ‘Amber’ Windows Phone 8 update in July to enable FM Radio and more”

Hipstamatic brings Instagram sharing to the Nokia Lumia

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We are live from the Nokia Lumia 925 event in London, and Nokia just announced, along with the Lumia 925 that Hipstamatic, a popular photo sharing app on iOS, is coming to Windows Phone and it is going to be one of the first official apps on the Windows phone store that can share directly to your instagram account. The app is called Hipstamatic Oggl and has various filters and a beautiful camera UI, with features you would expect from a photo filters app. This app recently launched in iOS and it is now on Windows Phone already. It has its own community and that’s the term “Oggl” refers to, you can share, like and comment on pictures.

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