It’s not official, but it’s there. On the tech week website, tucked way at the bottom, is a new Motorola logo. We’ve seen variants of the Motorola logo before, but this one has a twist. This one may mean something.
Gone is the bright red warning sign with the familiar “M” staring at you so menacingly. The Motorola logo, which had been around for as long as most can remember, is born again.
Did you guys know Apple released its first Android app in the Google Play Store just last week? Most people were in disbelief. We never thought Apple would ever bring one of its services to Android… but then we checked what the app actually was and realized it all made sense. The application is called Move to iOS, and it essentially help users migrate all their content to Apple’s devices, including contacts, messages, photos, bookmarks, calendars and more.
What’s next? Magenta has just announced a new network upgrade they claim is the first of its kind in the USA (and possibly the world). It’s called Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) and offers three improvements.
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What does EVS offer? More reliability – There will be less dropped calls on LTE. Higher quality – Thought HD Voice was good?
Going back to a small, touch-less screen was perhaps the biggest challenge.
There still seems to be a bit of a market for nostalgia products these days, including in the phone industry. HMD Global’s recent revamp of the classic Nokia 3310 is a prime example, and there’s also this year’s BlackBerry KEYone handset for what remains of the physical keyboard phanatic crowd. While some see these phones as little more than nostalgic cash grabs, these phones exist to cater to those who still prefer to use pieces of now, arguably, obsolete technology.
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AT&T has announced their first self branded tablet, the Android 5.0 Lollipop powered Trek HD 4G LTE. This is a fairly big move for the big U.S. carrier, and a big vote of confidence in tablets, as a form factor.
The Trek HD 4G LTE is an 8-inch tablet with 1280×800 resolution display. Powering it is a 1.6 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 SoC with 1GB of RAM. Internal storage clocks in at 16GB, with room to slide in a 32GB microSD card for expanded space.
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LastPass is a big player in the password management game. The platform’s simple enough for newcomers to use while offering a bevy of advanced features for tinkerers and businesses. However, it’s LastPass free users that are set to bear the brunt of forthcoming changes.
The company announced limitations coming to free account holders that’ll force them to use LastPass on only a PC or mobile device.
Motorola Moto Z2 PlayThe Moto Z2 Play is another solid mid-range offering from Motorola that follows in the footsteps of its predecessor quite well, but with a $50 price increase and a smaller battery, it may not be as compelling of a purchase without investing in the Moto Mod ecosystem. Table of contents
Lenovo and Motorola brought their modular functionality concept to the mid-range with the Moto Z Play last year. This device was one of our favorite value smartphones of 2016, and now its successor, the Moto Z2 Play, features some key improvements and even more Moto Mod accessories.
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Samsung launched a new Rose Pink option for the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus in the UK Rose Pink has been available in Taiwan and South Korea The new color does not bring any new features to the phones When Samsung launched the Galaxy S8 this past April, the company was praised for the phone’s near bezel-less design that is slowly becoming a smartphone staple. Now, you can pick up the phone and its larger sibling in a sharp-looking Rose Pink in the UK.
If your app is going to be a success, then you need to hold the user’s interest over time, and notifications are an important way to keep your audience engaged.
By presenting the user with a timely, relevant notification at exactly the right moment, you can recapture their wandering interest, and pull them back into your app.
Android has various classes for creating notifications on-device, but often the most compelling notifications are triggered externally.