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Google names 20 finalists for Google Play Indie Games Contest. Bridge Constructor Portal, I Love Hue, and Bury Me, My Love all nominated. Winner will be decided on February 13th in London, UK. It’s no secret that the Google Play Store is a bit of a minefield when you’re looking for a new mobile game to sink your teeth into. The charts are usually filled with throwaway freebies riddled with in-app purchases and the “trending” section is always fairly hit and miss in terms of quality.
With the release of Sonic Mania, Sega has been successfully capitalizing on the nostalgia of its fans. It’s a true celebration of everything that made Sonic and Sega great and shows that there’s clearly still a lot of love out there for the console veteran.
But this isn’t the only way that Sega has been looking to the past lately. While we might not have been blessed with an Android port of Sonic Mania (yet), we have been able to enjoy a new initiative called Sega Forever.
After several rumors and leaks, some of which came from T-Mobile itself, the magenta-colored carrier officially unveiled its self-branded Revvl smartphone.
T-Mobile touts the Revvl as a “feature-packed phone” that will not break the bank, and it certainly seems that way on paper. The Revvl features a 5 MP selfie camera above the 5.5-inch, HD-resolution display, as well as a fingerprint sensor and 13 MP camera around back. Under the hood, the Revvl sports a quad-core MediaTek MT6738 processor, 2 GB of RAM, a 3,000 mAh battery, and 32 GB of storage that is augmented by the microSD card slot.
According to NPD DisplaySearch, a well-known source of insightful information when it comes to production trends, Android tablet makers will no longer bet only on the casual 7-inch or 10-inch sizes to attract customers. Starting with the third quarter of this year, various manufacturers including Asus, Acer, Dell and Lenovo are preparing to launch new 8-inch devices.
Following iPad Mini trend and later the success of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, it seems the market has developed a new sense for slightly larger slates which can accommodate more content but still keep that high-portability factor and reduced weight.
The metaphorical light bulb has gone off in your head, and you’ve thought of the next innovative app idea, startup, or tech-savvy business. As you begin building your new idea, one major piece of the branding puzzle will be securing a domain for your website.
In today’s increasingly digital-focused world, this is absolutely crucial.
For example, let’s say you name your tech business Peach Tech and the domain peach.com is taken, as well as peachtech.
The trailer for the Leviathan Warships Android game has just been posted online, and it’s exactly what you would expect from a game that’s using the motto “Ship just got real” (pun is most certainly intended).
Leviathan Warships is a turn-based strategic action game that lets you build a fleet and fight against the AI or your friends on Android and other platforms. According to the developer’s website, Leviathan Warships is coming on April 30, on several platforms: Android, Windows, Mac, or iOS users will all get to try out their fleet command skills.
Vertu, the UK-based company that’s been making hand crafted, highly expensive mobile phones for 15 years, is going to be using technology provided by a familiar business in its next Android devices. Vertu has announced it has reached an agreement with TCL Communication to use its tech inside Vertu’s next 30,000 phones.
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China-based TCL has been designing and manufacturing smartphones for companies such as Alcatel and, more recently, BlackBerry, including its new KEYone phone.
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It turns out that there is a Facebook Messenger unsend feature – but only Facebook elite have access to it. The information broke when numerous reports surfaced of Mark Zuckerberg messages disappearing, but the rest of the conversations remaining. After being caught red-handed, Facebook promised that a public Facebook Messenger unsend feature would come soon, and executives will lose access to it until then. Remember that time you sent a nasty Facebook message to your ex that you immediately regretted right after you hit the enter key?
A week ago, the WiFi Galaxy Note 10.1 in the U.S. received its Android 4.1.2 software update. Aside from the expected Jelly Bean goodness, the JZO54K firmware also brings the Premium Suite package to the GT-N8013 tablet, which – among other things – offers an improved Multi-Window support, Air View, and Quick Command.The same firmware update is reportedly being pushed out by Samsung to the international version of the Galaxy Note 10.
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Withings has announced a new fitness tracker called the Pulse HR, a follow-up to 2013’s Withings Pulse. The Pulse HR comes with a PPG heart rate sensor, connected GPS, and 20-day battery life. It’s available for pre-order now for $129.95. Withings has been focused on analog hybrid smartwatches for a few years now, but today it’s getting back into the fitness tracker game. The Withings Pulse HR is the company’s new fitness tracker, a follow-up to the Withings Pulse from 2013.