Mountain View yesterday at Google I/O announced something very exciting: Google Play Games services. At the time of this writing, the new Play Games features have only been integrated in a small handful of games, but we should see more integration as time goes on.
There’s only a few games that have implemented the new features, including popular titles like World of Goo, Triple Town, Plague Inc., Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour, and Beach Buggy Blitz.
Instagram, the insanely popular photo filtering & sharing app designated by Apple as the “iOS App of the year 2011” will soon also be available on Android smartphones, according to an announcement made at South by Southwest on Sunday by Instagram Co-Founder Kevin Systrom.According to Systrom: “In some ways, it’s better than our iOS app. It’s crazy”. I honestly believe (and hope) that there won’t be any big differences between the iOS and the Android versions of the app, but I guess we’ll have to wait for Instagram to be released on Android to know for sure.
Although they are currently two of the most popular and powerful Android-based smartphones, Samsung’s Galaxy Note and Galaxy S2 HD are yet to get a taste of Ice Cream Sandwich in many countries all over the world.
Sammy has been making huge efforts to bring Android 4.0 updates in a timely fashion in the most important markets worldwide for the two devices, but until now they’ve completely neglected their homeland, South Korea.
Last week, Mozilla has teased us with a tweet that promised “something BIG” as coming this week for Firefox on Android. Some have expected a tablet optimized version of the mobile browser, but that proved to be just speculation.
That big thing coming is actually an update to Mozilla’s Firefox for Android mobile browser. According to the developers, the new Firefox brings a “screaming fast and personalized upgrade to mobile browsing that lets you take your Web experience everywhere you go”.
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Yesterday, LastPass announced some major changes for its free tier. Starting in mid-March, non-paying users will only be able to use the service on one of two platform categories, namely PC or mobile. That means you won’t be able to use the service on both your laptop and your phone. You’ll need to pick one or the other.
Obviously, people who fork out the cash for the premium version of the service won’t have this limitation.
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You may wonder if bone conduction earphones really work. In fact, they do, and it’s not exactly witchcraft. After all, sound is just vibrations of the air. By vibrating your bone instead, these earphones let you listen to your music whilst keeping your ears free.
It’s comfortable, and it’s game-changing.
Everyone at Samsung’s headquarters seems to be going smartwatch-crazy. The Korean manufacturer is releasing wearable after wearable, and it seems there are no plans to slow down. It has been only some months since the Gear 2‘s launch, which was followed by the Gear Live at Google IO. What’s next?
The rumor mill is going full speed and today we are getting some more details on the reported Samsung Gear 3.
SamMobile insiders have discovered that the Samsung is currently preparing the Galaxy S4 GT-I9505, that’s the more common Snapdragon 600 version found in Europe and a few other regions, for KNOX support.
KNOX is Samsung’s proprietary security suite, which offers a range of features from Security Enhanced Android, secure booting, and an application container, among other similar features. Samsung originally announced KNOX at MWC earlier this year, and the comprehensive enterprise mobile solution was supposed to be included with the Galaxy S4 at launch, but was delayed whilst the company continued to test various features.
The day has arrived. Kodak, yes, Kodak now has an Android phone. The Kodak Ektra is now available for purchase in Europe for €499/£449. Now, you would be forgiven for feeling a little like Alan in Jumanji right now, what with BlackBerry, Nokia and Kodak all over the headlines. But with mainstream Android phones getting a little, dare I say, boring thanks to generally being excellent, a few whacky sideshows are always welcome.
WhatsApp my be the most popular messaging platform around but it’s by no means faultless. The Facebook team are constantly updating it with new fixes and features, the latest of which are set to be particularly handy.
WhatsApp v2.17.81 for iOS is now rolling out and with it comes in-app YouTube playback and a voice record lock.
In previous versions of the app, if you were sent a YouTube link, users would be directed to YouTube — via the dedicated app or a web browser — to watch the video.