Payback 2 - Indie app of the day

Payback 2 is a third person shooter and action game that takes place in an open world. Players have the option of playing offline or online events that are almost constantly packed to the gills with action. It’s free to download with in app purchases.The game is a third person shooter that is literally packed to the gills with action and chaos. You can drive vehicles including tanks and helicopters and there are a variety of guns to find and use.

Runtastic launches fitness-tracking Moment wrist watch

Runtastic, an Austrian fitness company, has just launched a new fitness-tracker named the Runtasic Moment. However, unlike your common wearable, the Moment doesn’t have a display but an analog watch face, just like that Sony Wena watch. As you would expect from a fitness oriented product, the Moment features a variety of sensors to help track various statistics. It doesn’t have a heart rate monitor, but the smartwatch can keep track of your steps taken, calories burned, minutes active and monitors your sleep patterns.

Samsung Game Launcher, Game Tools arrive on Galaxy S6 lineup, Galaxy Note 5

Owners of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge won’t be the only ones anymore to have all the gaming fun with Samsung’s Game Tools and Game Launcher apps that were introduced with their devices. Samsung has now made both these apps available on the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge Plus, and Galaxy Note 5 to enhance the gaming experience on all these devices.Samsung had introduced the Game Launcher and Game Tools app for the first time with the launch of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, to provide an improved gaming experience to its users.

Samsung loses top smartphone vendor spot to Apple in US

There has been a tug-of-war between Samsung and Apple for the top US smartphone vendor spot for some time. Not only are the companies closely matched in terms of sales figures, they tend to release their major products in different quarters: Apple launching its new iPhones in the latter half of the year, and Samsung releasing its Galaxy S flagships during the first. This leads to peaks and troughs for both companies, which regularly sees them cross over in terms of US smartphone shipments.

Save up to 40% on TVs, laptops, audio, and more

Technically, Best Buy’s Deal of the Day section means that the retailer always has products on offer, but today’s flash sale is particularly eye-catching. A wide range of tech is included and the savings available are well worth perusing. TVs are best-represented in the sale, with three offers that cover all budgets. The Hisense 75-inch LED 4K UHD Smart Android TV is the flashiest option, and it’s a bit of a steal at just $599.

Sony Releases Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Beta ROM for Unlocked Xperia 2011 Models

Last year, Sony Mobile, formally known as Sony Ericsson, announced that they would be bringing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to all single-core Xperia smartphones released within the same year. The said update is scheduled to arrive sometime in March or April of this year. Thankfully, Sony isn’t planning to disappoint its fans. Sony has just launched a beta version of its ICS ROM for all unlocked Xperia handsets in 2011 including the Xperia Arc, Xperia S, Xperia V and the Xperia Ray.

You can now blow $1,000 on a luxury Bluetooth speaker

Listen, we’re not here to tell you how to spend your money. But we can tell you that, unless you really like Burberry, there are better things to spend a grand on than this Gold Edition of Bowers & Wilkins’s T7 Bluetooth speaker. Here’s the deal: the T7 Gold Edition is a cooperation between Bowers & Wilkins and Burberry, two exclusive British brands that were ostensibly brought together by a passion for music.

AmpMe links phones and tablets to turn them into a giant, distributed speaker

For listening to music around the house, probably everyone knows the old toss-your-phone-into-a-bowl trick that makes your phone’s puny speakers sound a little bit better, but one developer has a new, innovative solution to this problem. Their app AmpMe, which shares its name with the company, syncs streaming music across as many mobile devices as you like, effectively creating a “giant, distributed speaker that surrounds the users.” The idea is pretty ingenious, but the current version is a little bit buggy.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow comes to the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2

What’s more is that Marshmallow will also bring Doze to your oversized device. This is a particular boon for the Galaxy Tab S2, since its massive screen has a tendency to suck away your battery life. Expect to get something of a boost in that regard once your download is complete. The update will automatically arrive over the air in due time, but for the impatient among us, you can always go into the settings and download it manually.

Android Auto version 1.2 introduces improved home screen shortcuts

How many of you are rocking Android Auto already? If you are one of the lucky ones, you may notice a new update has reached the Android Auto app, upgrading it to version 1.2. Aside from the usual “bug fixes and improvements”, this update offers some functionality upgrades, mainly to the home screen. The new improvements make the music and navigation cards slightly larger. This is not only for aesthetic purposes, though. The larger size allows Google to fit a little something extra.