In the Google Play Store, there is an update for Flipboard that helps prevent accidental page flipping. Additionally, the update also exterminates some bugs that afflicted the app. But more importantly, for those with Android 4.2, it supports the Daydream feature for the OS build.
Daydream is a screensaver that turns on when the phone is charging or docked. Users can choose between seeing the clock, changing colors, photos or headlines from Google Currents. While the latter might sound interesting, it is not interactive which means while headlines appear before your eyes, you cannot touch on one to open a news story. And this is where Flipboard's update comes in.
Ubuntu OS for phones was formally announced just last week, and won't be available on the market until early 2014. Test images that have been promised, to allow developers and various other technophiles to play around with the platform, won't be made available until late in February.
Great work is definitely being done on the platform, and it seems that Ubuntu for phones has already gotten a performance update.
The video comes from Mika Meskanen, an Ubuntu interaction designer, showing off two devices one running the original build of Ubuntu for phones and the other running the new update. One of the things that we had all noticed from the early hands-on with Ubuntu for phones was that there was some lag and stutters in the UI when scrolling and such. From the new video, it seems those issues have been smoothed out.
Swype keyboard for Android BETA version is Now available for download to anyone without the need to register. The new beta features include a Smart Editor that lets you quickly edit a typed sentence, and Living Language, which suggests trending and popular words.
Smart Editor becomes active after you finish a sentence with punctuation. It looks over your typed words and suggests ones that it believes make more sense you can quickly see the suggestions by tapping on the underlined words.
The devs over at Mozilla are obviously so happy with how their Mobile Firefox is going that they've decided to reveal some of the upcoming features in 2013.
The most important features, which the team is working on for 2013, is the private browsing mode and the ability to add a skin to the web browser with customized themes. Both of these have been available in the desktop browser for ages and are obviously pretty popular requests for the mobile versions as well.
Sneak peek #1
Private browsing. We take comments from you - the ones who use our products - very seriously. Lots of you have requested private browsing on your Android phone and we're working to deliver! It's a much-loved feature on Firefox for your computer and we always wanted to include it on Android - and now it's coming! Yay!
Sneak peek #2
More customization. You've become accustomed to it with Firefox for your computer. Why shouldn't you want it on your Android phone?
• We're working to bring you themes for your Android browser, so when you're browsing the Web on your mobile device, you can display a bit of your personality.
• The team is also working hard on a way to give you the ability to control the Firefox for Android start page content. No matter how you browse with Firefox for Android - for news, the most useful sites, the funniest pages - we'll never stop trying to give you the best and fastest experience.
You probably heard about the Ouya Android Gaming Console that we posted about before, the console will start selling by 2013 but it's currently shipping to developers.
The Ouya idea came with the promise of being an affordable open platform for game development and a herald of change. And now, the first 1,200 Ouya developer edition consoles just got shipped to developers across the globe.
As exciting as this is, even more exciting is the fact that the console got an official unboxing from its very makers, and the developer edition looks gorgeous. A translucent, Rubik cube-sized box with all kinds of connectivity and two gamepads, along with a set of cords is what is inside the box.
Android's mascot, known as Bugdroid (little green roboto above), has become instantly recognizable in the mobile world and it has already gone several transformations to match the dessert a given Android version is named after.
This loopy-looking robot were created by Dan Morrill, who worked in developer relations, when he decided that slides for a presentation to Google's dev team needed eye candy. These were never used officially, but apparently they lived long enough to pick up a nickname "Dandroids". In the End, Google went with the Bugdroid design by Irina Blo.
Mr. Morrill isn't done with the Android trivia. The second internal developer launch of Android was called R2-D2, short for "Release To Developers 2". Due to trademark considerations, Android's naming scheme moved on to desserts, which was an idea by Ryan PC Gibson, starting from the letter "C = Cupcake" and moving on in an alphabetically order.
Canonical has announced that an "all-new Ubuntu product" will be released on January,2nd which is just a couple days away, but there has been no word on what the product will be.
Of course, we can make an educated guess based on the known products in development, and since Ubuntu is all open-source, it's kind of hard for there to be a complete surprise release. Our best guess is that this could be the release of Ubuntu for Android.
We will know tomorrow for sure, Stay tuned!
Huawei Ascend Mate with a 6.1" 1080p display leaked on more photos. The photo shows the device's physical appearance. The rumored specs of the Huawei Ascend Mate include a 1.8GHz quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 13MP camera, and a 4000mAh battery. The thickness of this 6.1" device is rumored to be 9.9mm.
In addition to the leaked images, an upcoming ad for the device has appeared as well. It compares the yet-to-be-announced Huawei offering to the Samsung Galaxy Note II's 5.5" screen.
Currently, Android has More than 700,000 Apps on the its Play Store and the number is growing day after day. With this number of Apps you may wonder How to test/run these Apps without using my Tablet or my Smartphone ? and you want these Apps to be on your Windows or Mac notebook/desktop computer too... Houston we have a Solution! and it's called "BlueStacks".
BlueStacks is a software that you can install on your Windows PC or Mac computer, allowing you to run Google Play and install any Android App from it on your computer and run it without the need of your Android mobile device.
Both (PC/Mac) versions of the BETA software are available right now for download using the links below.
Download from the links above
Click "Continue" when this scree comes up
Download & Run any Android App!
You probably heard about the Ouya Android Gaming Console that we posted about before, the console will start selling by 2013 but it's currently shipping to developers.
The Ouya idea came with the promise of being an affordable open platform for game development and a herald of change. And now, the first 1,200 Ouya developer edition consoles just got shipped to developers across the globe.
As exciting as this is, even more exciting is the fact that the console got an official unboxing from its very makers, and the developer edition looks gorgeous. A translucent, Rubik cube-sized box with all kinds of connectivity and two gamepads, along with a set of cords is what is inside the box.
The console is made to be open and the controllers are meant to be fully customizable and can easily change from the translucent plastic to another body. You connect the Ouya to your HD TV via HDMI, and there's also a microUSB port for easily hooking it up with your computer. Check out the official unboxing right below.
Google Nexus 4 is the latest Nexus device from Google & LG, As the device is shipping to more countries everyday and the Holidays season is coming and the choice is hard this year.
We want to know how it will hold up against the previous GALAXY Nexus or the popular Samsung Galaxy S III... Check the comparison below!
The Nielsen Company, one of the global leaders in consumer market research and trend analysis, has released its Nielsen Tops of 2012 report, which looks at the top Web and mobile companies between January - October, 2012.
As you can on the chart above, Android is taking over the U.S. as the top Smartphones Operating System for 2012 with 52% of the market share, Apple iOS comes in the 2nd place with 35% (Huge drop!), then comes Windows Phone OS followed by Blackberry OS and finally "Other" which includes (MeeGo, Nokia Belle, WebOS... etc).
Google's portal is the No.1 U.S. Web brand of 2012, with 172.6 million unique visitors per month followed by Facebook. For online video, YouTube got some 132.4 million unique monthly visitors, more than three times Yahoo's video portal in second place.
Oppo find 5 is now Official and set to be released on market by Q1,2013 The OPPO Find 5 features a 5.0" 1080p IPS screen with a staggering 441 PPI pixel density,allowing you to experience a world of crystal clarity and the most realistic colors. With OGS technology that combines touch sensors with display, colors are more vivid and lifelike, and you'll feel as if the screen contents are floating on its surface.
Despite its large screen, the OPPO Find 5 is easy to hold thanks to its super slim bezel. It also has a 13MP camera that can records videos on 1080p@120 FPS for slow-motion playback. Oppo Find 5 powered by a 1.5Ghz Quad-core S4 CPU running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box.
Oppo find 5 Full Specifications
The Android distribution statistics for November,2012 have just arrived, Jelly bean and Ice Cream Sandwich showing a good increase.
Version 4.1 Jelly Bean is now on 5.9% of the Android devices from 2.7% last month, while the recently released 4.2 Jelly Bean already powers 0.8% of the droids out tehre. Undoubtedly, the release of the new Nexus devices has to do something with it, but the release of JB updates from Samsung and HTC has also helped a bit.
Surely, the growth of both Jelly Bean and Ice Cream Sandwich is at Gingerbread's expense. It's still taking the largest piece of the pie at 50.6%, but that's 3.3 percent points lower than last month and 5.2 percent points lower than it was in September.
A New hardware device visits the FCC today, called the "ASUS Qube dongle" for Google TV. Another ASUS device for Google, after the Nexus 7, this time for the Google android-powered TV.
Being designated a "dongle" certainly means it will simply plug into a Smart TV set-top box or computer and provide Google TV connectivity. It will be controlled by O!Mobile Control Center, which was developed by ASUS and available for Android devices running Android 2.1 or higher and available on Google Play. The control is handled via 2.4GHz Wi-Fi.
Turn your Android devices into remotes! O!Mobile Control Center is an all-in-one intuitive application which combines the functions of the remote control, keyboard, navigation pad and cloud media streaming service. O!Mobile Control Center is a cloud control solution designed exclusively for Asus Qube with Google TV. - ASUSTeK Computer Inc. on Google Play
The Start-up funded Android-based gaming console OUYA is now real, the idea is now an actual product and OUYA is ready to start shipping out the developer consoles to those who backed the Kickstarter project.
The first OUYA units will start shipping on December,28th and will reach in the next couple of days. These will be running an early version of the hardware and software and are meant for developers to create their games for OUYA. For those who want to develop for OUYA but could not afford the price of the dev console, OUYA has arranged a giveaway.
Specifications & Price
The final OUYA consoles will be shipping to buyers by April 2013, which will be priced at $99, and can also be used for game development. The hardware consists of NVIDIA Tegra 3 running on Android Jelly Bean but the console will have it's own content delivery service so you can't just download stuff off of Google Play. Every game on OUYA will be FREE to play, it will be a demo that you can download for free but if you like it you can choose to upgrade it to the full version.
The Meizu MX2 has become official today. The device comes with a new MX5S chipset with four 32nm Cortex-A9 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM, a 4.4" screen of WXGA resolution (1280 x 800 pixels) with a 347ppi pixel density. There's also a faster GPU and Flyme 2.0 UI on top of Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean out of the box.
The Meizu MX2 will hit the shelves in China in the middle of December in 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB versions. They will cost $400, $480 or $640 respectively or ¥2,499 / ¥2,999 / ¥3,999. It remains unclear if the MX2 will launch globally and when.
These posters you see above is from Facebook's Menlo Park campus as Facebook is telling its employees to switch to Android and leave their iPhones (which the company have given them). The reason behind this was they knew that the Android version of their app sucks and that they wanted their employees to teest their app and report back on what's wrong with it.
Facebook employees get to try the latest and greatest versions of the apps before everyone else. Their version also has a feature called "Rage Shake", where the user just shakes their phone when they come across an issue and it gets reported automatically.
However, with most of the employees at Facebook using iPhones, they weren't getting enough data on the Android app to know what's wrong with it, so this initiative for asking the employees to switch is a step to correct that problem.
Canonical is trying to spread its free Linux-based Open source Operating system Ubuntu on Android Smartphone and tablets. Nowadays, handheld Devices is very powerful, take Galaxy S III and Nexus 7 for Example, they both have a 1-2GB Ram and Quad-core processors, Ubuntu can make use of your device's CPU power to run the latest Ubuntu edition smoothly without the need for a specific mobile version, you can run the same desktop version you're running on your PC but on your device. Check the video a the end of the article to know more.
Ubuntu on Android is a concept Ubuntu is trying to sell to Android phone makers, enterprise-level customers, and peripheral manufacturers. You can see Ubuntu's pitch and explanation of features and specifications on their site. The idea is that a full, slightly modified installation of the Ubuntu desktop is stashed on the storage of a multi-core Android phone. Whenever that phone is set in a dock and connected to a monitor, that Ubuntu installation comes to life and runs. The Android phone becomes just a very small computer, and the owner gets the full desktop experience of keyboard, mouse, and big screen.
The snappiness and space depend on each phone, of course, but with most major new Android smartphones arriving with at least dual cores and at least 32 GB of space available to users, Ubuntu is a feasible option. Watch the demonstration video, and you'll see that browsers open fairly quickly, and app switching is fairly fast. This has something to do with the solid-state nature of Android storage, and the lightweight nature of Ubnutu. There are definitely delays, especially when switching from Android to Ubuntu and back again from dock plugging, but it's early-stage software that can hopefully be optimized.
With over 20 million users, Ubuntu is the world's favourite free operating system and Ubuntu for Android is the first complete solution for office productivity on a phone. It lets Android and Ubuntu share the same Linux kernel, so they can run at the same time Android for the phone experience and Ubuntu when docked. Which means one address book, one set of bookmarks, one place for text messages and one inbox for mail. And thanks to careful integration between the Ubuntu desktop and Android, user's have access to the phone's functions when it's docked including making and receiving calls.
As Google has just revealed the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean to the public and to the developers too (SDK) with some minor Updates to the platform. A mysterious Sony smartphone device called "Sony LT30i" appeared on the NenaMark benchmark charts, and listed that it's running Android 5.0 (Key Lime Pie) during the test.
Seeing an Android 5 build being tested so soon is a very good News, as this means that Google is already working on improving its platform faster than before.
Android 5.0 will be Named Key Lime Pie, its rumored to be released on May-June 2013. One of the biggest improvements Android 5 is expected to bring is in tablets, but again that is just a rumor.
Box cloud storage is very popular between android users. But Sometimes, the storage space these services provide for free just isn't enough.
However, that won't be the case for some LG smartphone owners. Box.com is giving away 50GB of storage to owners of an Android smartphone made by LG. The offer is valid for users in the U.S. with a handset running Android 2.1 or later on a device with HVGA screen (320 by 480 pixels) or higher.
If eligible, all that one has to do is to register before December 31, 2012 in case they aren't a Box user already.
The Chinese company Meizu is getting ready to announce the by the end of this month, the successor for the Meizu MX which was an iPhone-like smartphone but with Android OS.
Meizu MX2 Official press images leaked with hands-on photos too, The smartphone will pack Android Jelly bean with a Quad-core processor and display with 1280 x 768 resolution.
Meizu removed the physical controls below the display, which have been replaced by the now standard on-screen Android navigation controls. The device will officially be announced in China on November,27th.
In 2010, Symbian OS was leading the Chinese Market then but now, everything has changed. Google's platform now has increased its market share to more than 90% in the world's most populous country, according to the latest report by Analysis International.
The share is likely even higher, but the analysts don't count knock-off Android devices. Just last year Android's share of the Chinese market was 58.2%, so that is some very, very impressive growth.
Canonical is trying to spread its free Linux-based Open source Operating system Ubuntu on Android Smartphone and tablets. Nowadays, handheld Devices is very powerful, take Galaxy S III and Nexus 7 for Example, they both have a 1-2GB Ram and Quad-core processors, Ubuntu can make use of your device's CPU power to run the latest Ubuntu edition smoothly without the need for a specific mobile version, you can run the same desktop version you're running on your PC but on your device. Check the video a the end of the article to know more.
Ubuntu on Android is a concept Ubuntu is trying to sell to Android phone makers, enterprise-level customers, and peripheral manufacturers. You can see Ubuntu's pitch and explanation of features and specifications on their site. The idea is that a full, slightly modified installation of the Ubuntu desktop is stashed on the storage of a multi-core Android phone. Whenever that phone is set in a dock and connected to a monitor, that Ubuntu installation comes to life and runs. The Android phone becomes just a very small computer, and the owner gets the full desktop experience of keyboard, mouse, and big screen.
The snappiness and space depend on each phone, of course, but with most major new Android smartphones arriving with at least dual cores and at least 32 GB of space available to users, Ubuntu is a feasible option. Watch the demonstration video, and you'll see that browsers open fairly quickly, and app switching is fairly fast. This has something to do with the solid-state nature of Android storage, and the lightweight nature of Ubnutu. There are definitely delays, especially when switching from Android to Ubuntu and back again from dock plugging, but it's early-stage software that can hopefully be optimized.
With over 20 million users, Ubuntu is the world's favourite free operating system and Ubuntu for Android is the first complete solution for office productivity on a phone. It lets Android and Ubuntu share the same Linux kernel, so they can run at the same time Android for the phone experience and Ubuntu when docked. Which means one address book, one set of bookmarks, one place for text messages and one inbox for mail. And thanks to careful integration between the Ubuntu desktop and Android, user's have access to the phone's functions when it's docked including making and receiving calls.
As you may know, Adobe Flash Player for Android has been pulled from the Google Play Store and you No longer see the flash player on your "Installed Apps" tab on Google Play store.
How to back it up in case you formatted your Phone ?
How to Install Flash player on a Newly activated Android device ?
Huston, We Have a Solution! Here is a tutorial for How to Manually Install & Update Adobe flash Player on any android smartphone running Android version 2.1 or later (Support Gingerbread, HC, ICS and JellyBean) or just Download it and keep it as a back-up just in case.
1- In your phone go to Menu > Settings (or Menu > More > Settings), which is where the "Enable Plug-ins" option can be found.
2- Then Check the "Unknown Sources" software box.
3- Download the latest Android Flash 11.1.115.28 APK from links below:
(Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread)
(Honeycomb, ICS, Jelly Bean)
4- Copy the APK to your Phone storage, using Any File Explorer find the APK you've copied to your phone and Install it.
5- Go to the Menu > Settings and Un-check "Unknown Sources" (Optional)
6- DONE! you've just Installed/Updated your Adobe flash to the latest stable version.
HTC released HTC One X+ with Jelly Bean 4.1.1 and Sense 4+ out of the box, Samsung update its flagship device Galaxy S III to Jelly Bean 4.1.1 as well. Which phone will be faster with the same OS ?. The benchmark tests used were ones that Android users would know of.
The Quadrant Standard tests the 3D graphics performance along with the CPU and I/O. SunSpider was used to test the browser, along with performance of JavaScript and Qualcomm's Vellamo was used to test mobile web performance, HMTL 5, the CPU performance and AnTuTu which tests the RAM, GPU, CPU and I/O performance.
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In Quadrant the HTC One X+ took a score of 6068, which was 800 points over the Samsung Galaxy S III, which managed 5207. The One X+ also took the lead with CPU and I/O, however the Samsung won in the categories of memory and 3D graphics. In Sunspider the HTC One X+ won when it scored 1082.2ms compared to the 1215.4ms, in this case the lower score wins. Neither of the handsets matched the iPhone 5 results, which came in at 914.7ms.
In AnTuTu the HTC once again took over and scored a total of 12,945 and beat the Samsung Galaxy S3 in CPU, RAM and I/0. The S3 scored 12,082 overall and took the GPU category.
This isn't Ubuntu for Android, or a hacked together demo made by an enthusiast, this is Real Official version of Ubuntu running on a Google Nexus 7 tablet and being shown off by an official Canonical engineer.
Canonical founder, Mark Shuttlesworth, has said that beginning with Ubuntu 13.04, which is due in April 2013, the team will be focusing on "mobile metrics" like battery life and memory consumption, which will lead to the OS being able to run on a much wider range of Android & mobile devices.
The Unity UI is already a solid step towards being touchscreen friendly, so now it is just a matter of optimizing the OS for touchscreen devices. The start of that work looks to be right around the corner as Shuttlesworth told developers attending the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) in Copenhagen Denmark next week to bring their Nexus 7s, because Google's tablet is apparently a great "reference" device for the project.
OUYA is The World's first Android-based gaming console is now available for pre-order. Its shaped like a beautiful Glass-Cube and runs Google Android OS.
OUYA didn't waste any time getting its Console up for pre-order. However, you'll have to wait until 13,April 2013 to get your device delivered to you.
The pre-order price for a console coming with one controller is $99. If you want two controllers its $129, and $189 for four controllers. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me.
Do you Have an Android 4.0 ICS smartphone and want to enjoy and install all the New Google Jelly Bean stock Apps while waiting for an official update to your phone,
Well, We've got a solution for you. You can Now Install all the JB apps on your ICS phone in 6 easy steps. Check it out below.
How to install the Jelly Bean apps on an ICS smartphone:
1. Download the Jelly Bean apps from HERE (50MB).
2. Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable and transfer the JB apps archive to the root folder of your mobile device.
3. Disconnect your phone from the computer, turn it off, and then boot it into ClockworkMod Recovery.
4. With your device in Recovery mode, select "Install ZIP from sdcard", and then "Choose ZIP from sdcard". Select the Jelly Bean apps file to begin installation.
5. Once the installation is complete, choose the "Reboot system now" option.
6. DONE! When the device boots up, you should Jelly Bean apps Installed and ready.
Verizon Wireless, the biggest 4G LTE Networks in the U.S. has already broken down its quarterly financials, and now the carrier announced it has sold 6.8 million smartphones during the Q3 2012.
Only 3.1 million of them were iPhones, and the majority of those iPhones were older models. Still, 21% were the iPhone 5 and that's a pretty good percentage given that the new iPhone only sold for just over a week in the third quarter. So, After doing the math... Verizon sold 3.7 Million Android smartphone this Quarter only.
Is it too early ? Google has just sent out invititations an Android event to be held on October,29th. The event will be in New York City at 10:00 AM and will be streamed live on YouTube.
The even purpose is to announce a new Nexus device, the LG manufactured unit that is currently known as the "LG Nexus 4" that was leaked before. There is a possibility that there could be multiple Nexus phones this year but there is zero proof to confirm that.
Also, Google will likely launch this new Nexus device with a new version of Android too, which will be Android 4.2 that has been floating around these days. Other than that we expect to hear some updates on the Nexus Q as Google pulled it off shelves and got back to working on its due to huge failure and bugs reported by users. Google could also announce the 32GB Nexus 7 that we have been hearing about recently.
The notification area is one of first feature android had dince froyo, and it is about to get a complete overhaul in the upcoming Android 4.2 update. A recent video shows a two separate pull-down bars, the 1st to hold all of your notifications and the 2nd one is for the entire quick settings/toggles gang.
The Jelly Bean update didn't bring quick toggles in the notification area as expected, but most of the manufacturers offer them within their custom UI launchers (TouchWiz, Sense, etc.). The demo video below.
As you may know, Adobe Flash Player for Android has been pulled from the Google Play Store and you No longer see the flash player on your "Installed Apps" tab on Google Play store.
How to Update the App then ?
How to back it up in case you formatted your Phone ?
How to Install Flash player on a Newly activated Android device ?
Huston, We Have a Solution! Here is a tutorial for How to Manually Install & Update Adobe flash Player on any android smartphone running Android version 2.1 or later (Support Gingerbread, HC, ICS and JellyBean) Or just Download it and keep it as a back-up.
1- In your phone go to Menu > Settings (or Menu > More > Settings), which is where the "Enable Plug-ins" option can be found.
2- Then Check the "Unknown Sources" software box.
3- Download the latest Android Flash v11.1.115.21 APK from Here:
4- Copy the APK to your Phone storage, using Any File Explorer find the APK you've copied to your phone and Install it.
5- Go to the Menu > Settings and Uncheck "Unknown Sources" (Optional)
6- DONE! you've just Installed/Updated your Adobe flash to the latest stable version.
Claiming that the term "App Store" has become a generic title, lawyers for Amazon are asking a judge to toss Apple's lawsuit against the online retailer for calling its applications store the Amazon Appstore.
"Apple presumably does not contend that its past and current CEOs made false statements regarding to those other app stores to thousands of investors in earnings calls. To the contrary, the use of the term 'app store' to refer to stores selling apps is commonplace in the industry." - Amazon
Amazon attorneys noted in a filing that even Apple's last two CEOs (the late Steve Jobs and Tim Cook) had used the app store phrase generically when talking about what was then called the Android Market. Apple holds a trademark on the App Store name and originally filed the suit in March 2011.
Android Open Kang Project build 3 has just been released, AOKP is a customized version of Android. Build 3 adds support for several new devices, including the international Galaxy S II's, as well as the international Galaxy III.
Besides bug fixes, build 3 now includes the advanced calculator and clock apps from Cyanogen, as well as SMS QuickReply. If you want to Download AOKP Build 3 Click Here.
HP giant's CEO Meg Whitman spoke about the company releasing an HP branded smartphone soon. Shortly after, an Android ICS booting handset dubbed "Bender" has appeared in GLBenchmark test result database.
The mysterious handset sports some seriously beefy specs, which include Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 silicon and a display resolution of 1366 x 720 pixels. The Android version, which the leaked device boots is Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Google Chrome for Android has just been update to v18.0.1025308 with HUGE Security Improvements and bug fixes that was reported by users and they got rewarded for it. The New Update also has stability fixes, you'll feel the difference especially when playing HTML5 videos.
Security & Bug fixes:
- [138210] Medium Information and credential disclosure by file:// URLs. Credit to Artem Chaykin.
- [[138035] Medium Current-tab cross-application scripting (UXSS). Credit to Artem Chaykin.
- [144813] Medium UXSS via Intent extra data. Credit to Takeshi Terada.
- [144820] Medium Information and credential disclosure by file:// URLs. Credit to Takeshi Terada.
- [137532] Medium Android APIs exposed to JavaScript. Credit to Takeshi Terada.
- [144866] Medium Bypassing same-origin policy for local files with symlinks. Credit to Takeshi Terada.
- [141889] Medium Cookie theft by malicious local Android app. Credit to Takeshi Terada.
One week ago, Google's Eric Schmidt stepped on stage during Motorola's On Display event. He also confirmed that there were 1.3 Million daily activations of new Android devices.
Yesterday, the director of product management for Android, Hugo Barra, confirmed that the platform has shot past the 500 Million mark. This means that about 20 million new Android devices have been purchased over the past six days alone, or about 3.3 million per day.
Oppo, the Chinese company, is not very popular around the world, but it made it into the headlines recently by unveiling the Oppo Finder, the thinnest smartphone available. Now, Oppo has an even more amazing device coming this year "Oppo Find 5" which is a 5-inch smartphone that might well become the first Android smartphone with a 1080p screen (1920 x 1080 resolution).
Oppo Find 5 has a pixel density of 441ppi, this blows all competition out of the water, even in comparison with screens like the "Retina" on the iPhone 4S. At 441ppi, the pixel density is a lot more detailed than the 326ppi iPhone display.
The Oppo Find 5 is also said to be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chip with a Quad-core Krait processor. Powered by Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The device has no Price or Release date yet but it said to be coming during this year.
This is one of those patents that we were pretty curious about, because the timeline of the story was quite interesting. Google announced Face Unlock as part of Ice Cream Sandwich last year. A little bit after that we found out that Apple had applied for a patent for what seemed to be the very same thing back in 2010. Of course, Google's Face Unlock was based on technology from PittPatt, which had a patent granted in 2007. Google's newly granted patent was submitted for approval in late 2011, just before the ICS announcement.
Google's new patent details the same mechanism as Apple's for recognizing various facial features, but seems to go well beyond that into a number of methods for logging in to a computer with the facial recognition. Additionally, where Apple's filing was specifically for iOS devices, Google's new patent covers any device with a camera, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, etc., which means Apple can't use this feature without a licence from Google patent or it will be an infringement.
Today at the Motorola event in NYC, Eric Schmidt, Google executive chairman announced that Android platforms devices reached a New HIT number. Currently android reached 1.3 Million New Activations Daily and 70,000 of them are Android tablets.
There are some 480 Million total Androids in the world as of today. That's 80 million more than there were on June 27, when we got the latest update.
After the major update for their iOS App, Facebook updated all its iOS Apps on the iTunes Store including (Facebook Camera, Messenger, Page Manager).
The Update brings more stable versions of the App with faster browsing & sharing just like the New Facebook App that focus on the performance. Unlike Facebook for android which is "SUCKS!" compared to the iOS App according to the android users reviews on Google Play store. Why facebook take care of iOS users over android users ?
As you may know, Adobe Flash Player for Android has been pulled from the Google Play Store and you No longer see the flash player on your "Installed Apps" tab on Google Play store.
How to Update the App then ?
How to back it up in case you formatted your Phone ?
How to Install Flash player on a Newly Activate Android device ?
We Have a Solution! Here is a tutorial for How to Manual Install & Update Adobe flash Player on Any Android Smartphone running Android version 2.1 or later, Or just Download it and keep it as a back-up.
1- In your phone go to Menu > Settings (or Menu > More > Settings), which is where the "Enable Plug-ins" option can be found.
2- Then Check the "Unknown Sources" software box.
3- Download the latest Android Flash 11.1.115.17 APK from Here:
4- Copy the APK to your Phone storage, using Any File Explorer find the APK you've copied to your phone and Install it.
5- Go to the Menu > Settings and Uncheck "Unknown Sources" (Optional)
6- DONE! you've just Installed/Updated your Adobe flash to the latest stable version.
We're pretty sure that Man people out there are currently wondering which Android smartphone to get the awesome Samsung Galaxy S III OR the fantastic HTC One X.
YouMobile Ask you (Our reader) to give us your Honest opinion about which smartphone you prefer S3 or One X ? Which one you recommend to your friends ?
Share your Opinion with us on the Comments section below!
The Android ecosystem has been rapidly expanding beyond phones and tablets lately just in the last week we saw the introduction of an Android-powered Wi-Fi camera by Nikon, and Panasonic is using Android apps and NFC-equipped devices to control and program smart appliances. NASA is one-upping them all with a use for Android that is truly out of this world. NASA's new PhoneSat program is experimenting with using Android-powered miniature satellites.
As part of a program to explore how small cheap satellites can bemade with off-the-shelf parts, engineers are NASA's Ames Research Center have created 10cm square satellites that use Nexus phones as the computing brains that power the satellite. The four pound mini-satellites can be launched dozens or even hundreds at a time, bringing lots of aggregate observing power on the cheap.
Google Voice search is great, but if your language isn't supported you have to make do with English and hope it recognizes your accent. Now, Google Vioce Search supports 13 New languages, joining the list for a total of 42 languages and 46 accents.
Here is the Added languages :
- Basque
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- European Portuguese
- Finnish
- Galician
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Swedish
Google released the Google Play gift cards and these cards were going to be made available to certain stores for use in purchasing games, music, video and premium apps.
It looks like distribution of the cards has started as a Target shopper was able to reach into a bin near the cash registers and pull out a $25 Google Play gift card before they were supposed to go on sale.
The card was successfully redeemed on Google Play App, You must have the latest Google Play version 3.8.15 to be able to use this feature, so it shouldn't be too long before the cards are officially on the rack and ready to go.
In Google I/O keynote where Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google mention a New feature on the play Store called "Smart App Updates" which is available for all Android devices with the latest Google play App.
According to Google, Smart App Updates are only a third in size, the Play Store will only download whatever is New/Changed within the APK instead of downloading the entire app all over again. which means you save a lot of time and data in updating apps. This feature has now been activated on the Google Play Store and some apps are already making use of it.
For Example: If you have an App that you Need to Update and the update weight 12MB, with Smart App Updates you'll only download a 3-5MB of the 12MB you Need to download in order to Update the App. Check the Video below!
Google has just released Android 4.1 Jelly Bean this summer, the latest Android Operating System with some tweaked GUI. Now, Reports about the Next Android OS is spreading around.
Next Android OS or Android version 4.2 will be Named "Key Lime Pie", which is a delicious Creamy Pie with Key Lime, Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie is rumored to be released in the first Half of 2013,
We are pretty excited about what Google will include on this New OS. Let's wait and See!
Even if, Adobe has continued to send out updates to the adobe flash on the Google Play for the past 2 months. And with the Chrome for Android browser not providing support for Flash, Adobe has decided that it will pull the app from the Google Play Store this Wednesday 15,August. This reminds us, Steve jobs has predicted this back in 2010:
"No one would be using Flash in the future, instead they will use HTML5..." - Steve Jobs
Today is the very last day that you can install Adobe Flash on your Android model. Obviously HTML5 is the future and Adobe will be turning in that direction with its resources. if you want to Download Flash for Android go HERE.
Tomorrow, Adobe Flash for Android will be removed from Google Play Store
The Acer CloudMobile was unveiled months ago in February, and you might have already forgotten about its existence, but Acer's cloud phone is now finally gearing up for launch in September.
Retailer Expansys is now accepting pre-orders for the device in the United Kingdom and other European markets for a price of £284.99 (around $450).
Here is the Specifications of the Acer CloudMobile:
- a 4.3-inch 720p screen,
- 1.5GHz dual-core processor,
- 1GB of RAM,
- 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash,
- HSPA and Wi-Fi,
- DLNA, GPS, Dolby Sound technology
- microSD expansion slot.
Today, Flipboard for Android received an update on Google Play. The new update brings the app to version 1.9.6 with easier navigation through the use of drop-down menus that appear when you tap on the section you're viewing.
You will also find an improvement in the method used to display feeds from Google Reader. You can Install/Update Flipboard for Android via Google Play HERE.
OUYA is The World's first Android-based gaming console is now available for pre-order. Its shaped like a beautiful Glass-Cube and runs Google Android OS.
OUYA didn't waste any time getting its Console up for pre-order. However, you'll have to wait until April,2013 to get your device delivered to you.
The pricing isn't as bad as one would imagine for a project that scored one of the most successful Kickstarter funding of all time. The pre-order price for a console coming with one controller is $99. If you want two controllers its $129, and $189 for four controllers. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me.
Nikon, the popular Camera brand, will make a New Camera powered by the world's popular Mobile OS Android, The model name will probably be "Coolpix S800" and it should be coming very soon.
Here is the expected specs of the Android Camera:
- 25-250 mm lens
- 3.5" OLED screen
- The camera runs all Google Play apps
- The camera will probably run Android 2.3 GB
- Built-in GPS
- Built-in Wi-Fi
- Possible announcement: August 22, 2012
Adobe has now announced that Flash Player won't be supported in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. We are just Reminding you that Adobe will Cease new Flash Player downloads from the Google Play Store starting from 15,August which is This Month.
First of all, devices that come pre-loaded with Flash have been certified by Adobe that the Flash Player will works as expected on the device. Adobe says that it will not certify any Android 4.1 devices.
While in the past that wouldn't be that big of a deal, Adobe also says that starting on August 15th, it will configure the settings in the Play Store to only allow Flash Player updates to devices that already have Flash installed. Devices that do not have Flash installed will not be authorized to download it from the Google Play Store. While a device that is upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 will keep its Flash Player in tact, Adobe recommends uninstalling it because it may exhibit unexpected behavior.
After (15, August) You won't be able to download Flash Player on any New Android Handset.
Glu Mobile have just released the Legendary Game "Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies" for Android, This Game is New Flagship of the Zombies-shooting games on Google Play.
The new member of the Call of Duty franchise will be exclusive to Sony Xperia smartphones for its first month of availability. The list of handset includes the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Xperia S, as well as the Xperia ion. It will be available for $6.99 to all android devices Next Month.
Google has just released Android 4.1 Jelly Bean this summer, the latest Android Operating System with some tweaked GUI. Now, Reports about the Next Android OS is spreading around.
Next Android OS or Android version 4.2 will be Named "Key Lime Pie", which is a delicious Creamy Pie with Key Lime, Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie is rumored to be released in the first Half of 2013,
We are pretty excited about what Google will include on this New OS. Let's wait and See!
First thing I would like to address the poeple who like to comment on everything New by typing "FAKE!"... This photo is just a concept and NOT REAL device.
This Galaxy Nexus 2 concept was designed by Killu-Chan, and shows a Samsung-made Nexus phone that would feature a 5" display at 720p resolution covered in Gorilla Glass 2. Inside, the concept calls for 32GB of storage, 42Mbps HSPA+, Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB 2.0 with MHL and USB on the go. The ridiculous part is that the concept also suggest an 8GB of RAM, which is impossible because if that's really an expected feature of the designer, we may just have to throw out the entire idea. Rounding out the internals would be a 2GHz quad-core Tegra 3+ and a 3200 mAh battery.
As far as cameras, there would be a 2MP front-facing camera, and a 12MP rear camera. Also on the back would be an LED flash, and in addition to the current set of camera features, the designer is calling for simultaneous HD video and image recording.
A New Update to the Google Play Store App is currently rolling-out to all android users, The latest update is version 3.7.15 and pack some minor-changes, improve the security or purchasing apps, improve the overall performance and faster updating of your store apps. Download the APK below and install on your phone to get the latest lay store version.
Download Google Play Store 3.7.15
The problem with "Android App Piracy" seems to be escalating lately, with more and more developers expressing their negative opinion towards the platform's little to no protection against this problem.
App piracy on Android is nothing new. The percentage of pirated apps versus bought ones has always been higher on Android than on iOS, and developers have not once brought this issue to the public's attention.
The solution to all this seems quite simple to us get rid of the option that allows you to install apps from sources other than the Google Play store. Of course, Android is open and tech-savvy people will quickly find a workaround for that, but in case Google tries hard to make this workaround complicated enough, the vast majority of users will never bother to implement the workaround. As a result, people will just stick to getting their apps from the Play Store. Still, Google is yet to make this move, and there are no indications that it's going to happen anytime soon.
We are aware that such a transition will be hard at first, and probably many hardcore Android users will be pissed off, but the question is, should Google bother about those users? Google has always tried to be good to its customers, to not be evil, but now this kind of generosity is going against its own ecosystem. Developers are getting hurt financially, and are finding it increasingly hard to stay afloat due to this whole "open", and "don't be evil" mantra. Google will not become evil, if it closes that part of Android that makes piracy so easy. As a matter of fact, it should feel obliged to do so, because these devs are the same devs that made Android a worthwhile experience.
What do you think ?
tell us in the comments below...
Nielsen, a popular analyst company, has published its report on the US smartphone market in the second quarter of 2012. The quarter saw smartphone growth continue as two thirds of all new customers picked a smartphone.
Android continues to be in lead, Android is powering 51.8% of all US smartphones and 54.6% of the devices purchased over the past three months. And that was the quarter before the Samsung Galaxy S III was launched.
Apple's iOS platform users is decreasing, with Apple's OS accounting for 34.3% of US smartphones and 36.3% of the newly acquired ones. Expectedly iOS is starting to lose pace in the third quarter of iPhone 4S availability.
Amazon is said to be developing its own smartphone, which will compete against the iPhone and the Android smartphones, says Bloomberg. The world's largest online retailer is said to have partnered with Foxconn to manufacture the handset for it.
There are no other details available at the moment but if Amazon plans to compete with iPhone their phone has to be high-end, unlike the Kindle Fire, which was a budget offering. We don't know what software it would be running but it's fair to assume it would be a heavily customized version of Android such as the one on the Kindle Fire.
Considering Amazon has its own application store, along with books, music, movies and loads of other stuff, it really doesn't matter if it doesn't allow access to the Google Play Store.
With the release of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, CyanogenMod had provides some details about when they will be releasing an update to CyanogenMod. CyanogenMod team has taken to Google+ and although they did not provide an ETA for the update, they did provide a few details about the update itself.
The next update, as you may have guessed, will be called CM10, keeping with the tradition of giving the update the same number as the position of the alphabet of the Android version is named after (Jelly Bean). Here is the Official Announcement:
"...On Jelly Bean
Unless you have been internet deprived lately, you are aware that Android 4.1 aka Jelly Bean (JB) is due out in the coming weeks. Which inevitably leads to the question: How does this affect me CyanogenMod?
Now, to preface this, we do not have our hands on the source code, and things in this post may change dependent on analysis of the code first hand and the impacts. That said, we do have a general understanding of the changes and what we can expect, and this post serves to highlight the key changes.
CyanogenMod Next
Many have asked whether JB will be CM9.1 or CM10. Keeping with the pattern thus far, every newly named AOSP update results in a bump to the CM major version. This has the added benefit of fitting into the pattern of [insert codename position in the english alphabet] = CM version. Examples being: G is the 7th letter thus CM7, I is the 9th letter thus CM9 and J = 10.
I can't believe its not Butter
The ‘Project Butter' enhancements to Android are much anticipated and should not be a huge pain to merge. We anticipate some breakage in existing libs but nothing that the reference board devices or some hackery won't overcome. Essentially, if your device met our criteria for CM9 (512mb RAM, etc) and is already supported, then you should be in line for CM10. There may be some added headaches around hwcomposer, but we'll cross that bridge when we get source.
ETA?
When it's ready... "
Adobe has now announced that Flash Player won't be supported in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. A prime example of this is the new Nexus 7 tablet, that ships without Flash support. Furthermore, Adobe has also announced that it will Cease new Flash Player downloads from the Google Play Store starting from 15,August.
First of all, devices that come pre-loaded with Flash have been certified by Adobe that the Flash Player will works as expected on the device. Adobe says that it will not certify any Android 4.1 devices.
While in the past that wouldn't be that big of a deal, Adobe also says that starting on August 15th, it will configure the settings in the Play Store to only allow Flash Player updates to devices that already have Flash installed. Devices that do not have Flash installed will not be authorized to download it from the Google Play Store. While a device that is upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 will keep its Flash Player in tact, Adobe recommends uninstalling it because it may exhibit unexpected behavior.
After 15, August You won't be able to download Flash Player on any New Android Handset.
Google has just announced that Chrome for Android is finally out of beta. Now, The software has just been updated on the Google Play store to version 18.0.1025123. BUT Now it's Faster and smoother than ever.
Building on the familiar Chrome experience of searching and entering URLs in the same area, the beta finalizes new features that were seen as early as February. It's good timing too, since Firefox just released a very strong contender in the browser-for-Android-devices market.
Google says the updated mobile browser has "accelerated page loading, scrolling and zooming," and automatically syncs with your desktop Chrome browser, so all your tabs, passwords, and bookmarks are identical whether you're in the office or on the road.
We already know that Google is working on a Siri-like personal assistance to integrate it on Android. Today, Wall Street Journal about the smartphone ecosystem mentions that according to people on the inside, Google is accelerating the development of a Siri-like virtual, interactive personal assistant for Android users.
While whatever Google produces will naturally bring comparisons to Siri, Google has higher aspirations. There has been some speculation that the finished design would make Google's virtual assistant much more powerful with more capabilities than Siri.
According to Andy Rubin, Google Android Product manager, Android is now getting over 900,000 daily activations, which represents an increase of more than 50,000 compared to the 850,000 number from last February.
This Number will reach 1 Million daily by the End of the Year as there is some rumors about the Android JellyBean 4.1 is coming before the end of the year, Making Google Android OS the fastest growing Mobile OS in the World.
Today, Adobe has updated the Flash Player for the desktop and Android. On the desktop, the Flash Player 11.3 now supports keyboard input even in fullscreen mode and low latency audio support for streaming audio and Sound API. Other features include sandboxing which is available for Firefox users on Windows.
On the Mac, you now get the ability to upgrade the Flash Player in the background. It also comes signed with the Apple Developer ID so it can work with the Gatekeeper feature in the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion. On Android, 11.3 update adds stylus support for Android 4.0 devices like the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 2. The other release is AIR 3.3, which lets Flash developers create mobile apps and native extensions for iOS 5.1.
Head to Google Play App on your phone and Check for Updates.
Lamborghini (yes, the car brand) has announced their new range of luxury phones and tablets for the Russian market.
The first Device, is a simple feature phone called the TL688 Spyder that has a 2-inch QVGA display, 3 megapixel camera with video recording, front facing camera, 4GB internal memory and GPRS/EDGE connectivity. Being a luxury phone, however, it has a hand-made leather body and a leather back. It also has a rather unique shape that looks more like a TV remote than a regular phone.
The 2nd phone is the TL700 (pictured above) is actually an Android smartphone but unfortunately runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. It runs on an Qualcomm processor and has a 3.7-inch 800 x 480 resolution display. There is a 5 megapixel camera on the back and VGA on the front, 4GB internal memory and a 1,400mAh battery. The phone has a gold plated body, sapphire glass coating for the display and crocodile skin back.
The tablet L2800 is an Android tablet. It has a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 resolution display (same as the iPad 2), 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB of RAM and 4GB internal memory (expandable). Sadly, it also runs on Android 2.3 but it will be updated to Android 4.0 in future.
The base TL688 Spyder will cost 60,000 - 70,000 Russian ruble ($1,829 - $2,134). The TL820 Spyder 2 will cost 80,000 ruble ($2,438), the TL700 around 90,000 ruble ($2743) and the L2800 around 75,000 ruble ($2,286).
Google has updated the Android distribution figures on its developer website. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich user base has grown to 7.1%, up from the 2.9% back on April,2012.
The sharp growth is likely due to the launch of new Android 4.0 devices such as the HTC One series phones, as well as several high-end devices receiving the Android 4.0 update. With even more Android 4.0 devices on their way and more updates planned for current devices, this number will continue to rise.
Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility has been approved by Europe and was was pending chinese approval. Today, A Google spokesman has confirmed that Chinese regulators gave the okay for the purchase on Saturday, and the formal approval should be coming this week.
According to reports, there is one major stipulation given by the Chinese regulators which says that approval is based on the promise that Google will keep Android open and freely available to anyone who wants to use it for the next 5 years. So, for anyone who still harbored some crazy idea that this move would lead to the closing of Android, that is now impossible... for 5 years.
This Device (MK802) may look like an ordinary USB stick, but it is a fully-functional computer. Of course, you need to attach it to a display, and connect some sort of keyboard/mouse combo, but the MK802 could very well be the smallest PC around. This computer is powered by Android 4.0 ICS and you can attach any mouse or keyboard to use on the linux-powered Google Operating system.
There are, of course, some trade-offs involved here. The MK802 is from an unspecified manufacturer, and has a single core 1.5Ghz processor. Also, the HDMI is a connector, rather than a socket, so you will need to use a cable rather than just stick it into the back of a TV.
Here is its Specs
1. Use Allwinner A10/1GHZ Cortex-A8 high speed
processor Core frequency reach 1GMHZ ,Coretex-A8 is the most advanced core.
The comprehensive processing ability , hardware performance close to desktop computer .Play HD video ,share blog ,share game amusement and Website read to give you the delight fully digital experience .
2.With 3D Graphical processor
3.Use 512M (slect 1GB) DDR3 high capacity memory.
4.With WIFI 802.1b/g/n Wireless to get rid of the wire bond
5.Support the latest HTML5 ,Flash10.3 ,etc, network standard.
6.Support Full HD 1080P/2160P.
Guess What !? Today, George Clooney was spotted filming a commercial for an Android smartphone in Malibu yesterday. This is some game-changing news... isn't it ? The Photos below shows Clooney with a Samsung GALAXY Nexus and playing with his dog.
Well, to be true about it, It's unclear what exactly the commercial is going to be, although it is said to have been an Android commercial.
It doesn't seem to be a commercial for the Galaxy Nexus itself because the Samsung branding was blacked out on the phone (as you can see on the photo above) OR the Nexus could be Clooney's own personal phone.
What's your comment on this, share your opinion on the Comments section below!
A New version of the Google Play store has just been released v3.5.19, We currently don't have a full changelog but the new update is faster in Updating and loading Apps from the Play store and also adding some security enhancements too.
We highly recommed you to Upadate your Android smartphone by downloading & installing the [.APK] file from the link below or by scanning the QR code to directly install it on your phone.
Download Play Store 3.5.19 [.APK]
As we all know with the Android law-suits with Oracle vs Google on the whole Java issue, some clever people thought that instead, just port all of the Android code automatically to C#. And, they are getting there!
Basically, they take the Android AOSP code then pull it through a tool they have helped develop called "Sharpen" which translates Java code to C# and the results are amazing. While only some of the Android code is physically working without Java at all, it is a great start and hopefully seeing this on low-end devices can speed things up a little.
A little more on the technical side, the way Android runs Java through the Dalvik virtual machine is fairly efficient, but using Java limits you severely by it's design and complexity, slowing down execution everywhere. While Android appears to do a fairly good job, it does not do it as well as it could do with Oracle efforts.
Here is a graph from the project showing performance:
As you can see, clearly using the C# is faster. However, there is still a while to go which if you want to have a look or even help out check out the link in the source for more technical information.
Android Updates are very slow in releasing especially the latest update to Ice Cream Sandwhich, The technical lead developer on the Android Open Source Project, Jean-Baptiste Queru, posts a post on Google+ saying that he believes the slow update rate many Android users have had to endure is very reasonable. He said on his Google+ post:
"This is actually a very reasonable time, since under the hood Ice Cream Sandwich is quite different from Honeycomb (and upgrades from Gingerbread are likely to take longer as those differences are huge),"
He Also added:
"...some variants of the Google-engineered flagship devices still haven't received Ice Cream Sandwich (or are stuck with older versions of Ice Cream Sandwich) because of delays introduced by operator approvals."
Facebook has released a new update for its Android app. Version 1.9.0 brings Major performance update, which make the whole app feels a lot faster than before.
Also With the latest Facebook Update, It brings Two New Apps , "Camera" and "Messenger" along with the Facebook App.
Facebook Camera App is a simple App that use your phone's camera to captor photos and Instantly upload it to your facebook account without you clicking anything. The Messenger App is a direct link to your Massages on the facebook App.
So with This Update you will Get three Apps with three icons, but it worth it. Scan or Click on the QR code below to Update your Android Facebook app.
Update Facebook!
Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced during a financial earnings call that the company's first Atom based smartphone will go on sale "later this week".
This is not really a surprise because the Indian company Lava, with whom Intel partnered to make Atom based Android phones, has already announced their intentions to launch the Xolo X900 tomorrow, April 19, in India.
The X900 has a 4-inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution with proximately 295 PPI, 8-megapixel camera with flash, 10fps burst mode and 1080p video recording, 1.3 megapixel front camera, 1GB RAM, 16GB internal storage space, HSPA+ connectivity up to 21Mbps, HDMI out and NFC built-in. The device will launch with Android Gingerbread 2.3.7 and will be Upgraded to 4.0.3 in the near future.
The Xolo X900 will use Intel Atom Z2460 processor that has a single-core 1.6GHz Saltwell CPU with Hyper-Threading, PowerVR SGX540 GPU clocked at 400MHz and 32-bit Dual channel LPDDR2 memory. This processor, however, is based on Intel x86 architecture that differs from the one that ARM uses on almost every other SoC on the market, which means application compatibility is going to be an issue initially.
The first official HTC One X update is now rolling out for the SIM-free unlocked units in Europe, Egypt and Middle-East.
The upgrade is a about 30MB download and it addresses a few issues with the battery, the automatic brightness levels and the on-screen menu key in some apps along with the Wifi bug fix. There are probably other minor fixes and optimizations under the hood, but no specifics were provided.
After the update your Android OS will remain on the 4.0.3 version, but the actual phone firmware version will jump to 1.28.401.9.
Meizu just announced a Quad-core version of its MX smartphone, running Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. The handset will carry the name Meizu MX quad-core, and will bring several improvements to go with the new silicon.
The CPU of in the updated device will be a 32nm High-K Metal Gate, quad-core Samsung Exynos chip, featuring four Cortex-A9-based cores. Curiously enough, there is no info on the clock speed of the aforementioned. It will also have a 1,700 mAh Batery and will come with five colors.
Meizu MX Original Specifications
The Meizu MX quad-core will come in a 32GB and 64GB versions. They will be priced in China at the highly attractive ¥2,999 (US$480) and ¥3,999 (US$635) respectively.
The stylish Panasonic ELUGA originally launched in Japan, but has now touched down in Germany. The next stop for the waterproof and dustproof smartphone is the UK, where it will be available on April 24th. In Germany the device was priced in a range of €370-€400 ($484-$523 USD). In the U.K., €365 should allow you to take it home.
The waterproofing allows the device to sit in up to 3 feet of water for 30 minutes with no problems afterwards, Also the Eluga is Dust-proof, there is no Micro SD memory slot and it have a 1Ghz TI OMAP CPU with 1GB RAM.
The Google Dev team at Android Design section have just put up some new sections into their guide for Android developers and made some changes to the UI of the Settings and Navigation bar design guidelines.
Highlights include a brand new section on how to create a design layout for application settings, as well as how to link to other Android applications and how to navigate to your app using widgets.
If you are an App developer or you just like to look at the Android apps layout Make sure to check out this Page HERE Enjoy!
Google CEO Larry Page made a statement regarding the Android Google State in 2012 bringing us the latest statistics, Page puts it plainly Android is on fire, and activating over 850,000 devices each day.
"Android is on fire, and the pace of mobile innovation has never been greater. Over 850,000 devices are activated daily through a network of 55 manufacturers and more than 300 carriers. Android is a tremendous example of the power of partnership, and it just gets better with each version. The latest update, Ice Cream Sandwich, has a beautiful interface that adapts to the form of the device. Whether it is on a phone or tablet, the software works seamlessly." L. Page, Google CEO
This number was about 500,000 last year (2011), this huge increase on the number of daily activated handsets is very impressive in our opinion.
Good News! Best Buy has posted Ice Cream Sandwich release dates on its internal employee news site. And we have also an even better News... it is coming Next week!
According to the BestBuy post:
"Software updates are coming for Verizon handsets next week to bring the OS to Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0). Updates will be delivered via standard Over the Air (OTA) update."
Updates Schedule
The Motorola RAZR and RAZR MAXX will begin receiving the update on Wednesday 4,April.
HTC Rezound is scheduled for Friday 6,April.
Android ICS 4.0.3 released first on the Galaxy Nexus, All manufactures promise to update their latest phones from Gingerbread to ICS. Now, most major phone manufacturers including Asus, Samsung and Sony have finished the testing and certification and are ready to update device to ICS very soon.
Phone makers have not yet updated their devices to the latest Android despite the fact that the 4.0.x version was released in November of last year. That is nearly a five month gap in which Gingerbread continues to be the dominant Android version on high-end handsets on the platform.
And if the rumors are true, Android 5.0 JB should make fragmentation even worse as the publication expects the new version to arrive as early as May or June. Internally, this is allegedly slowing down phone manufacturers with ICS updates as they try to prepare for 5.0.
Samsung has already pushed an ICS update for its Galaxy S II, and next in line are the Galaxy Tab 8.9, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Note. Asus has also updated its original Transformer, and Sony recently announced plans to bump up the Android versions of the Tablet P and Tablet S by end-April.
The New Android Market which known now as Google Play Store has received another incremental update to v3.5.15 with some new features, you can Update yours by Downloading the
There are two main improvements to the app: under the My Apps menu, you can see Installed and All Apps in a separate tab. This allows you to re-download any app you've previously tried and deleted, or paid for and uninstalled, bringing the functionality more in line with the desktop portal. There is still no option to manually re-install all, or a select portion, of your apps, which would go a long way to building in the same functionality for non-root users as Titanium Backup does for root users.
Google Play Store 3.5.15 [APK]
Google has updated its Maps Application for Android with minor small change and some bug fixes. The new version was pushed out to the Google Play Store today, and it brings Google Maps to version 6.4.0.
The only change made in this version was in the design of the menu in Navigation mode. The menu has been changed from a list of text-only options to a more touch-friendly version laid out with some icons to quickly help you find what you need.
Google Mpas 6.4.0 [Play Store]
If you do not know yet, There is a new name for the Android Market now, its Google Play Store. For those of you who want to see what the name change and new logo looks like on your phone. You can do it directly from within your phone in about 30 seconds flat.
How to Upgrade to Google Play Store:
- Go to "Settings" and then "Manage Apps".
- Look for "Market" under the "All" tab, open it and press "clear data".
- Now open the newly updated "Play Music" app (Google Music).
- Hit that little "Market" icon in the bottom tray (If you can't find it, open the Market icon from All Apps Menu, it both cases it will work)
- Confirm Google Play upgrade.
NOTE: If the Method Above didn't work for you, You still able to Download the Google Play Store 3.4.7 APK from the link below to install it on your phone and Enjoy the New Play Store!
Download Play Store 3.4.7 [APK]
Google re-branded its Android Market to Google Play. In Google Play you find your favorite music, movies, books, and Android apps and games. you can access it from the web or from your Android device or even TV, and all your content is instantly available across all of these devices.
Google Play Contents Availability:
- Movies: Available in US, UK, Canada and Japan
- eBooks: Available in US, UK, Canada and Australia
- Music: Available in US
- Paid Apps: Available in certain countries, Full List
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Verizon has released a list of devices that it says will be receiving the Android 4.0 update. As for the time frame each manufacturer has a say in when the Ice Cream Sandwich update will be rolled out for its devices with HTC models expected to receive Android 4.0 in the first half of this year while Motorola is planning a Q3 rollout of the latest Android build.
The Verizon's ICS Devices list:
- HTC ThunderBolt, HTC DROID Incredible 2,HTC Rhyme and HTC Rezound.
- Motorola devices included are the Motorola DROID BIONIC, Motorola DROID RAZR, Motorola DROID 4, Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX, and the Motorola Xyboards 8.2/10.1.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1.
- LG Spectrum.
Before, Google limited the Android Market applications (.apk) size to 50MB, and developers have had to make smaller apks and the user will download the expansion files after installing the APK, Well Google changed this today by increasing the Market App size Up to 4GB. The new maximum application size of 4GB does not necessarily mean the size of the APK will be increased... but rather the Android Market will host the application expansion files. This will help the Google keep a closer eye on when a user completely finishes the download of a large application to properly start the refund period.
Most of us have experienced a long in-game download like Gameloft Asphalt 6, and then realized the refund period has already passed. In the Android Market, these expansion files are added to the 50MB size of your application so users know how much space the app will really take from his Phone Memory after full Installation.
Lately, Some confirmed reports said that Google will name the Android version that will come after Jelly Bean 5.0 as "Key Lime Pie" and its acronym "KLP", which is a pie made from lemon cream.
Currently, We do not have any certain date about When exactly we will see this version of android, may be late 2013 or earlier. Also there is No info if this version will be tablet-Only like the Honeycomb 3.0 or not.
After Apple introduced Siri personal assistance for iOS, Google had to fight back by improving its voice command software to take a New shape and higher intelligent integrations. A report from TechCrunch showing that this product may have codenamed as "Majel" and to be officially named "Google Assistant" when released.
Google Assistant is now in the hands of the Android team. Reports showed Google goals of this product, There is three goals Google will accomplish on this product :
- Gather all information and make it understandable by computers.
- Create a personalization layer.
- Build a mobile, voice-powered productivity engine, which is focused less on finding information and more on getting things done.
Unfortunately, Google Assistance will be release by Q4 of this year.
T-Mobile myTouch users will be able to Upgrade very soon to these new deivce (photo above), The two devices are codenamed the U8680 and U8730, both running Gingerbread 2.3.5 on WVGA 480x800 screens, The one on the right has a QWERTY keyboard along with a front facing VGA camera. No further specs Available currently.
You will remember that HTC kicked off its own foray into the myTouch line back in 2009 with the rebranded HTC Magic, and LG also partook in the festivities with their LG Maxx Touch. Expect the competitively priced myTouch phones to land sometime by the End of May.
The Acer CloudMobile was recently shown off at an event in Milan, Italy to the press. We found a Hands-on video on Youtube but Sadly its not in English!
The Acer CloudMobile is easily the most interesting phone to have come out of Acer. In fact, it won an iF design award even before it was officially launched. But it is not just the design that is great about it. The CloudMobile also comes loaded with some pretty great features.
Acer Cloud Mobile specs Starts with an Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box, which instantly earns it major brownie points. Next it has a 4.3-inch, 720p display with on-screen virtual controls, just like on the Galaxy Nexus. The device in the video above also has a separate row of capacitive keys below the display but that can be excused since it is a prototype device. The device shown in the press images does not have these extra keys.
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Box for Android is giving a whopping 50 GB of free storage to any Android user who activates an account within the next 30 days. Box is in the red-hot cloud storage space and this offer will make it more of a competitor to Dropbox. But even if you never use it for before, that 50 GB of storage will be yours for free for the life of your Box account.
Box Also Update its Android app to include a revamped user interface that Box worked with Google on and this brings many Android Ice Cream Sandwich elements to the app. That new user interface will be coming to all versions of Android though and it will also include multiple file uploads.
How to Get your FREE 50GB ?
1- Go to the Market to Download & Install Box App on your Android phone.
2- Open The App and Go to the Register tab.
3- Register by Entering your Email and Password.
4- Click Register!
5- DONE! You got your Lifetime FREE 50GB Cloud Storage! (Photo above)
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The popular free call making and SMS sending Viber for Android has received the long-waited update for Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 devices.
Not only the update allows Viber to work properly on Ice Cream Sandwich devices, but also brings some bug fixes and new features to the table.
One of the most important ones is a new Voice engine, which should improve voice quality over the previous versions. The app can now even detect your location with a single tap and share it with your messages. Also Viber can now send and receive photos and supports landscape mode for messages, if you desire a more thumb-able keyboard to tap. And last but not least, you can now see when somebody is actually typing you tanks to a typing indicator.
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It seems ZTE just could not wait for MWC to announce two of its upcoming Android smartphone. Both of these new phones will be running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box.
The first one is the PF200, which will be a high-end model. It has a 4.3-inch display with 960 x 540 resolution, 1.2GHz processor, 8 megapixel rear camera with a 1080p front facing video camera, LTE, DLNA, MHL and NFC connectivity.
The second one is the N910, which should be a mid-range model and will work on CDMA networks. It will have a 800 x 480 resolution display of unknown size, 1.5GHz processor (likely to be single-core), 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, 1080p front facing video camera, LTE, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and DLNA connectivity.
Android had pretty tasty Names from the begins: Alpha, Beta, Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich... and Now Jelly Bean. They all alphabetically organized with a name of a tasty-sweet inside. After announcing that the Android 5.0 Jelly Bean (JB) is coming in Q2, 2012... We start thinking about the Future version of Android 6.0 Name!
Rumors suggest that the Upcoming Name for the Android 6.0 will be "Kendal Mint Cake" (KMC) which begins with a "K" and its a 3 parts name like the Ice cream sandwich and its a sweet ofcourse. So this is the Most likely Name for the Android 6.0 which might be released by Early 2014.
Rockstar keeps delivering great news to gamers around the globe today. First it was the new trailer of the upcoming Max Payne 3 and now the game studio confirms that the original Max Payne game will hit iOS and Android devices "very soon".
The news came from a Q&A session hosted on the Rockstar website, where a fan asked whether Max Payne will be ported for mobile devices and Rockstar responded "Yes, it's on its way".
This is not going to be the first time Rockstar launches its older game titles on mobile platforms. In fact it is quite understandable that after the successful release of Grand Theft Auto III, Max Payne is on his way.
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