The Thanksgiving holiday spending this past year was at an all time high as far as mobile shopping went. A report from Digital Analytics Benchmark says that iOS smart phone shoppers spent more than Android smart phone shoppers by a whopping 25%. The average spend of the Android shopper was $97 per order while the iOS shopper spent $118 per order. It is pertinent to note here that this was the average spend on a per user basis and not the total spending within the US or globally for each of…
The latter half of this year and possibly the whole of 2015 may be Android Lollipop-centric but it is time we appreciate the strides this OS has taken ever since it was launched. Indeed, the ecosystem of smart phones across the world has changed a lot in the last 2 years especially with Android holding sway over 80% of them. To achieve such a staggering market share in a relatively short time and leave behind majors like Apple and Microsoft is no ordinary feat. Fragmentation Remains An…
The psychology of some of the users behind receiving Android updates is a strange one. While some are happy they are getting them and feel they are in sync with the latest developments, others feel irritated and wonder if their device is getting obsolete. They also begin to think that these updates from the manufacturer are evidence of the forgetfulness of the manufacturer in not getting it right the first time they made the device. So Why Should There Be Updates Google is always…
Microsoft has come up with one more app for the Android users of smart phones. It is called Torque and enables the user to just shake the phone to conduct a voice search. This is similar to the Google OK functionality and the only difference is this app can be used by shaking while you have to speak the keyword into the Google app. This app will like the Google OK one provide instant answers and useful information pertaining to flight timings; stock rates, weather updates, sports scores and…
While everyone is fearlessly opting to root their android devices because of the whole new world it opens up for our device, what exactly happens after we root the device? You must have read and heard a lot about the benefits of rooting - how it enhances the phone performance, how it allows you to super customize the phone, how it lets the pre-installed settings bow down at your feet, how it opens up a plethora of apps that can be used only on unlocked devices, basically, how it gives you more…
While I keep covering apps that help us in being an aid to our memory because those apps are actually a blessing because they can prevent serious problems (and I am sure that the creators of such apps have been victims to such situations wherein one forgets their credit card pin or their mail password and is doomed in that really important moment). We keep making everyone count the insane number of passwords one has to remember in order to make sure that their property and their lives remain…
The Android Kit Kat 4.4 OS has introduced many changes that are making it increasingly difficult for anybody to carry out systemic changes in the OS. Initiatives such as the SELinux, and dm-verity kernel are being used for booting as well as to verify storage of files. These also help in detecting any modifications that have been done within the device at the block level itself instead of waiting for them to surface at the file level. The dm-verity basically helps in the prevention of any…
The tremendous strides made by Android as an operating platform for mobile phones and tablets has not gone unnoticed by malware developers and hackers. More than a billion devices have been sold and that offers tremendous opportunities to such developers. They are also helped by the fact that most users still do not perceive their device as something that can be hacked into and are lax about security. They do not understand or think that the Android gadget is just like their desktop or…
While we have many apps that clean up our smart phones and assist us with various phone related things, like assisting us with our calls, blocking unnecessary marketing calls, integrating various social media platforms, managing our batteries, giving us directions and much more. We take care of almost everything on our phones but sometimes forget that a clutter forms with so much of texting, and cleaning is required. Unfortunately, we have become too busy to clean our own phone mess.…
While there are both kinds of people in tho world - the ones who root their android advices and the ones who don’t - not all of us know why exactly we do it or why we don’t do it. Yes, its true, don’t be embarrassed, some of us rot our devices because everyone else around us is doing it and some of us don’t do it because we wind it too intimidating and are unaware of what it actually is, so instead of finding out about it, we simply decide not to do it. So instead of…
