It had to happen at sometime. Intel could not have afforded to ignore the reach and potential of the Android ecosystem any longer. It has been catering to the premium arena of slates riding on Apple but mainstream tablets have been on Android for some time now and presents a market that is irresistible. Low Cost Tablets – A Golden Opportunity For Intel Till now, Intel was content to sell Windows tablets at a price range that was not exactly affordable but was considered low cost by it. The…
The Android L is an exciting OS to look forward to. If you have been reading a lot about it and wondering what to make of it, the following tips would be of great help. So here goes: a) You will be able to enjoy the Flappy Bird game by just getting into the Android version from Settings. Once there, just press on the Lollipop text and hold to activate the game. b) You do not have to use the power button to wake up your phone. Just tapping the display will do. c) You would be able to…
If you’re one of the millions of iPhone users who have switched to Android over the last few years, then you may have encountered one of the most annoying bugs in the world: the infamous iMessage Android bug. This “bug” has been around since 2011, when Apple released iMessage and irrevocably linked the phone numbers of iPhone users to their Apple accounts. When some of these iPhone users switched over to Android, Apple made it difficult to de-register an old phone number from…
The Nexus 9 had scarcely been on the market for a few hours before Chainfire had already rooted it. The world-famous Android rooting expert released the Nexus 9 root on his official site, Chainfire.eu. You can download the root file here. The Nexus 9 is the world’s first Android device to come pre-loaded with Android 5.0 Lollipop, which means this is the world’s first Android 5.0 Lollipop root. Rooting the Nexus 9 is surprisingly easy (for you, not for Chainfire). To root your…
LG G3 owners received exciting news earlier this week: they will be the first non-Nexus users to receive the Android 5.0 Lollipop update. LG announced the news in a blog post titled “Flagship G3 to be the First LG Smartphone to Receive Newest and Smartphone Features of Lollipop OS.” Notable Lollipop features on the G3 will include all of the following exciting features: -Enhanced notifications bar and quick settings menu -Dynamic status bar -Multi user accounts and support…
Samsung continued its aggressive Note 4 marketing campaign this past week with three new advertisements asking users “Do You Note?” The commercials aren’t nearly as weird as Samsung’s other endeavors, some of which have been amazingly awful. The latest series of advertisements highlights some of the best Galaxy Note 4 features, including the S-Pen, multitasking, Photo Note, and a new croppable screenshot thing (I don’t know which fancy marketing term Samsung has used to describe…
There are probably just a mere handful of us who have not been into comics. There is a time in everyone’s lives, when we are young, when the word 'workbook’ is automatically associated with ‘comics’. There is a wide range of comics and a wider range of genres, but everyone has had that one favorite superhero comic, stacks of which we will still find in each other’s book cabinets, proudly displayed as a symbol of awesome childhood. Comics have had a special connection with those…
If you are a true musician who excels in one or more than one instrument, or if you always wanted to recreate the joys of learning to play one, then you are in for a treat. For all those hidden musicians who feel that they can make up magical melodies and thumping beats that can get the world grooving, they can now do so unhindered in a virtual world thanks to the Walk Band app for Android. Walk Band is a toolkit of virtual musical instruments customized for Android. It contains tons of…
With the holiday season just round the corner, our expenses tend to spike up by a significant amount. Not just the regular inflated expenditure, we also have a tendency to get a little carried away with it and go overboard with buying presents for everyone along with the rest of the festival expenditure. It is not that we mind doing it, if we had unlimited money I know all of us would love to splurge it on our loved ones but since we do not belong to the Trump family, we really need to keep…
I am a firm believer that nothing can replace the hard copy of a book. The smell of the pages, the fresh print, the sound it makes when you turn the page, the satisfaction you get after finishing every chapter, feeling the increasing thickness of the number of pages you have completed and the decreasing thickness of the amount that is left, reading the whole of it and finally closing the book and pressing it against your chest for a while, while going through how exciting the book was in your…
