There is a lot of positive anticipation and expectation from the Android L. While users of Jelly Bean and Kit Kat are not exactly complaining about their smart phones, the launch of something new and major like Android L will always be looked forward to by consumers intoxicated with the idea of always having the most cutting edge hardware and software. Smart Phone Market Growth Fuelling Innovation The smart phone market has been growing exponentially in the last couple of years. Countries…
Android tablet users have more to cheer about with Microsoft releasing OneNote. It will have handwriting input and will thus enable Android users to experience something that Microsoft had envisaged for their Microsoft Surface creation. Readers will remember that when the release of Surface Pro 3 happened, OneNote was one of the prominent applications on that device. Users could modify and use typed notes, text and written annotations the way they wanted. They could also mix as well as match…
It is very rightly said: “With great power comes great responsibility”, however, what they did not mention is that great responsibility leads to a greater tendency for accidents to happen. This holds true in all aspects of life, including the inclusion of a number of devices that have become essential to our everyday lives. With technology growing by the minute, a lot of us end up owning several devices like laptops, tablets, mobile phones (more than one at times) and even desktops but to…
The smartwatch market is about to get a little more crowded this week. We already knew that Motorola was unveiling the Moto 360 smartwatch, but now, LG is preparing to release its own circular smartwatch this week. LG announced the smartwatch in a teaser trailer. In that trailer, LG showed a perfectly circular smartwatch that was “coming soon”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1STW7LQXONo Both smartwatches are running Android Wear. Based on the rapidly flashing screens in the…
Swing Copters was released last week to a lot of fanfare. It was the first game release from Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen since the infamous Flappy Bird. Swing Copters, by all accounts, is a great game and is very similar to Flappy Bird in both design and frustration levels. Unfortunately, Swing Copters had one major problem: it was crowded out of the Play Store by hundreds of low-quality clones and wannabe-competitors. When you typed “Swing Copters” into the Google Play…
When Google announced Android L a few weeks ago, they did something different. Instead of giving Android L a catchy, candy-based codename, Google simply called it Android L. People started to wonder if that would be the official name of the OS and if Google was ditching their Candyland adventures. Fortunately, that’s not true: Android L will officially be called Lemon Meringue Pie. According to some sleuthing by AndroidPolice.com, the acronym “LMP” appears multiple times in…
So you rooted Android. You went to install a “root only” app and that app had the audacity to tell you that root access was “missing or lost”. What does that mean? How can you solve this annoying problem? Today, I’m going to tell you how to fix this unique rooted Android problem. Step 1) Sorry to ask. I know it’s embarrassing. But is your Android device even rooted? Double check by installing this app from the Google Play Store. If it’s not rooted, install One Click Root…
Have you ever been lost in the woods? It’s one of the scariest feelings ever – especially when it’s starting to get darker out. Even the most experienced outdoorsperson can get lost in the woods from time to time. And when you lose your sense of direction, you go from “good hunting day” to “scariest moment of my life” very quickly. Anyways, your smartphone won’t help you in the woods without an internet connection. Unless, of course, you download this new app called…
Pac-Man was one of early video gaming’s most popular characters. Today, Pac-Man is coming back to Android. Namco recently released Pac-Man Friends for free on the Google Play Store. It’s a new, updated version of Pac-Man that lets players navigate Pac-Man through a maze while being constantly hounded and harassed by ghosts. The original cast of Pac-Man characters is still here but that’s about all that remains the same. Players tilt their phone around to navigate Pac-Man…
We all know that Android is the world’s best mobile operating system. But Android obviously isn’t perfect. It has some serious flaws – including the messiness of the Google Play Store and, more seriously, fragmentation. A research company called OpenSignal recently produced the image you see at the top of this article. That image separates the entire Android market into squares. Larger squares have more users while smaller squares are more obscure devices. It’s no secret that…
