Amazon recently announced the company’s first smartphone, the ‘Amazon Fire’. The smartphone comes with a number of unique qualities and features. However, it certainly has a few faults as well. Here are the top 5 good and bad things you need to know about the Amazon Fire Phone: 1) It has no Google services Android is free for any company to download and use. It’s an open source operating system that doesn’t make any money for Google. However, Google still makes money by…
If you ask an average person if they prefer ART or Dalvik, they might think you’re talking about alien species. However, ART and Dalvik play a critical role in your favorite Android devices. ART and Dalvik are two types of virtual machines. Android relies on ART or Dalvik in order to run (it can’t run both at the same time). Ever since Android was first developed, it has used the Dalvik virtual machine. However, in Android 4.4 KitKat, there were signs of an upcoming change: Android…
Do you know who John Legere is? Probably not. The new T-Mobile CEO seemed to come out of nowhere to take over the company – which is in fourth place behind Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint in America’s carrier markets. At last week’s press event, T-Mobile came out swinging and crafted one of the most entertaining carrier presentations we’ve ever seen (although let’s be honest, it’s not like there was a high bar to begin with). The Un-Carrier 5.0 event by T-Mobile will…
A few years ago, Android was just a twinkle in Google’s eyes. Today, it’s the world’s most popular operating system. It took a few bumps and bruises along the way – and many challenges remain – but Android has without question become a driving force in the tech world. How did Android get to where it is today? It wasn’t easy. An ArsTechnica writer recently took on the challenge of writing a total history of Android – including all its version updates over the…
Rad.io The Rad.io app designed by Radio.de is a feature packed app that is more like an all in one app for radio stations across the globe. Of all the radio apps on the Android space, what makes this app in particular so special is the fact that it amalgamates a little something from every other elite radio app in the market. Well it’s not exactly that unique in comparison to other radio apps on Google Play Store; however, the simple idea of the features, that help make this app worth…
The Angry Birds marketing machine knows no boundaries. That marketing machine has pumped out version after version of the popular bird battling game. Some versions have focused on the pure Angry Birds experience, while other versions have teamed up with other major franchises – like Star Wars and Rio. Now, we’re going to have one more entry into the Angry Birds franchise: Angry Birds Transformers. Just in time for the release of Transformers 4 this summer, Rovio has teamed up with…
The OnePlus One is one of the most mysterious Android smartphones ever released. The company has advertised itself as a hungry startup but is closely affiliated with Chinese manufacturer OPPO. The initial OnePlus One release involved just 100 smartphones given to people around the world who filmed themselves destroying their old “flagship” phones. Billing itself as a flagship phone killer, the OnePlus One has lofty ambitions for itself. And a recent waterproof test video that…
Logo Quiz Here’s a game in the form of an Android app that’s more like a fun playing game with everything packed in for a good party or a gathering set of fun games. The fun that you’d have playing Taboo can be incorporated into the same game with tonnes of fun filled in to this simplistic game that is quite a visual treat to say the least about it. Logo Quiz is a cute little quiz game that tests your knowledge of what all you know about the world around you. You have to be…
Welcome to the new age world where the video calling just as you once saw in the Jetsons comes to life! Now we’ve all heard and seen and used Skype at one point in time in our lives and ooVoo being a similar such app is a great for video conferencing and chatting though videos and images. ooVoo been designed by the parent company ooVoo LLC, is an Android app that has been awarded the Best Social Networking App 2013 Tabby Award, Best App Technology 2013 Appster Award and Best Android App…
When hunger pangs strike hard and there is a lack of a competent chef in your vicinity, what do you do? Well, you look for food to order and/or call someone to get you do it. Well, what if it’s 3 am in the morning, and there’s no store opened and nobody at home but you and a fridge full of cooking ingredients? You look up to your Android device and search for the food app that will take you through a crash course in culinary perfection and appease your hunger in a few moments. Evernote…
