iOS8 was recently announced and, although this is an Android blog, we still have to talk about Android’s biggest competitor. iOS8 isn’t the biggest iOS update ever, nor is it the smallest. It adds a number of new features that will appeal to niche groups of iPhone users. More importantly, iOS8 puts pressure on Google. Google needs to knock Android 4.5 (or Android 5.0) out of the park while addressing some key Android problems: like its malware distribution and fragmentation. Here…
Have you ever been lost in a foreign city? Most travelers have, at some point or another, totally lost their way in a confusing city. That’s usually when travellers break out the Google Maps app and wait for the satellite to find their location. But with a new app called Instago, you can combine the accuracy of Google Maps with the personalized viewpoint of Street View to figure out where you are and where you need to go. Personally, one of the most confusing parts about Google…
For whatever reason, “health” is the trend of the year in the smartphone world. The Galaxy S5 kicked off the craze with S Health and its heartbeat sensor, while Apple furthered health mania 2014 with its HealthKit app. Google recently released a large update for its MyTracks fitness tracking app. That app is available for free on the Google Play Store and provides many of the same features of other fitness tracking apps – but with all the tasty cross-platform compatibility…
When I first saw the picture of the Galaxy W, I legitimately thought it was a joke picture created by Apple fans to make fun of how large Android devices have become. Unfortunately, the Galaxy W is a real Android device that takes smartphones to a whole new dimension: 7 inches. The Galaxy W officially blurs the lines between smartphones and tablets. Announced by Samsung earlier this week, the Galaxy W has quickly been nicknamed the “Galaxy WTF” due to its bizarrely large size and…
Android enthusiasts are serious about rooting. They’re so serious, in fact, that they’ve offered an $18,000 bounty to anyone who can crack the Galaxy S5. That $18,000 bounty was crowdfunded by the folks at the XDA Developers Forum. Users of that forum are typically advanced Android users and app developers. When these users discovered that they couldn’t root their Verizon and AT&T Galaxy S5s using the same methods as other Galaxy S5 rooters, they freaked out. You can read the…
Yesterday was Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). At WWDC 2014, Apple announced iOS 8 and a new Mac operating system called Mac OS Yosemite. But I’m not here to talk about either of those things: I’m here to talk about what Apple CEO Tim Cook said about Android and its users because it’s actually pretty funny. Over the course of his speech, Tim Cook repeatedly slammed Android and worked the crowd into a frenzy feeding off their pro-Apple fervor. Cook,…
South Koreans love their Samsung devices. Samsung has traditionally enjoyed major domination over its local marketplace. However, something very surprising happened last week in South Korea. The Galaxy S5 – which has sold at record numbers since its launch – was outsold by another device – the LG G3. The LG G3 is reportedly clearing an unprecedented 25,000 to 30,000 units per day. To put that number into perspective, the Galaxy S5 has sold approximately 8,000 units per day since…
It’s a jungle out there with fights for musical supremacy on the Android platform and Deezer is no backbencher in the fight. Top developer Deezer Mobile comes to you with an app that will take your musical experience a few notches higher with what the rest of the market has to offer. With steep competition in the app world with titans like Spotify and Rdio reigning Google Play Store, this app is certainly making its mark too with its huge follower base that has over 300 thousand users who…
The apps you have on your Android phone so far allow you to communicate with people on the online world. They also allow you to play games and compare score to individuals playing the same game on the same online space. They essentially allow you to be on top of all your important personal and work commitments at the touch of a button no matter where you go. Enter Uber – a one-of-a-kind travel app for the Android platform that enables you to communicate with the outdoor world but that’s…
Android own checklist for you: Todoist Lists. We all make them and use them to remind ourselves so that we don’t forget things, and yet we often end up forgetting them all when we lose track of the list itself. Today, we are fortunate enough to live in the smartphone generation where apps on our devices allow us to do so at our convenience and make sure we don’t forget a thing. Todoist happens to be the perfect cure for forgetful folks to help them get their priorities and chores…
