Android 4.4 KitKat came with a number of valuable improvements. However, there’s one thing strangely missing from Android 4.4 KitKat: a battery bar percentage readout. For whatever reason, Android 4.4 KitKat doesn’t make it easy to display battery percentage readouts in your notification bar. The feature is not even hidden under a bizarre layer of settings. It just doesn’t exist. Most Nexus 5 users don’t want to guess how much battery life they have left, which is why we’ve come…
The world’s most popular Android ROM, CyanogenMod, constantly breaks down barriers. CM is often the first major ROM to be updated after a new Android version is released, making it the go-to ROM for rooted Android users around the world. CyanogenMod 10.2 was recently released in its ‘M1’ phase. What does that mean? It’s a phase between the nightly releases and the stable final version release. Once a CM version hits the ‘M2’ phase, it’s considered to be stable (in other words,…
In this day and age, the choices for entertainment are innumerable; however, they are still very segregated from each other and we still haven’t seen a singular almighty platform emerge that converges them for easy access with a lot of success. There is music and videos and video games and just simple multimedia cluttered all around the digital space. What wasn’t there earlier was a common platform to have all these things together, especially for smartphone and tablet users. Well, now…
Locale as its name suggests is an Android app that is designed to deal with locations around you. Any location you wish to explore, have been to and want to save. What does it do with your locations, you ask? Let’s just say that this app is meant to optimize your Android experience as per your daily routine and preferences by constantly personalizing your various profiles such as Home, Work, Outdoor and others to optimize it according to your surroundings. Although it may sound really…
Call of Duty: Ghosts is a radical departure from Call of Duty games of ages past. Just kidding. It’s exactly the same game except with a few new maps and dogs. Some companies would call this update ‘DLC’ and charge only $5 to $10 for it, but Activision decided to go the opposite direction and market Ghosts as a new game worth spending $60 for. Well, if you’re one of millions of gamers (the game sold over a billion dollars’ worth of copies –but only to retailers - in its first…
Public transport is the lifeline of every city across the world; however, it’s no surprise that something that facilitates our movement in a multitude of ways 24/7 is enabled by a highly complex and organized network that runs on an ultra-tight schedule. This complexity can be rather overwhelming for many passengers who want to get from point A to point B without taking the wrong route and ending up late or stuck in the middle of nowhere. Buses are efficient but seriously confusing modes of…
Google Maps is the world’s best navigation and mapping app (sorry Apple Maps and Nokia Maps). With the latest update, Google Maps got a lot better at planning out the best route to your destination. Google Maps has now integrated Waze traffic reports into Google Maps. What does that mean? Waze is a real-time traffic report service that delivers information on traffic incidents and accidents around your city. With Waze integration, Google Maps will now alert you to any incidences along…
Android 4.4 is officially a thing for Nexus 5 owners. For the rest of us, it’s not a ‘thing’ and it won’t be a ‘thing’ for a while. Nevertheless, the Nexus 5 has some cool Android 4.4-exclusive features that might be worth an upgrade – especially if you haven’t upgraded your phone in a long time. 5) You can create unlimited home screen panels Some people only use two or three home screens. Other people fill up every single home screen with useful information and apps.…
Android 5.0 was rumored to be the next version of Android for quite some time. After Android 4.3 was released, people figured that Google was gearing up for a big release for Android 5.0, which, as everybody knew, was going to be called Key Lime Pie because what other dessert starts with ‘K’? No other dessert starts with ‘K’ without being trademarked, which is why everybody figured that Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie was a lock. And then Google teamed up with Nestle to make Android 4.4 Kit…
The LG G2 will be remembered as one of the best Android smartphones of 2013. Alongside the HTC One, Note 3, GS4, and Xperia Z, the LG G2 is one of the bestselling devices of the year. Want to get more out of your LG G2? Here are some tips and tricks you can implement today for a better Android experience: Use the ‘Show Desktop’ shortcut One of the most useful buttons in Windows History is the Show Desktop button (Windows Key + D). It instantly minimizes all your programs and shows your…
