Are you an Android user and Xbox Live user? If so, then you’ll like this latest news announcement: Android users can now earn Xbox Live achievements by playing games on Android. This feature isn’t available for all Android games. In fact, it’s only available for one game so far. That game is Wordament, which is arguably the best Windows-exclusive game available today. Wordament is a simple word puzzle game that tasks players with making as many words as possible out of a grid of…
HBO makes some of the best shows in the world of television today. From Game of Thrones to the Newsroom to Veep, HBO continues to churn out mega-hit after mega-hit. Unfortunately, many people today don’t have cable or don’t want to spend an extra few bucks per month ordering HBO. That’s why HBO decided to add a bunch of its shows to the Google Play Store. That’s right: Android users can now download episodes of almost all popular HBO shows. After purchase, the shows are downloaded…
Well, it’s finally happened, Android users. Google has sold out its Android Gmail users and started delivering advertisements to the platform. These advertisements are mildly intrusive, but not quite annoying enough to switch to another email provider. The Gmail 4.6 update will cause advertisements to appear in your promotional inbox of Gmail. A recent Gmail update split your emails into Promotions, Social, and Primary folders. And now it appears that Google plans to use the Promotions…
In the future, we may not use mice and keyboards. We will control our computers and TVs using gestures. That was Microsoft’s goal with the Xbox One and Kinect, and now it looks like Google is jumping on board the gesture recognition bandwagon. Google recently purchased Flutter, a gesture recognition startup company that lets people wave their hands around to control music, movies, and other computer applications. The company currently offers software for Windows and the Mac App Store,…
A few months after the Samsung Galaxy S4 was released, it was revealed that Samsung had installed a special BenchmarkBooster application that overclocked the smartphone when benchmark tests were running. Thus, the Samsung GS4 experienced a 10% to 14% in benchmark results - enough to put it past competitors like the HTC One. The GS4 detected popular benchmark programs like 3DM, AnTuTu, AndEBench, Basemark, and Vellamo and increased its clock speed when these applications were…
Android 4.3 was a relatively minor update in the history of Android. However, since most popular smartphones are stuck using Android 4.1, upgrading to Android 4.3 is certainly an improvement. While the rest of the world waits, HTC recently announced that their flagship smartphone, the HTC One, would be the first to get the Android 4.3 update. That update will be arriving before the end of October for all HTC One devices across all networks. In fact, if you own an HTC One on Sprint, you…
Nexus 5 rumors are swirling. That’s surprising, considering the Nexus 5 should be released before the end of this month. Despite that impending release date, we still don’t know anything official about the Nexus 5. One Click Root published an overview of the Nexus 5 specs last week, but recent rumors suggest that the Nexus 5 camera will have one more trick up its sleeve. Those rumors come courtesy of Italian Android website AndroidWorld.it, which states that the Nexus 5 will be the…
There are lots of good free games available on the Google Play Store. Unfortunately, a lot of those games come with a catch: they deliver a nonstop series of annoying advertisements to your notifications bar. Some of these advertisements appear in-game, which is annoying enough. But a select few apps also deliver advertisements when you’re not playing the game. These ads appear in your notification bar and trick users into thinking they’re real notifications. In fact, some ads even make…
Apple blew the world away with its recently-revealed golden iPhone 5S. Just kidding. Call it what you want to call it, but the golden iPhone 5S is outselling all other iPhone 5S colors. Over the past few weeks, Apple has sold over 9 million iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C units. Those sales figures have caused other smartphone manufacturers to take note. Yes, it’s just a color change, and no, it’s not real gold. But for whatever reason, people sure like to buy the iPhone 5S in…
The Nexus 5 will be one of Google’s largest phone releases of all time. While the Nexus 4 is an excellent phone, it faltered due to its lack of LTE support and limited availability at launch (and after launch). Google will aim to solve those problems with the release of the Nexus 5. The team at Androidworld.it recently revealed the Nexus 5 specs after digging deep inside a Nexus 5 log. Based on these specs, the Nexus 5 will be a very fine phone indeed: -5 inch 1080p display with 442ppi…
