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Jan 15, 2014

Google Play Movies & TV app now available for iOS

Kelly Hodgkins

Google may compete with Apple in the mobile marketplace, but that hasn't stopped the company from peppering the iOS platform with a handful of apps. The Android maker has introduced apps for Google Earth,

ANDROID KITKAT 4.4, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3

Jan 15, 2014

EvolveSMS: A feature-rich KitKat themed SMS app for Android

Rajesh Pandey

Google may have made Hangouts the default SMS/MMS app in Android, but the integration is half-baked at best. Using Hangouts to send a SMS feels more like a chore than a simple task.

APPS

Jan 14, 2014

CyanogenMod team releases GalleryNext, their new Gallery app

Rajesh Pandey

Late last year, when the CyanogenMod team announced that it had received another $23 million in funding, it also hinted at a new Gallery app for its ROM. Today, the team has released the first

APPS

Jan 13, 2014

Twitter updates its website with a look that borrows from its Android app

Kelly Hodgkins

Twitter announced today that it is updating its website with a new look that borrows heavily from the social network's mobile apps. The change is a design change only. Unfortunately, there were no new

APPS

Jan 13, 2014

Remember Beats? They’re launching a Spotify and Google All Access competitor next week.

Stefan Constantinescu

Once upon a time, a famous 90s rap artist named Dr. Dre decided to enter the headphone business because he discovered how lucrative it would be to sell $99 headphones for $249 to people who

APPS

Jan 12, 2014

Greenify update adds support for non-rooted Android devices

Rajesh Pandey

Greenify is one of the most popular apps for rooted devices on the Play Store. The application automatically hibernates apps from running in the background thus saving precious resources and improving battery life. In combination

APPS

Jan 10, 2014

Top 5 Icon Packs for Android

Rajesh Pandey

Icon packs are a great way of customizing the looks of your Android device. While the stock launcher does not support icon packs, nearly all the popular third party launchers on Android do, which makes

APPS

Jan 9, 2014

Fitbit confirms it’ll bring caller ID to Force owners on Android, expand device support

Kelly Hodgkins

Fitbit confirmed today to SlashGear that the highly anticipated caller ID function is coming to iOS owners next month. It's coming to Android, too, but Fitbit didn't say when. SlashGear got a look

APPS

Jan 9, 2014

Boot Box makes changing the boot animation on your Android device a breeze

Rajesh Pandey

Ever felt like changing the stock boot animation of your Android device with something more funky or cool? Generally, changing boot animations is a tricky process even if you have root access. You will have

APPS

Jan 9, 2014

Minor Gmail update brings automatic loading of inline pictures in email

Rajesh Pandey

Last month, Google had announced that it would soon enable the option to automatically show inline images in emails without putting the user's security and privacy at risk. The feature has since then been

APPS

Jan 8, 2014

Video: Fleksy brings a QWERTY keyboard to Samsung’s smart watch, the Galaxy Gear

Stefan Constantinescu

Samsung's Galaxy Gear isn't just some dumb Bluetooth screen that displays notifications. It's a full blown Android device with an OLED screen, 800 MHz processor, and half a gigabyte of RAM. Because

APPS

Jan 8, 2014

Facebook acquires Android app analysis firm Little Eye Labs

Kelly Hodgkins

Little Eye Labs announced today that it is being acquired by Facebook. Based in India, the startup company released its first product, a mobile app analysis tool for Android, in April of last year.The

APPS

Jan 8, 2014

CES 2014: Yahoo acquires Android homescreen app Aviate, opens beta to 25K new users

Kelly Hodgkins

Yahoo used its CES 2014 presentation to take the wraps off its new Yahoo Food site, its Yahoo Tech news sites and some smaller news in the mobile app arena. Of interest to Android owners

APPS

Jan 6, 2014

Falcon Pro updated to v2.1: Brings Butter, Streaming over 3G and more

Rajesh Pandey

Falcon Pro was, arguably, the best Twitter client for Android before it reached the 100k token limit. After that, the developer decided to remove the app from the Play Store, made it available as a

APPS

Jan 5, 2014

jOdin3 is a web-based flashing tool for your Galaxy branded Android device

Rajesh Pandey

Rooting or flashing an Android device is not an easy as jailbreaking an iPhone. While an iPhone can be jailbroken from a web browser, rooting/flashing an Android device will require you to have access

APPS

Jan 4, 2014

Developers of Timely Alarm Clock acquired by Google

Rajesh Pandey

Team Bitspin, the developers of Timely, a ridiculously beautiful app for Android has been acquired by Google. The app had been highlighted by Google on the Play Store quite a few times, and recently received

APPS

Jan 3, 2014

BBM beta for Android update brings Voice and Channels support

Rajesh Pandey

In order to keep the interest in BBM for Android alive, BlackBerry today released a new beta of the app with BBM Channels and BBM Voice. Sadly, BBM Beta is a closed community and if

APPS

Jan 2, 2014

Snapchat responds to leak that exposed details on 4.6 million users

Kelly Hodgkins

On New Year's Eve, hackers released the partially redacted phone numbers and user names of 4.6 million Snapchat users. Snapchat responded today to the security breach with a statement explaining what happened. The