Category: Android
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Apple Reuse and Recycling Program Now Taking Android Smartphones Too
Apple has announced that its Reuse and Recycling trade-in, which allows you to trade in your old hardware for store or online credit, program will now extend to other makes of smartphones too. Up until now Apple has limited its Reuse and Recycling Program to its own hardware. Now it will give a store credit […]
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LG Magna, Spirit, Leon and Joy Mid-Range Smartphones Released
LG has announced the retail launch of a quartet of middleweight Android smartphones which were first revealed at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Specific regional release dates and prices are still to be detailed but LG’s press release states that the handsets titled Magna, Spirit, Leon and Joy will be rolling out globally from today, […]
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Android Auto app now available on Google Play Store
For anyone who is not familiar with Android Auto, it was announced at Google I/O last June, and essentially is a telematics standard that has been developed by Google which allows users to connect their Android device to their vehicles to give them functionality including music playback, reading of text messages, telephony and also the […]
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Amazon Appstore Celebrates 4 Years with Free Games!
Amazon’s Appstore has reached four years in service since opening it’s digital doors on March 22nd 2011, and to celebrate this fact a selection of top paid apps and games will be free for a limited time only! Titles available absolutely gratis between the 19th to the 21st of March include the terrifying toy thriller […]
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Microsoft offers to convert your Android Phone to Windows 10
Microsoft are so keen on their upcoming Windows 10 Mobile operating system they are even trying to get android users to switch, Microsoft have recently disclosed that its trailing a version of Windows 10 that can be installed on Android devices. The trial currently only being run with a select group of Xiaomi Mi 4 […]
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Sony Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact to receive Android 5.0 Lollipop in next 2 weeks?
Sony have announced today that it will be bringing the Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system to two of its big named handsets in the coming weeks. The announcement came from the Sony blogs sites which details all of the updates for the Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact. We already knew that Sony had plans to bring the Lollipop […]
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Microsoft’s Cortana Is Coming To iOS And Android
As I’m sure you’ll be aware, Cortana is a “digital assistant” similar to Apple’s Siri which was first demonstrated at Microsoft’s BUILD Developer Conference in San Francisco last April. The digital assistant is currently still in Beta and is available exclusively to all Windows Phone 8.1 devices and also Microsoft’s Band wearable device. Microsoft also […]
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Google Opens New Store for Devices
From now on if you’re looking to buy a tablet, smart watch or mobile phone from Google’s Play Store, you’ll soon be relocated to a brand new Google store for devices only. The amount of kit you can buy on the Play Store has increased so much that Google have decided that it can all […]
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How To Check for Android Updates
Android Lollipop 5.1 is on its way out now and will be reaching eligible devices in due course. Update schedules can be dependent on the device manufacturer and the network provider and some may get the latest Android sooner than others. The best advice we can really give is be patient. You will be notified […]
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Twitter Introduces New Profiles for Android Users
Twitter has recently been tweaking its Android app to make it work more naturally with smartphone and tablet gestures and now this can be noticed on user profile pages which have received quite a significant make-over. Utilising the side swipe gesture on the Android’s touchscreen (which Twitter only recently seems to have discovered) we can […]
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Google Developing Android for Virtual Reality
Google’s vision for VR could soon include a version of Android specifically designed for the interactive visual media. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is looking at dedicating an entire mobile OS just for virtual reality use, with a team of dozens already working in secret on developing the platform which is being referred […]
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Google Releases Android 5.1 with Device Protection & HD Voice Calls
Google has announced the arrival of Android 5.1 – an update to its current Lollipop OS for smartphones and tablets. The firmware boost will not only deliver the usual improvements to stability and overall performance but will also be an opportunity for Google to roll out a few new ‘tasty additions’ including Device Protection. Device […]