Archive : Mobile

Digg has recently released an iOS version of Digg reader, on Thursday . Digg has released its news reader app for Android in the Google Play store. The app comes packed with most of the same features as it’s iOS variant. Digg details the features in a blog post. Quickly swipe back and forth through Digg’s Top Stories, as well as through any feed or folder in Digg Reader. Choose from [...]

iPhone’s next version is around the corner and Google is making moves to incite customers towards it Google Nexus 4 phone, Google has announced a price cut by 25 percent for the Nexus 4 smartphone in UK, US and in Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain and  Korea. Google Play Store’s Twitter account formally announced the price cut today. These huge discounts comea shortly before Apple is [...]

Opera which was popular desktop browser and only viable alternate to Internet Explorer a decade ago has found acceptance and success on both the Android and iOS platform with the Android app having half a million review, it is no surprise that the makers are looking at having a Windows Mobile app. According to WP-Hub, Opera developers have confirmed that they are working on Opera Mini app for Windows [...]

Facebook Platform access was unavailable to Facebook app developers yesterday resulting in some popular app including chute going offline. Facebook was prompt is addressing the outage issue which was attributed to monitoring to remove malicious app. “The Facebook Platform and our users are constantly under attack from malicious apps and we have many automated systems to protect the platform and [...]

Apple will launch a Retina iPad mini and a slimmer iPad by the end of 2013 according to Bloomberg who quotes sources familiar with the Cupertino company’s plans. Apple is expected to debut a redesigned 9.7-inch iPad next quarter along with the anticipated iPad mini with Retina display. Other reports have also supported the theory that the next generation iPad mini will get the retina display [...]

IDC has released its quarterly report on the smartphone market and it’s bad news for Apple, world over shipments of tablets came down in Q2 of 2013 to 32% of market share because Apple did not release a new model of its trend setting iPad, although Apple retains top tablet spot and shipped more tablets than Samsung, ASUS, Lenovo and Acer combined. Apple shipped 14.6 million iPads, while Samsung [...]

Google’s All Access music streaming service which debuted in is now available in UK and several countries across Europe, including France, Ireland and  Spain and the U.K. Google on Wednesday updated its international availability page for its Play Store. For early sign ups the price is €7.99 if they sign up before September 15 after which it will cost €9.99. There’s still no word on when [...]

Unable to find your Android phone?, Google is giving you an app to locate your phone. Google has announced that it will launch Android Device Manager, a device location and security service app for Android phones and tablets  in the next few weeks, this feature was on the wishlist of many Android users who had to rely on third party apps like  Where’s My Droid or Lookout Security & [...]

Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition phones have started getting an OTA (over-the-air) upgrade to Android 4.3 today evening. ‘ I just got the 4.3 OTA notification on both of my Google-suppled GPe phones. The update is around 150 MB for the SGS4 and 180 MB for the HTC One, and comes as build JWR66V. This comes immediately after both HTC and Samsung released their Android 4.3 kernel [...]

Android Gingerbread 2.3 operating system simply refuses to fade away even though it’s a  two year old mobile software primarily as the low cost devices with frugal hardware could only support that. Not surprisingly, its found on  33% of Android devices as per   Android Developers Page. Android Jelly Bean leads with a 40% share of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich  still has 22.5% share and [...]