World Mobile News

Posted in: Android 17 hours ago by Peter So far, the Google Mobile blog has been the major source of info on Android, coming from the source. The blog, however, covers a lot of other Google mobile services (like Google’s mobile sites and apps for other mobile OSes), so when the Mountain View team received an overwhelming amount of requests for an Android-only blog, they delivered. The Official Android blog will be the go-to place to learn what’s new with the Google mobile operating system. A major Google Wallet announcement is the first piece of news to be broken by the blog. By the way, even though the Official Android blog launched just yesterday, it has plenty of content already – the Google team has aggregated various Android-related posts from all the other Google blogs and put them in one place. Here’s the blog, Android users will probably want to bookmark it for future reference. Source View the original article here

Posted in: Android, Mobile Accessories, Tablets 14 hours ago by Kyle I am sure there are lots of people interested into pairing their new Nexus 7 slate with some original accessories. So here are all the official ASUS extras for the first Google tablet. There are plenty of stuff to go with the slate – a rotating stand case, a Bluetooth keyboard case, a folio case with wallet, a basic leather stand, a screen protector, a Nexus dock and a flip case. The official Asus rotating stand is made of leather and is available on pre-order for £28. The Bluetooth keyboard dock looks quite impressive. It’s also made of leather, the keyboard looks nice and has an automatic paring function. The price is £80. Nexus 7 folio case with wallet pretty much speaks for itself. It costs £40. The official stand (landscape only) goes for £23, the protector is £15, the official landscape dock with a 3.5mm jack and a microUSB port costs £32 and the flip case (in 6 different colors) is £20. As you can see, ASUS h...

Back to school season is here in the United States – as August and September come, millions of college students will head back to campuses. At just $49, the Nokia Lumia 900 is an amazing value for back-to-school minded students and parents. So, after you get that Lumia phone, what are the best applications for students as the re-enter the gates of academia? Let’s take a look. Please consider Mary, our fictitious student who attends Seton Hall University. Mary is really lucky because as an incoming freshman at Seton Hall, she’s received a Nokia Lumia 900 and is new the Windows Phone, so she’s thirsty for the latest apps and services that will enhance her daily experience as a student. First off, Mary has some friends who keep talking about being able to swap files using a shared file service. She has a few friends who love DropBox and some other friends who already have Hotmail accounts, so naturally, they’re SkyDrive users. No problem, because on her Lumia 900, Mary can either use th...

A pair of new Motorola Android smartphones have launched by US Cellular. Their cutting-edge Android-powered smartphones are the Motorola Electrify 2 and the Motorola Defy XT. Both handsets are plans available in online/stores this month. Motorola Defy XT (XT535) smartphone has a durable design with waterproof and dust-proof handset. The Defy XT sports a single-core 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. The phone packs a 3.7-inch FWVGA scratch-resistant touchscreen display, a 5 megapixel camera on the back, and a front-facing VGA camera, as well as a 1650mAh battery. The Motorola Defy XT will be available on August 3, 2012. The Motorola Electrify 2 is the successor to the previous model, Motorola Electrify that already available since September 2011 in US Cellular for cost $129.99. New Electrify 2 smartphone is sold for $349.99 no-contract or $199.99 after a $100 rebate and with a new 2-year service agreement. It is currently available in onli...

Posted in: Android, iOS, Tablets 14 hours ago by Peter While Android was the undisputed ruler in the smartphone world, it’s a different story when it comes to tablets – Apple’s iPad had a record quarter and accounted for 68.2% of tablet shipments during Q2 of this year. For comparison, the biggest maker of Android tablets is Samsung and their share is just 9.6%. Going back to Apple for a moment, they beat their record Q4 2011 quarter despite shipments in mature markets losing some of their momentum, according to IDC. The other markets picked up the slack. Samsung’s shipments grew by 117.6% and solidified its second place, even though they’ve got a long, long way to go before catching up with Apple. Amazon and their single Kindle Fire tablet are doing pretty good for themselves too, snatching a 5% share of the market – this is especially impressive because the Kindle Fire was only introduced in Q4 of last year. (Preliminary) (Unit Shipments are in thousands) ASUS more than doubled the...

Posted in: Gaming, iOS 13 hours ago by Vince Dead Trigger is available for download free of charge on the Apple App Store. After the tough decision was made for Android a while back, now Madfinger Games has decided to do the same for iOS. The problem boils down to piracy, according to the game studio’s CEO Marek Rabas. He points out that the number of pirates on iOS is roughly the same as the amount of jailbroken devices. He goes on to saying that Google and Apple aren’t providing enough protection for game studios like Madfinger. Now, the studio will have to cash in only on the freemium monetization model of the game. To compensate the gamers who have bought Dead Trigger when it was $0.99, Madfinger Games will provide them with 25 gold and 10 casino chips when the game hits its update version 1.1.2. Source | Via View the original article here

Pantech and AT&T have recently officially introduced their latest QWERTY phone for the US customers, the Pantech Renue. This messaging phone is already available for price tag $69.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a 2-year contract. New Pantech Renue rugged phone comes with a sliding QWERTY keyboard and also meeting 810G military standard that resistance to sand, dust, humidity, temperature, vibration, and radiation. According to source, the handset is also green device that its 67 percent case is made out of recyclable materials, and its 95 percent packaging is recycled paper and non-POV soy ink. As specs-wise, the AT&T Pantech Renue has feature a 3.2-inch QVGA touchscreen display, and a 3MP rear camera. Other feature is Bluetooth, HSDPA, full Web browser, and a microSD card slot (up to 32GB). View the original article here

Amazon unveiled a pretty major update to their Cloud Player service that launched early last year. The update makes the Player more independent from Cloud Drive and offers a free, automatic audio quality upgrade, similar to iTunes Match. The audio upgrade program is pretty neat – music on your hard drive will be scanned and matching songs (that Amazon has the rights to) will be upgraded to a high-quality 256Kbps version and they won’t even have to be uploaded. That will work on songs already in your Cloud Drive (plus you can access the original files). From now on, when you buy a song from Amazon, it will be automatically be imported into Cloud Player too. Songs you’ve purchased previously will be imported too (again, if Amazon has the rights to do so). You can now manually edit track metadata, but you can also just use the data provided by Amazon for your imported tracks. Music used to be stored in Cloud Drive but now the Player will use separate dedicated storage. Your current track...

Seattle, Washington – Sea To Software, LLC today is pleased to announce Map-A-Pic Location Scout 1.2, a powerful iPhone app for photographers and filmmakers. This major update adds a number of features such as the sunrise and sunset times, a picture editor, and a beautiful new user interface. “We’re getting a very positive response from our users about Map-A-Pic for iPhone. Today, we’re making the app even more useful by adding features that until now were only available as standalone apps: the picture editor, and the sunrise and sunset times, for any saved location, for any date,” says Pavel Sorokin, the founder of Sea To Software. “In addition, the app now displays the times of the morning and evening Golden hour, informing the user of the best times to shoot.” Map-A-Pic 1.2 lets the users edit the photos of their locations with a simple yet powerful picture editor. Enhancing the colors, cropping, and applying filters are now just a few taps away. Other improvements include an enhan...

Posted in: Various 15 hours ago by Vince After investigating complaints from its users getting crazy amounts of spam, Dropbox has announced that emails and passwords stolen from third-party websites have been used to hack into existing Dropbox accounts. One of the breach?d accounts is a Dropbox employee’s and it happened to contain some project files with a number of Dropbox client email addresses. Hence the spam spree. To fight back, Dropbox will be introducing new security measures to protect its users from such attacks. Here are the future features the company plans to implement: Two-factor authentication – a way to optionally require two proofs of identity (such as your password and a temporary code sent to your phone) when signing in. (Coming in a few weeks)New automated mechanisms to help identify suspicious activity. We’ll continue to add more of these over time.A new page that lets you examine all active logins to your account.In some cases, we may require you to change your ...

Marbella, Spain – LoopLR has developed and published a new iOS App version with video filters that enable you to manipulate your videos in a whole new way. Perfect complement to Facebook sharing easy, intuitive filters unleashing your own personal style through social video creation and sharing on LoopLR. Users will be able to personalize their videos on LoopLR that also can be accessed via Facebook and Twitter. Millions use social media to ‘get closer’ to others; on LoopLR real slices of real lives are shared – and with these powerful tools they can now have creative fun, as well. ‘We view the iPhone and iPad as vital to LoopLR as we work to harness the power of these devices to produce videos that reflect the emotions and life of the user,and the video filters are another step toward that goal. We are pushing hard to further develop this capability and will be releasing new versions of the iOS app over the coming months that will further enhance these capabilities’. While not every ...