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- More details leak about Moto X, including customizations
- Fresh Meat: 10 new Android apps worth checking out
- Motorola won’t let Verizon DROID-ify the Moto X
- Moto X registration page goes live
- HTC One Max, HTC One mini confirmed by O2 Germany document
- Meet Android and Me: Nick Sarafolean
- Black HTC One mini highlights subtle hardware tweaks
- Falcon Pro finds hidden loophole to allow new users
- 20 million Samsung Galaxy S4s shipped
- Top 10 American Independence Day themed apps
| More details leak about Moto X, including customizations Posted: 03 Jul 2013 02:13 PM PDT The Moto X is quickly becoming the most hyped device of the year, and a new leak just adds more information to the rumor mill. These rumors have been floating around for a while, and we’ve confirmed many of them before, but it’s good to hear them from a few sources. The newest info reveals the degree of customization that will be available on the Moto X. You will be able to customize the color of at least two external parts. There will be the back panel and the trim, which can be individually colored, matched or mismatched. There will also be the option of engraving the device with your own message or name. And strangely, you’ll be able to upload a personal photo and have it be used as the device’s wallpaper. This is something you can do yourself, so it’s strange that they would offer it. The above image shows three of the colors to be available, out of the sixteen to be offered. That’s a pretty impressive set of colors. This is only for the back cover, so we’ll see how they will handle the front of the device. Black front with colored trim and back sounds fantastic to me. The device will also come with a large array of sensors we previously mentioned. Opening the camera app will be as simple as flicking the phone, instead of having to find the icon. It’ll also have voice recognition that will be listening for commands, making the device easier to use. And of course, it’ll know when you’re driving or walking and react accordingly, like turning on the speaker phone when you’re in the car. Other small tidbits include the device running Android 4.2.2, which has been known for a while and expected from a Google company, and shipping customized devices within days of the purchase. The devices will also be available in stores, which of course means buying it without customization. With all these confirmations and official statements, the Moto X is quickly coming together. With a release date of “soon” from Motorola, we don’t know when we will see it, but I personally can’t wait to get my Android and Me green Moto X to play with. Are you getting more excited for this device? |
| Fresh Meat: 10 new Android apps worth checking out Posted: 03 Jul 2013 02:09 PM PDT New apps need lovin' too, right? Every day there are thousands of new entries on the Google Play store, but many go unnoticed and never receive the attention they deserve. We’ve shown in the past that this community can discover great apps and launch them to new heights. So, we're bringing back our weekly column Fresh Meat that highlights new apps with less than 100k installs. Browse our new Android app picks below and let us know which ones you enjoy. #Square
Description: #Square is simple photo editor for Instagram, like Photo Squarer or SquareIt, that helps you to avoid photos crop by making your photos square sized, adding borders of any size and color, rotating your photo. After you’ve finishing with photo editing #Square will let you post your photo to Instagram without crop, or share it via Twitter, Facebook, Vk.com client, Email app, Bluetooth etc, also without cropping photo. Fonelink
Description: Get the #1 app for sending and receiving text messages (SMS) from your computer or tablet for free! When your phone receives an SMS text message, you can respond using your PC’s browser that is sync’d with your Android phone. The SMS will appear on your phone in real time! It’s fast and easy to set-up. Best of all, it’s 100% free to SMS from your browser. SMS from PC. SMS for free! PowerLine
Description: PowerLine – smart line-indicators in your status bar. Battery, CPU, memory, signal, storage, SMS, missed calls and more… Better than a widget! Always visible, even on the lock screen. FREE version with two indicators, more indicators with the Unlock. GoBank
Description: GoBank is an award-winning new bank account, made to be used on a mobile phone. Big banks often come with big fees and big headaches. That’s why it’s about time for GoBank—it's fast (works like your other favorite apps), fair (no overdraft or penalty fees) and feature-rich. YouView
Description: The YouView app provides a television guide with over 70 digital TV and radio listings for the next seven days with full program information details. It also allows YouView customers to record their favorite television programs onto their YouView set-top box, while on the move. dialapp
Description: How much have dialers evolved since the original phone? Very little. What if instead of the call history, you could see the list of people you’re actually going to call now? Why not make it more smart ? Yeah, what if the phone magically predicts whom you would call based on your context; your location, time, calendar, conversations etc. Adding context makes for an intelligent dialer. Dialapp does, exactly, that. Fast, simple, contextual and magical. DialApp list shows a predictive list of your contacts whom you would call at that precise context based on your patterns. WATCH ABC
Description: WATCH ABC is a new way to experience ABC – anytime, anywhere. Whether you're at home or out and about, you can enjoy your favorite ABC TV shows, sports, and local news & weather on your smartphone, tablet, or computer – LIVE and ON DEMAND. Kitty Play
Description: One app to satisfy all your needs for the decoration of your android phones. Choosing Kitty Play means choosing high quality, richness, uniqueness and great fun. Enjoy it!! Spotlight
Description: Discover the award-winning way to get free games and apps on Android! With Spotlight, you hear about the hottest new games and apps on Google Play before everyone else. Download Spotlight today! Lifetime
Description: Project Runway. Dance Moms. Army Wives. And, of course, movies! Now you can watch Lifetime wherever and whenever you want…on your Android devices! The Lifetime app gives you full access to all the reality, drama and movies Lifetime has to offer. New full episodes and movies, plus behind-the-scenes and preview clips, are added every day! |
| Motorola won’t let Verizon DROID-ify the Moto X Posted: 03 Jul 2013 10:25 AM PDT Motorola and Verizon have been very good friends for the last few years. Ever since the first Motorola DROID came out, Verizon used Motorola (and occasionally Samsung and HTC) to create an entire brand image centered on the “DROID.” The brand grew as many different phones entered the fray, and Motorola was at the forefront of this effort. In the last few years, Motorola has released four standard DROIDs, five different DROID RAZRs and two DROID Xs. We aren’t saying that it’s too many phones, but it really demonstrates how much Motorola helped build the brand that. at one time, categorized all of Android. With the Moto X coming soon, and most likely coming to all four carriers, we were afraid that Motorola might give in and allow Verizon slap that DROID label on it. However, multiple sources suggest that Motorola will not allow it and that the device will be released under the same name across all four major carriers. This definitely doesn’t mean that Motorola is done making DROID devices. We’ll most likely see a DROID RAZR Ultra series coming to Verizon. The DROID brand isn’t going anywhere, for better or for worse. While it isn’t a huge deal, it’s nice to know that the device many of us will probably buy won’t boot up with a loud and obnoxious DROOOOOOOID. We just want the clean Moto X experience (aside from a bit of bloatware, which is to be expected). On the other hand, some consumers may not care so much. What does this mean to you? |
| Moto X registration page goes live Posted: 03 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT In conjunction with the Moto X ad that ran today in the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, Motorola has launched an email registration page on its site for those who would like to stay informed about the product. The Moto X registration page does not reveal any new details about the phone, but it does claim that, “by the end of summer, we expect there to be more than 2000 new employees in Ft. Worth, TX working to make all this possible.”
The idea of owning a phone that’s “designed by you” is certainly appealing, but Motorola and Google will be facing some tough competition from Samsung and HTC for dominance in the high-end Android space. Do you think Google and Motorola are willing to back the Moto X with a marketing budget big enough to push the Samsung Galaxy S4 to the sidelines? |
| HTC One Max, HTC One mini confirmed by O2 Germany document Posted: 03 Jul 2013 09:57 AM PDT A newly leaked O2 Germany document is the first piece of evidence from a service provider confirming that the HTC One mini and HTC One Max are indeed real. The document lists a silver HTC One Max, and the HTC One mini is listed in both silver and black. The O2 document does not contain any details regarding the launch dates for the HTC One Max or HTC One mini, but multiple rumors suggest that the two phones will be available sometime during the third quarter.
While the HTC One mini will be going head-to-head with the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini in the mid-range segment, the HTC One Max is poised to take on the Sony Xperia Z Ultra, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and other devices looking to bridge smartphone-tablet gap. If given the choice to buy the HTC One, HTC One mini or HTC One Max, which would you choose? |
| Meet Android and Me: Nick Sarafolean Posted: 03 Jul 2013 07:41 AM PDT To some people, I’m known as the Gentle Giant, professional nerd, or Nicki among many others. But to most, I’m simply known as Nick, a tall guy who loves all things coffee and tech. And yeah, that sums it up pretty well. I also like to tweet pretty much anything that floats through my mind. (Follow me. @Zricon15). Some of that stuff includes (predictably) tech, coffee, photography, music and other miscellaneous things. Now to jump into my actual life. Simply put, I’m a high school student. Approaching my senior year, life is becoming busier than ever but I’m still managing to cram most of what I want into it. But let’s back up a few years. My tech addiction really got started in ninth grade when I got my first smartphone, a Samsung Fascinate. But then, it was just an interest. I really liked the phone and all but it hadn’t become an integral part of my life yet. My first foray into the blogosphere was when I began to watch some of the YouTube videos that were coming out of PhoneDog. I grew interested in them and began to read the articles on the website. Eventually, I joined Twitter and began to follow the people who wrote for the site. Being only a young teenager, there wasn’t much that I could do at that point. I didn’t have a job and couldn’t get new phones nearly as often as I wanted because of that. Nonetheless, I borrowed a family member’s upgrade and after exactly a year with the Fascinate, I graduated to a DROID RAZR. I began to get more involved in the blogging world and began to get to know some of the people who would later become my coworkers. By the beginning of that summer, I’d finished my sophomore year of high school and just turned sixteen. It was at the beginning of June 2012 that I saw a call for a news editor at DroidDog.com. Thinking that this was at least a chance to get my name out there, I shot Joey an e-mail to let him know that I was interested. Imagine my surprise when I was offered a position as a news editor at DroidDog. Sure, it was unpaid at the time but I’d made it into the field and that was what mattered to me. I continued to write throughout the summer until school resumed and I had to drop a routine schedule. Throughout the school year, I pitched in if help was needed and I was around while occasionally writing up an editorial or review. This summer, I began a regular shift at DroidDog again. But after just a few short weeks, Android and Me was bought by PhoneDog Media and we of the DroidDog team transferred over. And here I find myself, now a part of the incredible Android and Me team. In complete honesty, I would have never thought that I’d be working at Android and Me someday. I wasn’t even sure that I’d still be in the tech field for this long but here I stand, still a part of this thriving community. Now you know a little bit about me and how I got into this whole tech blogging thing. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time or space to go into much personal detail, but please know that I do indeed have a life outside of the internet. In the coming months and hopefully even years, I hope to continue getting my type on with Android and Me and continue to provide you guys with content.
What I’m most excited about College. There’s not even an ounce of doubt about that. In an interesting turn of events, I have actually become the single kid in my grade at the private school that I attend. Due to that fact, I became an honorary senior last year which has begun to make this year feel as though it’s entirely unnecessary. Of course, it’s not at all unnecessary but once it’s over, I’m headed straight down to Georgia to study business. Lest you think I don’t care about the site though, I’m also extremely excited about that. Delivering custom content right to your internet doorstep is one of my favorite things to do and as such, I’m very excited about doing just that. What I’m going to be doing with Android and Me For now, I’m going to be mostly writing news. I’ll occasionally throw in an editorial or review to shake things up, but my main focus is pumping out news for you early risers in the morning. When summer winds down to a close, we’ll see what happens with my schedule. I’m hoping to at least get some news writing in during the school year. What devices have I owned? Surprisingly, not too many. Just listing in chronological order: Samsung Juke, Samsung Fascinate, ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, Motorola DROID RAZR and a Samsung Galaxy S III. And yes, all of the phones have been on Verizon. What phone do I daily drive? At the moment, I’m using a Samsung Galaxy S III on Verizon. I picked it up in October of last year and haven’t really found a reason to get rid of it yet. Speaking software, I’m currently rooted and running a stable version of CM10.1. That’s a very recent acquisition though and before that I simply ran stock TouchWiz with the occasional launcher. However, when the HTC One comes out on Verizon, there’s a very high chance that I’ll be picking that up to replace my Galaxy S III. If not that, then most likely the next iPhone.
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How to get a hold of me: Twitter: @Zricon15 |
| Black HTC One mini highlights subtle hardware tweaks Posted: 03 Jul 2013 07:40 AM PDT It’s been over two months since we saw the first leaked render of the HTC One mini, but that doesn’t mean we know everything about the device. New images of a black HTC One mini have surfaced, revealing a few subtle design elements that differ from the original HTC One. The new images of the HTC One mini show that the device will feature two separate volume buttons on the right side instead of the large, single-button setup that’s been used on the HTC One and Droid DNA. On the back of the device, the angle of the image shows a recessed camera lens and flash. This design change may have been made to protect the fragile plastic lens cover. Gallery
The source of the images has confirmed that the HTC One mini is running on Android 4.2.2 with a dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage with a 4.3-inch 720p display (342 ppi). The HTC One mini is expected to hit the market in the third quarter, but it’s still unknown if the device will be picked up by the four major service providers here in the US. How do you think the HTC One mini stacks up against the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini and dozens of other Android phones in the mid-range segment? |
| Falcon Pro finds hidden loophole to allow new users Posted: 03 Jul 2013 06:59 AM PDT Falcon Pro has easily had the bumpiest road of any third-party Twitter client. After running out of tokens for the app not once but twice, Falcon Pro was pretty much blocked by Twitter. But developer Joaquim Verges simply refuses to give up. Now he’s found a loophole that will continue to allow new users access to the app. There’s a hidden feature within the app that permits tokenless users access to help. Verges isn’t telling how you access this feature, but here’s a pretty big hint: go to the Falcon Pro Beta Testers group on Google+. In other news, the app has finally run out of tokens for good. Users who still have a token will be able to use the app as normal, provided that they’re running version 2.0.4. If you don’t currently have the app installed on your phone, then just follow this link to download the updated version. We really have to give Verges credit for his determination. This guy just refuses to give up on his app, and he’s done some really interesting stuff to make sure it doesn’t have to die. With this latest update, what are your thoughts on the whole situation with Falcon Pro? |
| 20 million Samsung Galaxy S4s shipped Posted: 03 Jul 2013 06:44 AM PDT Ready for another dose of sales figures? Samsung has just released a new number regarding Galaxy S4 sales and boy, is it a big one. Within just the first two months of its release, Samsung has now shipped 20 million Galaxy S4s. In comparison, the Galaxy S III took 100 days to gain the honor of shipping 20 million. This report was confirmed to Korean reporters by Samsung co-CEO JK Shin, and it lines up with the report that Samsung shipped 10 million Galaxy S4s in its first month of availability. Samsung also reported that 500,000 Galaxy S4s have already been sold in their home court of South Korea. These are some weighty numbers that are being tossed around by Samsung and should help to alleviate some stockholders’ fears that the Galaxy S4 isn’t selling well. Of course, shipping and selling are two different matters, but if vendors haven’t lowered their inventory on the Galaxy S4 then it must at least be selling. What do you guys think of these latest figures? How do you feel about the Galaxy S4 and Samsung as a whole? |
| Top 10 American Independence Day themed apps Posted: 03 Jul 2013 05:41 AM PDT July 4th is the day Americans celebrate their independence. In honor of this, we compiled 1o apps themed around this National holiday. Our top 10 list contains a variety of live wallpapers, games and apps to help you get in the spirit of the holiday. Bakery Story: 4th of July
Description: The #1 FREE virtual bakery game returns with Bakery Story: 4th of July! Design the bakery of your dreams and share with your friends! Help your customers celebrate Independence Day by decorating your Bakery and rafting special 4th of July themed treats! New FREE content is released every week to keep your bakery growing! GlowPuzzle Independence Day
Description: Welcome to the Independence Day edition of an extremely addicting game! The goal is to connect all the dots in the puzzle using a continuous path but you are not allowed to reuse any completed path. There are many brain teasing levels available to keep you challenged in this game. Fourth of July
Description: Free Fourth of July Coloring Book app for kids. Your children will love this! Entertain your kids for hours with this super fun coloring book app full of high quality images to color. July 4th Fireworks HD
Description: Fourth of July is coming. How can you celebrate holiday without a July 4th Fireworks on you Android phone? Automatic fire fireworks and sound are enabled. Fireworks vary in single color mode or multi-color mode. Touch screen to fire more fireworks! The fast speed supports portrait or landscape rotational view. Also, it supports tablet and has high definition. There are 15 beautiful city scene backgrounds you can choose from. 4th July – Celebrate AMERICA
Description: Join the celebration and get creative with KoolrPix Celebrate America! Everything you need in one powerful app to transform your favorite photos into patriotic expressions of what it means to live in the greatest country on earth! Fashion Story: 4th of July
Description: Fashion-hungry customers are lined up waiting for the doors of your hot new boutique to swing open! Hand pick the latest summer fashions to sell, layout your boutique with changing rooms and trendy decorations, and prepare for chic 4th of July firework celebrations! Independence Day LWP
Description: The day is near when we celebrate our 238th Independence Day. Yes, 4th of July is just a few days away. The American flag waving in the air, fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, concerts, baseball games, family reunions and off course the political speeches. Let's remember our history and be proud of it. 4th of July Mahjong
Description: Let off the fireworks with 4th of July Mahjong! This fun and festive board game has 6 great layouts to choose from, and all the features you could ever want: including hint, undo, and shuffle buttons. Parrot Pet Shop – 4th of July
Description: Parrot Pet Shop is a free to play Top/Best 2d Social Story (pet – bird game) where you take care of your own beloved, colorful, intelligent and flirtatious virtual pet parrot and design unique cage with magical items. Build a fun place for your lovable virtual pet parrot to share with your friends! Play with, care and feed your parrot to maximize happiness. Happy parrot award more money if you well maintain your pet. Fireworks live Wallpaper
Description: Fireworks Live Wallpaper is the new shiny live wallpaper waiting just for you! If you like fireworks, bright lights on the dark sky and shiny explosion of red, blue, green or any other color, this is the right live wallpaper for you. Download Fireworks Live Wallpaper now for free and enjoy the variety of glowing backgrounds. Different firework shapes can decorate your phone screen too. |
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