Category: Android

Google Voice Search Will Now Speak French, German and Japanese on Android and iOS

Google voice search has improved with time for its voice recognition capabilities. Google voice is successful to recognize the universal language ‘English’ very well, specially with different accents of people all around the globe.

In the journey to improve the voice search, Google has expanded the voice recognition capabilities of its voice search by adding new languages to it. Which means, Google voice search will not be limited to English and will now speak languages like French, German and Japanese.

This new add on will recognize any of these languages and reply back accordingly. It is not clear when Google will add other languages but it seems Google has already started the journey. Lastly, this new update is available both on Android and iOS devices. If your device did not update yet, check the links below.

[Android, iOS]

December 6, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 Will Support 10 Different Languages

With the ever increasing products in the Galaxy(series), Samsung recently added two more products to it. The Galaxy Grand duos 2 along with the Galaxy S Duos 2.

The mid range Galaxy S Duos 2 features a 4 inch WVGA display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels which is same as what we have seen on the Galaxy S Duos. However, on the inside this phone is powered by a 1.2 GHz Dual-Core processor, which was 1 GHz in the oldie S Duos.

Other features include a 5 MP primary camera with LED flash and a VGA secondary camera. The Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 has a 768 MB RAM, 4 GB internal memory which is expandable up to 64GB with microSD.

The device runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and is packed with a 1500 mAh battery. Samsung claims that the Galaxy S Duos 2 is especially created for the Indian market, the phone’s regional language support enables consumers to access apps from the Samsung Application Store in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Assamese, Marathi and Gujarati. Users can experience apps such as ChatOn, Facebook, Gmail and Newshunt in their own preferred language.

The Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 will be available in two colors and is priced at 10,990 INR

December 5, 2013
LG’s AllJoyn Support Will Enable Smart TV Control From Any Device

LG seems to have a solution for controlling a smart television with ease. LG Electronics will be the first company to incorporate the AllJoyn open source software framework into its Smart TV platform.

The AllJoyn is developed by Qualcomm, and aims to create a common language that connects the Internet of Things irrespective of the Operating System or the brand.

LG is at the forefront of the device connectivity revolution,” said Richard Choi, Senior Vice President of the Smart Business Center at LG Electronics. “LG will now enable consumers to more effortlessly connect their networked devices in the home and continues to show a strong commitment to the next generation of convergence technology.”

LG will use AllJoyn to allow multiple devices to communicate with LG Smart TVs simultaneously. Several smartphones or tablets, each running a completely different OS or of different brands, can participate in the same multiplayer game on an LG Smart TV.

However, LG has not cleared when this technology will be officially available.

December 4, 2013
Official FIFA iOS And Android Apps Launch

Football’s international governing body FIFA has released a free app for iOS and Android that lets you follow your favorite teams and keep up to date with FIFA news and events.

Users can also access match schedules, scores, destination guides and team profiles, as well as personalise their World Match Centre with national teams, competitions, and clubs.

“Download the most comprehensive football app on the planet and unlock the world of football,” says FIFA. “Hundreds of competitions, thousands of goals and over a million minutes of football every single week.”

In addition, football fans can see video from the FIFA TV Studio and FIFA archive. The free app is compatible with iPhones using iOS 5.1 or higher, the iPad, and Android smartphones and tablets using version 2.3 and up.

November 30, 2013
CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed from Play Store

CyanogenMod is an alternative OS for your smartphone, it helps you to modify the phone content according to your needs. The company took an initiative to spread the application worldwide with its availability on the Play Store. Unfortunately, the CyanogenMod installer application has now been removed from the Play Store.

The CyanogenMod team was contacted by the Google Play Support team to say that the CyanogenMod Installer application is in violation of Google Play’s developer terms. Google advised CyanogenMod to voluntarily remove the application, or they would be forced to remove it administratively.

However, CyanogenMod says that this app has not violated any of Google Play’s developer terms. As the company says the only work of this app is to guide users to enable “ADB”, a built in development and debugging tool, and then navigate the user to the desktop installer.

The company says that Android is open enough to allow installing from unknown sources, this application is available on the companies website and can be installed. CyanogenMod has also submitted applications to Amazon and Samsung app-stores.

November 29, 2013
Search For Stories, Videos or Pictures With The New Twitter App Update on Android & iOS

Twitter has added new search features to its Apps on Android and iOS, which will help users discover the content they are looking for.

With the updated apps Twitter offers options to search for pictures, videos, or news stories. Previously, users were only able to search through usernames, tweets and hashtags. If you want to see photos, use the photo search filter to see Tweets with photos in a grid or list layout. To see what your friends are saying, you can filter the results to show only Tweets from the people you follow. Users can now also filter for videos in the same way.

This update is now available to download on Android and iOS.

[Android, iOS]

November 20, 2013
Adobe Reader Adds PDF Conversions and Multi Window Support For Android

Adobe Reader application on Android has updated with a bunch of much required changes, the update has added PDF conversion tools to Android devices.

This means with this new update, from within the app users can now create PDF files from mostly any other file types and also vice versa. However, Adobe like always wants its users to make in app purchases to take advantage of these new features, the ExportPDF add-on for turning PDFs into other files is priced at $1.99 a month. The PDF pack, which lets user make PDFs from other files as well as the reverse, is priced at $9.99 for a month.

Apart from these new ‘paid’ features the new update also has some changes, like the improved search, a new UI and the mutli-window support which are included in the update without any charge. Update your app from the link below.

[Play Store]

November 16, 2013
BBM App For Android And iOS Gets New Features, Adds iPad and iPod Support

BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iOS was available some time back for Android devices and iPhones. At present the BBM app on Android has more than 10,000,000 downloads and a big number of downloads from iPhones as well.

Now, this number will increase soon, as BlackBerry has announced that BBM app for iOS will now support iPads and iPods as well(Good news for BB fans), the only condition would be you should be on iOS 6 or higher. That is not all, alongside the addition of the apps compatibility with iPads and iPods the company has also issued some bug fixes that will take care of the problems like battery drainage issue of Android devices and the missing contact name issues on iOS devices.

BlackBerry has also added PIN Barcode system, introduced in the update to BBM for Android and iPhone, the new Share PIN option makes sharing your PIN Barcode easier. Using this option you can quickly share your PIN Barcode to any social networking site or anywhere else you like. Feel free to update your app and get more information from the links below.

[BlackBerry, Android, iOS]

November 15, 2013
Facebook’s New Messenger App to Reach More Users On Android and iOS

Facebook announced a while back that it will be testing new messenger app for its users, now with time users will be able to see the change for Facebook’s Messaging application.

The new version of the messenger app reached few Android devices a day back and the company has claimed that the app will also reach iOS devices as well. Facebook is no new to updates, but this time around it seems that Facebook has made some necessary changes to the messenger app. The new app is said to be faster while swiping to switch between conversations, users will now know which friends are using the app if you see the Messenger icon –displayed at the extreme left-– next to their name. If you see the Messenger icon, that means your friend is also using the mobile Messenger app, and will get notified instantly about your message.

The new update is now available to more devices, but all devices have still not got the latest update. Fore more information you can check out the source.

[Facebook]

November 14, 2013
New Update For Viber Brings Push To Talk and More For Android and iOS

Viber recently announced some new updates for Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices as well, the company also announced a new update for the application on Android and iOS platforms.

With the Viber 4.0 update for iOS and Android, it adds push-to-talk voice feature services to both platforms. Along with the addition to push to talk service, Viber also bundled in a new sticker market, in addition to some extra customization options on iPhone and improved notifications on Android. The new update brings some good change, so update your Viber application on your iOS and Android device.

[Android,iOS]

November 13, 2013
Android 4.4 KitKat has a All New Photo Editor

Everyone has an idea of what the new Android OS 4.4 KitKat will bring to its users, Google launched the new OS along with the launch of the Nexus 5.

What we are talking about here is the feature that has not been noticed lately, as the Android 4.4 will include a new photo editor. The company’s Nicolas Roard shows, users can now apply effects, filters and adjustments at very precise levels, down to specific color channels and regions. Users can create presets, and every change made can be reversed. As demonstrated in the video it takes just a couple of taps to revert to the original image.

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November 4, 2013
The New Nexus 7 32 GB LTE Listed On Play Store At a Price Of 25999 INR

The much awaited tablet from Google the new Nexus 7 is now listed on the Google Play Store with a tag of Coming Soon. The new Nexus 7 is listed as a 32 GB LTE/WiFi/HSPA+ variant and is priced at 25999 INR.

However, other variants of the tablets seems unavailable as the price is not mentioned in INR and if you try to click on any of them which are Nexus 7 16 GB WiFI or the Nexus 7 32 GB WiFi they have prices in USD and are not available in India. This can surely hint that the new tablet will hit the shelves soon.

The Nexus 7 tablet features a 7 inch full-HD display (1920×1200 pixels), with a pixel density of 323ppi. It is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.5 GHz, and is equipped with a 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of inbuilt storage which is not expandable. The new Nexus 7 also sports a 5 MP rear camera and a 1.2 MP front-facing camera.

For more information check out are unboxing, Gaming, Benchmarks and the full review below:

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November 4, 2013
Android Jelly Bean Now On 52.1% Of Active Devices

According to Google’s monthly Android OS distribution chart — which tracks devices that actively visit Google Play Store — Jelly Bean (OS 4.1 to 4.3) now makes up for 52.1%of all devices, up from 48.6% last month. Every other OS dropped in usage, most notedly Android Gingerbread by 2.2% to run on 26.3% of Android device . This is still a huge number as the OS was introduced almost 3-years ago (December of 2010).

Next month will be interesting as we’ll see the uptake on the new 4.4 KitKat, plus those stats might also give a peek into early Nexus 5 sales.

November 2, 2013
Google Maps With Indoor Mapping For iOS and Android Now Available in India

Google’s indoor maps was launched some time back, but was not available in India. However, what we noticed now is that Google indoor maps is now available in both the platforms Android and iOS.

Google added this feature to Maps in the month of July 2013, but as said before it never made its way to India. iGyaan discovered that the Google Indoor maps is now available in India, for instance users can search for any store in the mall you are in and the application will guide you the floor and the way towards it. Check out the images above which demonstrates the availability of indoor maps on iOS and the image below shows the Google indoor maps on Android.

November 2, 2013
Xolo Launches A600 a Smartphone With 4.5 inch qHD Display at a Price of 8199 INR

Not so long ago, Xolo launched Q900 to add up in its Q series the device was priced at 12999 INR. However, Xolo today launched a budget smartphone in the Indian market, the Xolo A600 which is the latest smartphone from the company and the device is available at a price of 8199 INR.

Xolo A600 features a 4.5 inch qHD display with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. The device is powered by a 1.3 Ghz Dual Core processor and runs on Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2. Xolo A600 has a 512 MB RAM which is coupled by 4 GB internal memory which is expandable upto 32 GB. The budget smartphone from Xolo sports a 5 MP auto focus camera along with a VGA front facing camera, the camera is equipped with features like HDR and continuous shot which can take 99 photos in a fraction of a second.

The Xolo A600 supports dual SIM and is packed with a 1900 mAh battery. The device is available in two colors back and white.

November 2, 2013