EE has today announced that it is bringing the LG G Flex to the United Kingdom this Friday, December 20. The device will be available exclusively through select EE stores, but you won’t actually be able to buy it until February.
This post was written by Andras Kindler (@andraskindler).
Recently an interesting blog post started to circle around the internet titled Why Android First is a Myth. The article points out that developing Android apps is expensive and time-consuming, so startups tend to choose iOS as their first platform. Some reports have also argued that you can’t make money on Google Play.
While some of this is true, Android is a platform full of opportunity: with global market share exceeding 80%, the constant evolution of Google’s design guidelines and fragmentation issues starting to fade away, things are looking pretty good. Not to mention Android’s APIs let developers do much more than on other platforms, making possible to create truly integrated services.
So we compiled a list of awesome of applications and services that are killing it as Android exclusives.
Twitter is said to be working on a new feature that will allow users to edit tweets after they are published, The Desk reports. As things stand, the only way to fix typos and other errors is to delete your tweet and publish another one, but sources close to Twitter’s new project say that’s set to change.
The flip-side to the fetishistic hankering over shiny new things is the staggering number of older gadgets that are thrown away each year.
According to new data released by the Solving the E-Waste Problem Initiative (Step), in 2012 this electronic waste added up to a staggering 48.9 million tons.
UPDATE: Facebook has now confirmed auto-playing ads will rollout this week. See the update at the bottom of this post.
Facebook’s auto-playing video ads, which first appeared on iOS last week, will be seen by all users on all platforms later this week, The Wall Street Journal reports. You’ll see them on your desktop as well as your mobile devices, and they will play automatically as you scroll through your timeline.
