Instagramming your skinny cinnamon latte and taking selfies of yourself with your skinny cinnamon latte is always going to take its toll on your phone’s battery. But that’s going to be less of a concern for those who live and work in New York, where AT&T’s new solar charging stations allow anyone to top up their juice while they sit down and relax with their skinny cinnamon latte.

Google is in the midst of pushing out an exciting compatibility update for it’s official Gmail application for Android via the Play Store. This upgrade bring users the ability to save files directly to Google Drive, improved support for right-to-left languages and faster access to the side navigation menu.

Custom launchers are immensely popular amongst the rapidly-growing Android community. They enable us to completely customize and personalize our smartphones and tablets. Previously, switching between them had always been a bit of a long and tedious task.

One of the alterations Google has now introduced in its most recent KitKat update is the ability for users to change their default launcher much more easily due to the newly-implemented menu, which is housed in the default settings application of every Android device.

Want a taste of CyanogenMod without having to root or flash custom ROMs? Now you can, thanks to CMApps, a free download that puts a bunch of CyanogenMod apps on any Android. The package includes CyanogenMod’s built-in music player, clock widget, sound manager and more — and it’s available now in Google Play.

Samsung was the elephant in the room following last week’s surprising news that Apple and Google/Motorola had come to a surprising agreement, in which both companies would agree to drop all ongoing litigation against the other.

Having spent the last few years waging bitter patent campaigns against each other in court, it seemed unlikely that Apple would be willing to afford similar treatment to Samsung.