The Google Play Store recently kicked off its 2nd year anniversary promotions in Australia. Today, the American Play Store has received the same set of deals.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 was revealed to come with plenty of software features, mostly pertaining to health and fitness. These features were extensively shown off by the company during its official announcement last week. But a new leaked screenshot from the smartphone now reveals the existence of an all-new ‘Driving Mode’ which hasn’t been spoken about before. This app appears to sport a voice guided feature as well so that the drivers are not distracted.
Although the newly announced Nokia X devices run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, they are quite different from a run of the mill Android smartphone. Instead of relying on Google’s services, Nokia has decided to go with its own unique UI layering and set of apps. And now, these services can be ported onto any Android device of your choice thanks to a developer over at the XDA forums. Last week, we saw the Nokia X Appstore leaking out in the same fashion.
Amazon has just announced the expansion of its virtual currency system, Amazon Coins, to the entirety of the Android ecosystem. Amazon Coins were previously limited to users of Amazon’s own Kindle Fire tablets, but now it doesn’t matter what kind of device you have.
Android users have a variety of third-party lock screens to choose from, which speaks volumes about the versatility of the platform. Today we can add one more to that list with the launch of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Glance.
Glance is slightly different from conventional lock screens as it learns from usage and provides information accordingly, in addition to displaying notifications.
