Meet Pebble Time. Photo: Pebble
Pebble’s brand new smartwatch is here, and it’s a huge improvement over its immensely popular predecessors. Pebble Time boasts a color display and a slimmer design, the same great battery life we’ve come to expect from Pebble watches, and a brand new operating system.
YouTube Kids on an Android tablet. Photo: Google
YouTube Kids, the brand new app designed to make YouTube a safer and more enjoyable place for our little ones, is now available on Android and iOS.
In addition to a selection of curated videos ideal for young viewers, the apps make it easier for kids to find and navigate their way around suitable content, and they block out anything that’s not fit for small eyes.
Coming soon to an Android Wear smartwatch near you: iOS notifications? Photo: Motorola
As an iPhone owner, I’ve been curious about Android Wear, Google’s smartwatch platform, from the get-go. The problem is Android Wear requires an Android smartphone to work, leaving everyone out to dry.
That might be changing though. An independent developer has just released a tantalizing video, showing iOS sending notifications to an Android Wear smart watch.
Lollipop crashes less often than iOS 8. What could be sweeter than that? Photo: Cult of Android
iOS users have had plenty of reasons to crow about Apple handsets recently, but here’s one for the Android crowd: Android devices running the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop mobile OS have a lower application crash rate than devices running Apple’s much-vaunted iOS 8.
The data was pulled by mobile application performance management company Crittercism, which claims that Lollipop’s crash rate for apps is a miniscule 2 percent, compared to iOS 8 which crashes 2.2 percent of the time.
The same study also shows that iOS 8 crashes more than its predecessor, iOS 7.
Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android.
HTC’s first smartwatch, developed in conjunction with Under Armour, will ship with a shoe sensor and offer up to three days of battery life in between charges, according to one leak. The Taiwanese company is also expected to use its own software as opposed to adopting Android Wear.
