Google’s text-to-speech engine is now available as a dedicated app on Android, allowing those with devices from third-party manufacturers (with third-party interfaces) to install use the company’s own technology if they choose to. The app will also allow Google to issue text-to-speech updates more easily, without having to bake them into Android system updates.

If you’re yet to upgrade your Android keyboard to SwiftKey, then now’s the perfect time, because it’s half price for one day only. The discount commemorates the first Android smartphone, the T-Mobile G1, which was launched five years ago today on October 22, 2008.

While the iPhone’s Retina display may no longer be king when it comes to pixel count, it’s one of the fastest smartphone displays on the market, easily outpacing all of its rivals.

According to a TouchMark test carried out by Agawi, the Retina display responds more than twice as fast as any of its rivals — including the Galaxy S4 and other high-end Android devices — even on the three-year-old iPhone 4.

Don’t you ever wish you could buy a decent, Android-powered flip phone? No, me neither. But Samsung is building one anyway. It’s called the Galaxy Folder, and we first heard about it back in July. Now the device has been pictured in the wild ahead of its official unveiling.

Fleksy, the revolutionary new Android keyboard App, has received another pretty solid update which brings a mass of new features and performance/stability enhancements.