Posts tagged play-store

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Dropbox received a minor but longly-awaited stability update in the Google Play Store today. In terms of functionality, this upgrade doesn’t bring much, but it does bring tons of stability improvements speed optimizations and bug fixes, including a fix for the maddening issue which caused the camera auto-upload feature to malfunction.

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Motorola has updated its official Assist app on Google’s Play Store, which is currently only available to download on the following smartphones: the Moto X, the Droid Ultra, the Droid Mini and the Droid Maxx. The app brings users exclusive added functionality that they would not usually receive on their handsets, and now, thanks to this update, users will be able to reply to texts whilst driving.

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Ever since Twitter introduced a limit of 100k tokens, development of third-party Twitter clients has slowed down drastically. This is a huge blow to Android’s app eco-system which even after all these years lacks a Tweetbot competitor.

This might change today with the release of Talon for Twitter, a beautiful and feature-packed Twitter client for Android, created by the developer of Sliding Messaging — Luke Klinker.

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Google released the original model of its flagship 7-inch tablet, the Nexus 7, back in June, 2012, and a month later the device was available to purchase from the U.S. Play Store with a $199 price tag. However, if you didn’t have the opportunity to pick one up at the time, Walmart is currently offering the 7-inch slate for $159, which is $40 off the retailer’s usual price.

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While Google’s “open” approach to Play Store applications comes with its downsides, there are plenty of advantages, too. One of them is the plethora of wonderful titles that wouldn’t make it past stage one of Apple’s review process for iOS — such as the long list of emulators that allow you to play classic console games.

One of the latest is called Reicast, and it brings your favorite Dreamcast titles to your smartphone and tablet.

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