There is no arguing that the new Hangouts Android app, which replaces Google Talk and aims to unify several communication methods, has had a rough start. One of the main issues we’ve run into from the very beginning was wonky tablet support. In fact, most people couldn’t install it at [...]
Continuous playback over notifications and more bug fixes than you can shake a stick at Since making the move to a completely new design with Pocket Casts 4, a few lingering bugs have been piling up. Those are getting squashed today, along with a few new feature adds, with a [...]
Angry Birds Seasons has just received a huge update in the Google Play Store and it’s arguably the biggest the franchise has seen since that whole Star Wars licensing thing. I got one work for y’all: PORTALS. Yes, just like the Valve favorite Portal and Portal [...]
It’s been barely 48 hours since Google’s brand new Play Games management system went online, and already dozens of high-profile games have been updated to include its features. But how do you tell which titles use Play Games and which don’t when browsing the Play Store (without, you know, actually [...]
Google made a lot of announcements in its marathon keynote to kick off Google I/O on Wednesday, but its most buzzed-about product was almost a no-show at the event. Google Glass barely got a mention, even though this is the first I/O where the tiny wearable computer is actually in [...]
Vanilla, open-source Android available for 10-inch tablet on Sony GitHub Like the Xperia Z before it, Sony has announced that it’s bringing the Xperia Tablet Z into its version of the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). The project brings the latest vanilla Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean to the tablet, with the caveat [...]
PCS spectrum and 420,000 U.S. Cellular customers part of deal Sprint has announced that it’s closed a deal to purchase PCS spectrum and a large number of customers from U.S. Cellular in the Midwest. As part of the deal, Sprint gets its hands on 20MHz of PCS airwaves in “ various [...]
If Google I/O was any indication, I picked the right time to drop Android and move to the iPhone. OK, that’s not a totally fair statement. Google’s goal for this year’s developer conference was to be just that: a developer conference. Hence, the show returned to [...]
Wearable gizmos are the next frontier in the world of technology. And fitness trackers like Fitbit or Nike+ FuelBand already give runners a great way to track their workouts. But what about swimmers? Until now, they’ve been left out of the gadget tracker fad. But Instabeat, a wearable accessory for [...]
There’s a lot to like about Sony’s latest generation of Android devices. One od the things that most people don’t like is the custom interface that Sony puts on pretty much everything. If you want to do away with it and get some sweet, clean Android Open Source Project code [...]
