Monthly Archives: August 2015

Fresh Meat: 10 new Android apps worth checking out

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New apps need lovin’ too, right? Every day there are thousands of additions to the Google Play store, but many go unnoticed and never receive the attention they deserve. We’ve shown in the past that this community can discover great apps and propel them to new heights. Our weekly Fresh Meat column highlights new apps with fewer than 100,000 installs. Browse our new Android app picks below and let us know which ones you enjoy.

Microsoft Translator

Microsoft Translator

Description: Microsoft Translator helps you break the language barrier whenever you’re traveling or have a need to translate anything in your daily life. Quickly translate phrases on your Android Wear device, or use the companion phone app when it’s more convenient.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Bestie by Camera360

Bestie by Camera360

Description: Bestie provides you with the most impressive selfie experience. Just tap with your fingers to start the journey of beauty and enjoy best selfie every time!

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

24/12 Tattoo Gear Fit Clock

2412 Tattoo Gear Fit Clock

Description: Tattoo design inspired Clock for Gear Fit. 10 beautiful, bright and elegant themes. 12 and 24 – hour digital time.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Landmarker

Landmarker

Description: Landmarker turns your orientation into an interface, revealing key destinations around you. Click each result locate on Google Maps.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Retro Tech Watch Faces

Retro Tech Watch Faces

Description: Choose from four watch faces for Android Wear: “Retro Controller”, “Retro Phone”, “Retro Camera” and “Retro Typewriter”. Add some fun illustrations to your Android Wear watch! All designs created by VA work on circular and square watches.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Time Mesh Watchface

Time Mesh

Description: Time Mesh is a motion based Android watchface. If you are calm, time moves in an orderly fashion. If not, ripples will propagate through your perception of time.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Tunnel Vision

Tunnel Vision

Description: Distort time and space by recording your surroundings through a collection of transformative filters. Each filter can be pinched or panned to alter your perception.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Watch Face BSOD

Watch Face BSOD

Description: Fun your friends with windows Blue Screen Of Death Watch Watch Face. Clean and fast watchface for everyday use.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

Lip Swap

Lip Swap

Description: Lip Swap is an experiment that lets you switch parts of your face with other parts of your face. Talk through your eyes and look through your mouth. Create hilarious videos to share with friends.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

 Dreamify

Dreamify

Description: Dreamify transforms your photos into otherworldly masterpieces. Using Google’s Deep Dream, Dreamify puts you in control: select from a dozen presets, or toggle the algorithm parameters to innovate on your own.

(Playboard) | (Play Store)

 

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Facebook Brings Autoplay, Better Targeting To Its Mobile Ad Network, Grows Its Marketing Foothold

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The auto-play video ads that users see when they check their news feed have been a big money-maker for Facebook. Now, the social network is bringing auto-play advertisements and several new features to apps in its mobile ad network, giving Facebook more ways to expand its influence in the digital advertising market.

The auto-play ads and new features will be available to publishers and developers on the “Audience Network” on Apple’s iOS and Android, the company said in a post on Tuesday. The move gives Facebook the chance to sell more video ads to marketers without upsetting Facebook users by putting more ads on its own apps.

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Verizon announces HTC Desire 526 and 626 availability

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If you’re looking for a new low to mid-range smartphone on Verizon, you may be in luck. Verizon has just announced the availability of two new HTC smartphones on its network in the coming weeks, aimed squarely at the budget crowd.

The HTC Desire 526 features a 4.7-inch qHD display, a 1.1GHz Snapdragon 210 processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of storage with a microSD slot, an 8MP camera, and a 2000 mAh battery. It’s aimed at the lower end, but it does have 4G LTE connectivity, which is nice. It will be $120 full retail or $5 a month for 24 months and will be available on the 13th.

The HTC Desire 626 is a bit nicer, with a 5-inch 720p display, the same processor and RAM as the 526, 16GB of storage with a microSD slot, an 8MP rear camera, a 5MP front camera, and a 2000 mAh battery. It will be available in the coming weeks, but no price has been given.

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Huawei Mate 7s se presentará durante el IFA 2015

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Últimamente no paramos de hablar de este fabricante chino debido a que no paran de salir noticias suyas al respecto. Parece ser que el fabricante tiene varias novedades para el último gran evento de tecnología del año, pero ninguno tiene que ver con el esperado Huawei Mate 8.

Ahora nos llega información de que Huawei presentará un nuevo terminal durante la celebración del IFA 2015 de Berlín. Se trata del Huawei Mate 7s y será presentado el próximo 2 de Septiembre. Así mismo lo ha comunicado un directivo de Huawei, Zhu Ping, en su perfil de la famosa red social china, Weibo. 

En la imagen facilitada por Ping, se muestra una frase en chino que traducido significa “Unique S” y debajo de ella aparece la fecha del 2 de Septembre del 2015 junto al logotipo de la feria IFA. Como bien sabréis esta feria, que se celebra en Berlín, tiene comienzo a partir del 2 de Septiembre por lo que la compañía china quiere aprovechar el tirón del primer día para presentar sus novedades.

Entre las novedades de las cuales todavía muchas no están confirmadas encontraremos un nuevo terminal, el Huawei Mate 7s. De este dispositivo conocimos algo gracias a que se filtró en la famosa aplicación Android que sirve para realizar un rendimiento del hardware del dispositivo, AnTuTu. Gracias a esa filtración descubrimos que este terminal tendrá una pantalla de 4,7 pulgadas con resolución de alta definición ( 1080 x 1920 píxeles ). En su interior encontraremos un SoC fabricado por el propio fabricante chino, Kirin de Ocho núcleos junto a una Mali-T624 para los gráficos. Junto a este chipset le acompañarán 3 GB de memoria de RAM y 16 GB de almacenamiento interno.

huawei ifa 2015

Entre otras especificaciones no menos importante, encontramos que en su apartado fotográfico, montará una cámara principal situada en la parte trasera del dispositivo de 13 Megapíxeles con sensor de Sony, concretamente el IMX278. Además el terminal contará con Android 5.1 Lollipop y tendrá conectividad 4G. Para saber más sobre las nuevas especificaciones deberemos esperar hasta el próximo 2 de Septiembre.

 

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HTC Desire 526 and 626 are officially headed to Verizon

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Last month HTC unveiled a bunch of Desire-branded smartphones for the US market, at which point we found out that some of them would be headed to certain carriers in the country too, in addition to being sold unlocked.

And today one of those carriers has come forward and detailed its plans. Verizon has announced that it’s going to sell both the HTC Desire 526 and the Desire 626.

The Desire 526 will be exclusive to Big Red in the US, it turns out. It will come with a 4.7-inch 540×960 touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2 MP selfie cam, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable storage, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 SoC with a 1.1 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU, 4G LTE support, and a 2,000 mAh battery. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop with HTC’s Sense UI 7 on top.

This model will become available from Verizon on August 13. You’ll then be able to get it by paying the full $120 price, or opting for 24 monthly installments of $5 instead.

The Desire 626 will be launched by the carrier sometime “in the coming weeks”. Unfortunately its price hasn’t been announced yet, nor a release time frame that’s less vague.

When it does land, it will sport a 5-inch 720p touchscreen, an 8 MP main camera, a 5 MP secondary unit, 1.5GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, the same chipset as the Desire 526, 4G LTE too, and the same battery capacity as its smaller sibling – 2,000 mAh. It also runs Android 5.1…

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