7 Winning Mobile Marketing Strategies For The Holidays

We’ve all been there before, shopping madness during the holidays. Long lines, impatient customers and people grabbing at whatever they can get their hands on first. It used to be that, you had to endure the frustrating game of waiting in lines, just to assure you’d find that perfect gift for that special someone.

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Instagram brings 3D Touch-like features to its Android app

3D Touch is one of the big new features in the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, as it allows the devices to know how hard you’re pressing on the screen. This has obviously led to many iOS apps now supporting the feature, bringing forth additional functionality when you strongly press on the display. Instagram is one of those apps, and from today it appears that it’s enabled something very similar in its Android version.

Although Instagram 7.13.0 doesn’t yet seem to be out in the Google Play Store, you can grab it in APK form if you visit the Source link below. Because there’s no official announcement on the matter, keep in mind that it might be a test version for the new feature.

This iteration of Facebook’s photo-centric app essentially lets you long press on an image thumbnail (like the ones you get when you perform a search) in order to zoom in on it. If you then drag your finger away from the center of the image it shrinks back to thumbnail size, and if you slide your finger to one of the buttons under the picture you can share or like without ever lifting it. When you hover over one of the buttons you even get some haptic feedback.

Sure, in the Android version it doesn’t really matter how hard you press on the screen, what’s important is that you press long enough for this to work. So it’s not 3D Touch per se, but it’s pretty…

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Apple’s iPhone 6S Battery Fix Is An Angry, Ugly Mess

Anyone who has followed Apple’s progress over the last ten years will know that design has played a strong part in its success story. From setting incredibly high thresholds of quality on everything from mag-safe connectors and the aesthetics of opening the box, to magical experiences that just work, Steve Jobs’ Apple has been a byword for style, class, and elegance. Which leaves me wondering who in the world signed off on the ‘Apple iPhone Smart Battery Case’.

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Galaxy A3 and A5 release date outed by a Dutch online retailer

A Dutch retailer, SmartPhoneShop.nl, put both the new Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3 up for pre-order on its online store. The retailer also shows the “Expected Date” of January 8 on both the A5 and A3’s pre-order pages.

These are the second iterations of the A5 and the A3. The A5 is like a bigger sibling to the smaller A3. The A5 sports a 5.2 inch 1080p Super AMOLED display, Exynos 7 1.6GHz octa-core CPU, and 2GB of RAM.

The Galaxy A3 features a smaller 4.7 inch 720p Super AMOLED display, 1.5GHz CPU, and 1.5GB of RAM.

The website in question is selling dual-SIM models for both phones. Either phone comes in black and gold color options with the A5 at €429 or the A3 running at €329.

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