Detailed on T-Mobile’s website, the latest software build is H81120i, and it weighs in at around 963MB. The only requirements for downloading the update are a data connection (obviously), 50% or higher battery life (that’s reasonable) and 963MB of free space (again, obviously).
The update should hit your handset over the air soon if it hasn’t already. If you want to force the update, hit the source link for more info.
Detailed on T-Mobile’s website, the latest software build is H81120i, and it weighs in at around 963MB. The only requirements for downloading the update are a data connection (obviously), 50% or higher battery life (that’s reasonable) and 963MB of free space (again, obviously).
The update should hit your handset over the air soon if it hasn’t already. If you want to force the update, hit the source link for more info.
It’s been a bit of time since HTC officially unveiled the Desire 626, but the company is back with a slightly tweaked version for India.
HTC has officially announced the new Desire 626 for India, with a few improvements and alterations. The first is a new processor, with HTC going with a MediaTek MT6752 octa-core chip clocked at 1.7GHz instead of the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset in earlier 626 versions. On top of that, the new device offers 2GB of RAM instead of 1GB. The updated handset also includes LTE support as well as dual-SIM support.
The new Desire 626 does still offer a 720p 5-inch display, 16GB of built-in storage and support for a microSD card. There’s a 13-megapixel camera on the back and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera on the other side. The battery measures in at 2000mAh, and the 626 is running Android 5.1 under HTC’s proprietary Sense UI. It will come in two color options: Blue Lagoon and White Birch. It will retail for INR 14,990 (or about $220), and it should go on sale at select retailers in India in the coming weeks.
Hungry for some more LG G5 rumors? If so, it’s your lucky night. We now have a new look at the LG G5 as the upcoming flagship has been partially revealed in some Amazon case listings. We don’t get a fully unobscured look at the device, but we can at least see what the dual camera setup looks like.
The dual-camera setup has two sensors, with one that appears to be significantly larger than the other. In between the two sensors sits a dual-LED flash, and below the camera rests a combo power button and fingerprint sensor. One of the biggest changes in the design is that LG has removed its iconic rear volume rocker and has instead opted for the more traditional side volume rocker.
Interestingly enough, however, a second case has been listed on Amazon and that listing has a different G5 render. We do have to say, however, that the render on that model looks less legitimate, particularly when placed in comparison to other rumors regarding the G5. With that one, we’re guessing that the manufacturer simply whipped up its own render of the G5 rather than using an official one.
From the pictures, it’s hard to tell which material LG has used for the LG G5, though polycarbonate is definitely a possibility. Some rumors have pointed to a metal body, but if these images are to be believed, that may not be the case (ba-dum, tsh!).
What are your thoughts on these case listings? Real or not real?
Welcome back to Android Gaming Weekly, our weekly recap of new game releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we’re playing, but this column is dedicated to new games that you can start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know in the comments section if you have any suggestions for next week’s post.
Dreii
Description: Dreii is a puzzling game about skill, logic and friendship. It subtly connects players in real-time across the world, to help one another in a battle against gravity.
Description: Dive into a fantastic musical odyssey, brought by an immersive soundtrack imagined by famous composers, including Wyclef Jean. Go beyond by creating and sharing your own levels on ANY SONG with the included level editor.
Description: Laserbreak 2 is the much anticipated sequel to the very popular Laserbreak – the highly addictive and original puzzler that has hooked millions of players worldwide. Control your laser and use various physics objects to collect the coins and destroy the targets.
Description: When the Queen of the Dwarven kingdom discovers that the Dwarf Kings’ huge party has spent every last coin and drank every last drop of ale she goes to the one dwarf she knows she can trust, Goldbeard. Can he negotiate his way through the dwarven dungeon and fill his magic sack with gold and ale, saving the day for his Queen and the entire Dwarven kingdom!
Description: Experience the MARVEL Avengers as you’ve never seen them before! Build the ultimate Super Hero academy, and play as your favorite Avengers characters reimagined as students developing their superpowers.
Description:Blast your Rat Racer at extreme speed around deviously designed levels rigged with traps and puzzles. A true test of steely determination and razor sharp reflexes.
Description: A 2D shooter that puts you in control of a lone soldier defending the last remnants of earth from alien invaders! Use gold dropped by our unwanted attackers to upgrade your gear with special ammo and grenades. Survive as long as you can to get the most points!
Description: Relive the excitement of Final Fantasy Adventure―a timeless classic remastered for a new generation. Adventures of Mana’s battle system grants you the freedom to move about the playing field without restriction, allowing for thrilling combat in which you decide when to attack and how to evade.
Description: You play one, out of a team, of Space Grunts, and your mission is simple: find your way into the moon-base, and figure out what has happened. You’ll have to fight your way through aliens, robots, security drones and base-systems.
Description: Roll up cups of cola with the titular Party Ball and save the party from the angry crabs, rabid racoons and even beings from beyond our world.
Android Wear has given users lots of options for how they wish to interact with their devices since the beginning, and the forthcoming updates are going to expand those options even further.
One of the headline new features is the ability to make and take voice calls on your smartwatch. Owners of Android Wear watches like the Huawei Watch and the ASUS ZenWatch 2, both of which feature an external speaker, will be able to take advantage of this new functionality when the update rolls out in the coming weeks. Presumably we will see additional manufacturers add the necessary hardware to future devices. While I concede this seems like a ridiculous feature, I actually found it useful on more than one occasion during my time with the Samsung Gear S2.
Sticking to the voice theme, more Android Wear apps will now support sending messages by voice alone. Google Hangouts, Nextplus, Telegram, Viber, WeChat and WhatsApp will be the first to support this. Initiating a message through one of these services will be as simple as “Send a (service name) message to…”.
Android Wear is also gaining some new gesture controls to go with scrolling. Users will now be able to expand cards by holding their arm out and pushing down to show the active card’s first action and repeating the gesture to select this action. To go back you can simply raise your arm up. Opening the apps menu from the watch face relies on the same pushing down gesture. The settings menu can be accessed from the watch face by a twist of the wrist away from the user. The final new gesture is also the most simple, and that is simply shaking your wrist to either return to the watch face or cancel an action.
If any of those gestures sounded confusing, and they were to me initially, take a look at the Android Wear Help page on them.
The entire wearable market is still trying to figure out exactly what we want to do with these devices and what are the best ways to interact with them. While they aren’t appropriate for every environment, I think Google is right to keep working on voice commands and interactions with Android Wear, as one of the prime use cases for my smartwatch is getting things done when I don’t have my hands free to use my smartphone.
These updates will be rolling out to all devices in the coming weeks, with the caveat that some features, like voice calling, are restricted to devices with the necessary hardware.
What do you think of the new functionality? Is there anything in particular that you are excited to try out when the update arrives?
The Honor 5X is already a pretty crazy deal at $199. Many are calling it the best budget smartphone on the market, and just days after it officially launched in the U.S., you can score an even better deal through Newegg.
For a limited time only, every Honor 5X purchase through Newegg will include a $25 gift card, bringing the cost of the Honor 5X down to $174 if you are like me and consider $25 at Newegg basically as good as cash.
The deal is available on all three colors, and at the moment they are all in stock, unlike Amazon, which is backed up about a month on the gold model.
We have no idea how long this offer is going to be available, but if you are interested in the Honor 5X, this is probably the best deal you are going to see anytime soon.
While the postpaid market certainly gets the lion’s share of the attention for mobile coverage, the prepaid market is a critical arena for the carriers and a compelling option for many customers.
Verizon certainly isn’t known as a budget offering, and while it isn’t the cheapest option in the prepaid world either, it does retain a network advantage in many areas of the country. Today its value proposition just got a lot more interesting with the smartphone prepaid plans that includes 2GB of data for $45 a month or 5GB at $60 a month. That is up from 1GB and 3GB previously. The plans include unlimited talk and text in the U.S. and unlimited texting to Canada and Mexico. Customers are also eligible for another 1GB of data each month if they enroll in Auto Pay.
This compares favorably with T-Mobile’s Simple Choice plans that start at $50 for 2GB of data with unlimited talk and text. The big difference is that with T-Mobile, you will fall back to 2G if you go over your data for the month, whereas with Verizon you will be paying for that extra data.
This doesn’t make Verizon the clear cut winner in the big carrier prepaid race, but it does at least put them on relatively even footing with the others, and in many areas that is enough to tip the scales in favor of Verizon thanks to its coverage.
With the Amazon Echo getting ready to star in a Super Bowl commercial this weekend, it’s not shocking to see it brushing up its résumé and making sure that it is ready to put its best foot forward on a national stage.
Earlier in the week, the Echo picked up the ability to order you a pizza from Domino’s, and now once the pizza arrives and a halftime show that you aren’t thrilled about starts, you will be able to crank your favorite Spotify music on the Echo to keep the party rolling.
Unfortunately, this functionality is only available to Spotify Premium subscribers, so you will need to pony up $9.99 a month in order to take advantage of this on your Echo. If you haven’t tried Spotify Premium previously, you can give it a spin for 30 days before getting hit with a bill.
I’m going to go ahead and recommend that you not hold your breath for Play Music support to arrive on the Echo, which is particularly disappointing to me now that podcasts are available there, as the limited podcast support on the Echo is one of my few complaints with the device.
With all the new functionality and attention that Amazon is going to be drawing to the Echo this month, it would seem like a logical time to take the wraps off that rumored portable version.
Is the Echo getting any more tempting for you? Would a portable version at around $100 push you over the top?
“Alexa, Play Spotify”: Spotify Now Available on Amazon Echo
Spotify Premium subscribers can listen to any song in the Spotify catalog on EchoSEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 4, 2016– (NASDAQ: AMZN)— Amazon today announced that Spotify Premium subscribers in the U.S. can now listen to their music on Amazon Echo—just ask Alexa to play any playlist, artist, genre and more from Spotify’s catalog. And because Echo also supports Spotify Connect, customers can effortlessly transfer and control their listening experience from the Spotify app to Echo—just select Echo from the list of available devices within the Spotify app. If you don’t have Spotify Premium, new users can try Spotify Premium free for 30 days by visiting: http://ift.tt/1JaYz4O.“We’re extremely pleased that Spotify Premium subscribers can now listen to their favorite music on Amazon Echo,” said Ian Geller, Global Head of Hardware at Spotify. “Creating innovative experiences is core to our mission. We know our users will love controlling music with their voice at home.”
“Now playing your favorite music from Spotify is as easy as asking Alexa,” said Toni Reid, Director, Amazon Alexa. “Music is one of the most popular features on Amazon Echo, and Spotify has been one of the most requested services, so we’re excited to bring it to our customers today.”
Additionally, Echo customers can play music from Amazon Music, Prime Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and TuneIn. Simply ask Alexa for an artist, song, genre, playlist, or station, and once music is playing you can pause and skip tracks using voice commands. Echo is also Bluetooth-enabled so you can stream other music services from your phone or tablet.
Amazon Echo is hands-free and always ready, and with seven microphones and beam-forming technology, it can hear you from across the room—even while music is playing. Alexa—the brain behind Echo—is built in the cloud, so it’s always getting smarter. Echo also offers hands-free voice control for information from Wikipedia and the web, weather, timers and alarms, news, shopping/to-do lists, sports updates and scores, smart home features, Audible books, calendar entries, IFTTT, and much more—with new skills being added every week.
Amazon Echo is currently available for $179.99 at Amazon.comand other retail locations across the U.S. For more information, visitwww.amazon.com/echo.
Apple’s own streaming service, Apple Music, has picked up another set of features in its latest update, with the leading bullet point giving users the ability to download even more of their music.
The update was released on February 3, and it offers at least three new additions to the service for Android users. The biggest part of the new version is the ability to download music to an SD card on compatible smartphones. As Apple puts it in the official update notes, this gives Android users an option to download even more of their music for offline listening.
The update also includes a full schedule for Beats 1 Radio, so you can keep tabs on which shows you want to listen to. Users can now browse through the My Music collection by Composer and Compilation, too.
Are you using Apple Music, or are you sticking with another streaming service?
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