Articles tagged "Mobile software"

Google is testing a Waze-like accident and speed traps reporting feature in Maps since last year, and it seems the company has finally started rolling it out globally. Some Google Maps users are seeing a new button in navigation mode that lets...

Calm was among the top apps in the Apple Store for 2017 and the success did not remain unseen by Samsung. The Korean smartphone manufacturer has just announced through a press release a partnership with the wellness platform which will bring the...

Last year Facebook was caught deleting already sent messages by Mark Zuckerberg on the company's Messenger platform, and it then vowed to bring this same functionality to every user of the app. This has now finally happened. A new unsend feature is...

Google's popular keyboard has extended its functionality by reaching over 500 supported languages. In its latest update Gboard has gained support for 50 new languages, most of which you'd likely not have heard of like Alas, Amis, Brahui, Choctaw,...

AI was the buzzword of 2018 with smartphone manufacturers boasting about their phones' AI capabilities making it really hard to determine if there are any major differences between different handsets. So AnTuTu decided to release a benchmarking...

Samsung filed a trademark in the EU for a software product called "Neuro Game Booster". The name is pretty self-explanatory and it seems like Samsung is working on a GPU booster of its own like Huawei's GPU Turbo tech. The trademark filing...

Android Pie is yet to reach anything close to mass adoption, but Google's developers team is already busy building the new Android Q. The guys over at XDA Developers have come across the earliest build of Google's upcoming OS version tested on a...

At CES 2019, VLC revealed that it has plans to implement support for AirPlay so you can stream all of your videos on Apple TV from your Android or iOS device. Unfortunately, it's still unclear when the feature will be rolled out but the lead...

It’s the end of an era – Nokia Series 40 phones have sent their last messages on WhatsApp as support for the platform expired on December 31. That comes after the Symbian S60 app stopped working in mid-2017. To be clear, this change affects only...

Today Twitter made a lot of people happy by announcing that its iOS app has revived a long-lost feature: the reverse-chronological feed. It's not enabled by default, but that's a small price to pay in order to bring the service back to what it used...

Instagram Direct, the area of the service where you chat with your friends either one-on-one or in group settings, is getting a new feature today. You should file this one under the "how could it possibly have taken this long?" category, because...

Google's been redesigning the interface of its software across platforms rounding off sharp corners wherever possible - just look at the address bar of the Chrome browser you're probably reading this on. The push for circles is now finally fully...

With 2018 nearly over the two major app stores have highlighted the best apps, games and multimedia. Here are the picks from the Apple App Store. Two major genres defined this year – battle royale games and self-care apps. Predictably,...

Voting on the Google Play User’s Choice Awards is closed, here are the winners for 2018. This is the first year that a “fan favorite” was elected in three categories: games, apps, movies. There are other categories too, including TV shows, ebooks...

The Google Assistant wants to be your co-pilot – earlier this year it landed on Android Auto, now it’s rolling out to Google Maps for Android as well. It seems that this feature is enabled for some (but not all) users who have updated to version...

It's been quite some time since we've heard anything about Google's Fuchsia OS project. The search giant is keeping the lid on the whole endeavor. Still, the odd public official mention here and there and the activity on the Fuchsia repository do...

Black Friday is associated with lining up at stores to buy heavily discounted stuff, but there’s no rule that says digital stores can’t take part (plus, no lines!). Google Play is offering deals on apps, games, movies, TV shows and books. The...

Today Google has revealed that the latest version of its Photos app for iOS comes with adjustable depth and focus for portrait mode shots. This has previously been available on Android only. From now on if you have an iPhone and the newest iteration...

Huawei is launching its 3D Moderator app for the Huawei Mate 20 Pro and Mate 20 RS Porsche Design which enables some pretty impressive AR tricks. Using the advanced tech inside the Mate 20 Pro/RS Porsche Design notch and the Kirin 980 chipset, 3D...

Time to vote for your favorite Android apps and games. Follow this link to the Google Play Store and cast your vote. Note that the voting is per-country (and not all countries are included). The voting ends in two weeks, the winners in each category...