By Brandon Russell |
Maybe you already knew about this—maybe not—but it’s definitely new to me. If you’ve been relying on pinch-to-zoom in Google Maps all this time, your experience is about to change and become so much better. This needs to become a standard gesture for every app…
By Brandon Russell |
Backing up the Wall Street Journal’s report from last week, Android Police has allegedly received a complete system dump of Facebook’s upcoming BlinkFeed-like Android software. Basically, the social network’s new home on Android will act as your constant connection to your News Feed, always there…
By Adriana Lee |
On April 4, Facebook will unveil its “New Home on Android.” The software is designed to put Facebook front and center on people’s Android phones, and it seems HTC will be among the first to partner with the company on this. I haven’t said much…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook just sent out invites for a press event on April 4 where it invites everyone to “Come See Our New Home on Android.” It’s perfectly possible that the company will talk about revamped Android applications for smartphones and tablets, but TechCrunch it learned from sources that…
By Brandon Russell |
OUYA already said its Android-powered device would be available in June to the general consumer, and today it announced a precise date: June 4. Shipments will actually start going out today to those who backed the device on Kickstarter, so don’t be surprised to see…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung is reportedly working on a new tablet with an 8-inch AMOLED screen that it hopes will compete against the iPad mini 2 and the second generation Nexus 7, SamMobile said on Thursday. Samsung recently announced its Galaxy Note 8.0 (pictured above), but this new tablet would…
By Todd Haselton |
Google Translate on Android is an amazing tool. It lets you speak phrases, translate them and have them read out in another language. Or you can write it down and translate the text directly. I’ve used the applications dozens of times while traveling, and it’s…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry purposefully built BlackBerry 10 to support Android applications in an emulator, and thanks to that move the company has found that 20 percent of its 100,000 applications were built on Android. It was a wise decision, especially because all eyes are on BlackBerry 10…
By Todd Haselton |
Amazon’s highly rumored smartphone will ship with a 4.7-inch display, according to a new report published by DigiTimes on Wednesday. Amazon reportedly made the decision to move away from a smaller 4.3-inch display and to equip the phone with a larger screen following increased consumer attention…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T announced that Android Jelly Bean is now available for the Samsung Galaxy Express. Jelly Bean is our favorite release of Android yet and offers Google Now, improved Google Search with voice support, a brand new actionable notification shade and, best of all, enhancements to…
By Brandon Russell |
Google+ for iOS and Android have both been updated with new image editing features that allow users to enhance photos with retro filters, among other things. Because an as-is portrait of yourself needs to be tweaked and filtered before you share it with your circles.…
By Todd Haselton |
CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik recently decided to leave Samsung after just a few years at the South Korean company. The modding community was generally happy when Kondik left to work for the firm since it seemed like his input would add a lot of value…
By Todd Haselton |
Archos launched three new products in the U.S. recently, including the GamePad gaming device, the 97 Titanium HD tablet and the 80 Titanium tablet. The 97 Titanium HD tablet sports a 9.7-inch display with a sharp 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean,…
By Todd Haselton |
The smartphone wars have been brewing since Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Palm were fighting it out to gain consumer and enterprise market share in the early 2000s. Before that time, it’s arguable that most smartphones were used by enterprise users, and I think devices such…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung recently revealed that it’s working on a smart watch, and that report surfaced shortly after several sources indicated that Apple was working on an iWatch. We’ve heard a few whispers that Google might be working on its own watch, too, and now a new…
By Todd Haselton |
Google doesn’t have plans to merge its mobile operating system, Android, with its desktop operating system Chrome OS, the company’s chairman Eric Schmidt recently said. There has long been rampant speculation that Google has plans to combine the two operating systems, especially as Android becomes…
By Brandon Russell |
Jawbone has finally recognized Android as an existing smartphone OS by releasing an app for several Android handsets. The company has previously only acknowledged iOS, but finally wised up and figured there might be some Android (Ice Cream Sandwich and later) users that’d like to…
By Todd Haselton |
Android is famously known for being a terribly fragmented platform because there are so many devices and so many different versions of the operating system. The fragmentation was made famous again recently when Apple’s Phil Schiller slammed Android devices, claiming that many of them run…
By Todd Haselton |
Earlier this month we reported on a security flaw that allows hackers to bypass the lock screen on the Galaxy S III. Now, a new bug suggests that a similar approach is possible for all Samsung smartphones running the Android Jelly Bean operating system. In…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC recently confirmed that its major flagship, the device that it desperately needs to get to market in order to tackle the Samsung Galaxy S4, is delayed on a global scale, not just in some markets. Company executives cited component shortages as the root of…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode of Ask the Buffalo, Jon tells us if he thinks the iPhone 5S will get a new display with a 1080p resolution, shares various tips on…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced on Monday that it officially updated the Gmail client for devices running Android 4.1 and newer. Google says the new software will allow Gmail users to reply and archive messages faster, right from the drop-down notification shade inside Gmail. The company said search…
By Todd Haselton |
Codenames are weird. Motorola’s codenames are weirder than most we’ve seen before. The company is apparently working on three new devices that will launch in the United States. The first two are codenamed the Yeti and the Sasquatch, and Droid-Life said it has learned those phones…
By Todd Haselton |
Google might have an Evernote and Microsoft OneNote competitor up its sleeves according to leaked screen shots of what’s currently being called “Google Keep.” The application allows desktop and Android to take notes on the go and keep them in sync with one another. AndroidPolice noticed…
