Owning a tablet laced with all the latest and greatest software and hardware is great and all, but unless you've made provisions for keeping the battery life afloat, your fancy smartphone or tablet can often become a very expensive paperweight. Luckily, there is no shortage of apps out there seeking to aid the practice of good battery management, and one such utility by the name of Extend battery life: AC Socket has just been released over at the Google Play Store.
Having already been given a glimpse of what AirDroid 2 is capable of via the AirDroid 2 beta released earlier on in the year, it's fair to say we were very excited by the prospect of the final version hitting the Google Play Store. For those of you that are unfamiliar, AirDroid 2 is the sequel to the original AirDroid for Android, a popular app which let Android users control their devices remotely, accessing and managing most of the features from the comfort of their desktop, or the web. The aforementioned beta of AirDroid 2 gave a teaser of some further niceties including remote camera functionality and a handy phone locating feature, and today, AirDroid 2 steps out of beta and strides into the Google Play Store.
If you cast your minds back a year or so, you may recall the Fast Facebook app for Android which, as the name implied, offered a much slicker and less weighty alternative to the official application. Created by team2soft, it has been used ever since by those who want to feast on the world's largest social network without the additional waistline, and the same gang is back with an equally lightweight collection of accompanying widgets.
As expected, Gameloft has dropped the official Iron Man 3 title today for both iOS and Android and we've got all the details, as well as those all-important download links, coming right up after the break!
Swype, the once-revered piece of software bringing an intuitive gesture-based typing system to Android, has finally been released as a standalone app, and can be downloaded right now over at the Google Play Store. There's a free trial from which you can test Swype's credibility, and if it does make your typing experience that little bit easier, you can buy the complete app for a cool 99 cents.
The Facebook Home launcher may currently only be available to a select few Android handsets, but some of its features still made it out to other devices via the Facebook Messenger app, which was updated shortly thereafter. While many of you Facebook Messenger for Android users have spent the past week or two enjoying the new Chat Heads implementation, what you might not have stumbled across is the hidden support for those cute, innocuous, meme-like illustrations otherwise known as Stickers; but below, we're going to show you how you can join in the fun.
We're still not entirely sold on digital personal assistants. Apple's Siri and Google's Now are both two of the most famous and arguably, the best digital assistants to be found on any smartphone today. That doesn't mean they're perfect, and we've got our fair share of reasons for that as we suspect most have. With that in mind, the door is still very much open for third party companies to offer something a little different and to make a name for themselves in the process.
In a day and age where we all use our smartphones as the camera that is always with us, we're all collecting hundreds of megabytes of photos that will eventually need to be taken off those devices and put onto something a little less likely to get lost, like a computer.
An incremental point update has been made to the official Google Play Store app, bringing us up to version 4.0.26. It follows on from last week's altogether more significant release of Google Play Store 4.0.25 APK, which brought a bunch of new features including a Card UI. According to some users, there were bugs with that new interface as well as a couple of other niggling issues with the release, and thus here we are no less than a week later with this housekeeping update.
Yahoo! drifted into relative anonymity for a considerable period during the 2010s, sitting on the sidelines as Google almost single-handedly dominated with its assortment of powerful Web-based apps. However, the company has been busy reinventing its image of late, and as part of that movement, the Sunnyvale outfit has just introduced a couple of new apps for iPhone, iPad and Android tablets. As well as Yahoo! Weather for iPhone, there's a new Mail app catering to the larger displays of the iPad and Android-running tablets.
