It's going to be "bigger, badder, and birdier" and it's coming to a mobile platform near you on July 30th. Yes, that's right, mobile game developer Rovio has just announced via its official Twitter account that there is an Angry Birds 2 in the making and it will be available to download at the end of the month.
Android is a pretty great platform, but it isn't truly built for everyday desktop computing, or at least that's what we've been led to believe. However, it is a platform with massive customization potential, and that's the idea behind Jide Tech's new device, dubbed the "first true Android PC."
Speculation regarding Apple's upcoming iPhone 6s is starting to come through thick and fast. We now well and truly find ourselves in the middle of that exciting, and sometimes frustrating, period where new visual and technical specification leaks come out of the woodwork from those who claim to have "familiarity with the situation." We can already be fairly confident that Apple's iPhone 6s will come with Force Touch capabilities, as well as being offered in a new color option that has been described as either Rose Gold or Pink, so naturally, those Chinese clone manufacturers have jumped immediately onto the bandwagon and produced a $200 clone of the iPhone 6s complete with the speculated new color option.
If you're looking to treat yourself this year with a new smartphone then it may be worth looking beyond the usual considerations. Sure, we already know we will be getting the iPhone 6s this September. We also know that it's extremely likely that Samsung will attempt to spoil Apple's party by launching its fifth-generation Galaxy Note 5 a month earlier in August. But if you want to step away from the iPhones and Galaxy phones of this world and try something new, why not consider the new Turing Phone, the world's first smartphone with a fully liquidmetal shell.
It's natural to assume that once you've deleted an app from your Android device, the functionality contained within it will cease to exist as well. However, it would appear that in some instances, namely when Google Photos is involved, merely making the conscious decision to remove the app from your phone or tablet is not enough to prevent the search engine giant from receiving uploads of your treasured Android device's photos / videos and storing them against your account.
The 'Battle of the Sixes' report has been published by and it makes for some interesting reading. GameBench created the report as an opportunity to create the "first objective comparison of the Apple iPhone 6 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 on the basis of real-world gaming performance." Put simply, if you're heavily into high-end mobile gaming on your smartphone, are you better off investing in Apple's iPhone 6 or Samsung's Galaxy S6? It seems that last year's iPhone 6 is still capable of edging out this year's competition by a good 10% "average lead."
It's difficult to believe that Star Wars, one of the most iconic franchises ever to exist, has been in our lives since 1977, spanning a total of six movies so far, with more to come, and it hasn't had an official native mobile app presence - until now. After acquiring Lucasfilm for approximately $4.05 billion back in 2012, Disney has now launched an official mobile app for iPhone and Android that acts as a mobile centric gateway to everything Star Wars.
Microsoft has continued the development of its iOS and Android Xbox Music apps with yet another new version being pushed out to both the App Store and Google Play Store for respective device owners. The app and underlying service, which will shortly undergo a full rebrand to become Groove, is following in the footsteps of the Windows desktop version that benefitted from the addition of the same new features back in March.
Amazon is an Internet behemoth when it comes to online shopping. In fact, since its inception, Amazon has shown that it is an almost unstoppable freight train going from strength-to-strength by offering a seemingly endless list of products for extremely reasonable prices. However, where the company has succeeded with offering everything you may need on a day-to-day basis, it has often struggled when trying to break into the consumer tech world. Take the Amazon Fire Phone as a prime example. Amazon's phone is no stranger to having a saving applied to it in an effort to get customers to take it off the shelves and now, in a similar marketing stunt, Amazon is offering the device at its cheapest price yet.
In this day and age it seems many of us live our lives on Facebook, not only using it as our digital rolodex but also keeping a running tally of who our friends are and what they are up to. That's all well and good, but while Facebook tells you when someone wants to be your friend it is much more coy when someone goes the other way, and wants to unfriend you.














