If you're into your big, bolshy, animated Android launchers, you might be intrigued to learn that the GO Launcher Dev Team has been hard at work in building a home screen alternative to fit those exact criterion. The Next Launcher 3D, which offers interested parties a fully functional 36 hour trial via the Lite version, comes jam-packed with features, and is one of the most heavily customizable, fluid, and striking launchers we've ever seen here at Redmond Pie.
One annoying fact of most early hardware leaks, is that those obtaining these rare artifacts seem eagle-eyed clued-up enough to discover them in the first place, but struggle to source a respectable camera to take a decent shot before distributing images to eager tech fiends across the Web. This can certainly be said of many of the so-called iPhone 5S's internal hardware parts leaks hitherto, but today, we have come across some high quality images of which are being touted as components of the next-generation Apple smartphone.
In case you've been living in a cave for the past 24 hours, you will almost certainly have caught onto the news and announcements from yesterday's big Google I/O developer conference. If you do prefer your surroundings to be of the dark and cold variety, you can catch up on everything and anything you might have missed from the 3+ hour keynote thanks to the live stream, which has just been made available via YouTube.
The consensus thus far has been, at least where the Galaxy Note III is concerned, that Samsung would break from its ongoing tradition of plastic outer shells and finally bring an aluminum (or similar) finish to match the high-end status of the handset. However, sources of SamMobile have suggested that the forthcoming device will use pretty much the same build as the Galaxy S III and the Galaxy S4.
Earlier on this month, Apple announced that it was closing in on a monumental 50 billion app downloads since the App Store's inception, and to commemorate the occasion, would be offering 50 lucky winners the chance to win some serious prizes.
It may have been conspicuous by its absence at yesterday's keynote, but Google Glass is still the hottest property in personal technology right now. You only have to flick through any social media site and you'll come across someone either wearing Glass, or at the very least, talking about it.
First day of Google I/O is officially over and a lot of great announcements were made, and some of those announcements were strictly focused towards Android developers.
Gran Turismo is arguably the biggest franchise in the world of racing games. It's been around since the days of the original PlayStation, and it's sold huge numbers each and every time it's had a new number affixed to the end of its title, admit it. There's no doubt that Gran Turismo games are popular, which is why the internet set alight when news began to leak of a sixth installment reaching us later this year. More details can be found after the break.
Hot on the heels of BlackBerry's announcement that BBM would soon become a cross-platform experience, Google has showcased its new Hangouts messaging system, unifying iOS, Android and Chrome users all in one convenient place. This revelation makes for an exciting face-off between the major instant messaging services, and it's fair to say, this kind of feature from Google as been a long time coming.
In amongst all of the other announcements at today's I/O developers conference, Google has taken the wraps off its new ‘All Access’ Music service, and judging by the business model and pricing, it looks a sure-fire shot at the popular alternatives Spotify, Pandora and Rdio. More details after the break.
