The Samsung Galaxy S4 is not too far away; yet while many of us are moderately excited by the prospect of its release, it stands to reason that the guys over at SamMobile would perhaps be a little more stoked than most. The Samsung-focused blog has already spent the past couple of days extracting various parts of a Galaxy S4 ROM dump and distributing them about the Web, and having finished picking at the carcass, has now released a bunch of animated demo clips outlining some of the new features on offer with the forthcoming flagship.
Gameloft will soon be releasing an adaptation of Marvel's Iron Man 3 for iOS and Android, and in anticipation of the release, the developer has come through with a short, cinematic teaser trailer. It's not long before the Iron Man 3 hits cinemas, and with the box office puppeteers now seeing significant value in bringing supplementary mobile titles out alongside the blockbusters, Gameloft has been tasked with creating the title for what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest movie releases of 2013.
With both Google and Apple finding great success with their respective online entertainment stores, Samsung has decided the time is right to come through with its very own, very similar offering. The iTunes App Store and more recently, Google Play, currently dominate the market, but if sources in Korea are to be believed, the nation’s largest electronics manufacturer is planning a new “Tizen” ecosystem. What’s more, the company has just launched a supplementary content portal, and wants the top 100 iPhone and Android games ready and available on it by June.
The power of The Cloud has brought a whole new dimension to how we go about running our everyday digital errands. As far as note-taking is concerned, Evernote is seen as the go-to option, as it provides a wealth of features while also offering seamless, automatic syncing to any and all of your devices. If you're looking to break away from convention, and instead try another app for the jotting and syncing of notes, you may want to give Notz for Android a try. It's incredibly small (less than 600kB), works nicely with Dropbox, and has a pretty interface. Oh, and it's absolutely free of charge.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 may not have been released yet, but already, the thriving modding community has begun extracting it of all its exclusives and treasures, including its beautiful array of HD wallpapers. The Korean company has, naturally, updated and improved its native personal assistant S Voice for the upcoming flagship, and already, a system dump leaked into the wild has given the opportunity for those on preexisting devices to try it out. The app has already been tested by SamMobile on the Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III and the Nexus 4, and is said to work "flawlessly" on each. Further details - as well as the download link - are coming up after the break.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 mightn't yet be gracing the smartphone arena, but that doesn't mean its presence cannot be felt. In fact, it's fair to say that, aside from the iPhone, the Galaxy S4 is easily the most anticipated device to be releasing in 2013, and thanks to a ROM dump being drip-fed by different sources, we're beginning to get a real good look at what's contained within the device's firmware. Along with the earlier leak of S Voice, we're now being treated to some of the beautiful, native HD wallpapers within the 1080p handset. A batch of seven are available to download, and range from the strictly natural to the very beautiful. More details after the jump.
We're used to seeing new, major smartphone releases arriving more frequently than mobile carriers will allow us to upgrade, but where Samsung is concerned, the company has two flagship-level handset outlets. Both the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note are immensely popular among hordes of Android fans, and with the South Korean vendor releasing them at different points during any given year, one only has to wait a couple of months to see a brand new Galaxy handset. With the Galaxy S4 now announced pending release next month, attentions will naturally turn to the larger, so-called "phablet" Galaxy Note III, and according to a report from Korean publication Asiae.co.kr, the device will pack an "unbreakable" display.
If you regularly enjoy modding your Android smartphone or tablet by running custom ROMs and such, it stands to reason that your tendency to dabble would also stretch to your computer. XDA Forum Member FrozenCow has, it would seem, taken this idea of a 'modding mentality' to the next level in the development of his DriveDroid app which, as the name implies, allows an Android device to double up as a convenient boot device for your computer.
Back in August of 2011, the author of the well-known Android custom ROM - CyanogenMod - joined Samsung in order to improve the company’s fortunes with the Android operating system, which back in the day only occupied a small niche in the market. He has now revealed that after nearly two years, he’s a free man once again. What could he be up to next?
Since it’s very beginning, Android has had a rather different way of managing storage space. In the initial devices, the internal memory was really low (imagine a device today with mere 512 MB of storage), and even in those that had larger capacities, it wasn’t possible to even move apps (and data) to SD card for efficient utilization of available space. This, however, brings to me to my second point, that Android has almost always supported external, expandable memory in the form of SD cards. It was quite a way to compete with the main contender in the smartphone arena, too; Apple’s iPhone has always had much larger internal memory (8GB was the very basic), but Android managed to keep the cost lower by embedding a lower capacity flash memory and providing the freedom to expand on it at your will through SD cards.
