The Fossil Q Wander and Q Marshal smartwatches were announced during Baselworld and now it looks like the two Android Wear wearables have a 29 August release date. If you find yourself struggling over which one to pick, there isn’t a huge difference between the two 45mm steel cased timepieces, ... Read More »
In my recent TechRepublic post “Is the Superbook the next best solution for convergence?” I explored how the Superbook might be the ideal convergent platform. The Superbook from the startup Andromium is basically a docking station for your smartphone that transforms it into a fully-functioning laptop. The Superbook’s creators have ... Read More »
It’s the eternal question that we all face when it’s time for a new version of Android: when will I get it? We have the answer! Well, sort of. Android is a fragmented mess customized by many different smartphone makers, so finding out when exactly you’ll get Nougat depends on ... Read More »
Three years ago, the Federal Trade Commission dimmed hopes for the Brightest Flashlight app for Android, slapping its developer with charges of consumer deception. Why? The app was transmitting users’ locations and device IDs to third parties without telling the users or getting their permission. Permissions, though, are only a ... Read More »
We carry computers in our pockets. Tiny little computers that we occasionally hold up to our ears to hear other people. Mostly we use them as portable gaming, non-verbal communication and entertainment devices. Often we wax poetic that our phones could be our only computer, if only there was a ... Read More »
If one of the things for which you enjoy using your Android phone or Android tablet is to watch YouTube, the need to be in range of a Wi-Fi hotspot can be a pain. And if you are using a mobile data connection, watching those old favourites time and again ... Read More »
According to new data from Strategy Analytics, Samsung’s dominance in the mobile market has continued to rise this year. The data shows that the company’s Galaxy S7 Edge was the world’s top-selling Android device during the first half of 2016, with estimated shipments of 13.3 million units. As a whole, ... Read More »
Android apps arrived on Chromebooks with Chrome OS 53 in June, but as we noted during our initialhands-on, the developer channel was still quite buggy and not recommended for use as a daily driver. While the Play Store is still limited to three Chromebooks, version 53 has entered the beta channel with some ... Read More »
There’s an increasing trend of using Android Wear as the OS for specialty fitness wearables. At CES, Casio announced a rugged sensor-packed Wear device that also has a monochrome watch mode. Polar is continuing in that line with an Android Wear watch that doubles as an exercise wearable with an optical heart rate sensor, GPS, ... Read More »
The mobile messaging application WhatsApp recently released a new BETA for android phones. With a 25.4MB file size, here are all the inclusions of the add-on as well as where and how to download it. According to reports, the new BETA will have no new features. Also, there are no ... Read More »
