When Pinterest acquired mobile app developer Math Camp in July, it was made clear that the company’s apps were not long for the world, though details at the time were scarce. Now the company has made the end date more explicit; in an e-mail sent to users over the weekend, Math ... Read More »
Welcome to the 155th episode of Android Apps Weekly! Here are the headlines from the last week: Google Duo has been out for a week and it has already surpassed five million installs. That’s pretty impressive for a video calling service looking to usurp all of the other options out ... Read More »
Gotta catch ’em all, right? Interested in hanging out with Pokémon players in the real world? Soon there’ll be an app for that. Florida native Jeffrey Shafer is the creative mind behindPoké Trainer, a new mobile app designed to help Pokémon Go players find their new best friend—or possibly something ... Read More »
It might be fair to say that as a society, we’re developing a growing obsession with screens. Thanks in part to new advances in technology, people are routinely receiving higher fidelity images on TV screens, imbued with the one-to-one ability to manipulate content on touchscreens and entrusting a greater number ... Read More »
Earlier this morning, we reported that Chinese manufacturer Cube started selling a new Windows 10 Mobile phablet in Spain but it seems that we could soon count another new Windows Phone OEM. Whartonbrooks, a new manufacturer based in Connecticut, announced today new Windows 10 Mobile products named Cerulean smartphones that will “radically ... Read More »
Nokia executive Mike Wang has confirmed that that the company is indeed planning to reveal three or four new Nokia-branded devices running Google’s Android mobile operating system, according to Android Authority. The three or four new device will actually be composed of both smartphones and tablets. Although Nokia will make its ... Read More »
Game developers, Respawn Entertainment, will be holding two technical tests for theirupcoming video game, Titanfall 2, to test the servers that they’ll be using for online multiplayer. The first test will be on the weekend of August the 19th through 21st and the second will be on the following weekend ... Read More »
With everyone (ourselves included) using the term ‘iPhone 7’ to refer to this year’s iPhone, it can be easy to forget that the name isn’t a given. With the new iPhone expected to be only a minor iteration on the iPhone 6/6s design-wise – effectively a second ‘S’ year – ... Read More »
Hecorat, the developer behind some cool apps we love like AZ Screen Recorder and EZ Package Disabler, has released a new app on the Play Store and this one solves an existential problem for all virtual reality fans who own Samsung’s Gear VR but also want to try Cardboard apps and games: it ... Read More »
An alliance of Syrian rebel factions claimed they had broken a weeks-long government siege of the country’s second biggest city. Damascus denied this, saying the rebels had been pushed back after intense air strikes by pro-government forces. Separately, the UN launched an investigation into claims that a toxic gas – ... Read More »
