Tag Archives : Google Play

Google’s All Access music streaming service which debuted in is now available in UK and several countries across Europe, including France, Ireland and  Spain and the U.K. Google on Wednesday updated its international availability page for its Play Store. For early sign ups the price is €7.99 if they sign up before September 15 after which it will cost €9.99. There’s still no word on when [...]

Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play edition phones have started getting an OTA (over-the-air) upgrade to Android 4.3 today evening. ‘ I just got the 4.3 OTA notification on both of my Google-suppled GPe phones. The update is around 150 MB for the SGS4 and 180 MB for the HTC One, and comes as build JWR66V. This comes immediately after both HTC and Samsung released their Android 4.3 kernel [...]

Twitter launched Vine for Android on Monday,  the Android version of it’s popular video capturing and sharing service via Google Play. Vine app for iOS has been available since January with about 13 million active users soon after Twitter purchased it. The Android version does not have al lthe goodies of it’s iOS counterpart. “Though we’ve been very focused on releasing Vine [...]

Google Play All Access music streaming service was launched few weeks ago at Google I/O and was available for Android mobile OS, with an iOS app sorely missed and keenly awaited. The wait seems to be nearly over.  At the D11 conference, Google’s head of Android Sundar Pichai confirmed that the service will be making its way to iOS according to Engadget. Users who start a free trial by June 30th, [...]

HTC’s First smartphone which was the first flagship Android phone for Facebook Home, now is priced at less than one US  Dollar. US carrier AT&T has discounted the price of the HTC First from $99.99 to $0.99, with a two-year agreement. Facebook has tied up with HTC to launch a midrange smartphone preloaded with Home, the heavily modified Android experience. User reviews for Facebook Home [...]

A Malware  family called Badnews has been discovered by Lookout Security in Google Play developer accounts, Badnews avoided detection and made its way onto the Google Play store has been downloaded between 2-9 million times according to Lookout . Google was notified of the outbreak and all affected apps have been removed from the Android store. Lookout found 32 applications that contained code from [...]

Google’s store for Android mobile OS is getting a redesign. Google announced on Tuesday that it has started to roll out a new look for the mobile version of Google Play. Users around the world will see the new design as early as today, it will be rolled out to various markets and devices over the next few weeks. Out goes the text heavy interface, the app gets light colours, a clearer layout [...]

Facebook’s much talked and written about “Home on Android,” event saw Facebook taking the wraps off Home, a suite of apps and a home screen replacement for Android phones. Facebook Home replaces the lock screen with Cover Feed and prioritizes updates from people on your Friends list instead of apps. Facebook users swipe between pictures, status updates and other important events. It also [...]

Google today  announce the much anticipated Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet, as well as an increased storage space available on the Nexus 7 tablet while maintaining its pricing. Its Android Jelly Bean operating system also got an update.   The LG built Nexus 4 is the successor to Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus 4 features a 4.7-inch display, up from 4.65-inches, and where the Galaxy [...]

If you had planned on buying a 16GB Nexus 7 but have not already, there is some bad news for you – It’s sold out.  Google is no longer taking orders for the £199 model.  The page for the 16GB version Google Play displays a “coming soon” message, Interested customers can register to be notified via email when the model becomes available once again.   Nexus 7 which is built by Asus  [...]