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Flud Flud is a bit torrent client with many options it has a very nice UI which follows material design. The app is free with all features unlocked. There is also a adfree version. Inbox Google introduced inbox which bundles your messages together so you deal with them all at once, get important information at front, also you can set reminders. this app has many material design goodies flat design with nice animations. you need an invite to intall this app Email inbox@google.com to request one. Talon for Twitter (Plus) Created with Android Lollipop and Material Design at it's center its one of the nest looking app for twitter. it has tons of options which official app doesn't have. Cabinet beta Cabinet is a file manager with minimalistic look which is inspired by material design. It also support root access. There are necessary animations with all the options making available at finger tips with UI that pleases the eye. Google Calender

Nokia, on monday revealed to launch a new product without indicating any details. the mysterious black happens to be a tablet named 'nokia N1' the tablet was launched yesterday and created a lots of buzz because of its resemblance with ipad. The build material, size, camera position looks very similar to ipad mini. But the tablet still managed to gain some keen interest from many people around the world. This could price to be a rival to ipad, nexus and many other tablets. This was Nokia's comeback and they wanted to be a hit. So they put everything top of the line with providing premium build quality. specs are very much similar to recently launched nexus 9 but has very different designs and build quality which can be a differentiating point in consumer's desision making. The benchmarks are very iimpressive too. The 64 bit Intel chip already have outperformed many chips and is competing against Qualcomm's snapdragon 805 and Nvidia K1. Here are some b

Many users face this issue this happens due to installing certificates from storage or using VPN these require a secure password or pin or pattern lock. Sometimes users unintentionally install certificates or install apps like survey savvy which needs users to install certificate. Which blocks the swipe to unlock and none as the unlock method. How to fix this If you want to use the app which needs the certificate you can't get the options. But if you have unintentionally installed it. Here are the steps to solve it         Go to settings And then to security Then scroll till you see clear credentials under credential storage. Click it This will clear all the user certificates And you should get swipe and 'none' as unlock 'options'

Microsoft may have rebranded the Lumia's but the brand will still live says Nokia. According to the company the brand will be open for other manufacturers to create products. Guess what? We’re up to something. http://t.co/AFq4dUFI9S #thinkingahead #Slush14 pic.twitter.com/sqERYpz0Vc — Nokia (@nokia) November 17, 2014 Looks like the first product is ready as Nokia tweeted a picture saying its ready to launch. But didn't revealed the product description. The image is a simply a black box with Nokia branding. They tweet says to reveal the product tomorrow.

Taking selfies is one of the biggest trend these days. Instagram, snapchat, frontback have been taken a huge advantage of this trend. Because of this, there is increasing need for the better front facing cameras in smartphones. Many manufactures have improved their front cameras to improve quality of selfies. But none could come closer to this. HTC desire eye wants to be the king of selfie phones and it delivers too. The phone is designed for selfie crazy crowd who like to snap pictures every hour and post them to Instagram. The phone has same metallic design as the HTC m8 but in addition it is waterproof. The phone has IPX7 verification do you can take pictures in the rain, beaches or pools. The phone can survive upto 1m under water for 30 minutes. And has achieved so without the rubber flaps seen on other waterproof phones. The phone itself is a powerhouse and has top of the line specs. It features 5 inch 1080p IPS LCD³ display Front facing speakers with htc boom soun

Xiaomi is one of the buzziest smartphone makers. They recently launched their flagship mi4 in July and have already started working on the next one. Here are the leaked specs: 5.5 inch Quad HD display 3 GB RAM Snapdragon 805 chipset 20 MP snapper A photo leaked on a Chinese social networking site 'weibo' shows what mi5 might look like. If these images are true the phone has a bigger display than mi4 and it has very less bezels on the side which makes it look more premium. There is no word on pricing or availability as of for now. Xiaomi is currently number one smartphone manufacturer in China. And had stated plans to focus on Indian market, as their phones were  huge success in India.

Following the  lollipop update, The recents menu ( app switcher ) has been revamped by Google and now shows the apps as the stacked cards which you can swipe and to switch between apps or choose to close it. Google has added one distinct feature to it that your opened chrome tabs also appear as separate cards. So lets say you have 4 opened tabs on your chrome browser they will all show up as different cards. This may seem like a useful feature many people may not like it specially if you have many tabs opened which may look like a mess in recents menu. If you are one of them you'll be happy to hear that you can turn it off. To do this, Launch chrome Open menu Go to settings And tap ' merge tabs and apps ' Set slider to off That's it now chrome will appear as single card even if you have multiple tabs opened

Windows phone was launched in November 2010 brought metro UI ( inspired by Zune HD ) to smartphones. the home screen consists of the "live tiles" which update himself and display information. WP OS was launched with version 7 which was in continuance with the old windows mobile OS. which was updated with v7.5 (also known as mango) in may 2011. In the year 2012 another update (tango) was released to lower hardware requirements of the OS so that the OS can run on phones with less powerful hardware. later on October 2012, Microsoft released WP8 it replaced the previous windows CE-based architecture with one based on windows NT . the WP8 added many software improvements and support for better hardware like multi core processors & high resolution screens. with the launch of WP8,Microsoft announced that the WP7 phones would not get updated to WP8 which was very disappointing for WP7 users. later Microsoft released a small update for WP7 phones which were updated to v7.

Xiaomi the company which has conquered China never fails to amaze. And they have recently announced, in their blog that they are working on lollipop and plan to update soon. Xiaomi runs miui which is a skin on top of the Android. The OS is highly customized had has lot of customizations from stick Android. The phones run miui on the KitKat OS ( mi3 & mi4 ) and is now ready for update. Company has been testing the beta versions of the android lollipop. According to forum the beta versions still has bugs which are being fixed. And you can expect the official update at the end of the year. No official dates have been confirmed yet. The redmi 1s and xiaomi note still haven't received the miui 6 update which creates a question that weather they'll get the update or not. The note 2 which has better specs than note 1 has more chances of getting lollipop There are many bugs like Calling through Bluetooth headsets CDMA not working Dual boot Since they have to tweak the

The factory images of lollipop for hammerhead were just released. The update brings many UI changes. Google is slowly updating all of its system apps. Google had not started rolling Google search (named as Google in playstore ) the update version is 4.0. It brings about many UI changes and many new features. Its more smart than ever. The app have fluid animations bold colors and revamped layout It will now remind you when you have missed any emails or reminders. Plus when you set a reminder, it will appear on the higher now as a sperate card so it's easy to track your reminders and to-dos. It will also check your gmail and remind you any meetings or appointments. If you set any reminder it will also tell you to update it in calender The 'Ok Google' will now work in third party apps for eg: Even you say to go to specific page or part of YouTube or search you'll be directed to that app page. Apps that are currently supported are TripAdvisor, tumblr

With the KitKat update google combined hangouts with SMS. But lots of users complained about this and installed many other SMS apps. Therefore in android lollipop they have reintroduced the SMS app.  It was previewed on nexus 9 by Google and it is trenched with material goodness. It has all bold colors and animations. The SMS capabilities of hangouts still remains we have to see what Google has planned. Its default SMS and MMS app for lollipop. The app is very basic. You can send images and voice notes very easily. The UI somehows reminds of the messenger app from Facebook. The animations doesn't always looks smooth there's a slight stutter. It is available for download for 4.1+ devices you can try it for yourselves.

Google previewed the new google keyboard at i/o which was part of the preview too. Now an update v4 has rolled out. The keyboard has two themes - material dark - material light The update has rolled out check here for update

WhatsApp, the most popular instant messaging service, now owned by Facebook has more than 200 million users. The service is free for a year and after that it charges a nominal 1$ per year. But according to a report by Deccan chronicle, the 1$ annual fee would not apply to Indian users. Neeraj Arora, VP, recently told the students of Indian school of business, Hyderabad that the service will be free for Indian users. According to the company, there is insufficient penetration of credit cards and debit cards in the country. This could be good news for the Indians. They don't wanna lose their major users as 1/10 of the total users are Indians that is 70 million.

Smartphone manufacturers now a days have a flagship line a mid line device and many budget friendly devices which are updated every year or six months they don't usually make any major design changes to devices except upgrading the hardware. But some times they like to experiment a little and do something different too. Like Samsung recently launched galaxy note edge along with note 4. The phone has a curved edge which can be used for various tasks in different apps. LG has done something unique too by launching AKA. The phone has specs of a mid-range smartphone it has a decent 5 inch 720p display. 1.2 GHz quad-core processor with 1.5 GB RAM. The phone has LTE radio, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and most features which most smart phones now a days have. The phone's camera is a 8 MP camera  with laser focus and has a 2 MP front facing camera. It has a 2160 mAH battery which should give it a SOT of around 5 hours. AKA has 16 GB onboard storage which is expandable via microSD slo

Android lollipop brings lot of new features and a complete new UI to the tablets and phones. But this year the the android wear was very trending watches from LG, Motorola, Samsung were able to attract a lot to attention. The lollipop update is just around the corner and there are leaks of many OEMs showing how it might look on their flagship smartphone. But this year Android wear being a big success there are Leaks surfaced which shows the features of the new android wear running lollipop. The new watch companion app is updated with material design as well and now has new features like: The new battery monitor. Its similar to like that in the phones it displays the graph and percent usage per app of the smart watch on your phone. You can also now see the storage on your smart watch and monitor which app is taking how much amounts of space on your smart watch Debugging over Bluetooth is back which is great news for developers. The watch interface is changed

The latest update (6.10.0) to the Instagram would allow you correct any typos you could've made while writing your captions (#hashtags) And you can change your location too. The explore page is also updated and now displays the results better and fatter than before.  Icons are updated too but no major design changes. Instagram currently has over 200 million users. If you haven't updated it yet here is the link to playstore

According to a report in Hindustan times, Microsoft has decided to use the "white space" ( the unused spectrum between two TV channels ), to provide free internet connection. Microsoft is seeking permission to kick-start the project in two major districts as of now and would cost $1.2 billion (approx.) to connect 250,000 gram panchayats via optic fibre cables, thereby providing digital infrastructure as to every citizen and provide necessary services on demand. Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India, explains WiFi has a range of only about 100 metres, whereas the 200-300 MHz spectrum band available in the white space can reach up to 10 km, This spectrum belongs mainly to Doordarshan and the government and is not used at all. We have sought clearance for a pilot project in two districts. the initiative will help bring Internet accessible to a vast population a cost-effective manner. If this project runs successful this could boost county's lack of digital infras

Android lollipop updates and bring many new APIs which gives app developers many new possibilities which they can use it in their apps. One such feature is the recording your screen. Gone are the days when you needed the root access(superuser rights) to record your screen you can now just do it by simply downloading an app. The app is called SCR Screen Recorder 5+. The app was very popular screen recording app but it required the root access but with the new APIs to work with the developer has updated the app and it no longer requires root access The app is currently in beta so there might be few bugs which will be fixed in the coming updates. The app costs 1$ and you can record videos upto your full screen resolution. There is a free version of the available too which has certain restrictions like - you can only record upto 3 minutes - there is the watermark on the processed video The app is very easy to use, you just need to turn on the app and press record button and it

Microsoft last month reported to launch its first phone with "Microsoft lumia" branding on Tuesday. As expected the company launched its first phone and its called Microsoft lumia 535. The phone has some really great hardware and a very low price. The Microsoft blog posted that about the phone as 5×5×5 smartphone package as it has a 5 inch screen size 5 mp primary camera And a 5 mp front facing camera The phone will have denim update out of the box which means it'll  have all the Microsoft goodies integrated nicely in the phone like Skype, onenote, Action Center, Word Flow, Live Folders, office and Cortana. The phone's specs includes: a 5-inch IPS LCD display with a (540x960 pixels) resolution which gives it a PPI of 220. The screen is protected by corning gorilla glass 3 a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 processor clocked @1.2GHz with 1GB of RAM. The phone has 8 GB internal storage which is expendable upto 128 GB. You also get the 15 GB

Android lollipop is just about to launch, one of the new feature is the screen pinning feature. It lets you pin a specific app on screen so that when you give someone your phone, they can only use that app. This feature is turned off by default in the lollipop so you need to enable it. Follow these steps to enable screen pinning on your phone running android lollipop: 1. Go to settings 2. And then go to security 3. Then select screen pinning 4. Enable it How to use it : 1. Go to recents menu by pressing the square button on the right. You should have a preview of all your opened apps previews as cards 2. Then scroll through app previews and pull the card of the app you want to pin. The pin icon must appear on the bottom right. 3. Click the pin icon. You will get a pop-up asking if you want to pin app. Click start. 4. You'll see that none of the soft keys responds and you can't close or use any other app another than the pinned app.

Samsung Galaxy S4 was one of the company's biggest selling phone thr phone had some great specifications and camera with many new features from Samsung like air view, smart stay, etc. With the Samsung launched the GS5, Samsung made some UI tweaks which the GS4 didn't got. But this year gs4 is about to get a major update with the launch of lollipop. And they have already started working on their update. According to reports the update might be pushed out at the end of year. But you can still see what are the changes made in the GS4 after the lollipop update. Sammobile recently posted a video of the GS4 running android lollipop. Which shows some of the changes. Now another video has been launched which compares the user interface of GS4 running lollipop vs the user interface of GS4 on KitKat.

HTC one M8 was HTC's flagship for the year it had top of the line specs with exceptionally great looks and build. The HTC one m8 features a 5 inch display with 1920×1080p resolution, with snapdragon 800 processor powering the device coupled with 2gb of ram. The phone had a internal storage of 32gb with the option to expand it upto 128gb via micro SD card. But all these specifications looks a little bit outdated. All the OEMS have upgraded their phones with bigger better faster hardware. HTC is yet to update it's flagship there was a report which had rumors about the speciations of HTC one m9. According to rumors the phone is said to have a 5.2 inch display with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 which would give the m9 a PPI of 564 compared to 441PPI of m8. The phone is rumored to be powered by snapdragon 805 with 3gb of ram which should give it great horse power to handle most tasks. The IP certification will be upgraded from IPx3 of m8. The phone's camera is also said to have

LG is making news recently stating that LG would be first to release android lollipop. The company had a huge UI overhaul in its LG G3, which also won the UX design awards. Now it's all set to pimp it up even more by adding martial design elements to is skin. Recently images of LG G3 running android lollipop appeared, which were confirmed by LG polish blog. Now a video has also appeared which shows the android lollipop in a a action on LG G3. The video appears to be shot in China but the company said that the initial rollout will be on Poland The firmware is available for download (only for F400S model) but it's very initial and you should try it on your own risk. It is advisable to wait for the official OTA which should be out in about a week. But you are the one of the few which can't wait for the hands on head over to download page link Test kdz available

With lollipop near the launch OEMs are working to get their skins on top of the stock Android. Every OEM has their unique skin which makes their device UI look different than other OEMs Samsung runs touchwiz on top of Android which is heavily customized with many visual elements. This is one of the reason why Samsung releases the updates late after the stock android had been released.  But this time Google launched the preview nearly two months ago so which gave a lot of time to start working on their skins. Samsung has already started to make touchwiz more materialistic. sammobile teased a video running earlier builds of android lollipop. The previous built lacked any animations it was very basic and it was slower than the KitKat firmware for GS5. The second build looks very smooth there is much less lag as compared to KitKat and the memory management is already better. The dialer, phone, contacts, message, clock etc are also updated. It also brought a ton of new features

Samsung, this Korean giant is known to have a smartphone at every price bracket. One of it's most successful devices was galaxy grand series. It has a bigger AMOLED screen which is liked by a lot of people. Hardware wise it was not that impressive but the brand value of Samsung plus low price attracted a lot of people specially in Asian countries. After the huge success of galaxy grand Samsung launched galaxy grand 2 which was had better hardware from the grand first gen. It also had many software tweaks from its flagships. Now the Samsung is set to update the grand 2nd gen it has already started working on its device. The specifications leaked on a GFXbench benchmark online database and more recently appeared on Bluetooth Special Interest Group for bluetooth 4.0 certification According to leaked specifications, the device has a 5.5 inch AMOLED display compared to 5.25 inch of grand 2 with a resolution of 1270×720 pixels. It will be powered by 64-bit snapdragon 410

Most of the flagships today's are equipped with quad HD (2K) displays these are amazingly sharp and have very high PPI. But Samsung wants to take it a step ahead. The company analyst recently said that they are working on 4k ( 3,840x2,160) displays but they didn't mentioned the device.  Specifications of GS6 also leaked recently but they didn't have any information about the screen size and the resolution. The note 5 is the most possible candidate for this display. Galaxy note 5 is expected to have a 5.9 inch display which is 0.2 inch bigger than the its predecessor note 4 which has 5.7 inch 2k display. Samsung always adds a  few inches to it's new note device since Google's nexus 6 made by Motorola features a 5.9 inch display so 5.9 inch is the expected size for the note 5. This would give the note 5 the PPI of more than 700. LG allegedly said that they are working on displays with PPI of 600. The question is that do that much PPI matter? Human eye canno

According to Google inbox tweet if you send an email to inbox@google.com between 3-4 pm on 6th November you'll get the invite by 5pm. Many people complained about not getting the update so Google is has announced this golden hours ( 2 hrs to be accurate ) Do if you are one the unfortunates make sure you send the email. If you already have sent the email, you can send it again.

The material make up of all the gapps is started the calender app was updated most recently and now is the maps app The app changes many visual elements and looks like the newly updated gapps. The first thing you notice is the FAB or FABS (2) in this case One is for pointing your location. Another one is for finding route. The side menu has been changed as well. No additional options has been added yet. Another change is when you click on a place and when it shows details about that place. It has the panoramas and photos of that place which you can watch in the app itself. You can download the apk and try it yourself