MOTO X CAMERA APP LEAKED

Moto X rumors seems to be on hype now. Although we got the release of new Nexus 7 and android 4.3 with it but still Moto X rumors doesn't seem to stop at a station. While it is going to be officially announced on 1st August but we already have  of the information about the device and now there is another big leak of the device, the Moto X camera app which has some amazing functions and contrasting from the stock camera.

Now recently android police got their hands over the Moto X camera app which is very different and new from the stock camera app and gives it a minimilastic feel. In the new stock camera app of android 4.3 which saw an arc instead of circle for camera options. Here also we have an arc for the settings but for that you need to swipe on the left and you will have the settings and swipe left to navigate to the gallery. But when the picture is clicked then a circle appears indicating that picture is saved which I found very similar to the Apple's iPhone camera interface. What are your thoughts on this?  

But since it is leaked version, there are some of the functions that will not work on your device. Below are the details: 

What’s working:

• Burst shots.
• Video recording.
• Front-facing camera toggle.
• Swipe to open settings.
• Swipe to open gallery, which asks which gallery app you want to launch.
• Touch to focus toggle, Flash mode toggle, Geo-tag toggle.

What doesn't work:

• Camera launch with gestures (Available only on Moto X)
• Panorama mode
• HDR mode is disabled and actually it can’t be enabled
• Slow-motion mode is disabled and actually it can’t be enabled

Also for more settings options just slide your fingers upwards then the left settings arc will move in a circle. If you have an Motorola device, than your stock app will be replaced and for other users don't worry. There will be a separate icon for the new camera app and it wont replace your stock app. So do give it a try. It has very fresh feel and looks nice too.  

Here is the link for the new camera app. 

Did you like the Moto X camera app? Do tell us your thoughts. 

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GET ANDROID 4.3 UPDATE ON YOUR NEXUS

Recently along with the release of new Nexus 7, Google also launched its much awaited android 4.3. Google immediately rolled out the updates for the its Nexus family and the factory image also went live for developer in just a few minutes time after Google announced it. 

     But many people still haven't received officially android 4.3 Ota updates for their Nexus devices. Well you may get it by following the below steps. Well it has worked for many people and might work for you and might not. So we aren't really sure whether its the perfect solution or not. But you surely can give a try and can get updated to the latest version. 

- Go to Setting -> Apps -> All

- Find the Google Services Framework 

- Force stop it and also clear the data.

- Navigate back to the Settings and check for updates again.   

You may need to restart your phone. You also can get errors in your downloaded Google apps. For that, delete your Google account an restore it. It will do it for you. 

Do comment if you get the update and if you didn't succeed, tell us that too so that others can get help from that. 

Click here to check out the latest features in Android 4.3.

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ANDROID 4.3 AVAILABLE FOR NEXUS DEVICES

Along with the release of new Nexus 7, Google today has also released much awaited android 4.3 Jelly Bean and Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 will be get their updates today. Although it was intended to be released much sooner but if we look at the trend, Google mostly launches its new android version with its Nexus devices. Android 4.3 is not a major update from 4.2 but yes it has some handful useful improvements to the OS. Major change to OS is expected to see in android 5.0 (Key Lime Pie) which might be released with Nexus 5.

UPDATES IN ANDROID 4.3

• One of the major updates that you will find it in android 4.3 is the introduction of multi-user restricted support which was initially available for Jelly Bean tablets but is now also available for smartphones as well. Pretty useful feature and adds privacy. Restricted user profile basically allows smartphone owners to restrict the full device access to different users according to their wishes and apps behave differently for multiple users. Like if you can restrict some apps or data in your tablet for your children so that they don't interfere with your stuff.                                                                                                                               
• Smart Bluetooth (low - power Bluetooth) which lets you connect to multiple devices at a time i.e with single Bluetooth, you can get access to variety of Bluetooth devices with their different id's and strengths. Also whenever some characteristic of any of the connected device changes, you will receive the notification for that too.                                                                                                                           
• The updates also brings Open GL 3.0 support to the android devices adding much more support for the game developers and enhanced the graphic capabilities of the devices.                                                                                                                              
• Notification has always been a useful feature of the the smartphone devices and now in android 4.3 more control over them has been added. Now users have access over the notifications and make them your own. Like now users can disable or enable notification for an app and can always see in settings for which apps notifications are enabled and disabled. You can even can send them over Bluetooth to other devices and access to your notification history.                                                                                                   
• Other updates includes battery improvements, new languages support for international users(Africans, Amharic, Hindi, Swahili and Zulu), custom animation rotations (cross fade, jump-cut or standard) and many other internal performance improvements which you can see on the official android 4.3 page. 

Currently we don't know when it will be available to other non-nexus devices and they might not even get it as it is a minor update. But all that depends upon their carriers and specific brands. Android 4.3 Jelly Bean is also live on android site. Google doesn't want their developers to wait much and has released factory images and binaries for download. 

What do you think about android 4.3?   

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NEW NEXUS 7 FINALLY UNVEILED BY GOOGLE

After a lots of rumors, leaked pictures specs and lots of buzz, Google today has finally launched the successor of the Nexus 7 with little more price tag and lots of upgrades. The new Nexus 7 measures 7.9 x 4.5 x 0.3 which is 6 mm more sleek than the previous one. It is upgraded with 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU which surely assures you of its seamless performance, smooth gaming experience and without any lags with multitasking. This is something for which Nexus devices have been always been in demand over other devices.
        The news Nexus 7 is more slimmer and lighter. Earlier we have seen leaked android 4.3 for nexus 4 and stock Galaxy S4 but there its wasn't official from Google yet. But now new Nexus 7 is the latest device running on official 4.3 android version.   

NEXUS 7 SPECIFICATIONS:

• 7 inches HD display with 1920 x 1200 resolution and weighs 11.2 ounces. 
• Latest android 4.3 OS right out of the box.
• 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU which surely assures you of its smooth performance and gaming without any lags with multitasking. This is something for which Nexus devices have been known to have.
• New Nexus 7 have 1.2 MP front camera and now it also packed with 5 MP back camera which wasn't there in its predecessor.
• Although in the leaked specs and images, it was rumored that it will have 4 GB of RAM but the officially announced device has 2 GB of RAM with 16 GB and 32 GB internal storage options.
• For wireless 
• Supported with virtual surround sound, Bluetooth 4.0, wi-fi and LTE support is also there for blazing fast internet speed.

The 16 GB version is priced at 229$ while the 16 GB variant is for 269$ and you can buy it from Google Play after July 30. It will also be available for purchase through other carriers carriers. For LTE enabled 32 GB device, Nexus 7 will be available at a much heftier price of $349. 

          Well Nexus 7 surely gonna heat the tablet competition and have many capable competitors in the market including Xperia Z tablet, I-pad and I-pad mini and recently launched Galaxy tab 8.0. What do you think? Can Nexus 7 settle itself in market in front of other tablets? Share you thoughts with us. 

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HTC DESIRE 500 LAUNCHED

Earlier this month we saw the announcement of HTC One Mini from the Korean company which is going to be released in August. HTC seems to be competing with Samsung in quick launching for mid range devices. But HTC hasn't been really able to bring devices for low end consumers and Samsung has really kept an eye on that and almost all the low end android consumers belong to Samsung. So HTC today launched another smartphone, HTC Desire 500, another addition under the name of desire series.

The Specifications of the device includes:

• 4.3 inch with WVGA display with 480 x 800 pixels resolution. Not much impressive for this much price.                                                                                                                                                            
• 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor with android 4.2(Jelly Bean) out of the box with HTC's latest Sense 5. Well we expect at least this much from the a mid range smartphone.                                              
• Comes with 1 GB of RAM coupled with 4 GB of on-board storage expandable upto 64 GB with external micro SD card slot. Again disappointment. We are fine with RAM capacity but expected at least 8 GB of on-board storage.                                                                                                                   
• Powered by 18,00 mAH battery which is expected to give talk time of around 18 hours. Well we haven't tested this but if it lived up to its expectations then its surely impressive for an android powered device.                                                                                                                                                            
• Back camera of 8 MP with LED flash and 1.6 MP front camera and can record videos up to 720p. Well yes, its good from a mid range handset.                                                                                               
• Misses boom sound but has Beats audio enhancement with front dual speakers. I would not comment on this one as it doesn't really matter to me that much. No offense.  

YOU CAN EVEN WRITE IN AIR. DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS? THEN CHECK OUT THIS.

The company has launched the device currently in Taiwan only and is priced approximately NT$11,900. which is approximately Rs. 24,000. Well it doesn't seems to be price fairly as compared to Samsung's previous releases galaxy deices which includes Galaxy Quattro, Galaxy grand and Galaxy Core. All these have similar specs compared to HTC Desire 500 but are priced way below than this one.
                 Well we don't know when exactly will it be available in India and will be launched or not. But if it is launched at the same price in India too than it might not be able to get its position in the market as there the many other smartphones in similar specs with Desire 500 like Mircomax Canvas 4, Xolo 600 and many others.
   

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LEAKED ANDROID 4.3 FOR GOOGLE S4 EDITION

We saw some glimpse of android 4.3 in the Google additions of the Galaxy S4 and now we have got the unofficial release of the android 4.3 for the Google editions of the Galaxy S4. Its an unofficial leak and Google hasn't yet released the official android 4.3 and consequently it depends upon Samsung when it will be releasing android 4.3 for its stock device since Galaxy S4 is stock but still not a nexus device. You can try this unofficial release on your risk but we don''t really recommend that until Google officially releases it. However Google will be officially launching  android 4.3 at a special event on July 24 along with the release of new Nexus 7.

    The build version of this new unofficial android 4.3 release is JWR66N. The rooted version is although fully functional and has some improvements too but also have some barriers too. We got this news from the XDA developers site and will list out some details which were figured out during testing.

Earlier we saw something new additions to the stock version of the Galaxy s4 stock editions New arc camera app, live wallpapers and new boot animation too. Now in this release,, we have updated with some battery improvements and device also charged wirelessly even when the device is off. Now there are many apps that work only for non-rooted devices including Google wallet, dash clock and imdb.

   On the negative side of it, it does have some bugs too. It has some problems with SIM unlock and also have problems with some apps too like titanium backup, apex launcher and a few more.

But its still not official and we recommend you to wait until it is officially rolled out by Google. But still if you cant wait to get your hands over it and yourself wants to test it, you can surely go for it on your own risk.

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WRITE CORRECT AND LEGIBLE WITH LERNSTIFT

Gone are the days of using stencils or sketch books to improve your child's handwriting. You no more needs dictionaries or any other sources to check your spellings. You can grasp multiple languages easily because learning is a lot more fun now. A few days back we introduced about the 3Doodle,world's first 3D pen that lets you draw in air. Today we have got something more amazing and superb invention for you which you might even think that it can happen and too this much early.    

    Developed by two German scientists, Falk Wolsky and Daniel Kaesmacher, Lernstift (German for learning pen) is the pen that alerts you by vibrating itself whenever you make a mistake. These ideas wont come to you and tell you that please make me. People observe the things around them and this what they did. Their inspiration was Wolsky's wife when she was teacher her son. The pair of German inventors believe that in future, Lernstift will completely change the way children learn in school and it will be fun not just for children but for adults too.

HOW STUFF WORKS?

It has built in sensors, accelerometer and gyroscope sensors, that recognizes the movements of learning pen and 3D Council 2D vectors. The learning pen has built in computer and software. The technology inside the learning pen is a embedded Linux system, scaled to a lower version (still used in some computers). The software inside this system has built in data of words. The non optical motion sensor inside the pen senses pen movements, handwriting, gestures even when your are writing in air. It then compares the written words with correct spellings and alerts you by vibrating.

POWER OF LERNSTIFT

• To write something in any language in the world, you need to have two capabilities  first you need to write clearly and second it should be legible. Both the functions are supported by Lernstift and it has two writing modes.                                                                                                                                                                               1) Orthography mode in which you can check for you misspelled words.                   2) Calligraphy mode which finds out the flaw in your handwriting language.            
• Now you can store what you write even if your loose your notebook or any other stuff whee you have written your words. You will not loose your information. It has built-in Wifi capabilities and you can connect your pen to your smartphone, tablets or laptops to upload written texts online and share them via social networks.  

• It is not just limited to pen or one color. Unlike any other digital pen, It can be used as a replaceable pencil, ball-pen or fountain pen. It will also be available in multiple colors.                                                                                                                   
• Unlike other developed digitalised pens it is a free bird. It doesn't require any specified solid or papers. It works everywhere on every solid and even in air. You even can type your text message using learning pen and give your small digital keys a break.

• The initial launched version of the learning pen will support only German and English languages. "Other languages will follow depending upon global demand and distribution" as stated on their website.

Right now we have no official news about its pricing but if you liked the device and want to get your hands on it as soon as it is available then it is available for pre-order on Lernstift website. The device and its capabilities seems to be promising and it will be interesting to see in future how people accept it.

SEE LEARNING PEN IN ACTION:

       

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NEXT NEXUS 7 DEBUTING JULY 24

Today we got the official release of HTC One and new Samsung galaxy tablets and now we have got new nexus 7. Yes, Google will now be unveiling upgraded Nexus 7 next week at an event in San Francisco on July 24. Google has begun sending invites to the media for the event which will be hosted by the android chief Sundar pichai. Again the Google has collaborated with Asus for new nexus 7.

       The new nexus 7 is almost identical to the current one with some minor changes at the edges and it may have two speakers instead of one which will surely enhance the audio capabilities of the device. It seems that android central has been able to get their hands on the device (see the image above) but no one is sure whether it's the final one or not. 

Expected specs of the new nexus tablet: 

1. Snapdragon S4 processor. 

2. In addition to front 1.2 MP camera,  new nexus has a rear camera of 5 MP.

3. We are not sure whether it will be 4.2.2 or 4.3 android. But we surely expect android 4.3 glimpses as we saw in Google edition of HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4. 

4. Also this time it is expected to be priced around $229 for 16 GB and $279 for 32 GB variant, a little higher than the previous but still fairly priced as compared to other overly priced tablets in the market. Again, Google justifies its statement of power pack Nexus devices at low prices. 

5. The so-called prototype variant is also rumored to have 4 GB RAM. Again we cant be sure on this as we don't know its a prototype or finished one.

Does this specs of new nexus 7 can compete with apple's ipad mini and other tablets? Is it worth upgrading your previous Nexus 7 to new one? What do you think? Do let us know.  

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