Author Archives: Stephen Yuen

No surprise: Samsung will cut number of models released by 25 to 30 percent

In case you hadn’t heard, Samsung isn’t doing too great. Sure, it’s still top of the Android ladder, but its poor financial performance this year has it harshly assessing its strategy going forward. Now one of the things that Samsung is often associated with is inundating the market with an assortment of devices at different…Read More…

Top 5 Android Wear apps to make better use of your smartwatch

By now, some of you will have bought into the Android Wear ecosystem and are rocking one of these beautiful devices on your wrist. Many critics say Android Wear hasn’t really hit its stride yet functionality-wise, and they’re probably right, but there’s still quite a lot you can do with it, which is why I’ve put…Read More…

The Volvo XC90 Experience is using Google Cardboard to great effect

When Google debuted Google Cardboard at Google I/O earlier this year, we got our first look at a very inexpensive way to experience virtual reality just using your smartphone. Now, we’re seeing the first commercial use of the concept with the Volvo XC90 Experience which Volvo is using to advertise its refreshed XC90. In conjunction with…Read More…

OnePlus customer service getting spotty reviews due to poor RMA responses

OnePlus has had an interesting last few months to say the least. On the one hand, the ‘startup’ Chinese manufacturer surprised the Android community with one of the best value smartphones with flagship specifications that impressed in the OnePlus One. On the other hand, their marketing campaigns have gone through some harsh scrutiny, not without…Read More…

Have an unhealthy smartphone addiction? Maybe the NoPhone is your way to ween yourself off

Do you know somebody with a debilitating smartphone addition? Are they constantly on their phone fiddling with some app or social media? (If you can’t think of anyone, it’s probably you) Well, it looks like there may be a way for you to help ween them off smartphones with the NoPhone. In no way is the NoPhone…Read More…

HTC Google Play Edition phones getting Android Lollipop ‘next week’

Now that the Nexus devices have started receiving their update to Android Lollipop, the focus has no shifted to their stock Android brethren, the Google Play Edition (GPE) devices. Although these devices have to be updated by their respective manufacturers, the GPE devices still get their updates quite soon after the Nexus devices. And sure enough,…Read More…

Kogan suggests Nexus 6 release date in Australia will be close to Dec 5th

The state of Nexus 6 availability in the US hasn’t improved much over the last few weeks, but unfortunately the rest of the world, namely the 12 countries who were recently added to the support page, is still in the dark about when the device will even be able to be pre-ordered. Thankfully, we might…Read More…

[GUIDE] How to get rid of the Facebook built-in browser

If you’re anything like me (and by that I mean you use Facebook), you will have noticed that the Facebook Android app now utilizes a Facebook built-in browser that opens all links while you’re surfing your newsfeed. While that might seem like a good innovation if you want to read that article right there and then,…Read More…

Google Keep 3.0 hits the Play Store with Material Design in tow [APK Download]

Google has continued its charge to update all its Google apps according to the Material Design guidelines and the latest app to get this makeover is Google Keep. Google Keep 3.0 (specifically 3.0.01) brings in quite a few features which puts it on par with the other updated Google apps as well as adding in some…Read More…

Google Messenger 1.0 officially reaches the Play Store [APK Download]

A certain Google Messenger app was leaked earlier this year when Android Lollipop was first dropped, a strange sight seeing as Google went to all the effort of including SMS support in the Google Hangouts app. All the same, whatever Google has in mind in the long term, it has officially released Google Messenger 1.0 onto the…Read More…

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