Category: Android
Google Translate helps paramedic deliver baby
In an almost too good to be true story for Google's PR department, it has emerged that an Irish paramedic helped a Congolese woman give birth using the Google Translate app on his phone. According to The Corkman, when en route to the hospital, the woman started giving birth a bit too early - and…
Google blocks Mobile Firefox from viewing the Play Store
Was it something they said? According to IT Pro Portal, the web version of the Google Play store is no longer accessible on the mobile version of Firefox. The move appears to be a change in policy - which previously let Firefox users browse the web-based store. The good news is that Google isn't being…
HTC smartwatch to support both iPhone and Android?
We've been hearing rumours about the smartwatch that HTC is reported working on for ages, but now we're hearing suggestions that the new watch will work across platforms. This is a phone and not a smartwatch, but we don't have a picture of the watch yet. To make such a move,…
How to get a One Plus One phone without an invite
The OnePlus One is one of the most sought after smartphones out there. Packing power comparable to top of the range handsets, the phone is usually sold for much cheaper - for example, the 16GB model retails at just £229. However, there's one problem: Getting hold of one. Until now OnePlus has used a maddening…
WATCH: *ANOTHER* unbearable HTC music video
What is going on at HTC? Just days after this awful rap video emerged HTC has come up with another musical howler. Watch the video above to see HTC's executives in the "HTC Super Band" perform HTC's official corporate song "We Are One". Apparently it was shot at the company's Chinese New Year celebrations. It's…
WATCH: Awful HTC rap video (!)
If you're going to sell out, at least do it in style - that appears to be the message from PM Dawn's Doc G, who has taken the corporate cash to shill for HTC, in a cringeworthy rap video. "Hold the Crown" features lyrics about the HTC One M8's power saving mode - and how…
Microsoft launches Android lockscreen app
Microsoft has quietly launched another Android app into the Google Play store. Simply titled "Picturesque Lock Screen", the app will change the background image to match the photos Bing uses on its homepage. It has some neat features too, as Microsoft explains: "Picturesque Lock Screen, a Microsoft Garage project, brings the beautiful Bing home page…
Third party support comes to Google Now
Google has added support for a number of non-Google services to its creepily prescient "Google Now" service, which serves up "cards" relevant to whatever the service thinks you need. For example, if you're about to get on a plane it will show you your boarding card from your inbox, and before a meeting will show…
Is Microsoft making a back-up plan by investing in Cyanogen?
Perhaps the most intriguing news of the day is that Microsoft has bought a minority investment in Cyanogen Inc - the company that is behind the popular Android "fork" CyanogenMod. CyanogenMod doesn't come as standard on normal Android phones - instead it is an open source alternative to Google's version of Android that can be…
Huawei Ascend P8 coming in April
Huawei will be launching a new flagship smartphone in April - the Ascend P8 - and it will be makings its debut in London. According to Gizmodo UK, the company won't be announcing this year's iteration at Mobile World Congress, which is being held a month earlier in March because there the focus will be…
