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One Plus annoy fans with no #OxygenOS update or release date. #OnePlus #OnePlusOne by @jimboireland

Today One Plus was to release the much awaited OxygenOS to its user,but sadly this has not happened despite them saying several employees are using it as we speak,citing they await certification is the response they have given but its not pleasing fans and its not good new either but in the long run i guess its better to do things right and just wait.

In a post made on the forums today staff member Helen broke the news..

 

Hi, this is Helen, Head of Mobile Product at OnePlus. My team and I have been working on OxygenOS for the past several months. It was our sincere hope to release the result of our hard work to all of you today. Unfortunately, we were unable to meet this date and we are as disappointed as you are. On behalf of myself and my team, I would like to apologize for this wait.

The ROM is fully functional and we have quite a few people in the office running it on their own devices without any issues. The delay is caused by extra quality control. We want to make sure that OxygenOS passes Google certification, that all future updates can be OTA’ed properly, and that users from all over the world are able to use OxygenOS in the language of their choice.

 

OOS

We know you’ve been waiting for a long time, and we owe you answers. So, until OxygenOS is officially released, we will share our progress with you. Every day, no matter how big or small the news is, this post will be updated with information in order to give you more visibility into the process. As for a release date, we will release as soon as we feel that it’s good enough for you and it will be very soon.

Most of you are probably also wondering when CM12 will be available. While we don’t have a lot of influence over CM’s release schedule nor development progress, we’ve been providing resources and scheduling test cycles to help with this last stretch. Together, we’re working to deliver CM12 to you as soon as possible.

Stay tuned over HERE or watch for further announcements..

How do you feel with this announcement ?

 

 

High Quality format #Vine for #iOS and #Android by @Tiwaash #Social

Good news for Vine users, Vine has a new, beautiful high quality format. Starting today, the stories you watch and share will look better than ever. Vine upgraded the existing 480 p format to 720 p which makes Vine experience lot better almost High Definition.

Left: 480p; Right: 720p. Image source: Brittlestar’s Vine.

“When you watch Vines on the app on iOS and Android , you’ll see these quality improvements — they are rolling out over the coming days. You’ll also see higher quality Vines embedded in sites across the web” read the blog.

The blog also read “If you have an iPhone, the posts you create and upload will support our new high quality format. For those with an Android device: rest assured, you’ll soon be able to create and upload posts with the same quality as well.”

Unfortunately no news on the WindowsPhone version of Vine which is still in Beta since it was launched to this platform. Hope WindowsPhone version scores an update soon.

Stay tuned for more tech buzz.

Source : Vine Blog

AT LAST – The Nexus 6 is available on the Irish Play store. #Nexus6 #GooglePlay by @jimboireland

If you are waiting for the Nexus 6,the wait is over. Google Play now has the device on-line after many months of waiting..It’s also available now in Denmark,Finland, Austria, Norway and Portugal. The Nexus 6 comes in 32 GB or 64 GB. Midnight Blue or Cloud White.For the past while people could purchase the Nexus 6 from Argos or Amazon.

  • The six-inch Quad HD display works for everything from e-books and docs to movies and games.
  • Dual front-facing speakers deliver stereo sound so you can truly immerse yourself in videos and games.
  • The 13 megapixel camera’s optical image stabilization and automatic HDR+ let you take your best possible photos with the least possible effort.
  • The large 3220 mAh battery provides up to 24 hours per charge. The Motorola Turbo Charger gives you a quick burst of power when your battery needs it the most. When charging newer Motorola phones, like the Nexus 6, all it takes is 15 minutes to get up to 6 additional hours of battery life.
  • With Nexus 6, you’ll be the first to get the latest Android updates from Google. It means you’ll have the newest version of Android so you can enjoy the latest features and enhancements.

The Nexus 6 will cost €599 for base model 32GB and €649 for the 64GB model..  See HERE for more

Check out our unboxing and walkaround below… Also available is the Naked Tough case for the Nexus 6 for €30.

Google helps Doctors on africa with the Ebola-proof Tablet By @VicenteA_George #Google #Tablet

Even with today’s technology most of the medical procedure is made by humans, but there’s some cases when that could be dangerous for the patient and doctor. Cases like the Ebola crisis need special measures, that’s why Google has created the “Ebola-proof Tablet”

Doctors Without Borders made a request to google to make them a better tool for work, and so Google answered with this slate housed in a special casing to make sure it could withstand the terrible weather in West Africa.

The Tablet is based on a Water and dust proof Sony Tablet plus it can be submerged in chlorine to kill off any remnants of the Ebola virus, and also have wireless charging built in and rounded edges to avoid rip the doctors suits.

When the alrt start the doctors weren’t allowed to have paper and pens with them for the special suits, and they have to yell the diagnosis and what they see to other person outside the tent, something that always ended up with errors.

Mr Ivan Gayton, MSF’s technology adviser said:

“The information stored on the devices will help map symptom patterns and the open-source technology could be deployed for other disease outbreaks.”

This is a huge improvement on medical tech, we’re getting close to find sources of virus without exposing more life.

Stay tuned for more Tech advances.

Source: TheTelegraph

Louise App – The very first genuine interactive social music app. @jimboireland #App #Music #Louise

There is many music apps available today for smartphone users and perhaps we are spoilt for choice but new apps are always welcome and i guess its healthy for the competition,a new app has landed called Louise App and here is what this app can provide for its users.

Louise is a free mobile app suggesting its users to listen each other’s music in real time. Listening & sharing in real time between users around the world. With Louise, a new community of music fans seeking for new interactive experience is born.

Louise unites music lovers & smartphones users. Combining these 2 trademarks, Louise allows you to unleash your aural curiosity & sneak in unknown listeners’ headphones. Interactivity & discovery have no limits.

Louise’s concept has never been seen before. Louise is the very first genuine interactive social music app in perpetual evolution thanks to the impulse & feed of its user community.

No email adress, no login & no password are required to activate or use Louise. During their first connection, Louise’s users are invited to select their favourite streaming players (among Soundcloud, Spotify, Deezer, Rdio & Qobuz), their avatar (no personal picture) & their favourite music genres. Each genre is represented by a colour. Their selection reveals then their own ” Music Rainbow”.

A simple & intuitive navigation, Louise in 3 key steps
1. When users wish to listen music with Louise, 2 possibilities are offered to them :
Through their own “Music Rainbow”, they select their favourite musical mood of the moment. Louise is allowing them then to have the possibility to listen to others in real time inside of the selected genre. Other users can be around locally or at the other side of the world.

 


Louise users can simply listen to their music through their integrated favourite streaming player in the app, knowing that their own music will be potentially available to other users.
2. Lets discover the “core” of the app, the “Music Time” : a shared listening session in real time. Thanks to Louise’s instant messaging feature, users connect between each others from anywhere in the world. Louise’s smart geo location system offers additional infos about users’ geographical position.
3. The ultimate experience inside Louise is its “Match Point”. Louise’s users sharing a listening session & being close locally in a range of a few meters, receive a notification & their phone vibrates. Louise empower users to make the bridge between virtual & physical.

You can now download Louise on Android and iOS and its coming soon to Windows Phone,and thanks to Gwenhael for getting in touch with us.. Also check out LouiseApp.Com

 

Dump them stupid selfie sticks and use #Snapi App. #Apps #Selfies by @jimboireland

Selfie sticks are a craze these days and the also do my head in. Not only do they do my head in they are beginning to annoy the general public too with bans on the apparatus now creeping in everywhere,they are like umbrellas if you will people not minding how and where they use them and at times hit others in the process.

Thankfully now there is a new app for selfies,not a new idea either,example being camera apps such as Lumia selfie app found on Lumia devices which does a good job and no need for the elongated bothering selfie sticks,but there has been instances when people with such phones use the selfie stick too which is stupid and makes you look thick.

 

Snapi puts an end to uncomfortable Selfies, no more stretching your hand and fingers to trigger the camera to snap a shot. With Snapi you can now capture photos without touching the phone! Simply raise your open palm in front of camera, close it into a fist and open again – the photo will be captured. Snapi works up to 13 feet (4m) away – just put the phone down and get that group shot. So what are you waiting for? Start Snaping!

 

App Features:
• Touch-free gesture technology engine by eyeSight
• Configurable capture countdown timer – choose how many seconds pass between gesture and capture
• Easily switch between the front and back cameras on your device
• All photos are stored on your device’s native photo gallery for a seamless sync of the photo stream
• Autofocus based on face recognition*
• Helpful sound feedback for photo capture, focus, and countdown

* Subject to phone’s capabilities

Note that the range of operation using the gesture to capture photos may vary based on your phone’s camera.

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The World’s first bezel-less smartphone. The Subor S3. #Smartphone by @jimboireland

A bezel-less phone,something people have been looking for and here it is and its called the Subor S3 which is not really a well known OEM.

The Subor S3 is currently selling in China in either black or white for the price of CNY 1399, or about €200.

It does look much like several phones on the market today and might suit some folks needs but i would personally give this a miss any how its China bound but it does not mean you cant get your hands on one.

 

The Subor S3 sports a 5-inch HD display and has a unibody covered by Dual Gorilla Glass 3 on the front and the rear. It is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6732 processor coupled with 1Gb of RAM

The device has 8GB of internal storage space which is expandable via a microSD card slot.

The Subor S3 has a 8MP main camera with f/2.0 aperture and a 8MP front camera. It measures 141.5 × 70.3 × 7.8 mm, runs on Android 4.4 Kitkat OS and is backed by a 1700mAh battery.

Source  Its in chinese…

#MixRadio Beta gets new update. Mix Radio 2.2.1907 by @jimboireland #MixRadio #Android

If you are on the Beta Version of Mix Radio there is an new update Mix Radio 2.2.1907. Check your mail now for the news.

MixRadio Beta Update

Thanks for helping us to test MixRadio on Android

Today we’re releasing an update to the MixRadio app. This has the following new features:

  • History of created mixes. The Create a Mix page now remembers the last 6 mixes you created. Each of these mixes can be played, taken offline and deleted.
  • Mix information panel. When you click on a mix in the Themes and Genres pages, a panel appears containing a description of the mix and a list of some of the artists it features. There are also buttons allowing you to play the mix and take it offline.

We’ve also fixed some bugs that have been reported and made other changes to make the app more stable and perform better.

We’d be grateful if you’d install the new version and let us know what you think of it on UserVoice.

Please note that when you install this version you’ll need to sign back in to your account. You’ll also lose any mixes you’d previously taken offline. Sorry about that.

Known Issues

  • Some translations are not yet complete
  • Users in some countries may have the same adverts being repeated or experience no adverts at all.
  • The app may not work correctly on some on Android devices running the Cyanogen mod.
  • May see issues with notifications

The Cleaner – Speed up & Clean your Android device. #Irish #Apps #Android by @jimboireland

Fancy an App that can be your devices housemate,well here is one called The Cleaner and its Irish made too.Over time our Android devices can become laggy with cached information etc,and we tend to ignore it and just close the running apps to get along with things.

The App is simple and straightforward to use,on first use you will be brought straight to the analyze screen,it then gives you a list of apps/services, you then can check the ones you are not using or do not want to use.

On first try on my Android i got a decent power boost plus some decent memory recovery.You can then move onto the storage option and again repeat the process by checking what you want to keep and what you dont.Here again i saved myself some more space.

Description

The Cleaner is a FREE app that lets you boost your Android’s speed, clean out junk, free up storage and uninstall malicious apps to optimize your device, increase your security and make you the clean master of your mobile domain. With its beautifully designed interface in a lightweight package that won’t clog your phone’s memory, the full-featured phone booster and performance optimizer also lets you clear cache files, delete unwanted phone call or SMS records and batch uninstall unneeded or potentially malicious apps.

MEMORY BOOST
– I free up memory (RAM) and boost your phone’s speed by letting you kill redundant background tasks

FREE UP STORAGE
– I clear out your storage by enabling you to delete junk files such as cache files and downloaded APK files

SMART APP MANAGER
– I make it easy to batch uninstall unused and unwanted apps

CONTROL YOUR PRIVACY
– I let you find and uninstall malicious apps that have unnecessary permissions (Call, SMS, Location, Camera, and Contacts)

CONVERSATION CLEANER
– I’ll help you dispose of old, irrelevant sent and received phone call records cluttering up your phone

TIDY YOUR SMS
– I make it easy to get rid of long inconvenient lists of sent and received SMS records (This feature is not available to devices with Android KitKat and above, due to system restrictions.)

WIDGETS
– Call me to quickly boost your phone’s performance from the home screen with simple widgets

SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE
– Schedule automatic maintenance checks so I’ll always keep your device running fast

THEMES
– Customize my looks with your favorite theme

Check out thecleanerapp.com

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