The slow yet sure WindowsPhone 8.1 Developer Programme hasn’t faded away, today Microsoft quietly pushed a “CRITICAL UPDATE” for all the WindowsPhone 8.1 Developer Preview users version 8.10.14192.280. This isn’t a huge update sizing just 22 MB taking 5 to 10 minutes depending on your WiFi.
The details regarding this critical update and criticality of the update are scant and there have been no details regarding any feature additions or any difference in usage found yet, but Microsoft said “This update contains our usual scope of fixes and improvements. We are requiring this update so we can continue to test our update systems. The update will show as a “critical update” on your phone”.
With the details received from Microsoft, it seems that there are new features under work and soon some new things are expected to pop up. You can download the update manually by following these simple steps:
Go to Settings, select Phone Update, click on “check for updates” and you are good to download the update over WiFi.
Stay tuned for more updates on Tech and do comment below if you find something new with the update or your valuable views and suggestions. Have a great weekend ahead.
Google have just announced a new service called Inbox,yeah sounds like mail but its not,apparently its been years in the making and in short gives you the important things you need to know and it also lets you add reminder to particular mails too check it out down below and what it can do..this looks good as for someone like me who has several accounts getting too many mails each day so for those who are in the same boat this is for you..
Email started simply as a way to send digital notes around the office. But fast-forward 30 years and with just the phone in your pocket, you can use email to contact virtually anyone in the world…from your best friend to the owner of that bagel shop you discovered last week.
With this evolution comes new challenges: we get more email now than ever, important information is buried inside messages, and our most important tasks can slip through the cracks—especially when we’re working on our phones. For many of us, dealing with email has become a daily chore that distracts from what we really need to do—rather than helping us get those things done.
If this all sounds familiar, then Inbox is for you. Or more accurately, Inbox works for you. Here are some of the ways Inbox is at your service:
Bundles: stay organized automatically
Inbox expands upon the categories we introduced in Gmail last year, making it easy to deal with similar types of mail all at once. For example, all your purchase receipts or bank statements are neatly grouped together so that you can quickly review and then swipe them out of the way. You can even teach Inbox to adapt to the way you work by choosing which emails you’d like to see grouped together.
Highlights: the important info at a glance
Inbox highlights the key information from important messages, such as flight itineraries, event information, and photos and documents emailed to you by friends and family. Inbox will even display useful information from the web that wasn’t in the original email, such as the real-time status of your flights and package deliveries. Highlights and Bundles work together to give you just the information you need at a glance.
Reminders, Assists, and Snooze: your to-do’s on your own terms
Inbox makes it easy to focus on your priorities by letting you add your own Reminders, from picking up the dry cleaning to giving your parents a call. No matter what you need to remember, your inbox becomes a centralized place to keep track of the things you need to get back to.
Get invited..
Starting today, Google are sending out the first round of invitations to give Inbox a try, and each new user will be able to invite their friends. If Inbox can’t arrive soon enough for you, you can email them at inbox@google.com to get an invitation as soon as more become available.
Recently we heard that HERE maps were made available to Android running Samsung Galaxy Smartphones and today this offline map & navigation service has been made available to more Android users than just Galaxy users.
On the website HERE writes ” Recently, we launched HERE for Android on Samsung Galaxy Smartphones. And now, due to popular demand, we’re making HERE for Android immediately avaialble for everyone with a compatible smartphone”. By compatible smartphone they mean any device running Android 4.1 (Jellybean) or greater and with at least 1 GB of RAM for smooth functioning.
User Interface:
HERE for Android has a beautiful UI, clean and sleek as always. It works smooth and accurately on my Google Nexus 7. Scrolling through the map is easy with just small icons on all the corners for dedicated job.
Unlike WindowsPhone the HERE Maps & HERE Drive apps are integrated in one & can be accessed through a drop down menu from the top left corner. It’s easy to switch between maps & drive.
With just simple taps it is possible to switch the view from map to satellite and also the map details to show the transport or traffic status. The USP of HERE has been the feature to use both Maps & Drive offline and it does carry the same legacy to Android too providing the option to download and use maps offline.
Searching for places has always been very easy with categories on HERE and it’s available on Android too (this doesn’t feel Beta version, works fine). I like the interface to conclude, everything is easy to pick and nicely laid out.
How to get HERE for Android?
HERE is currently in Beta and isn’t available on Play Store for download. You can download HERE for non Galaxy phones from here & side load it to run on your device. Make sure under settings, “Allow installation of apps from other sources other than the Play Store” is ticked before you start installing.
Features:
– Offline navigation: Interactive maps and turn-by-turn voice guidance even without an internet connection.
– Maps to download and to use offline for nearly 100 countries.
– Public transport maps and directions for over 800 cities in over 40 countries, also when offline.
– Live traffic info for more than 40 countries.
– Personalise map by creating Collections of favourite places.
– Share location with family and friends in real time via Glympse.
Before I conclude, to use this service, you should create a new account, your pervious Nokia Account won’t work with this.
This are great news for Xperia Z owners!! Sony hasn’t being know for keep their phones up to date, that’s why this news wave of upgrades for devices like the Xperia Z leave us a good taste.
The Sony Z Ultra Google Play Edition will be the first one to get Lollipop. For the rest, the rollouts will start in early 2015.
What do you think about the Xperia Z getting a refresh like this? Stay tuned for more Tech related news.
Our LG G3 finally arrived today and we are delighted to have here at TBI headquarters.
This device is the best on offer from LG and LG have really upped their game in the last two years,the G2 was the previous version and have really given LG a good name in the premium end of things now with these two devices,albeit LG is not a major brand here in Ireland when it comes to smartphones the G3 has set some high standards and it is a pity no networks have taken this device on board into their device portfolio but maybe they might change their mind but by the time this happens the G4 will probably be announced.Ireland still lag behind our EU counterparts for handset choice in general which has lead many people to import good high end and mid tier devices networks choose to ignore or perhaps its a case of the manufacturers themselves not selecting Ireland to sell such devices.
The LG G3 comes with some new features such as a 1 watt speaker at the rear,laser focus and the unusual placement of the volume key and power key which will take a bit to get custom to from the regular placement on devices today.On board the G3 is 5.5 inch screen with Quad HD,a Snapdragon 801 chipset,Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400 CPU,13 MP OIS dual flash camera and a nice 3000 mAh battery.We also have Knock Code on the device too.Device memory depends on spec,16 GB comes with 2 GB RAM and the 32 GB comes with 3 GB RAM.
We have 1440 x 2560 pixels, 534 ppi pixel density which looks great and the device has Corning Gorrila Glass 3.
You may notice a little laugh during the video but i like to keep things real so excuse that.
Meteor have announced new changes for both Pay As You Go and Bill Pay customers so here is what’s happening below..Its for directory enquiry pricing..Click on images to be brought direct to pages on the Meteor Website.
PAY AS YOU GO..
BILLPAY CUSTOMERS.
Note this applies…but not mentioned in the billpay section..
Under Regulation 17 of the European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Universal Services and Users’ Rights) Regulations 2003, an operator shall, not less than one month prior to the date of implementation of any proposed modification, notify its subscribers to that service of the proposed modification in the conditions of the contract for that service and their right to withdraw without penalty from such contract if they do not accept the modification.
1. Definitions ……
“Charges” -The charges for the Services, whether Bill Pay or Pay As You Go, as specified on www.meteor.ie , including, but not limited to, connection charges, monthly rental, tariff charges, Call charges, any applicable additional usage charges calculated according to the rates prevailing from time to time, administrative charges and charges for Third Party Services which the Customer may choose to receive.
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6. Payment, Charges and Tariff Plans
You are liable to pay for all charges incurred through your Meteor SIM card whether or not incurred by you personally (including VAT arising on the charges), and for all costs incurred in enforcing this Agreement. We reserve the right to vary Charges at our discretion. In the event that Charges are varied we will post notification of such changes on our web site, in-store and/or notify you via SMS or by post. You may therefore not receive notification if we have no contact details for you.
Probably some of some of you haven’t knew that about a year ago Samsung released the Galaxy Golden. A flip style phone that combined the best of both worlds, that never made it beyond Asian market.
The Galaxy Golden
Apparently, the phone did quite well there because as a recent user guide leak shows that Samsung will probably be launching a successor any time soon.
The Galaxy Golden 2
Our youngest readers probably look this phone as the weirdest thing ever. But the flip phones was one the greatest thing to had back then.
Unlike the previous model (which was pretty mid-range), this it’s a remastered high-end version.
It comes with Two 4.6” displays with 1280 x 768 resolution (one outside and other hidden against the keypad), a Snapdragon 801 quad-core Krait 400 at 2.5 GHz running Android 4.4, 2GB of RAM, an Adreno 330 GPU and 16mp rear camera (4K capable) with a pretty good 2mp front facing camera.
The Two Screens of the Phone
We still not have any information for the battery or the internal memory capacity.
The phone will be launching in China, through China Telecom and as usual in that market will come with two micro SIM card slots.
So there you have it, a phone that is still unknow if we’ll see outside the Asian market. But let us know in the comments if you will be interested in one if it surpass that barrier.
The iPhone 6 plus is a pretty big phone with a pretty big price tag so protection is vital and cases for the 6 plus even today are hard to come by from have seen from local stores,most cases are available on-line so have to be imported,one thing that needs looking into here is the availability of cases on the same day as launch but this seems to be still an issue to some extent over a wide variety of devices..
Thanks to Noreve we have been sent our custom case for the iPhone 6 the colour is Red which is not my preference but looks nice to be fair..
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Overall the case does offer us maximum protection if this flip style suits you,personally im not a fan of flip cases and prefer gel or just covers that surround the back and edges,those cases do offer less bulk than conventional flip or fold cases,this case did not add much bulk to the already big bulky phone so it was comfortable to use and felt fine in hand.
All ports on the device where easily accessible as seen in video,this is important some cases tend to get in the way of can be troublesome this would be mainly for cheap cases but not higher priced ones from well know case makers,thankfully Noreve has never has this problem with any case we have had from them and quality has always been great to say the least.
Noreve always have excellent packaging and presentation with their cases and its a great credit to them for the consistency here also what makes Noreve stand out is its options to the consumer to personalise their case to suit ones preference.
Characteristics.
Elegant case conceived in top quality handcrafted leather
– Easy-to-close case without non-magnetic closure nor snap closure
– Thermoplastic polymer inner structure with no EM interference
– Slim and padded design
– Access to basic functions (multiple openings on the leather)
– All sides protective case
– Protects the device in an optimal manner
– Access for light and proximity sensors
– Functions non-disturbing cases (GPS, Signal, Compass…)
– Camera lens & flash access
– Headphones and headset jack access
– Charging and synchronization cable access
– Beautiful interior lining embossed with the Noreve logo
Check out the iPhone 6 plus cases and more over at Noreve.The case (Tradition) we had will cost you €52.90 which is not bad,for some maybe its expensive but you get a premium quality case.
