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HTC One doesn’t support Qualcomm Quick Charge

By Cory Gunther
on 9 May, 2013

Earlier this year when Qualcomm announced their new Snapdragon 600 and 800 series quad-core mobile processors, one awesome feature was Quick Charge. Sadly we've recently learned this additional layer to improve battery life and recharge time was left out of HTC's flagship One smartphone. Even though their HTC DROID DNA enjoys new technology.

Paranoid Android HALO builds released for multiple devices

By Cory Gunther
on 6 May, 2013

Last week there was a custom ROM getting plenty of attention for their Facebook Chat Head type feature. Paranoid Android decided to take Chat Heads and turn it into a unified notification system for Android, and put it on steroids. You might love it, or hate it, but this is what makes Android great. Read on for more details about Paranoid Android's HALO feature.

Google brings auto ‘add to calendar’ feature to Gmail

By Cory Gunther
on 3 May, 2013

Today we're learning some additional details about a rather neat new feature Google has introduced and integrated into Gmail. Sadly the new feature isn't on mobile, yet, but Gmail will now allow users to automatically add events and reminders to their calendar right from emails. Basically one click easy Google Calendar entries.

Paranoid Android ‘HALO’ unified notifications get shown off

By Cory Gunther
on 2 May, 2013

Earlier this week the news brought some exciting new developments in the world of Custom ROM's for Android using a few of Facebook's latest features. Most notably, the Chat Heads messenger system. Many love the feature, but don't want to use Facebook. That's where Paranoid Android comes into play. We detailed this earlier today, and now have a video of their awesome new feature in action.

Pie Controls come to CyanogenMod 10 to give you more screen real estate

By Cory Gunther
on 27 Mar, 2013

The folks from CyanogenMod took to their Google+ page earlier today to announce an awesome new feature that is now available on many CM10 nightly builds. It's called Pie Controls, and is popular with many Android ROM's, especially Paranoid Android. We first saw Pie Controls in the now replaced stock browser in Honeycomb, but starting today they'll be available in a completely different way.

Google granted patent for Face Unlock features in Android

By Cory Gunther
on 12 Mar, 2013

Today we can chalk up another win for Google from the patent department. According to reports the US Patent and Trademark Office has just granted Google the patent for facial recognition in Android. The impressive feature arrived with the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and today they now have a few full patents on the security option.

Carbon for Twitter finally launches in the Play Store [Hands-on]

By Cory Gunther
on 4 Feb, 2013

For all those Twitter fans out there we have an awesome new Android client to share with you all. In case you haven't heard of it, the extremely popular Carbon for Android Twitter app has finally been released. After being announced and teased last year and under development for far too long, it's available now. The app is beautiful in every sense of the word and has one of the most elegant UI's I've used lately, but read on to see our thoughts.

YouTube adds automatic closed captions in 6 new languages

By Cory Gunther
on 29 Nov, 2012

Way back in 2009 the folks from Google finally added closed captions to YouTube, since then they've been updating as many videos as they can, adding more languages, and improving the option. Today Google has announced on the official YouTube Blog that they've added 6 brand new languages to their automatic caption system. Last year they added a few, and now European countries have more options.

Android Market Web Version Gets Another Update

By Cory Gunther
on 31 Jul, 2011

The Android Market when you're not on your device hasn't seen a lot of love in the past but as of late things have changed a bit. I personally use market.android.com all the time for its convenience. Just a few days ago it received a fancy update adding graphs to application download history and although small it was a nice touch. Today they've added some user interface enhancements for navigating screenshots.

Web Based Android Market Now Shows Graph of App Install History

By Cory Gunther
on 25 Jul, 2011

The Android Market has came a long long ways in just a short time, wouldn't you all agree? The web-based version is quite nice for those that don't use it often. Showing things like featured apps, feature tablet apps, top paid, top free and more. I like seeing the top new apps to discover things I've not seen yet. Today we have a little surprise and now we are seeing a visual graph next to the installed numbers.