Hello App Google Play Store Link: Download Hello — Caller ID & Blocking App Here for FREE

• Once downloaded, you need to sign in with Facebook
• Give it permissions to sync your contacts with Facebook
• Also allow it to interact with calls.

After that, you can decide how you want to use Hello, as active dialer? or let it just passively surface information about incoming calls.

How Hello Works?

Hello connects with Facebook, and combined information from your contacts and match it with available data on caller’s Facebook profile.

How Hello App Looks

Basic Features of Hello:

• See who’s calling you, even if you don’t have that phone number saved in your phone.
• Easily block unwanted calls.
• Automatically block calls from numbers that have been blocked by a lot of other people.
• Search your phone contacts and people and places on Facebook, without switching between apps.
• Always have the latest info about your contacts, including their profile pictures and birthdays.
• Open a Facebook profile or Page with just one tap.
• Call and text for free with Messenger.
• Call, add and edit contacts — just like you do on your phone.

For now Hello is available for Android Only.

See Hello App in action in this Video:

SOURCE: Facebook News Room

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ANDROID PHONE AS MODEM WITH LAPTOP/PC USING USB CABLE:

Basic Requirements:

1. Android Phone or Tablet with USB cable
2. Laptop or PC with free USB slot
3. Android Phones driver(s)

Instructions:

Step 1
Connect the USB cable’s smaller end to your Android phone and the other end to your computer.
Step 2
Press the “Home” button and then the “Menu” button.
Step 3
Tap “Settings,” “More” from the Wireless & Networks section and then “Tethering & Portable Hotspot.”
Step 4
Check “USB Tethering” to establish a USB data connection on your computer. (make sure your Android phone is connected to computer through USB)
Step 5
Click on network tab in task bar of your Laptop/PC, after some time it will start internet – check by using your browser.

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Sony’s New Android TV is Powered by the new 4K Processor X1, wich will upscale existing 720p and 1080p HD content o 4K via the X-Reality PRO engine that is run by this processor, the entire lineup offers better picture quality from any source like cable, HDMI, AV or USB, with improved contrast, color and clarity while Android™ TV brings the world’s most popular mobile platform to the television.

Pricing and availability

The X830C, X850C, X930C and X940C 4K Ultra HDTVs are available for pre-sale, and will be on-sale in May at following places

Locations: store.sony.com, amazon.com/sony, bestbuy.com

Along with above mentioned online store, the New Ultra HD TV Line will be available at other authorized dealers nationwide.

The 2015 HDTV series (R510C, W800C, W850C) are also available for pre-sale, and will be on-sale in May at following places

Locations: store.sony.com, amazon.com/sony, bestbuy.com

Along with above mentioned online store, the New Ultra HD TV Line will be available at other authorized dealers nationwide.

The X900C Model and X910C Model will be available this summer, pricing to be announced.

4K Ultra HD TV series

2K HD TV series

SOURCE: SONY

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Company asked the Android users who want to get their hands on the early version of the app to sign up via this Google form. It is still a question if Meerkat have plans to provide access of its most wanted App to limited number of users in beta phase or it will allow every one to become a beta tester for Android version of Meerkat live streaming App.

We’re opening up Meerkat for Android to external beta testers! Sign up https://t.co/RdE0eYarmt

— Meerkat (@AppMeerkat) April 15, 2015

Meerkat is already available for iOS but to compete with its Twitter-owned rival Periscope it will be a great move to launch Android version before its competitor, who also have plans for Android App release soon.

Source: Mashable

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These flexible tweaks allows Android device users to speed up the transition animations that display when they switch apps and when windows open and close.

The tweaks are available within the settings of all recent Android phones in a section called “Developer options.”

This section might be hidden on some phones, but it’s very easy to access.

Once you have access to Developer options, simply scroll until you find the following three settings, which may be either located on the main screen or within an “Advanced” sub-section:

• Window animation scale
• Transition animation scale
• Animator animation scale

Tapping each of the three above mentioned settings will show that it is set to “1x” by default.
If you want to speed up your android smartphone or tablet, simply change each of those three settings to “.5x” — and you are DONE!
Enjoy using your Old buddy with amazing speed boost.

SOURCE: BGR

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Very little is being said about Google’s master plan to sell million smartphones by the end of this year in one country alone-India. This smartphone is Android One, specially designed keeping in mind the middle income families of a country as economically diverse as India.

This smartphone is a proof of Google’s intent of giving Apple a run for its money in the global smartphone game. Priced at $100, it offers affordability, style and ease of handling to its consumers. Carrier subsidies fill further drive down the price to $60s.

Saturated Apple’s Market, Newly Born Android One Market
This smartphone will not be available in the US as the market there is already saturated with smartphones. This, I believe, is where Apple’s troubles start. Their primary market, the US, is saturated with smartphones with 75%of the population owning one! Although Apple controls roughly 42% of smartphone sales, there is very little room for further market growth. Apple needs to attract other markets. Apple is known to think locally and apply globally. They need to realize what works in New York, Milan and Paris may not work in Mumbai, Beijing and Mexico City.

This is where Android One comes in. Google has designed a product keeping in mind the market that it wishes to attract. Thus it offers a lucrative deal when it comes to affordability and has built a market for itself. The potential was always there. Google merely exploited it way before Apple even realized what was happening around it.

Smartphone pundits often dub iPhone gadgets as “fashionable accessories”. They aspire to the masses but are rarely affordable by the majority of them. It is an impressive position for a company to be in but it comes with a catch: arrogance.

Excess of everything is a bad thing. Apples failure to push their gadgets into low-end markets has resulted in an epic concentration of smartphones in one corner of the world while the rest of the world got dazzled by the ‘out of reach’ glitter. Well, ‘One man’s food is another man’s poison’. Google took what Apple failed to envision!

Apple has lost market share to local manufacturers in not only China but Mexico as well during the last 12 months. This shows that it is safe to say that Apple has climaxed its sale growth. May be this is why Apple has yet to launch iPhone 6 and 6plus in China (where it’s locally manufactured).

Upgrades in iPhone sales; Birth of Android One sales.
In a world, where innovations are being made at breakneck speeds, the last major change in Apple’s patent came nearly 2 years ago. This lag is worth a lifetime in the fast paced mobile world. Moreover, most iPhone sales are merely upgrades-consumers trying to keep up with the make and the model. No doubt, this brings in profits for the company keeping its coffers full but covers no ground for the future.

On the other hand, Google’s Android One’s sales are all new. Instead of launching it in a tried and tested market of the 1.75 billion people already owning a smartphone, Google took a risk designing a product for the 5 billion who didn’t, and it seems to have paid off.

Global iPhone sourcing; Local Android One sourcing
Apple’s hardware is worth praising-second to none in quality. Whichever supplier it chooses is guaranteed to succeed. This is a major reason behind its driving costs-$649 (without a contract) which can go upwards of $900.
In contrast, Andoid One, keeping up with its unique approach, worked along with local chip makers and manufacturers resulting in a much cheaper yet durable product.

Apple and Google keep Software under Lock and Key.
Software control has always been a prominent feature of Apple. Although it upset them in the PC age yet it seems to have paid off in today’s Mobile age.
Google seems to have gone through the same route. Unlike Samsung which loads up its Android devices with ‘bloat-ware’, Google limits Android One manufacturers to its stock OS. OS access from wireless carriers has been eliminated. Taking a step further, Google has tried to lower the monumental expense of mobile data for its users within data. Google will partner with Airtel to allow Android One users to get free OS updates for the first six month. These users will also get up to 200MB of free data for app downloads per month.

Unless there are radical changes coming to Cupertino, Apple is about to lose the smartphone war to Google.

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The Android software development kit (SDK) includes a comprehensive set of development tools. Among the top 10 android development tools the officially supported integrated development environment (IDE) is Eclipse, while IntelliJ integrated development environment also fully support ADT. Other than these two famous tools, android developers can use any text editor to edit Java and XML files followed by command line tools for creating, building and debugging Android applications.

ADT is a plug-in for Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) designed to act as a workplace to build Android apps. Android Development Tools broadens the ability of Eclipse to allow developers to set up new Android projects, create an application, add packages based on the Android Framework API, and other tasks to make programming process flow better.

Android Studio is another IDE for Android based on InelliJ IDEA and allows developers to try for free carrying the following features;
• Live Layout
• Developer Console
• Provision for beta releases and staged rollout.
• Gradle based build support.
• Android explicit refactoring along with quick fixes.
• Lint tools to catch performance and version compatibility, etc.
• Template wizards
• Platform for building Android Wear apps.

Owned by JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA is a Java IDE with the highest ranking as this programming tool was given the highest test center score among the top four Java Programming Tools.

Adobe AIR created by Adobe Systems works for cross platforms building Rich Internet applications that run for both desktop and mobile devices programmed using Adobe Flash, HTML, Java and XML.

Appcelerator is a mobile technology company with its main product as Appcelerator Titanium which is an open source software development kit for cross platform mobile development allowing creation of mobile apps including for Android from a single JavaScript codebase.

PhonegGap is a free open source framework produced by Nitobi for creating mobile apps using standardized web APIs for Android or any other mobile platform. With PhoneGap you can easily create apps using the web technologies such HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

With Xamarin, one can create apps in C# for Android and other mobile platforms. It allows to design, develop and integrate apps and test them. It has a C# codebase to write native IOS, Android and Windows apps and share code on all platforms.

Motorola developed an open source framework known as RhoMobile. It is used for building native applications allowed to run on an array of devices including Android, Windows, iOs, and Blackberry etc.

Codiqais a powerful drag and drop builder to create mobile apps for different platforms with HTML5. It’s very easy to use and many businesses use it to reduce the time and cost needed to build mobile phone apps.

Nakajima launched WidgetPad, a free, collaborative, web based, open source mobile development environment to create mobile applications with web technologies such as HTML 5, CSS, and Javascript and distribute them to app stores. WidgetPad alleviates the complications of creating native applications and reduce the need to learn platform specific API sets and tools

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