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Google Play Games revealed: Android gaming gets serious

, May 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

Details of Google Play Games, the Android alternative to Apple’s Game Center, have leaked, with suggestions that the cloud-syncing, leaderboard-scoring, and multiplayer-matchmaking system will debut officially at Google I/O this coming week. Evidence of the refreshed gaming component was unearthed from a prerelease version (v3.1.36) of the Google Play Services APK, with Android Police sifting through the shared files to discover a new “Play Games” feature intended for managing gaming on the Android platform.

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NASA fixes ISS leak with 5.5hr spacewalk

, May 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

A five and a half hour spacewalk culminated in a replaced pump controller and no small amount of relief, as the astronaut crew of the International Space Station hustled to fix the ammonia leak spotted late last week. NASA had warned the ISS crew that they'd need to venture outside of the orbiting research platform on Friday, with Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn venturing out on Saturday afternoon to replace the faulty part. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry Q10 Review

, May 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

The BlackBerry Q10 might not have been the first BlackBerry 10 smartphone to reach the market, but with its classic QWERTY keyboard it’s arguably the first proper new BlackBerry. Blending the new OS with both a touchscreen and the sort of physical text-entry functionality that BlackBerry addicts have been swearing by for years, the Q10 promises to bridge the gap between the Brave New World of touch and those for whom stabbing out an email reply wouldn’t be complete without the crackle of tiny keys. Does that make it the missing link in smartphones, or just a bygone of an era that ought to be forgotten? Read on for our full review.

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Mophie Juice Pack for HTC One Review

, May 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

The nightly recharge is a fact of life with most modern smartphones, and the HTC One is no different, but what if you could double your runtime and protect your expensive new toy in the process? That’s what Mophie promises from the Juice Pack for the HTC One, a combination external battery and hard case that, when wrapped around your phone, should let even the most ambitious power-user escape the tyranny of the charger. All that flexibility comes at a price, however: $99.95 and a considerably larger device in your pocket. Is the Mophie Juice Pack worth the compromise? Read on for our full review.

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Verizon Nokia Lumia 928 gets official: 4G 4.5-inch OLED Windows Phone

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Nokia has officially announced the Lumia 928, its Windows Phone 8 smartphone for Verizon, and the device it has been steadily teasing over the past week. Packing a 4.5-inch OLED display and an 8.7-megapixel PureView camera, along with Verizon LTE 4G support, the Lumia 928 also has three high-audio-amplitude-capture microphones for better audio recording. It’ll also arrive with an impressively competitive price.

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LG Optimus G Pro “phablet” finally arrives at AT&T today

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

LG's Optimus G Pro phablet has launched on AT&T today, with the sizable smartphone on sale for the first time in the US. Priced at $199.99 with a new, two-year agreement, the Optimus G Pro has a 5.5-inch Full HD display and a 13-megapixel camera, with a quadcore 1.7GHz processor lurking inside. Read The Full Story

Google Wallet physical card plans reportedly axed last-minute by CEO Page

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google has scrapped plans to launch a physical Google Wallet credit card at Google IO next week, it's reported, focusing instead on the digital wallet and NFC functionality baked into Android smartphones. The company had intended to reveal the credit card - which was to be black with a rainbow "W", so AllThingsD reports - at its annual developer event, but wonky run-throughs and concerns from management that the scheme was insufficiently futuristic saw it knocked from the schedule. Read The Full Story

Carmageddon smashes onto Android after Kickstarter success

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Carmageddon for Android has been released, hitting phones and tablets today having raised more than $625,000 in a Kickstarter campaign last year. The classic game - which requires players drive roughshod across the tracks, mowing down pedestrians and colliding with fellow drivers as they go - was a notorious success in the late 1990s, banned in some locations for its gruesome gameplay, and has now returned in re-rendered form to suit the latest mobile devices. Read The Full Story

Nokia Asha 501: Can strong design win emerging markets?

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Nokia's Asha 501 may have been met with a surprising degree of positivity for a budget smartphone, its $99 price tag and distinctive design undoubtedly helping critics overlook its rough edges, but it nonetheless faces strong competition from budget Android devices in emerging markets. The first of the new Asha Touch series, building on a revamped platform using elements of S40 and Nokia-acquired Smarterphone OS, the Asha 501 is distinctive arguably not because of its specifications - which are relatively mundane - but because Nokia has given the aesthetics of the handset the same degree of consideration it would its high-end Lumia Windows Phones. Read The Full Story

Nokia Lumia 620 joins Aio Wireless lineup (but few can buy it)

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Nokia's compact Lumia 620 will finally get a US release, the company has confirmed, joining the prepaid lineup on AT&T's new Aio Wireless operator. Priced at $179.99 with no minimum agreement, the Lumia 620 joins the relatively small number of Nokia Windows Phones (officially) available to customers in the US. Read The Full Story

Galaxy S 4 app-bloat earns Samsung a BBC Watchdog investigation

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

The software bloat that leaves Samsung Galaxy S 4 owners with roughly half of the available storage their 16GB smartphone promises on the box is set to earn the handset a blasting on TV, with one UK consumer affairs show readying an investigation into missing memory. Samsung blamed the inevitable room value-added features on the Galaxy S 4 take up for around 8GB of the user storage being already occupied out of the box, when questioned about the paucity of space new owners discovered. That doesn't appear to have satisfied the BBC's Watchdog, which will apparently cover the controversy on May 15. Read The Full Story

Surface Pro pressure support in Photoshop added with Wacom driver

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is set to get its missing pressure sensitivity for the digital stylus in apps like Photoshop, with a Wacom driver update incoming to address the glitch. The Windows 8 tablet, launched back in February, shipped without full support for recognizing how hard stylus-users pressed with the pen in apps like Adobe's Creative Suite. Now, according to Microsoft's Panos Panay, the end is in sight. Read The Full Story
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