Timely Alarm Clock update brings Lollipop fixes, Google Now integration and more
If Timely is your alarm clock app of choice make sure to head to the Play Store sometime soon, as a big update is rolling out as we speak. If you’re using a device running Android 5.0 Lollipop, you’ve likely run into some trouble with this app in the past (force closing, incompatibility with Priority Notifications). With that said, it’s been quite awhile since this app has seen any improvements, so the update to version 1.3 should be welcomed by all users.
First and foremost, the folks at Timely have fixed a ton of bugs and visual glitches found throughout the app, which should make your Lollipop-running device compatible again. Also added is the ability to set timers and alarms through Google Now, using either voice or text. The developers have included support for upcoming alarm notifications, support for the new alarm API to show the alarm icon as well as the ability to select your own sounds or music for your alarm or timer.
The update also brings a handful of nice visual improvements. The status and action bars, notifications and overview headers are all colored and take on the current theme that you have set for each page.
Take a look at the full changelog below:
- Select your own sounds
- Upcoming alarm notification
- Option to ask for the challenge to snooze
- Google Now support for timers and reuses alarms
- Android 5.0 adaptions:
- Colored notifications
- Colored status and action bar
- Colored Overview headers
- Support for new alarm API to show the alarm icon
- Numerous fixes for crashes and visual glitches
If you’ve never given Timely a fair shot, now is probably a good time to do so. Head to the Play Store link below to grab the update.
Download Timely from the Google Play Store
Leaked Samsung Galaxy S 6 dimensions note 6.91mm thin body
We are just weeks away from seeing the Galaxy S 6 introduced to the world on March 1 and there are many aspects that remain a mystery. The measurements, for example, have remained under the radar despite various reports on software and hardware. There was a leak of case schematics last week but the authenticity seemed a bit questionable. Today, alleged dimensions of the Galaxy S 6 appeared once again. The most notable measurement with this schematic is how thin the handset will apparently be. The schematic, provided by Underkg, has the Galaxy S 6 being 6.91mm thin which would make it comparable to the Apple iPhone. Calculating the given display height and width, it would span less than 5in; however, we highly doubt that Samsung is going with a smaller display.
Hit the break to see the leaked schematic.
Source: Underkg
Via: SamMobile
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Verizon FiOS will be an East Coast exclusive as of 2016
If you’re a customer of Verizon’s TV, internet or phone services (fiber or otherwise) in California, Florida or Texas then sometime next year you won’t be. That’s because as part of a $10.54 billion deal, it’s selling “wireline” businesses in those states to Frontier so it can focus on the East Coast. It made a similar move dumping services across many states in 2009, and many of the customers we heard from afterward were not happy because while Frontier had different policies on how to run the service. In a separate deal, it’s leasing or selling a majority of the cell towers it operates to American Tower Corporation for $5 billion. Why make all these moves? Other than kicking off a $5 billion share repurchasing program, word is this money will go to pay for some $10 billion in wireless spectrum Verizon won at auction last week.
The three states hold about 1.6 million FiOS internet customers who will be transferred when the deal closes,which is expected to be in the first half of next year. After that, FiOS will have a “contiguous footprint in Eastern states” covering Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington, D.C. As far as the other areas? Customers, wires, and about 11,000 employees will become a part of Frontier, joining the previously purchased areas and services that touch 28 states already.
The tower deal probably should affect Verizon’s wireless coverage though, as it includes provisions for Big Red to sublease capacity for at least ten years, as well as access additional reserve capacity for “future use.” So let us know Verizon customers, do you plan on sticking around once the deals close, or will you be looking for a better deal elsewhere?
[Image credit: AFP/Getty Images]
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Source: Verizon
TRENDING APPS: Puzzle Pets is polished, fun take on match-three puzzlers
Gameloft, makers of numerous movie-based, driving, and comic-based games is at it again. Instead of bringing something entirely new to the table, they attempt to play on the same field as Candy Crush Saga and other match-three puzzle adventures. It’s bright, colorful, fun, and offers a high replay value. Will you bite?
They say:
- Match up to 6 pet friends, including the fox, koala, panda and more, to create over 10 colourful combos!
- Watch these wild and free pets turn into Helpers during your adventure, unveiling stunning new tricks!
- Train and master your fun Helper friends.
- Match your way to victory in 126 exciting levels.
- Be as clever as a fox to find your favourite strategy with 7 power-ups, from the spectacular Tornado to the curious Chameleon’s Tongue!
- Join exciting in-game events and help all your friends in the community to unlock free prizes, including extra cool and rare Helpers.
We say:
As yet another take on the familiar game mechanics, Puzzle Pets still delivers the goods. There’s plenty here to keep things fresh, including fun characters with incremental powers and abilities. The side-quest stuff is a nice twist every few days and provides opportunities for extra goodies. If only it were easier to earn coins along the way.
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An Apple a day keeps the doctor away
It has been found that people who own iPhones visit the doctor less often. Not because they are healthier, but because they just don’t have enough money left to pay for the visit.
While iPhone owners have no regrets about their $1000 brick, they are often found playing Angry Birds while waiting in line for their food stamps to help them live from month to month.
Now, there is nothing wrong with this picture. Why shouldn’t someone spend hundreds of dollars on a phone before they feed themselves? There can’t be anything wrong with that. Not at all.
If I were a parent, I would definitely want to make sure that I could show off my shiny iPhone 6+ with 128 GB of storage. My children don’t need to eat. Not at all.
I can’t stand the thought of someone catching me with any other phone. How embarrassing would that be? No, I much rather them find me in a line for government support than be caught without an iPhone.
Doctor visits and food are the luxuries in life anyways. Now an iPhone, that is something that you can’t live life without. I would DIE if I couldn’t own an iPhone, but I can live without food.
Note: This is a satirical post. It is meant for humor, not insult.
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OLALA C2-a Battery Pack Review
Poor battery life is something that plagues smartphones. While there are phones out there that can last a day without a hitch, it should be a standard that all phones can be used throughout the day for calls, texting, games, videos, and more without having to worry about battery life. While we wait for the technology to exist within smartphones everywhere, we need to rely on external battery packs. OLALA’s C2-a battery pack is an interesting offering. Let’s take a look.
Design
The OLALA C2-a is a sleek device. It has a nice smooth finish that is done with a “piano paint finish.” On the front there is “OLALA” printed along with four LEDs that display the battery percentage of the battery pack. On the right side there is a micro USB and regular USB slot, along with a cord that pulls out of the battery pack. This cord is a nice touch, as you don’t need to worry about carrying a cord with you when you want to use this battery pack. All in all, it’s a simple, but nicely done design.
Function
Battery packs have a handful of things they need to be good at: charging phones, and being charged, and… oh. I guess that’s it. Well, it does these two things just fine. A full charge of this pack holds about 3 charges for my first gen Moto X, which would be about what I would expect for a 6000 mAh battery. It also charges at an average speed, not very fast but not too slow. This battery pack does not have anything special about it, except its design. If you’re looking for a battery pack that just does what it’s supposed to, then this is it.
Value
The OLALA C2-a battery pack is $29.99 on Amazon, here. Here is where I am at: this is a nice looking battery pack, with a functional cord placement, that is fairly thin and light and therefore easy to carry. The actual charging is average, and nothing different from other battery packs. If design is worth the moeny, then this is not a bad deal. However, if you’re looking for something particularly unique, then you might be better off looking elsewhere.
Overall, this is a nice battery pack that will work well, and has nice design. It should serve you well were you to get this battery pack.
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SwiftKey Keyboard for iOS Updated With Emoji, Flow Typing on iPad [iOS Blog]
SwiftKey is one of the most popular third-party keyboard options on iOS, and today it received a major update adding a highly requested feature — emoji. Emoji can be accessed by tapping on the smiley at the bottom of the keyboard, and there’s also a new predictive emoji tool that learns the most frequently used emoji and suggests them while typing.
We’ve built emoji right into SwiftKey Keyboard so you can now express yourself when words don’t quite cut it. Just as it learns the words and phrases that matter to you, SwiftKey also learns and predicts which emoji you use most often so you can spend less time looking for that perfect smiley (or slice of pizza — whatever you’re into).
Using a lot of emoji in text will cause emoji to pop up more frequently in the word prediction box, making it easier to insert fun characters into text.
Today’s update also includes SwiftKey Flow for the iPad, a feature that was previously limited to the iPhone. With SwiftKey Flow, it’s possible to type faster via swiping on the screen. Finally, there are also 11 new languages available in SwiftKey, including Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hinglish, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, and Turkish.
SwiftKey Keyboard for iOS can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]
Facebook’s privacy rules reach new levels of creepiness
Facebook can now gather data from all your activity on any website. In their newest privacy changes, Facebook will know everywhere you visit on the Internet so that they can make more money off personalized ads.
Rather than allowing Facebook users to decide whether they want to opt-in to this lack of privacy, Facebook is simply implementing these changes whenever an existing user signs into Facebook. That’s it.
As one site noted:
If you want to prevent Facebook from tracking your Internet usage altogether, then you’ll have to contact the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US, or its European and Canadian equivalent, which will prevent individual Facebook ad targeting altogether. You can also alter your settings with your mobile device to prevent Facebook tracking you via your smartphone. – CraveOnline
Even though Facebook has been questioned for years about their privacy moves, this latest move to track users who are visiting other websites seems quite extreme. Meanwhile, Facebook seems oblivious to this concern by continuing to act like customers actually care how detailed their ads are rather than simply being honest and stating that businesses are the ones who want more detailed targets.
“When we ask people about our ads, one of the top things they tell us is that they want to see ads that are more relevant to their interests.” – Facebook Statement
On top of this, if you opt-out of this privacy invasion, there are already questions about whether the opt-out will actually stop Facebook from tracking your every move.
Then there is the fact that Facebook’s facial recognition software is already being talked about by advertisers. The hope by advertisers is that can follow and profile you wherever there’s a camera. Considering Facebook already puts in rules stating that they can claim “any photo or media posted” to Facebook, it is clear that Facebook sees many dollar signs with this type of advertising.
New head of Google Glass wants to ‘start from scratch’ with the headset – report
A little over two weeks ago the Google Glass project graduated from the Google X labs, the facility used by the company to push forward major technological advancements. In addition to Glass’ announcement, Nest co-founder Tony Fadell was set to take over the Glass project from here on out. Usually when a project leaves the X labs it means that its generally going well, and that we should begin seeing some major progress coming soon. However, in a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Fadell doesn’t have plans to release the 2nd Generation Glass to the public anytime soon.
The report states that ‘some people with knowledge of Mr. Fadell’s plans’ say that he wants to completely redesign the product and won’t release it until the product achieves perfection. There will also be no public experimentation with the 2nd Generation product, so, that means there will be no Explorer Program for the new model. One person close to Fadell explains:
Tony is a product guy and he’s not going to release something until it’s perfect.
This can be taken as either a positive or a negative. On one hand, not releasing Glass until it’s perfect and ready for consumers would be great. A significantly cheaper model ready for the public is what many people think Glass needs to survive. On the other hand, many people sill believe that Glass was too much, too soon. An Explorer Program would likely make sense in this scenario.
So, if the report holds validity, we might not see Google Glass 2 arrive for the public anytime soon. We’ll be sure to let you know if we hear anything regarding Glass in the future. What are your thoughts? Do you think there should be another Explorer Program, or do you back Fadell’s stance on holding back until it’s perfect? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Leaked Sprint doc reveals One M8 and G3 Lollipop updates coming soon
When it comes to market penetration, Lollipop still has a long ways to go before it reaches a meaningful number of Android users. After all, the update is currently sitting on just 1.6% of Android devices. Thankfully, OEMs seem to be much more aggressive with Lollipop than previous Android updates, and this week alone we’ve seen Lollipop rollout to the Verizon Galaxy S5, the Sprint HTC One M7 and the Sprint Galaxy S5. Now it seems that Sprint is rolling out at least two more Lollipop updates this month, at least if a leaked release schedule proves correct.
The leaked schedule comes from Android Central, and indicates that the One M8 and the M8 Harman Kardon Special Edition will see the update on February 13th, with the LG G3 following on the 16th. It goes without saying that the dates listed are tentative and could certainly be subject to change, but the bigger takeway is that most major OEMs are holding true to their promises to bring Android 5.0 Lollipop to their flagship devices in the earlier part of 2015.
What do you think of the way the Lollipop update has been handled by carriers? What do you think of Lollipop in general? Let us know in the comments.
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