[Google launches machine sales of games for Android devices ... - Xpert Mobile

not difficult to find vending machines for certain products around the planet – not so common in Brazil, but a success in Japan that in mind, Google has decided launch your own machine sales of games for Android devices.

new product search giant has support for current technologies found in these devices so that users can make purchases quickly and easily. With this, just put some smartphone or tablet that runs Android 4.0 or higher on a given tray for it to connect the machine via NFC. Then just use the touchscreen of the machine itself to choose the game (free or paid) that will be transferred to the device. Yes, that’s it!

For non Android users, you can test the experience of playing a game platform through a Nexus 4 which is available in the vending machine. For now, the news is only available in Japan, but it is possible that Google makes available later in other countries, although still not officially confirmed.

Android moved more sales than iOS in September - Tecmundo

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“fanboys” Apple will not like this news nadica. Although the company Steve Jobs has recently added great numbers – were more than 9 million iPhones sold 5S and 5C – the market share in what the language of economics calls market share , had a smaller slice of the Android in September. The operating system of Google handled more sales than iOS.

updated operating system from Apple, iOS 7, has been downloaded more than 200 million devices during the first days it was available, and even that was not enough to overcome the share of rival Android.

“watchdog” the internet “Net Applications,” which tracks visits, hits and other statistics relating to traffic, released on Tuesday a report that shows the movement of the brands in the market for the month of September. In the report, are discriminated against, among other information, the figures for global mobile platforms. The research determines the market turnover measuring traffic throughout the network worldwide. In the latest survey, it was found that traffic coming from iOS devices had a slight drop of 54.91% in August to 53.65% in September.

Android, meanwhile, saw an increase in its market share: 28.12% in August to 29.43% in September. The BlackBerry had a slight decline of 3.28% to 3.26% in the same period, while the Symbian saw an increase of 4.48% last month versus 3.26% in August.

[Trick Android 4.3 for Samsung Galaxy S4] - Xpert Mobile

The Samsung Galaxy S4 needs no introduction. Considered the most popular Android smartphone of all time, the machine came standard with Android 4.2.2 and presented some problems soon after its launch, forcing Samsung to provide some small emergency updates for the device.

Many device users are eager to receive the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean on Galaxy S4 and Samsung already announced that this update will be available later in October, along with the firmwares for the Galaxy SIII II and Galaxy Note.

The great news today is that the site SamMobile just provide a leaked version of Android 4.3 testing Jelly Bean for Galaxy S4 4G version (GT-I9505). The update brings some new features and improvements in device performance, and includes the Samsung Knox, a new mode, which optimizes the screen for reading, but only a few applications can use this feature. The keyboard has also been improved.

Most of the improvements are even Android and its performance, but still can be noticed some changes in the user interface, which received some minor improvements. The new firmware greatly improved color reproduction on the screen of the device and the text seems to actually be better than before.

You must know that this is still a test version and there may be some problems in the system, but SamMobile already tested the new firmware and states that it is fully functional and bug-free. Another fact that should be mentioned is that Samsung is working hard on developing for Android 4.3, so this version should still receive many improvements and features.

– Model: GT-I9505
– Country: Open Europe
– Version: Android 4.3
– Changelist: 1715731
– Fri, September 20, 2013 18:48:24 +0000: Date of construction
– Product Code: OXA
– PDA: I9505XXUEMI8
– CSC: I9505OXAEMI8
– MODEM: I9505XXUEMI8
– Download: I9505XXUEMI8_I9505OXAEMI8_I9505XXUEMI8_OXA.zip

INSTRUCTIONS:

Remember that this may damage your device and we are not responsible for any damage that may be caused. Do at your own risk

– Extract (unzip) the firmware file
– Download Odin3 v3.09 (From here or here)
Extract Odin file ZIP -.
– Open Odin3 v3.09
– Restart the phone in download mode (press and hold Home + Power + Volume Down)
– Connect your phone and wait until it appears in ODIN
– Add to AP_I9505XXUEMI8_1715731_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5
AP – BL_I9505XXUEMI8_1715731_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar Add to BL
– Add CP_I9505XXUEMI8_1715731_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5 CP
– Add CSC_OXA_I9505OXAEMI8_1715731_REV06_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5 CSC
– Be sure to re-partition is not checked
– Click the Start button, wait a few minutes.

If you find any problems with the firmware (Any FC bootloop etc.)

– Start in recovery mode (Home + power + vol up)

– Choose wipe / factory reset. (This will erase all your data, including your SD Card!)
– Then choose reboot and wait!

[Android Tablets surpass iPad sales numbers in] - Xpert Mobile

The struggle for greater market share fought between iOS and Android, belonging to Apple and Google, respectively, is quite balanced in niche smartphones. However, when it came to tablets, Android has never had a very large sympathy of the public, who always regarded the iPad as the best option. No wonder he was the leader in this segment for so long. That’s right, in the past.

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According to data from ABI Research , a company that conducts market analysis on the technology for the first time a giant of searches could overtake Apple in regards to tablets. Data for the second quarter this year realize that Apple sold a total of 14.5 million iPads . While the total amount of tablets with Android sold was 30.5 million . Little more than twice.

On the other hand, if things go well regarding sales, with respect to corporate profit numbers become more balanced. During this research was arrecado about U.S. $ 12.7 billion in the sale of tablets. The manufacturers of Android tablets divided up just over 50% of this value. The rest was all Apple. This shows that despite selling less, the Cupertino giant over invoice.

This is due to the high price of the iPad, of course. On the side of Android is not difficult to find tablets costing R $ 300,00 in Brazil. However, the price of the iPad fell an average of 17%, while 17% of Android increased. The fall in the price of Apple’s tablet is, according to Jeff believes Or, ABI, because the users’ preference for 7-inch tablets. To get an idea, the iPad Mini accounted for 60% of total sales of iPads this period, accounting for 49% of Apple’s total revenue in this segment.

Even so, with the growth of Android tablet market, the iPad still remains that sold more, since its inception in 2010. And comparing with each manufacturer individually, Apple is still the one who sells more tablets. As already mentioned, it sold 14.5 million iPads in three months (April-June 2013). Samsung, the second list, sold “only” 8.1 million tablets.

Gmail app for Android should make announcements soon - Techworld

According site Android Police, the search giant is preparing to deliver ads in Gmail Mobile. Company does not confirm information.

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Over the past few years have seen the constant appearance of advertising in mobile applications, including ads that we can not “jump” on Youtube and posts promoted on Facebook and Twitter.

Now Google, the king of online advertising, seems determined to bring ads into a realm of mobile connectivity still free of them. The ground is being prepared to bring advertising to Gmail for Android, according to Android Police.

website published news about Gmail 4.6, a recent APK launched for Android devices, and found several references to advertising. It seems that the ads in Gmail for the platform will be similar to those that began to appear within tabs “Specials” in the web version of the e-mails.

Instead of appearing as a sidebar in the Gmail window or a call at the top of the page, these advertisements have the appearance of an e-mail. But, unlike the messages “normal”, the ads are identified as such under the name of “sender”, along with an information icon that you can click to learn more about the ads.

On Android, you will be able to save these listings in your inbox or reject them, according to the site. Coffee lovers who receive an ad for a 50% discount when purchasing a Frappuccino at Starbucks can keep this offer, for example, while rejecting a message from Coca-Cola.

So far, these are the speculations that are closer than might be true. But Google has not yet announced ads in Gmail for Android, and it is unclear when the alleged deployment will happen – but she seems to be heading.

A spokesman for the Mountain View giant has refused to comment on the matter in the report by Android Police. The company said it is experiencing only new features, but it had nothing to share at this time.

With over 400 million users for Gmail, many of which require mobile devices to stay connected, it is no surprise to see ads coming to a product built by one of the giants of online advertising.

We’ll have to wait to see if the promotional messages in Gmail for Android will become a disaster for the inbox, or a relatively unobtrusive advertising that is only part of the price you pay to use a webmail service free.

Chronus - clock and weather widget on a ... - Net & Tech

One of the great advantages of Android in Relation to support iOS is the operating system / operating Google has to a large supply of Widgets. It is thus a feature enjoyed by the major manufacturers (ie Samsung, LG, HTC, etc …) to differentiate its offering of software. Sometimes this difference is based on (among other components) the introduction of a clock widget weather and temperature. But what if you are not satisfied with the widget that comes bundled with your smartphone? So Chronus can be a viable and elegant.

Chronus is a new widget for Android that allows you to display the time and current weather conditions. This widget is developed by the same author of “home CyanogenMod Clock”, the widget with the same name that comes in the Community Android ROM CyanogenMod (CM). This means that if you were a fan of this widget, you no longer need to have the CM ROM to be able to download. The author renamed the widget from popular ROM for Community Chronus, due to having chosen to pick the name I had in mind before the widget has been accepted in the popular ROM.

Besides Widget

have as main objective to show elegantly simplistic but the hours and current weather and forecast for the city you are in, allows a very useful feature. The Chronus enables list all tasks / events that have scheduled in Google Calendar. One advantage of this widget is also able to add the fact that any major area of ??its home (home screen) but also on the lock screen. For this feature needs Android 4.2 or higher, or manager of home (Home Launcher) to support this operation.

Chronus has the following features:

• Support for Android 4.1 or higher
• Supports adding a widget on the screen / home screen (Android 4.1 +) and screen / lock screen (Android 4.2 +).
• Choose between analog or digital clock as well as customizable aspect
• viewing option Alarms
• Configuration in bold (bold) or normal Digital Clock, Date and Alarm
• panel forecasts unloads Yahoo! Weather service information.
• Choose from color or monochrome icons on the state of the time

Panel

• calendar that shows a list of upcoming events
• Lets change the font color of the text used in all panels.

Allows

• highlight upcoming events calendar with custom colors and bold font

The only “limitation” of Chronus in our opinion (if one can dub as such), is that minimally need a modern version of Android. At a minimum, supports Android 4.1 but to take full advantage of all its features need Android 4.2. If you have a smartphone, or a recent Community ROM installed with any of these versions of Android can now go to Google Play. The Chronus as a widget and elegant at the same time, it is an asset to display the current time and weather conditions in a simplistic way in Android.

Download: Chronus – Home and Lock Widget

[Purported Nexus 5 features appear in the new log ... - Xpert Mobile

A log file with only 10 MB of the new Android 4.0 KitKat can “have unveiled a” rumor have been available for some time, the specifications of the Nexus 5. The site MyCe , which had exclusive access to unreleased content published the supposed characteristics of the new Nexus 5, revealed information from that file.

According to them, just like the Nexus 4, the new device should be re-manufactured by LG. He should bring a 5-inch screen Full HD (442 ppi), Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 800 2.3 GHz, Adreno 330 GPU, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB of internal storage (another model with more space can also be launched ), 2,300 mAh battery, wireless charging, LTE (4G), NFC, 8 megapixel rear camera and 2 MP front.

Some of this information had already been leaked along the FFC U.S.. However, features like the 8 megapixel camera is certainly a novelty, a detail that draws attention as the LG G2 has a 13 MP camera with OIS, which was also expected in the new Nexus.

Although not yet officially confirmed, the Nexus 5 (LG-D820), as well as Android 4.4 KitKat, should be announced on the 14th of October.