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As you know, I co-host a weekly podcast with David from UKMobileTech called Gav & Dave’s Tech Podcast. It is a light hearted tech podcast broadcast bi-weekly. To subscribe click here for iTunes or copy and paste this link into your favourite podcast app.
Episode 8 is now live.
Cellz are an accessory part of the Cellz Group Ltd based in Hong Kong. In addition to selling accessories, they are also responsible for the manufacture too. I have added them in the Shopping section of my blog for quick reference in the future.
Over the next week, I will have a selection of accessories that I bought for my iPhone 🙂 .
First up, and one of the first things I do with any new phone is fit a screen protector. But I’ve learnt tempered glass protectors are the way to go.
Cellz sell the Rootacase Tempered Glass Film of iPhone 5/5S.
Applying this glass protector means no bubbles, high resistance against soiling, no rainbow effects or silica gel, anti fingerprint coating too as it has an oleophobic coating. It comes in a sturdy plastic case to protect it from being broken in transit, and is so easy to install. Once on, you can’t really tell if it’s fitted. It currently is £7.20 with free shipping to the UK.
Rating 9/10.
Sony’s new Xperia Z1 Compact, is apparently having some issues with the camera flash in low light situations. According to users on Android-Hlife and the Sony Mobile forums, taking pictures at night outside or in dimly lit areas when using the flash causes light bleeding, which distorts the pictures.
It looks like the light emitted from the flash on the back of the phone is refracted back onto the lens, creating washed out images.
The issue seems to impact the lpink and lime models compared to the black and white, which is odd. Hopefully it’s something that Sony can get worked out through a software update.
The somewhat reclusive developer of the hit game Flappy Bird has announced that he “cannot take this anymore” and will be removing the game from app stores in 22 hours, as of 2:02 PM EST today.
Dong Nguyen explained on his Twitter account that the takedown isn’t due to any legal reasons, and that he won’t be selling the rights to the game.
Odd since he is according to the Verge making $50,000 a day from the adverts.
This story is breaking all over the tech world giving even more publicity.
Which Magazine carried out benchmark tests on a number of tablets and the Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition beat all other tablets including the iPad Air.
Now benchmarks are only a guide so draw what you would like from these results. To be honest these are not surprising.
This is a must watch video by Michael Fisher from Pocketnow. Especially the last few minutes.
Beats Music can now be installed on your Windows Phone. The service gives you access to more than 20 million songs which you can either stream or save to your device for offline listening. Beats Music also offers personalized music suggestions in addition to other service-specific features. Subscription should set you back $9.99 a month but you can check it our for free over the course of a week and decide whether this is something you want to subscribe to. If you’re an AT&T user, you can benefit of a special offer for an exclusive free trial up to 3 months.
Or pay less and use Nokia Mix Radio. You decide.
I have bought over time several different launchers including Go Launcher, Nova and Apex. I got fed up with the adverts in Go Launcher so stopped using it years ago. So I kept switching between Apex and Nova. However, with my Note 3 I have decided to use Nova rather than Apex. Nova just seems to have the edge in many places. The good news is that themes for Nova will work on Apex and vice versa.
I have bought and downloaded many themes but below is a list of my personal favourites. All the themes below are currently installed on my Note 3. I have bought others but these are my preferred ones. Links to the Google Play store.
– Google Kitkat – this comes with Nova
– Axis
– Black and Blue
– Black and Red
– Cardstock
– Click UI – currently not available
– Cube Theme for Apex Launcher
– DCikonz RectaN
– DCikonz SimboX
– Flatastico
– Flatbox
– Flow Icons
– Glass Theme
– Lumos
– Mango
– Minimal UI
– Nox
– Pure White Circle
– Pure Black Square
– Stark
– Stealth
– Tendere
– Tersus 2
– Viper
– Vivid 2
– Windroid 8
So instead of buying a new phone, try one of the above themes with Nova Launcher. If you have a recommendation or a personal favourite please drop a note in the comments.
In an interview with Wired, at the Apps World North America conference, Steve Wozniak revealed his belief that Apple should create a phone using Google’s Android operating system.
Wozniak seems to have lost the plot.
Source Wired
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