One of our favorite photo apps on Android — 500px — has gotten a big upgrade in the Google Play Store today. The biggest change will be 500px Flow, a new way for you to view new photos that are “automagically” curated based on your friends’ actions. If your friend uploads a photo, likes someone [...]
After months of open beta, what was once known as SwiftKey Flow has launched via Google Play as SwiftyKey 4. Don’t worry, Flow wasn’t scrapped prior to release. The swipe-to-type functionality is the major component of this latest release, but it’s not the only update SwiftKey users can expect. Flow is SwiftKey’s answer to software [...]
Back in October, SwiftKey announced that its popular predictive Android keyboard would soon feature something called SwiftKey Flow — the company’s answer to Swype and Google’s own gesture-based typing solutions, which bo…
SwiftKey Flow is still in beta, but the folks at SwiftKey aren’t using that as an excuse not to introduce timely and numerous bug fixes. The latest upgrade — which brings the alternate keyboard up to version 4.0.0.99 — introduces a huge list of bug fixes and changes. To name a few, you can expect [...]
SwiftKey Flow is inching its way toward a release, but the team behind the popular predictive text keyboard has an update for users already on the beta. The latest version brings SwiftKey’s precognitive autocompletion and flow text entry to even more input fields (still no email, passwords, or certain other apps) while providing easier corrections, [...]
A record 2.1 million net postpaid subscriber additions and record fourth-quarter smartphone activations couldn’t offset huge charges related to pensions and costs associated with Hurricane Sandy, leaving Verizon (VZ) with a $1.93 billion loss in the holiday quarter. Verizon’s Q4 profit reached $0.45 per share excluding one-time charges and costs related to the storm, still short of the $0.52 analysts were expecting. Revenue in the quarter rose 4.5% to $30 billion, topping Wall Street’s $29.8 billion consensus. ”Verizon seized growth opportunities in the fourth quarter to cap a year of solid progress across the entire business,” Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam said. “We delivered a total return of 13.2 percent to shareholders in 2012, and we enter 2013 ready to accelerate the
Research In Motion (RIMM) has a steep hill to climb as it prepares to unveil its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system later this month. Launching sleek new BlackBerry 10 handsets that prompt a healthy portion of its current user base to upgrade is of the utmost importance, of course. Just as important, however, is creating a user experience that showcases compelling differentiation and might draw users away from leading smartphone platforms. Early glimpses at BlackBerry 10 revealed software that attempts to take a fresh look at the smartphone experience in some ways, but after our first look, we wondered if RIM was going far enough with its new OS. Now that we’re just weeks away from the BlackBerry 10 launch event, RIM
Folks in the SwiftKey Flow beta will want to check their emails as chances are you’ll find a nice email letting you know a new beta version is available. Nothing groundbreaking or exciting will be found here, but the barrel of bug fixes and improvements will be sure to make any beta user happy. The [...]
Ready to head out the door and enjoy your Saturday night? Don’t forget to get your Android news fix before you take off! This is where we bring you all the stories that didn’t make it to our home page but are still worth a read. Check them out! Nexus 4 manual updated, may never [...]
After weeks of teasing, I think it’d be safe to say that Android junkies everywhere are clamoring for the next release of SwiftKey, an app renown around the world for its almost scary, mind-reading prediction engine. For their latest release — now available for SwiftKey’s VIP members (don’t worry, it’s free to sign up) — [...]
