Samsung Galaxy Note 2 To Get Android 5.0 Update, Note Will Have to Settle Down With 4.2.2

Its good that Samsung is giving Android updates to most of its smartphones and many of the phones will get update of android 5.0. but some of them will end getting update and will get the last update of Android 4.2.2. Below is the list of Smartphones getting 4.2.2 Update and 5.0.

End at Android 4.2.2 update.

GT-I9080 – Galaxy Grand
GT-I9082 – Galaxy Grand DUOS
GT-I8160 – Galaxy Ace 2
GT-I8190 – Galaxy S III mini
GT-I8350 – Galaxy Beam
GT-I8730 – Galaxy Express
GT-I9070 – Galaxy S Advance
GT-I9100 – Galaxy S II
GT-I9105 – Galaxy S II Plus
GT-I9260 – Galaxy Premier
GT-N7000 – Galaxy Note
GT-S6310 – Galaxy Young
GT-S6312 – Galaxy Young DUOS
GT-S6810 – Galaxy Fame
GT-S7710 – Galaxy X Cover 2

To get Android 5.0.

GT-I9300 – Galaxy S III
GT-I9305 – Galaxy S III LTE
GT-I9500 – Galaxy S 4
GT-I9505 – Galaxy S 4 LTE
GT-N5100 – Galaxy Note 8.0
GT-N5105 – Galaxy Note 8.0 LTE
GT-N5110 – Galaxy Note 8.0 Wi-Fi
GT-N7100 – Galaxy Note II
GT-N7105 – Galaxy Note II LTE
GT-N8000 – Galaxy Note 10.1
GT-N8005 – Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE
GT-N8010 – Galaxy Note 10.1 Wi-Fi

Micromax Canvas 2 A110 To Get Jelly Bean Update

Micromax is all set to roll out Android Jelly Bean (4.1.2) to its Canvas 2. It is confirmed that the update will be available from the second week of March. But there's a disappointment for the consumers, Micromax is not going to launch the update OTA (Over The Air) which is done by many companies such as Samsung, Sony Etc. If you want to update your device, you have to go to Micromax Service Center to update them.

Android Jelly Bean will bring new features like Google Now, offline voice typing, expandable notifications and more, including performance improvements credited to Google's "Project Butter".

Micromax is also going to launch an update for the A116 Canvas HD which was recently launched and sold within hours. They are going to roll out Android Jelly Bean (4.2) soon. But they have not given any specific time or period for the update.

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Samsung Galaxy S IV Trailer Unpacked By Samsung

Atlast Samsung has unpacked a video of the Galaxy S IV but the video does not give any idea of the phone. As we have informed you this morning, the Galaxy S IV was tested on Antutu Benchmarks and you can see the phone's specifications here. 

The trailer is titled ‘Be ready 4 the next Galaxy’ and features Jeremy, the secret messenger of Samsung Unpacked 2013. The worst thing in the video is that this video does not have a single glimpse of this phone!

Rumors have been swirling around the Samsung Galaxy S4. Among the features that might come to the device is an eight-core Exynos processor, a separate eight-core graphics processing unit, a 4.99-inch Super Amoled display, 2GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel rear camera with 1080p video capability, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, and the latest version of Android, known as 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.
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Photoshop Touch Now Available For Android And iOS Devices

After a long wait, photoshop touch has made its way to iOS and Android phones. The Photoshop touch was only available in tablets before but now it is available for Android and iOS now at the price of Rs. 270.

The Photoshop touch has all the functionality which were in tablet and now fit in a smaller size.One of the unique features of Photoshop Touch is the Camera-Fill feature, which allows users to to fill in the camera feed on their smartphone with various layers.

The minimum system requirements on the iOS are that you need an iPhone 4S or higher. If you are running the Android system, you need to have a phone which runs on Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich or higher.The photoshop touch comes along with Creative Cloud support which offers you 2GB of cloud storage.

Press release

Photoshop Touch is now available in a version specifically built for phones! Following up on the very popular tablet version, Photoshop Touch for phone is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play for US $4.99.

This app shares an almost identical set of features with the tablet app, in an experience designed for smaller screens. I am particularly excited about this new app because I always have my phone with me. I can be creative anywhere using the powerful tools in Photoshop Touch, even when I don’t have my tablet with me.

Much like the tablet version, Photoshop Touch on the phone has core Photoshop features like layers, advanced selections tools, adjustments and filters. We also packed in features exclusive to Photoshop Touch, like Scribble Selection for high-precision selections using only your finger, and Camera Fill for real-time creative blending of your camera feed with layers. This app features the same creative filters as the tablet version, like Color Drops and Acrylic Paint, and also a new Ripple filter.

With Photoshop Touch and the Adobe Creative Cloud, I can start a project on my phone, continue it on my tablet, and polish it off at my desk in Photoshop CS6. Photoshop Touch will automatically keep my projects in sync on each device, at the full resolution and with all the layers intact. This capability is available to every customer with a free Creative Cloud account. There is no paid subscription requirement for syncing.

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Android Jellybean Starts Rolling Out In The Galaxy Note

Samsung has started rolling out the latest android system (jelly bean), to the users of the Galaxy Note. This news was confirmed by its official blog. They said, “The Galaxy Note is Samsung’s first Phablet device and has a very large user base that’s why Samsung keeps on updating this device with all the new Android versions as they want to provide the Galaxy Note users with their best support experience.”

So, now the Galaxy Note will be on par with its successor Galaxy Note 2 as Some of the Enhancements in the new Jelly Bean Update include Multi-View (Multi Windows Multitasking, like in the Note II), a customisable notification Panel, smart rotation, as well as new Widgets From the Galaxy S III.

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Android 2.2.2 Might Be Launched In Mid-February

Android 4.2.2, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, may not be too far away if rumours are to be believed.  According to a report by International Business Times, Google employees are secretly working on the update and Android 4.2.2 is scheduled to be pushed out by mid-February.

 iDigitalTimes reported last week that the 4.2.2 update was being tested and would bring several bug fixes. The update reportedly contains simple enhancements to the OS, but there has been no information about it from Google's end.

International Business Times cited anonymous sources within the company stating that Google employees with Nexus devices, including the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and the Nexus 10, have had an opportunity to test out version 4.2.2, but they haven’t found a major change as far as the user experience is concerned.

A report last month claimed that this new update will be released by Google in a handful of countries, including Malaysia and Brazil. Android 4.2.2 was reportedly spotted running on Nexus 4s in these countries and this update was to hit the rest of the world by the end of January, but that plan seems to have been pushed forwards by 15 days or so.

Google first announced Android 4.2 back in November. The new version is still named Jelly Bean and has some new features. The new version made its debut with the latest device from Google's smartphone stable, the Nexus 4. The camera app of Android 4.2 has a feature called Photo Sphere, which enables users to take high resolution, 360-degree photographs on all axes, giving pictures a look much like Google Street View. It allows you to instantly share the photograph on whatever medium you desire, including Google Maps if you want to make the picture public.

The new keyboard on Android 4.2 supports gesture-typing. It allows you to type out words by sliding your finger across the keyboard over letters that are part of the word. This is a lot like the Swype keyboard by Nuance, which is commonly found pre-installed on Samsung devices.

Another big feature in Android 4.2 is the ability to have multiple profiles for tablets. This allows users to share their tablets without the fear of having their privacy compromised due to another person using the same device. Users can have a separate profile with different accounts, settings and apps for different members of the family.

Android 4.2.2 only seems like a slight bump to the existing version of Jelly Bean. Preliminary reports suggest that it will quite likely bring along fixes for several bugs that have been niggling at users for a while now, especially the Bluetooth streaming issue in Nexus 7 devices.

News of this forthcoming version of Jelly Bean comes not long after Google updated the Android version share page. According to the data, Jelly Bean–both versions 4.1 and 4.2–has grown by 3.2 per cent since last month. This new update will probably see more Jelly Bean devices being activated, giving a firm foothold to Jelly Bean before the next version of Android is released.

You Will Be Able To Run Windows Apps On Android Soon!

Wine, a popular software that lets users run Windows apps on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, will release a version for Android that will let users accomplish the same.

Alexandre Julliard, the original developer of Wine for Linux, confirmed that Wine for Google's Android platform was being worked upon and briefly demoed a very early version of the same. According to reports, the performance was "horrendously slow", but that was expected given that the Android environment itself was emulated on a Mac, instead of using a live Android device.

A progress report was also provided on Wine for ARM devices, a project that will help ARM devices run applications designed to run on x86 platforms. Given the rise of ARM devices, there is a lot of interest in the project, and the work is said to be in significantly more advanced stage than Wine for Android.

Wine originally released way back in 1993 and is one of the most popular programs on the platform. According to Wikipedia, in a 2007 survey by desktoplinux.com of 38,500 Linux desktop users, 31.5% of respondents reported using Wine to run Windows applications. This number was larger than all other x86 virtualization programs combined, as well as larger than the 27.9% who reported not running Windows applications.

Wine, though an open source project, has benefited from sponsorship from CodeWeavers, the company that has hired Julliard and other wine developers to work on CrossOver, CodeWeavers' supported version of Wine. CrossOver offers some additional features not found in Wine.

Wine has also benefited from sponsorship from Google, which has paid CodeWeavers in the past to have some bugs fixed so Picasa runs fine on Linux. Wine has also been multiple-time beneficiary of Google's Summer of Code program, that rewards students with stipends to work on open-source projects.

Videocon Launches VT71 Tablet At Rs 4,799

Videocon Mobiles has expanded its tablet portfolio in the country with VT71. The tablet runs on 1.2GHz processor and is powered by Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS out-of-the-box.

The all-new VT71 tablet features a 7-inch screen with resolution of 800x480p. It has 512MB RAM and 4GB of internal storage, which can be expanded up to 32GB with microSDcard. Powered by a 3,200mAh battery, the device offers features like Wi-Fi, microUSB and 3G (via dongle).

Specifications

-Display: 7-inch with display resolution of 800x480p;
-Operating system: Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich);
-Processor: 1.2GHz processor with 512MB RAM;
-Memory: 4GB internal memory with microSD support up to 32GB;
-Connectivity: Wi-Fi, microUSB and 3G (via dongle);
-Battery: 3,200mAh

Google Nexus 4 Gets Android 4.2.2 in Brazil and Malaysia India not lucky yet

While most of the world is seeing Android 4.2.1 as the latest version of Jelly Bean, it looks like Google has quietly begun rolling out something a bit newer. According to new reports, Google has begun rolling out Android 4.2.2 in select countries. So far the reports are pinpointing just two countries — Brazil and Malaysia.

According to a recent report, LG Mobile’s production facility situated in Taubaté, Brazil has already started churning out Nexus 4 smartphones today in hopes of catching up with the overwhelming demands, an interesting twist to this story is that at least a thousand of these quad-core packing monsters have — purportedly — been loaded with Google’s latest version of the Android Jelly Bean platform so don’t be surprised if the Nexus 4 you have ordered via the Play Store portal  will come running the Android 4.2.2 operating system.

Also, a new leak reveals the LG Nexus 4 in Malaysia running the new, unannounced software from Google.

True or not, we suggest taking this news with a grain of salt since it’s still unknown if the leaked image is legitimate — but, like we’ve previously mentioned, the fact that Google has stopped letting users download the Android 4.1.2 may give us a vague  clue as to what Google is really hiding up its sleeves and the Android 4.2.2 may just be the answer we’ve been waiting for.

Top 5 games Of iOS and Android 2012

This year’s most captivating games either pushed the envelope with state-of-the-art graphics and rich narratives or perfected already proven formulas for touch-based devices. The best titles also bridged the gap between casual and hardcore gamers.

Some developers (Phosphor Games and Vivid Games, most notably) went for realistic 3D graphics that often packed in hours of story-based gameplay similar to console titles. Others like Rovio and RocketCat Games, stuck to churning out repetitive, casual gaming experiences that kept us fully engaged. All being equal, these disparate approaches produced truly riveting games that took full advantage of the features and processing capabilities of mobile devices.

The developers with games in this list should be very proud of their creations. Despite certain genres being oversaturated (such as pick up and play or side-scrolling games) and the unpopular monetization trend of forcing customers to pay for content through in-app purchases, these geniuses managed to make games that are infinitely addictive and rewarding. The picks listed below were curated by Appolicious advisors  and members of our user community.

Horn (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android $6.99)The character Horn is a young blacksmith’s apprentice who must defeat giant monsters who are villagers transformed by a horrible curse. Using a melee combat system similar to Infinity Blade, but with major gameplay enhancements like using a crossbow and puzzle-solving, the developers on the Phosphor Games team were truly pensive during Horn’s development. Horn is the best game of 2012 because it combines an imaginative narrative with top-of-the-line graphics, proving that mobile games with endearing stories can be beautiful despite the limitations of iOS devices. Horn appeals to gamers young and old, and is a great title that will enlighten you as to just what your smartphone or tablet is capable of handling. We should note that Horn does suffer a bit on earlier generation Android devices and operating systems.

ARC Squadron (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad free – limited time only)
ARC Squadron is a rail shooter game that combines the retro experience of playing an old Nintendo 64 console game with state-of-the-art graphics geared specifically to touchscreen devices. Powered by the Unreal Engine 3 development toolkit, ARC Squadron has players try their hands (and fingers) in intergalactic warfare. Each area of the galaxy involves a handful of levels with bonus challenge levels along the way, culminating in an epic boss fight. ARC Squadron is very arcade in nature, as scores in each level directly translate into currency that lets players upgrade and purchase new ships, weapons, and skins. Somehow ARC Squadron manages to ape the gameplay of classic console titles like Star Fox 64, yet feel fresh in a mobile media environment.

Angry Birds Star Wars (iPhone, iPod touch 99 cents, iPad $2.99, Android smartphones free, Android tablets $2.99)
Star Wars merchandising, both before and after the Disney acquisition, has never felt so good. The newest edition to the Angry Birds family is just plain awesome. Old birds are re-dressed as Luke, Han, Obi-Wan, Chewie, and the rest. The birds also get all new powers, including shooting blasters and swinging light sabers. The game is a brilliant mix of the old school Angry Birds mechanics and the gravity mechanics of Angry Birds Space (also a worthy addition to any “best of 2012” list). Add all the Star Wars references and visuals (from the original trilogy, only) and you have a game that is out of this world.

Rayman Jungle Run (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android $2.99)
Apple named this Ubisoft title the 2012 game of the year, and for good reason. Many of us were totally praising this game before it was cool. Based on the utterly brilliant Rayman: Origins (a console-based platformer to rival even Mario), this auto-scrolling runner manages to keep all the creativity and bizarre charm of its predecessor, but with bite-sized levels and half of the controls removed. Seriously though, Ubisoft stripped ‘Origins’ down to its core for this simple game, but it’s just as fun and the visuals are just as jaw-droppingly crisp and vibrant as ever. It’s a bit more challenging than other runners, but do not skip this one.

Jetpack Joyride (Android) FreeJetpack Joyride, released by Halfbrick Studios on Android in September, is the endless running game closest to perfection. Although it launched and rocketed to the top of the charts on iOS in 2011, the game’s presence in the Android Market was substantial. In Jetpack Joyride you play as the fiery and uber-manly Barry Steakfries who swipes a top-secret machine gun-powered jetpack from a laboratory only to be met by thousands of obstacles including electric pillars, rockets, and terrified scientists. Your goal is to collect coins and get as far as you can before dying. The game has an exceptional sense of humor and an impressive array of interchangeable costumes, jetpacks, power-ups, and vehicles. What sets Jetpack Joyride apart is that behind its simple formula, there’s a hugely addictive mission/challenge system which pushes you to play again and again. The difficulty and learning curve are set perfectly so even casual gamers will never feel overwhelmed.