Social Phonebook TrueCaller: Available on Android

Truecaller offers a global name and number search for your Android device and it’s totally free of charge. It permits you to go with phone numbers by names, addresses, social networks and images. It binds in with Facebook and LinkedIn to fetch you the most related information about anyone calling you. The address book also automatically revises if anyone modifies a number. This service previously has 3 million users globally and seeking to get bigger through the added Android platform.

These lines are taken from their Press Release:

    TrueCaller Brings More Available, Relevant and Accurate Caller ID to Android  STOCKHOLM (8 May 2012) TrueCaller, the new global social phone book, announced today that TrueCaller for smartphones is now available on mobile devices with the Android operating system.

    Possessor of Android devices can currently take advantage from the TrueCaller caller ID application that joins phone number directories from worldwide into one easy-to-use app, at no cost. TrueCaller defends users from spam calls and facilitates them to search half a billion phone numbers from all over the word.

    In recent times TrueCaller achieved 3 million users, and it has become 1 of the most popular caller ID smartphone app.

    The key features of TrueCaller for Android are as listed below:

• Global Number Lookup service facilitates users to seek and get people from all over the world.
• Caller ID functionality immediately demonstrates the identity of strange callers from out of the country; wherever in the world a call is picked.
• Call Filter defends and advises users of scam, spam and unwanted calls. If a call is pciked from any of the scam, spam or unwanted numbers that TrueCaller has listed, a notice will show to warn of the unwanted call. Users can then select to respond or block the call.

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Google+ Updated on IOS with new UI, Android on Its Way

Let’s think over it, iOS users have been hold back on Google+ since the launch. First they didn’t get an app, and when they got, it wasn't accurately the mainly functional in the App Store. Google did, however, attach to Android by updating and improving the application often and often adding features and improving on the app. They’ve even renovated the desktop site a few times still without touching the iOS app. Now, the iOS has been the 1st to get this G+ update.

Google has already announced it its blog that they are thinking to create its G+ mobile experience much easier and more nice looking then before. The iOS app has got a fully renovate UI, and it comes in very smooth black interface though its lighter then we are using. The photos have already in big size then before and now we can use fewer abstract colors means overall this is really a great mobile app which is professionally designed. See what Google team said about the upgrading of this mobile app;

 "To be clear, we’re not interested in a mobile or social experience that’s just smaller. We’re embracing the sensor-rich smartphone (with its touchable screen and high-density display), and transforming Google+ into something more intimate, and more expressive. Today’s new iPhone app is an important step in this direction—toward a simpler, more beautiful Google."

On the peak of a marvelous new UI, Google has also at last added the capability to join a Hangout via Messenger to the mobile G+ app for iOS. This feature was missing by iPhone users since a long time and certainly t hey will welcome it. The G+ team also announced this Android App will be also updated so that it can be equivalent to the new mobile UI. Lets see when it is going to be released, till then iOS users can enjoy with this app.

Amazon Kindle app is updated for Android

When the Amazon Kindle Fire smack the market, everybody that wasn’t sure Amazon could do it was totally converted and currently a latest revise for the Amazon Kindle app will change every Android powered device into a Kindle reading device.  Once the latest Kindle app from Amazon gets fixed, it will contain support for usual Kindle Format 8 files, as well as, files that anyone download from other eBook stores that appear in DRM format.  The app permits additional dissimilar formats that consist of PDF, MOBI, HTML or DOC and as long as your eBook is formatted in one of those ways, it will be carry by the Kindle app update.

Google Play page for the Kindle app you can opt from thousands of free books, shop for new books and utilize the built in services for Dictionary, Google and Wikipedia.  You can sync your eBook library by extra devices and select the accurate where you left off, no issue what device you stop or start reading on.  The new app facilitates you to customers your font size, screen brightness, background color and the direction in which you would like to read.

This Android apps present equally reading and navigation abilities, so that users can simply find other books in the Kindle store or read those that they contain previously purchased and downloaded.

At the end I must say that though these updates are fine. But one thing is running my mind is, when they are going to give us the capability to group books into sets in Kindle for Android like the real Kindle devices can perform.

AT&T updates HTC Vivid with Android 4.0

AT&T said Thursday that the HTC Vivid update to Android 4.0 is now accessible via Wi-Fi or a PC connected to the smartphone.

The download will carry Face Unlock (it is a technology that allow unlock the screen through facial identification) an updated HTC Sense Experience interface and optimized audio with Beats by Dr. Drew Audio, AT&T said. A full list of Android 4.0 features is available at a Google Web site.

The Vivid is the first U.S. smartphone to obtain Android 4.0, also called Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), as an update, and the first to be issued by a wireless carrier, told by AT&T.

Some of its important & latest Features are:

Beats Audio - improve your music and video experience with Beats Audio.

Face Unlock - Face Unlock is a new screen-lock choice that lets you unlock your device with face identification.

Improved E-mail - Easier to send, read and handle from side to side receiver auto-completion, stored text, and nested sub-folders.

Bluetooth Mouse and keyboard - Use a Bluetooth mouse and/or keyboard with your device and change its settings.

UI Improvements - Access the notification bar on the lock screen. Draw apps/shortcuts on top of one a different to generate folders.

Advanced Voice and Text Input - stronger and can be used to speak an entire email. Smart enough to recognize pauses, breaks and punctuation. Advanced Spell  Checker.

But the HTC Vivid is not the just device that will be upgraded to Android 4.0. AT&T has exposed a list of handsets that will be getting updated as well in the upcoming months. It contains the following devices;

LG Nitro HD
Motorola ATRIX 2
Motorola ATRIX 4G
Pantech Burst
Pantech Element
Samsung Captivate Glide
Samsung Galaxy Note
Samsung Galaxy S II
Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9

No big shock in there, and expectantly this'll all happen on the earlier end of the "upcoming months" level, but it's good to observe that these carriers are aware that clients want to be kept in the loop on the Android update strategy.