Samsung teases us with a new website to advertise the Galaxy S III

As we’re more than conscious that Samsung is set to broadcast the forthcoming Galaxy S III on May 3rd, a latest teaser site has popped up that illustrates a countdown that ends tomorrow.

Sammy put the phase for the new site in an easy tweet, “Destination: tgeltaayehxnx”. The anagram spells out The Next Galaxy, and if you straight your browser to tgeltaayehxnx.com, you’ll find the countdown. Supposed countdown ends tomorrow, so we distinguish it’s not for the real device itself but it does look like Samsung desires to let us in on a few information pertaining to it’s subsequently flagship device.

More than the counter, it states “You can take the next step in”, which possibly means that we can imagine teases similar to this until the authorized declaration.

The Galaxy S III should simply put shame to just regarding each Android handset on the market when it’s released, with the HTC One X left over the only option. We’ve heard numerous rumors regarding the Galaxy S III, from a 1080p display to eye-tracking software to wireless charging. At the same time as we include our worries that we’ll observe a 1080p display on the handset, it should even turn into one of the go-to Android handsets for the remaining year.

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Google Wallet updated with privacy and UI improvements

The respected individuals at Google have just issued one more update to Google Wallet. Expectantly this time it won’t cause issues for all of us fixed users also. While Google Wallet is still in its early life and to come to actually take off, they’ve added tons of improvements with today’s update.

First off the update talk about UI improvements but I don’t see too a lot of modifications on the whole user interface. It does consider smoother and maybe a bit additional polished, but nothing major related to the UI or design.

This time approximately it specially talks about privacy enhancements as well as bug fixes. As Google hasn’t listed anything exact related what bugs or issues have been determined, I’m sure a number of those casual crashes some reported should end with this update. For now Google Wallet is still unsuited with nearly all of my Android devices so until things open up a bit, this will have to do.

So try Google Wallet Google with its latest version and let me know about your experiences.

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.