Today, in a tweet, Saurik has stated that he has just launched two apps on the Google Play Store. Yes! You heard right, Saurik now merged into the Android ecosystem, and in a large way. With Winterboard and Cydia Substrate apps in general are two great tweaks debuted on Android platform, now available to download for free.

Actually, to install in iOS, your device must be jailbroken on iOS 4-iOS 6.1.2/6.1.3/6.1.4, and now on Android, both apps require a rooted device. Winterboard in my iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 is the most useful app and it is pretty self explanatory if you’ve ever come across the Cydia app – you can download theme packs to change the homescreen to icons of the Android device experience just like iOS.

Note: Because its super early in the development process, we suspect it’s only a matter of time before things really kick off.

Cydia is obviously filled with awesome themes for Winterboard, and certainly Google Play Store will no doubt be the same as time passes behind. Already it has some Winterboard alternatives such as ADW Launcher, XE launcher and CyanogenMod 10. Which doesn’t need any Android device to be rooted. Cydia’s Winterbaord is worth checking out!

About Cydia Substrate? Being a starter, you’ll need Cydia Substrate in order to install Winterboard and use it, which will be used as the crux of future apps, too. Cydia Substrate won’t actually look like it’s doing anything on its own, mainly it isn’t. Substrate will only enable when another aoo is installed that uses it, just like Winterboard with.

Substrate being a gum that holds the iOS jailbreak system together, and it’s sure to become an integral part what where Saurik intents to take Android development going forward. In my though, your favorite iOS jailbreak tweaks will eventually make their way to Android. Great to hear!

Winterboard on iOS, obviously needs Substrate in order to make that particular tweak of magic happen without any hassle. Both arriving on Android is great news for those who love to theme on their smartphones, and in an pretty easy way. Before you continue, Cydia Substrate requires that you have Android 2.3 Gingerboard and higher installed on your device. How to guide is available right below along with the download link!

(Source: Cydia Substrate / WinterBoard for Android on the Play Store)

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BlackBerry Messenger will hit the Google Play and iOS App Stores this summer, and it will be coming to iOS 6 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch devices and will also work on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and higer for those on Google mobile OS. BBM app, which announced currently will be a free of charge tool and bring cross-platform messaging between BlackBerry, iOS and Android users.

According to the company’s CEO Thorsten Heins talked about taking BBM to multiple platforms said: “It’s time to bring BBM to a greater audience . . no matter what mobile device they carry.”

When compared to BBM alternatives, the messaging space has drastically changed. With Apple’s BBM copycat service iMessage boasts over 140 million users. Other services like MessageMe, GroupMe and Facebook Messenger boast apparantly large and growing users base. While the WhatsApp, with more than 10 billion WhatsApp messages are sent each day and its user base is easily in the hundreds of millions. In other thoughts, WhatsApp service is widely successful in emerging markets – same as the markets that BlackBerry cites as its core BBM user base.

BBM vs WhatsApp, which also on a ton of platforms – including Windows Phone, Symbian and of course, BlackBerry 10. Although the decision is not perhaps all that surprisng given BlackBerry’s recent situation, it is one of the deal. BBM’s uniqueness is inteded to work in BlackBerry’s favor, drawing in new cunsumers wishing to be a part of the popular network. But the company always sticked with the old fashioned keyboard handsets while likes of Samsung, Apple and HTC amplified with more gorgeous designs, BlackBerry has lost its mobile market share.

The new-look BBM 10 will no doubt go head-to-head with the likes of WhatsApp, which is been a very well established cross-platform app that already boasts million of users worldwide. The company’s CEO Heins also promised that the experience of BBM on both iOS and Android would be fully-fledged, adding: “We’re starting with messaging and groups, but we’ll bring voice, screen share, and of course, channels later on.”

Of course, there are other free services (alternatives to BBM) out there, including Facebook Messenger. Still, Heins has a point about free being a potentially big driver in adoption and described the decision to release BBM now was merely “a statement of confidence,” with BB10 being strong enough without the need for the kicker of the exclusive messaging service.

This summer, we being an BlackBerry Messaging service clients gifted with a better BBM app for iOS and Android users. Let us know what you think about this move looks to be in the interests of driving consumers (back) to BlackBerry?

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Sony’s Xperia ZR (also called the Xperia A S0-04E) if you happen to live in Japan, the handset itself is rather fetching to look at, similar to Sony’s Android phones are these days. The device with a 4.6-inch is a beauty and more than skin deep though, and the ZR is apparently waterproof all the way to feet, making it scuba safe.

Like Sony Xperia Z, the ZR will actually take your smartphone into the sea with you, in order to film both HD movies and photos in an awesome HDR format. Xperia ZR poses with a 13-megapixel camera and Exmor RS image sensor – with a dedicated camera button like the one on the Xperia ZL and this new 720p Android smartphone that’s waterproof to 1.5 meters (5 feet).

Imagine about the 1080p video shoot. Under water with a smartphone? The Sony Xperia ZR packs a bunch of whooping specifications beyond that camera. Sony has equipped the ZR handset with a Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core 1.5GH CPU, 2GB RAM, LTE, NFC, Sony’s Walkman album and movie apps. And it runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Yup, an old OS.

The most interesting feature in this newly announced Xperia ZR would be the 4.6″ 720p display that features an OptiContrast OLED screen with BRAVIA technology which claims to reduce glare even when in direct sunlight.

The device will be available in four different colors – Black, Blue, Pink and Cyan – the Japanese company has released two ads pushing its latest device, one of which shows off the features of the smartphone being used for a spot of underwater filming in a swimming pool.

Nevertheless, Sony is continuing its Xperia trend with BRAVIA Engine and forwarded with the Xperia ZR to continue that trend of water-resistant Android phones. Still, no word yet on pricing or availability, but as soon as we hear more we’ll let you know via update.

Update X1: As Xperia Blog grabbed,  the dubbed Xperia ZR is actually the international version of Japan’s upcoming Xperia A SO-04E, which is popping up in the FCC database.

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Initially the carpet seller was solely dependent on people entering his shop. But the sense of creating such ad video imposes that the ME Tablet now enables him to take his shop to the world and thuse expand his business horizons in an easy way. The ad portrays important moments in people’s lives and the change brought by the HCL ME Tablets.

Not only that, the ad (TV commercial) also shows how easy it becomes for the masses to find a required job with a better access to job portals and enjoy the latest music. Though, the technology is changing every aspect of the consumers lives, so the Saatchi & Saatchi has pushed its first work for HCL ME Tablets, and demonstrated the positive effect ME Tablets can have in the lives of Indian consumers. Which will connect with their customers and continue to drive the phenomenal growth being enjoyed by ME Tablets.

Official specifications of the HCL’s latest and greatest ME Tablets. Features a 7-inch Capacitive touch screen display and powered with a Cortex A8 1GHz processor, plus 512MB of RAM and fully supports 1080p video and integrated with an internal storage built-in with 4GB onboard and comes with a mini HDMI and external memory card slot (MicroSD card). More off the HCL ME Tablet X1 launched running Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread mobile operating system.

HCL’s ME Tablet is now available in India at the rate of RS.10990 and other countries priced at $244.22. ME Tablet X1 is a android tablet with GHz Processor and 3G Dongle support.

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About SwiftKey, which is keyboard software was always been a mission to bring faster, easier and smarter typing to as many people as possible around the world, and with the Samsung’s launch of its next Galaxy smartphone, the company is truely excited to reveal it carries their swift technology. The key point here is that the company for the first time publicly admitted to powering a handset manufacturer’s keys for S4 users to download its standalone app. Although, it said that the SwiftKey will be the default keyboard on Samsung’s Galaxy S IV.

The SwiftKey’s CTO Ben Medlock said that the keyboard is “at the heart of (Samsung’s) new flagship smartphone” and is hopefully just the first attempt on many Android devices arriving with the company’s voodoo already built-in. In New York, he Ben also said:

“Following our great success with the SwiftKey 4 launch last month, we are excited to confirm that Samsung has chosen SwiftKey’s innovative keyboard technology to be at the heart of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4. This is fantastic progress for our vision of bringing the best touchscreen typing experience to as many people as possible.”

While the company had already in 2013 rolled out SwiftKey 4 to all their app users, introducing their gesture input method SwiftKey Flow, alongside some great features and support for 60 languages in context. An iOS toolkit for SwiftKey Healthcare was also unveiled in the year, and got the best health product service at the prestigious GMA Awards. Now, they added the Galaxy S4 launch to this list as well as exciting work with a host of other SDK partners.

The SwiftKey app will continue to evolve as we seek to make interacting with your phones and tablets even easier and more personalized. Though, there’s still plenty of reasons to download the app from Google play if you dig the customization options and themes of the original. SwiftKey on Galaxy S4? Yes, you’ll be able to start texting and emailing right away since you have already know the keyboard.

Today, we learn’t about Samsung Galaxy S IV drafts SwiftKey to power its smartphone keyboard, but what about Android and TouchWiz? We’ll let you know more about it soon!

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Design: In the past until now, we’ve gone throgh various leaks that suggested the Galaxy S4 would take a pretty similar shape of S III, and the Galaxy Note II. The official announcement has fixed with the notion, presenting a device with a 7.9mm thinner form factor than the Galaxy S III, added more rectangular finish, indicating a reversion somewhat to the appearance of the Galaxy S II.

Although the Galaxy S4 unpacked yet another plastic y looking polycarbonate case, the best looking Galaxy handset to date, and those posing with S III or Note (II) will of course be sold by the aesthetics of this brand-new device.

Talking about the Apple’s iPhone 5 launch, Samsung is in a great position to leap ahead of Cupertino in terms of hradware specifications. Samsung claims the 130g device is “slimmer, lighter and more solid” than any other Galaxy ever released. Measuring at 69.8mm x 136.6mm x 7.9mm, it should be rather easy to fit into the pocket, with this aspect, Samsung has certainly outdone itself here. It comes and to be released with colors other than “White Frost” and “Black Mist”, with Pebble Blue having been dropped, if only temporarily.

Display: The diameter of the new screen spans an impressive 5 inches, offering a whopping 441 dpi – a significant leap over the Galaxy S III’s 306ppi display and the iPhone 5′s 326ppi retina display, making it one of the highest resolution screens around, it’s fully HD Super AMOLED display. With an interesting feature which really caught our eye was Adapt Display, which smartly adjusts the screen tone to match the surroundings for lesser eye strain.

Samsung’s suite of user-tracking functions, including its new Smart Pause, Smart Scroll, and floating touch controls. The Galaxy S IV has unveiled, that uses its front-camera to detect when a user looks away from the video they’re watching and automatically pauses playback.

Hardware: Integrated with a 1.9GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of LP DDR3 RAM. Expected and unveilt at CES in January the 8-core senosrs, including all-new infreared gesture, temperature and humidity.

With amazing features like Screen Mirroring, Samsung Smart Pause (which lets you pause video when you look away from the screen), Smart Scroll (which lets you scroll through pages using your eyes, the S4 is a stunner all around.

Software proceedings: The latest and greatest hardware is fixed with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, and on top of that is, yes, the Samsung’s own TouchWiz.

Storage: The Galaxy S4 will be shipping in three stoirage capacities, the 16GB, 32GB or 64GB, all of which are expandable by means of a microSD card. microSD support goes all the way to 64GB, which means 128GB of storage in total if you opt for a high-end model.

Wireless Technology: The Galaxy S IV will be shipping with 3G and 4G LTE models from the get-go as you would expect, with global LTE roamiong also a pretty interesting feature. The Wi-Fi connectivity looks mightily impressive, offering a/b/g/n/ac (HT80).

The major feature of S4 is 4G LTE, which now supports speeds of up to 100Mbps, and upload speeds of 50Mbps. Great power and speeds are undeneable!

Camera: The Galaxy S4 features a 13-megapixel camera, which uses new camera functions Dual Shot, Eraser, Drama Shot, ans Sound & Shot. With Galaxy S4, the Drama Shot is capable of snapping an incredible 100 shots every 4 seconds, from which you can select the very best shot to look away for safe-keeping.

* Dual Shot allows you to capture images from both the front-facing and rear snappers simultaneously.

* Eraser captures multiple frames so that anyone can remove unwanted subjects.

* Drama Shot composites moving objects for action shots. Finally the Sound & Shot, which captures five seconds of images and audio before the capture button is pressed.

The front-0facing camera is 2-megapixel, and both the front and rear snappers can be used at the same time when recording video or taking shots. As you’d expect, standard features which tag along a new smartphone release are there; such as HDR (High Dynamic Range) mode, panorama shot, sports mode, face detection and more.

Battery: For the Galaxy S4, Samsung including an impressive 2,600 mAh battery. The company went with extra new features,  it’s packed to the rafters with small features which make it a superb device to keep in your hand/pocket.

More off, Galaxy S IV ships with S Translate, a backed-in realtime translator that supports 9 different languages, while S Voice Drive improves GPS driving capabilities. Group Play is yet another feature which really caught our attention. Wouldn’t be great if you could pair up to 8 S4 devices together to make the ultimate sound system? With the S4, you can. How about sharing documents and games too? All-in-all it doesn’t require a wireless router to do its magic?

Samsung Hub is still there in the S4, lets you download the latest content to your smartphone in a hype. Games, Movies, music etc. are on offer. ChatOn – a new Samsung’s mown messaging service is On with support for voice and video calls, screen sharing, and support for 3-way calling.

Full Specs of Galaxy S4

Price of Galaxy S4: Samsung hasn’t announced official pricing for Galaxy S IV yet, but it said that it will cost around the same as that of any previous flagship Samsung smartphone.

Availability: The Galaxy S4 will ship in April on 327 carriers in 155 countries in both 4G LTE and 3G versions. Sprint has confirmed that it will be offering the Galaxy S IV.

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Smartphone users might not be interested in the latest Galaxy S IV, but it has now come to light that Samsung has been working on an upgraded version of the top-end Galaxy S III in parallel with the fouth-generation Galaxy S device. Consumers although seen many pretenders to the throne in the handset market, the Galaxy S3 is still the best smartphone of the Android community after having managed to massive sales in excess of the thirty-milliom mark of the company.

Now that, why Samsung would extremely keen to release a new and improved version of the phone that might found itself extremely popular with smaller and emerging markets. With the 2012 release of Galaxy S II Plus and Galaxy S Advanced are two perfect variants of the success.

Neverthless, speculations that a revamped S III will drop shortly after the official launch of the Galaxy S IV, makes sense? Certainly, Samsung wouldn’t want anything to take focus away from the hype of fourth-gen Galaxy S IV launch. It’s unknown what the final specification of the improved S III will look like, while the reports surfaced pointing that it will come with an improved display that could potentially be full 1080p HD. Potential buyers could also expect to benefit from extended battery like thanks to a new 2400mAh that could be complete with wireless charging functionality.

Just a day left for the S IV announcement, alongside, could be also getting the S III that may felt the original device should have been when it landed into the market around this time last year.

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Here is a list of few latest gaming apps:

Words with friends

It’s a scrabble like game, a product from Zynga. You can challenge your friends in this head-to-head word play as the Android platform (iPhones or iPads) from which your friends are playing is not mattered. Since it’s a free app, many people around grin to play it.

Open Sudoku

This is a new form where the users can install the packs of new puzzles spawned by Sudoku creators. There’s a sought of excitement playing this awe-spiring game. It’s very thought-provoking. You can enjoy incredibly once you start moving up the next levels.

Angry Birds

It’s an amazing and a prevalent iOS game moved to Android a while in the past. It grossed over 2million downloads in the course of the first weekend when it’s released in the Android market. It’s a free app for Android mobiles, which made all the users busy in playing this game. The fact is that, with the launch of the angry bird came in the android mobiles, the demand raised drastically for the Android mobile phones. It meets all the bylaws of current sales.

Replica Island

It’s a very elegant game that jerks the surprise result of being playable on an Android track (ball) orb. The heavy thrust of the character mean that you’re only changing way with the ball or d-pad that lets you speed throughout the levels without much effort.

Bebbled

Though it’s a standard gem-shuffling game, it creates oomph among the game lovers as the existing versions of this game flabbergasted the users featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price. Reports state that bebbled is soon going to morph into an amazingly complex experiment.

Jewels

This is one of the most interesting games played by many people. Here, your job is to shift pairs of coloured gems to make larger sets which then disappear. As the no. of pairs you make the double is the score depending on the no. of combinations you create. The interesting thing about jewels is its dimensions and appearance.

Gem Miner

This is a great game, can be played well on the Android limited control pointer. Here, you are a type of spy character that likes to excavation stuffs out of the ground. The game itself has you micro-regulating the raw resources you find, raising your digging supremacies and obtaining sophisticated and better tools and charts.

It’s a proven strategy that, playing games improve IQ (concentration) levels. So, go childish and start playing games often you get time. It isn’t an off beam thing to turn crazy sometimes. No matter if you are in bad debt situation, take a cash loan UK and purchase an Android phone and you feel hassle-free on experiencing the new gaming features.

About the Author:

The guest post was contributed by Maria, financial guest blogger from Manchester, UK.  Find out more about her finance related blogs at financeport.

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These three Android devices comes from Samsung and HTC to get the 4.0 ICS and while the Galaxy S2 will be the first handset with an apparent update released on 14t of May 2012.

This was discovered by the guys over at TMO News, who said that the other HTC based devices Amaze and Sensation 4G will be getting ICS update on the 16th of May, as reports surfaced.

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This early CyanogenMod 9 ROM released offering a user experience that isn’t too far from the original stock Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The HTC One X has just got the new CyanogenMod 9 port, which is an unofficial port means unstable yet, but on the device most of the tings working fine though.

The majority of the HTC’s One X features will seamlessly work with the CM9 including the mobile network, making and receiving calls and data plus sending/ receiving SMS works along with the Bluetooth and Bluetooth tethering, plus WiFi and hardware video decoder as well.

After installation, porting CyanogenMod 9 on HTC One X the stunning camera along with WiFi hotspot seeing some issues, but works fine with other tethering features.

Before you get installed CM9 onto your Android device, you’ve to note that the developer would have remapped the HTC One X’s hardware buttons. Means the multitasking button now functions as the Android-based “Menu” button. Before you run CyanogenMod 9 on your HTC One X smartphone keep in mind.

That installing custom ROMs of Android on your handset will void your smartphone’s warranty – not to mention there is always a risk behind bricking your device. So first of all Nandroid backup your HTC Android phone in any cost.

Here is the link posted on the Modaco forums, any One X owners can now flash a custom recovery and try out the CM9 ROM right away. Enjoy flashing!

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