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HTC First Facebook-Centric UI Gets Exposed Before Launch

Can’t wait to set your eyes on tomorrow’s Android-centric Facebook announcement? If not, evleaks has your spoiler fix, including a first look at the UI for the HTC-built ‘First’. While the underpinnings of Android are more than likely present, it appears that Facebook will take over not only your home screens but your lockscreen, too. Big, [...]

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Untappd For Windows Phone 8 Coming Shortly, Songza To Follow Soon Thereafter

Beer drinkers, assemble! Our favourite hops-focused social network has posted a photo on Instagram teasing its upcoming Windows Phone 8 app. Microsoft’s platform will be the last of the four major mobile operating systems on which Untappd debuts. After launching as a universal HTML5 app for iOS and Android devices, it launched native versions in [...]

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Twitter For Android Updated With Modern Design, iOS Version Gets New Cards Support

Twitter for Android has received its first major visual update since its release. The app now follow Google’s visual guidelines — for the most part — with a flat, top navigation bar, Roboto font integration and a horizontal swipe navigation scheme. Due to the design change, you can no longer swipe horizontally on a Tweet [...]

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Update: TELUS & Rogers To Release HTC One On April 19th

TELUS just announced that the HTC One would go on sale April 19th, though it’s yet to post pricing. We expect other carriers to launch the phone on the same day, but only Rogers has posted a price, $149.99 on a three-year term. We had an inkling the One would be coming to Canada around [...]

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Viber Comes To Windows Phone 8 With Free VoIP Calls

The excitement today may be around a questionable Instagram app, but Viber users will be happy to know the app is now available on Windows Phone 8 devices. Available with free VoIP calls to users on all of its platforms — iOS, Android and BlackBerry — Viber is one of the most popular alternatives to [...]

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Leaked ‘HTC First’ Render Points To Facebook’s Home

In what could be a very big spoiler or a great spoof, trustworthy Twitter account @evleaks posted a render of the ‘HTC First’, a plain-looking smartphone with a few signs of Facebook integration. While there are no obvious marks to indicate the social network’s branding, the phone’s colour scheme and rounded home button point to [...]

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3DMark Benchmark Suite Hits Android, Promises True Cross-Platform Comparisons

Long known for its PC-based benchmark suite, Futuremark has released its first mobile testing app, 3DMark, for Android. Because it uses standard resolutions (720p and 1080p) on OpenGL ES 2.0 benchmark results are apples-to-apples on both Android and, eventually, iOS. How it does this is simple: instead of rendering the tests at the phone or tablet’s [...]

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Nimbuzz updated to support Windows Phone 8 live tiles, claims 150 million users

Nimbuzz, one of the most popular chat consolidator apps across multiple platforms, has updated its Windows Phone app today with support for wide live tiles and fast resume. The company was one of the earliest to release a Windows Phone app, but it has stayed underdeveloped and a poor performer. Taking advantage of WP8′s double-wide [...]

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TuneIn Live Comes To Android After Brief Sojourn On iOS

TuneIn, the excellent service for listening to music, talk, comedy and other, added TuneIn Live to its iOS app at the end of February. The update is now live on the Play Store for Android users, and it brings the same great music, talk and comedy discovery to smartphones and tablets. TuneIn Live displays the content [...]

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Facebook Home APK Teardown Points To Launcher Replacement

As we continue our trek towards Thursday, when Facebook announces its inevitable “Home on Android,” Android Police has recently turned up a build of the new software destined to be paired with the HTC Myst device. It looks like the specs were correct: the Myst will sport a 4.3-inch 720p display and a 1.5Ghz Snapdragon [...]