This week Apple introduced CarPlay, a system that lets you pair your iPhone with a vehicle featuring CarPlay support to make calls, listen to music, view maps, and access other data without touching your phone. You can just tap the screen or use voice commands. But CNET notes CarPlay might be more than a way […]
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Per-App Modes for Android lets you adjust CPU speed selectively
Have an Android phone or tablet with a blazing fast CPU… that you don’t need to run at blazing fast speeds all the time? While Android is generally pretty good about only using as much CPU power as needed to get the job done, some folks like to fine-tune things to improve battery life or […]
Ouya Everywhere aims to separate games from the $99 Ouya box
The Ouya is a $99 video game console with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, a wireless game controller, and an Android-based operating system. It’s designed to be one of the cheapest video game consoles that you can connect to your TV to run games on the big screen. But soon you might not actually need […]
Stream embedded web videos to Chromecast with Chrome Beta for Android
Google is adding Chromecast support to the Chrome browser for Android. That means in addition to streaming video to your TV from apps like Netflix and Hulu Plus, you can now visit websites using your Android phone or tablet and if you find an embedded video there’s a decent chance you’ll be able to send […]
$50 Roku Streaming stick brings 1200 channels to your TV
Roku is launching a new Streaming Stick and it’s designed to bring the Roku experience to your TV for just $50. The stick is about the size of a Google Chromecast, and just like Google’s $35 media streaming stick you can plug Roku’s new device straight into the HDMI port on your TV. But while there are […]
Xiaomi 9.2 inch budget tablet in the works?
Chinese device maker Xiaomi appears to be working on an Android tablet with a 9.2 inch display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor. Specs for the unannounced device showed up at the GFXBench website recently, wand a photo of the tablet is also starting to make the rounds. The tablet appears to feature a 1280 […]
XBMC 13 beta 1 media center brings better Android, Raspberry Pi support
The makers of the popular XBMC media center app are getting ready to launch version 13. Major new features include support for hardware video decoding on Android devices, improved performance on low-power devices like the Raspberry Pi, support for touchscreen gesture-based controls during media playback, and more. XBMC 13 beta 1 is now available for […]
Lilbits (3-03-2014): Are you ready for 50MP smartphone cameras?
Nokia’s Lumia 1020 smartphone may have a crazy high-resolution 41MP camera. But it looks like Chinese phone maker Oppo may be preparing to go even crazier. Leaked photos that appear to have been snapped with an unreleased Oppo Find 7 smartphone suggest it could have a 50MP camera. Update: It turns out the Oppo Find […]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite gets childish with kids edition
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3 Lite is a 7 inch tablet which is a tiny bit cheaper and less powerful than the original Tab 3. While I can’t think of a lot of reasons to buy one rather than a more powerful tablet that costs just a little more money, Samsung may have come up with […]
Gartner: Nearly 200 million tablets sold in 2013, mostly Android
Research firm Gartner reports that more than 195 million tablets were sold in 2013, and for the first time since the introduction of Apple’s first iPad, most of the tablets sold were running Google Android software. According to Gartner, Android grabbed about 62 percent of the market for a total of nearly 121 million tablets. […]