Aug 14, 2014
Whether you are a frequent traveler or you only travel occasionally for vacations every year or less, it's important to have a good arsenal of apps you can consult before, during, and after your
Aug 13, 2014
Aug 12, 2014
There's bad. There's really bad. There's Chinese-ripoff-bad. And then there's OnePlus. I am going to break my vow not to mention the company — a vow that I just made
Aug 11, 2014
Android Wear watch faces have started to flood the Play Store. Every day, there seems to be a new face for your G Watch, Gear Live, or Moto 360. Some are elegant, others are retro,
Xiaomi is the number one smartphone OEM in China but the company has little presence outside of its home market. However, ever since the company hired ex-Googler Hugo Barra as its VP, it has
Continuing our series of articles looking at Android-connected wearables, the Pebble devices seem perennially popular, not least because their battery life on a charge is at least a week and because they're 100.
In less than a month from now, Samsung would unveil the successor to the Note 3 and a new flagship phablet device -- the Galaxy Note 4. While a lot of information about the device has
Aug 6, 2014
The OnePlus One is one (if you'll pardon the pun) of the most controversial devices of 2014. But having recently started shipping, with a more open invite system, it has been quickly making its
Aug 5, 2014
Google is in the process of revamping the entire look of the Android ecosystem. Material Design will make its big entrance with Android L, and it will bring with it an inherent focus on colors,
Aug 4, 2014
While it is true that Android Wear is geared toward contextual notifications and quick access to certain functions, there's no reason why you couldn't use that new screen on your wrist to pass
Aug 2, 2014
2014 is shaping up to be an exciting year in the Android smartphone industry. Not only did we get many new flagship devices with specs that we wouldn't have dreamt to have a few
Jul 31, 2014
If you're an avid internet reader and you follow several websites daily, then you probably know what RSS feeds are and how to subscribe to them. The closing of Google Reader last year may
Jul 30, 2014
Sony's wallpaper style has long had its own signature with abstract unicolored renders of waves and fluid forms. You only have to look at the wallpapers the company bundled with the Xperia Z2 to
Jul 29, 2014
Last week, Google started a new collection promotion on the Play Store featuring games that you can play while your phone or tablet are offline. This feature comes in handy if you are in an
Jul 28, 2014
Android Wear is a nascent platform, and as a 1.0 product, there are bound to be missing features and clunky options, along with a lot of room for improvement. Thankfully, the platform is now
We don't apologise for the wealth of smartwatch coverage on Android Beat recently - with smartphones themselves plateauing to a degree, the next big usability enhancement is to take some of the more mundane things
Jul 25, 2014
Having previously reviewed Parallels Access, the remote access tool on Android, I was wondering if there was a better, faster, way to control my iMacs via WiFi or Bluetooth from my phone, without actually seeing
Jul 24, 2014
Android is one of the few modern mobile platforms that allow a fully functional torrent client. After all, torrents are not exactly known to be legal sources of material, despite being used to distribute not
