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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Top 10 Android app updates this week: Lynda.com, Accuweather Jun 21

Welcome back to our weekly Top 10 Android App Updates column, where we take a look at the most frequently upgraded apps for the week. We’ve found that one of the best ways to discover useful apps is to find the ones that are actually being updated by the developers rather than selecting the apps with the most installs. As in the past, we’re going to filter out minor updates for the super-popular apps that have over 10 million installs, but we’ll make exceptions for apps that have had significant updates. We hope you enjoy this weekly feature and that you discover some apps that end up being useful.

Juice SSH - Version 1.5.0

JuiceSSH

What’s new in this version:

Added support for community / 3rd party JuiceSSH plugins via our plugin development SDK.
Added port knocking plugin
Added performance monitor plugin that allows quick visualisation of an SSH server’s performance metrics.
Added support for IPv6 link local zone/scope

Waze - Version 3.8.0

Waze

What’s new in this version:

Find friends on Waze by adding Contacts
Send friend requests & manage your list
New design for sending location
Locations sent between friends are saved for future navigation
Easily share drive from ETA screen

Sunrise - Version 1.1.0

Sunrise Calendar

What’s new in this version:

Connect Songkick, Evernote, Tripit, Github and Asana directly in Sunrise and make your life a little easier.

Lynda.com - Version 2.1.1

Lynda

What’s new in this version:

Video streaming via Chromecast
Dashboard at login
Personalized course recommendations
Continue watching courses where you left off
Search results sorting by relevancy, release date, and course title

Helpouts- Version 1.3.0

Helpouts

What’s new in this version:

Improved Helpouts listings
Ability to block users from the app
Turn on live help for specific listings
Share Helpouts with your social network from the app or via NFC

Accuweather - Version 3.3.0

Accuweather

What’s new in this version:

Introducing MinuteCast – minute-by-minute weather forecasts for the next two hours hyper-localized to your exact street address in the United States and Canada.
The Local Forecast Summary, a brief summary of what you can expect from the weather over the next 3-5 days for your location.

Action Launcher – Version 2.1.0

Action Launcher

What’s new in this version:

Initial Unread Count support.
“Ok, Google” voice activation. Requires Android 4.4 or later.
Add an option for the “Lock device” shortcut to opt for activation via double or triple tap.
Enhanced Icon scale options.Option to enable Roboto Condensed.

iM5 - Version 2.0.1

IM5

What’s new in this version:

Introducing Activity Feed – iM5′s primary feed that is populated with all the activity that matters to you
Redesigned public profile with Following/Follower count
Receive a notification when a new user follows you
You can now invite friends via Facebook, Twitter, Text, and Email
Push notification for comments now brings you directly to the comment area *All new Category names

Withings Health Mate - Version 1.66

Withings Health Mate

What’s new in this version:

New Timeline (Pulse users only). Motivation on top of data. Insights, Badges, Tips & Reminders, Leaderboard. Health Mate wants to help you live healthier.
New action bar colored according to the widget you opened.
Bug fixes.

Pushbullet - Version 14.3.0

Pushbullet

What’s new in this version:

We’ve worked with EvolveSMS to add support for replying to text messages from PC! Right now this only works with the latest EvolveSMS version (1.8.0+)
Added swipe-to-delete too!
Various fixes and improvements

BlackBerry CEO shows off new Passport and Classic phones

BlackBerry unveiled an odd new device – the Passport. It has a square 4.5" screen with 1,440 x 1,440 resolution, essentially a QHD screen cropped to 1:1. Below the unusual screen is a rare sight these days, a three-row QWERTY keyboard.

The BlackBerry Passport will be a wide device, the screen alone is about 81mm wide. For comparison a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with 5.7" display with 16:9 aspect ratio is just under 80mm wide.

Additional specs of the new device are unclear though it's said to have a much more advanced chipset than the old Snapdragon S4 Pro in the BlackBerry Z30, a Snapdragon 800 say the rumors.

BlackBerry Passport

There's another new device too, the BlackBerry Classic. It's a successor to the current Q-line and has a hardware QWERTY keyboard too. It will have a more manageable screen – 3.5" in diagonal, also square (the resolution is unknown). The Classic will also see the return of the familiar optical trackpad.

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BlackBerry Classic

The new Passport and Classic were proudly shown off by John Chen, who took over as Blackberry's CEO last November. Chen said early this year that new BlackBerrys will "predominantly" have QWERTY keyboards.

Both Samsung Galaxy Note 4 versions visit AnTuTu

With the IFA approaching the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 inches closer to reality. Both versions of the new flagship hit AnTuTu – that's the Snapdragon 805 and Exynos 5433 versions.The new Galaxy S5 LTE-A is the first device with Qualcomm Snapdragon 805. The new chipset updates the processor and graphics found in the 80x range to a quad-core Krait 450 @ 2.5GHz and Adreno 420, which promises to outperform the Adreno 330 by 40%.The Exynos 5433 chipset is based on the 64-bit Cortex-A5x family by ARM. It packs four low-power Cortex-A53 cores @ 1.3GHz, plus four Cortex-A57 cores at unknown frequency. The chipset also includes ARM's new GPU design, Mali-T760.

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 AnTuTu scores: SM-N910S (S805) • SM-N910C (E5433)

Both versions of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will have 5.7" Super AMOLED screens with QHD resolution. They ran Android 4.4.3 at the time of the test and pack 3GB of RAM and 32GB of built-in storage. The two different chipsets both support LTE Cat. 6.The camera department boasts a 16MP main camera, presumably same as the Galaxy S5 (though we've heard talk of OIS) and a 3.68MP front-facing camera. That is the exact resolution of the QHD screen, so any selfie you snap with the Galaxy Note 4 it will fit at 100% on the screen.IFA is the traditional home to the announcements of the next generation of Galaxy Note's and this year it starts on September 5.

Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A gets new back panel and benchmarks

Last week Samsung announced an LTE-A-enabled edition of its Galaxy S5 flagship that's also set to come with a QHD display and Snapdragon 805 chipset exclusively for its home market of Korea. Now, as if Korean residents weren't lucky enough, there's also word that Special Edition of the Galaxy S5 LTE-A will be making its way to customers of South Korea's primary carrier KT with a redesigned back panel.

The new diamond-like texture will be making an appearance with KT's olleh branding, as part of another new back panel being tried out by the Korean company. Otherwise, the internals of the Special Edition of the LTE-A S5 will be the same as on the regular LTE-A version.

Otherwise, new alleged benchmarks of the Galaxy S5 LTE-A have also surfaced. Codenamed the SM-G906S, the AnTuTu 4 benchmark figures don't exactly show the mind-boggling numbers one would expect from a Snapdragon 805 chipset.

Either processor performance truly does get affected by the presence of a QHD screen (like we saw on the LG G3), or the numbers reflect an unfinalized build of the Galaxy S5.

In any event, we'll take the leaked figures with a grain of salt and hope for better performance in the finalized product - a product that we also hope will be released outside of Korea at some point. Or perhaps, Samsung has something even bigger in mind?

Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A gets new back panel and benchmarks

Last week Samsung announced an LTE-A-enabled edition of its Galaxy S5 flagship that's also set to come with a QHD display and Snapdragon 805 chipset exclusively for its home market of Korea. Now, as if Korean residents weren't lucky enough, there's also word that Special Edition of the Galaxy S5 LTE-A will be making its way to customers of South Korea's primary carrier KT with a redesigned back panel.

The new diamond-like texture will be making an appearance with KT's olleh branding, as part of another new back panel being tried out by the Korean company. Otherwise, the internals of the Special Edition of the LTE-A S5 will be the same as on the regular LTE-A version.

Otherwise, new alleged benchmarks of the Galaxy S5 LTE-A have also surfaced. Codenamed the SM-G906S, the AnTuTu 4 benchmark figures don't exactly show the mind-boggling numbers one would expect from a Snapdragon 805 chipset.

Either processor performance truly does get affected by the presence of a QHD screen (like we saw on the LG G3), or the numbers reflect an unfinalized build of the Galaxy S5.

In any event, we'll take the leaked figures with a grain of salt and hope for better performance in the finalized product - a product that we also hope will be released outside of Korea at some point. Or perhaps, Samsung has something even bigger in mind?

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