Kii Keyboard – An Android Beta App for a Fully Customizable Keyboard

Android developers always come up with interesting new apps for its users that make the android experience more enjoyable and exciting. There are tons of apps available on android serving different purposes. Android had previously release the virtual keyboard apps including swift key, swipe keyboard, jelly beans, TouchPal and a lot more apps, making typing experience on android more fun and interesting. Now android has released an updated beta version of the keyboard app which they have named as Kii Keyboard. This is the advanced application that combines all the unique features of the previously released keyboard apps making this application as an all in one package. Besides, it also offers its own new unique features.

It contains the best features so far providing room for maximum customization. This has even left behind the apple’s IOS keyboard. It is both unique in its function and looks. The features that it uses from previous apps include a perfect gesture typing similar to Swipe and the typing experience is like the stock android 4.2 input format. Similar to the swift key, the keyboard has the capability to guess words that you type and it will do it in the most efficient way. Like the thumb keyboard app, it has a split keyboard layout.

It also has the unmatchable unique features of its own. The app provides an enhanced multi-touch speedy typing. It comes with 8 integrated themes and the capability to support more themes. The keyboard layout is a lot more customizable in a way that you can modify the colors, fonts, images at the background and also the height of the key according to what suits your mood. The outlook is totally under your control. The app also features the customizable dictionaries. Moreover, it contains extra number and extra arrow key rows.

These all features in the app together have made the keyboard app much smarter and efficient than before. The app is suitable both for Smartphone and tablet. The beta version is accessible for free from the Google Play Store.

Source: Kii Keyboard for Android on Play Store

Pixplit – World’s First Social Photo Collage App

Pixplit for iPhone is an application with an interesting new concept of social networking through photo collage. It lets you to select your single frame in which you can add your photo then the other people can further add their photos in the frame. This will result in a unique photo collage of its own that you will be sure to like. This makes it a very interesting and fun application that is more like a game. The developer’s team of Pixplit comprises of people who created an app called Hitpad, which was a news aggregator app. Pixplit app was released in October in Israel.

The app is very simple to use. You just need to select your photo in the frame. Moreover, there is a filter option available that helps you to enhance your picture. Then you simply need to post your photo on the apps playground section from where others can then complete the collage. The photo collages may turn out to be a masterpiece that can be a unique creation from different minds or it can be something that is very entertaining to see. The additional feature of the app includes different kinds of themed sections. Similar to the instagram, the collages in pixplit can be posted, shared and you can also like and comment on the other collage posts available on the app. Pixplit user’s complete profile is available that you can view to know about the person’s activities on app and his details of the work. Through this app, people with similar interests can work together and socialize under one platform.

Pixplit is an application developed for the artistic people who love to work with photos. The app is still in its inception and various new exciting updates are expected that will make it much popular.

Source: Pixplit App for iOS

5 Best Android Tablets of the Year 2012

The year 2012 has been very very busy for the entire Android tablet vendors as a large number of slates running on the Google platform were announced. Not all of them turned out to be incredible, and not all of them have been affordable, so concluding on which one of these tablets have been the best is quite tough to decide on.

Google Nexus 7 :

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Google came up with a 7-inch tablet and was called as the Google Nexus 7. This gadget does all the key jobs a tablet could easily cater but without any inconveniences. The best thing related to this device is that it has an affordable price range, and it is accessible for only $199.

The gadget is well packed with a set of unique features. However, it does lack the functionality of a rear camera and only offers a front-facing camera of 1.2 Megapixels. The tablet runs on Android Jelly bean version and also with a quad-core processor offered from NVIDIA.

Google Nexus 10 :

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The Google Nexus 10 happens to be a 10-inch tablet packed with some amazing features. It offers a 2560x1600p display at 300ppi, which means a higher resolution that is more sharper in comparison to what the smart televisions have been offering on several appliances. The device weighs only 603 grams and is just 8.9mm thin. It empowers similar Google enhancements as well as Android’s Jelly Bean with a dual-core ARM Cortex A15 processor. It has been specifically designed to boost the connectivity of WiFi. The gadget has a 5MP camera with a strong 9000mAh battery.

ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity :

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Soon after the launch, it was rumored as the best Android tablet of the century. However, the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity happens to be exceedingly luxurious for being  a tablet. The gadget is offered for more than $600, with some exclusive accessories that you would love to have with this gadget.

This ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity 700 has been brilliantly designed with an extremely appealing metal finish, an extremely thin body, a 1080p display with the IPS technology for all-angle viewing, a harmonizing keyboard docking station with a lot more. It supports 1GB of RAM, quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 64GB internal flash memory, 8 Megapixel camera, and Android platform.

Amazon Kindle Fire :

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Amazon made an amazing entry to the tablet industry and offered something more than a simple e-book reader. The Kindle Fire HD has been a great addition to the industry and has been offered with a starting price of only $199.

The Kindle Fire HD offers its users with an extremely powerful and robust display with the dual-band, the dual antenna technology is useful in offering faster Wi-Fi connectivity and speed. The tablet has been integrated with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 :

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The Galaxy Tab 7.7 by Samsung happens to be an extremely special addition to the Android tablet family as it offers a compact form and a great screen. This is the only gadget that utilizes a Super AMOLED Plus display. Moreover, this is the only tablet that features a screen of 7.7-inches.

Conclusion :

Wrapping it all, I really find the Google’s Nexus 7 as the ‘tablet of all times’, at least for the time being. It offers all the vital and imperative features that are needed by user today, and holds some innovative features such as the Google’s very own cloud feature. Moreover, it has a low price range, and I’m sure that it has some great and robust features, which users will prefer!

Google & Motorola to come up with ‘X Phone’ in 2013

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google and Motorola are together working on a Smartphone device that is given a codename ‘X Phone’, which is to be launched next year. Google purchased Motorola for $12.5 in May to work on the X Phone. It has also been reported that the device will be a big hit with most advanced and amazing features developed in the partnership of Google and Motorola. Although, there is not much information revealed about the device specifications up till now but it is said that the device will give competition to the world’s largest Smartphone’s developers, the Apple and Samsung. The team working on the device comprises of many efficient people and is lead by Lion Ron who has worked on Google maps and he is now involved in the X Phone project. After the launch of X Phone,

Google and Motorola will also work on the X Tablet. X Phone will have revolutionary features with most significance given to the camera enhancement. Gesture and facial identification will be another great feature of the device. Year 2013 will see a revolution in the Smartphone after the launch of X Phone. Motorola engineers are striving hard to develop a device that is enhanced in performance and also has improved external body of the phone. They have used different materials like ceramic, in order to give a stronger external body to the phone that will be indestructible.

It’s now only a few days left in the New Year and shortly the time will unfold whether or not Google and Motorola will be able to give competition to the existing masters of Smartphone’s, the Apple and the Samsung. The world will see the revolution in the mobile technology in the coming year.

Facebook Poke Application is now introduced in iPhone

Facebook has offered many new features to the world since its inception that are loved by everyone. Poke feature on Facebook is available since 2004 and it is very famous among people. Recently, Facebook has launched a poke application to the iPhone users that is a simple way of getting in touch with your friends on Facebook instantly. Unlike the Facebook poke feature, the poke application includes sending message, sending your photo or a video to your friend any time. People can now stay in touch with their friends through their mobile more easily. Another important feature about the application is that your message, or video or a picture that you send to your friend remains with them for a few seconds and after that it is not available to be seen by them.

The application has an option that lets you to select the time for your content to be seen by your friend only after they have opened it. Besides this, the person at the receiving end can report or remove the content if they wish to. These all features together have made this a very interesting application and social networking has now become more exciting and more fun. Moreover, like the other Facebook applications, the poke application is available to download for free. It is a fun way of sharing your updates to your many friends in just no time.

Facebook is continuously striving to bring a more advanced and unique social networking experience to the world. Their mobile applications are as good and easy as using Facebook on a computer. Facebook has seen many years of success and it is still enjoying the success and the world wants to see a lot from them in the future as well.

Source: Facebook Poke App for iOS

Pudding Monsters: The New App from the Creators of Cut the Rope

Pudding Monsters is a fun and addicting app which has just been released from the makers of the world famous Cut the Rope franchise. Although Pudding Monsters isn’t exactly like Cut the Rope it does offer many similar graphics and concepts. It is a puzzle game where the characters are googley eyed monsters made who are on a mission to save their friends from the mean spirited fridge owner. Similar to almost a setup reminiscent of Angry Birds, each Pudding Monster has a special ability and aspect to solving the level.

The concept is simple; stick together and conquer the world. The plight of these cute little guys is in your hands! You must help these Pudding Monsters survive in this tough world by combining them, using each of their powers and solving each puzzle.

The game is incredibly addicting. With 75 levels set up to solve and conquer, by the time you finally end up beating it you’ll want even more. As with Cut the Rope, this game offers the opportunity for replay value since beating the game with all of the different goals for each level can be a challenge to complete.

This app is available as cross platform allowing Android users and Apple users to both enjoy this quirky little number. It has all of the nice, convenient features that Cut the Rope had like quick level restart to jump right back into a puzzle if you start out incorrectly.

Once you start playing this game it will be the one you open up waiting in a line, at the bus stop, or just for fun unwinding at the end of the night. Challenging enough for anyone, but simple enough for even kids to enjoy, this app will surely make for some good times. For only 99 cents in the app stores, this is a steal for all of the levels and the amount of times you can replay the levels without even realizing you’ve played them before. Don’t wait any longer to go grab this little gem! Help out these Pudding Monsters and you won’t regret it.

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