Showing posts with label Google Play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Play. Show all posts
Flipboard now available for Android tablets
Many users of Android tablets are annoyed about apps that are designed only to be partially much smaller smartphone displays. At least with the popular social news reader Flipboard which is now a thing of the past: With the recently released update to version 1.9.16, the app now supports a function of the display size different layouts.
While on small screens usually only an illustrated news tile or two to three text messages per page, found on devices with a diagonal of more than 7 inches now much more (with pictures) messages space.
In our tests with a Sony Tablet S Flipboard now has the same look a digital newspaper, like iPad users are accustomed from time immemorial. Flipboard is available free on Google's Play Store.
Summer sales on Google Play
Under the unhappy Germanized name "end of summer action" Google currently offers the Play Store to various Android apps at a reduced price of 69 cents. Among them are the top sellers SwiftKey 3 and Beautiful Widgets, as well as some popular games.
Anyone looking at the Play Store abbreviation of the term "end of summer sale" is, even more than 140 reduced Apps.
Google Play Movies: stream movies on the PC and via Android
About Google Play Store now also German users rent movies online and then watch on your Android smartphone, tablet or online on PC. The Google announced on Thursday with their own blog. For a price of between about 3 and 5 euros therefore can watch movies in different quality levels can be borrowed for 30 days. Once started, they are to be seen within 48 hours to the end. As a further restriction must every movie can be played simultaneously on a device of the user.
For the introduction of this offering, Google has merged his own words with different sized and smaller film studios, including Paramount, for example, or Sony Pictures. How to find yourself among the available titles on the one now current as Underworld Awakening and Contraband, as well as classics such as Back to the Future. GEMA has of this agreement obviously noticed anything yet, because Google's official promotional video is not available in this country ...
The HD playback only works via Android device, not in the browser. Not all of the latest movies are available in HD, with an option for full-HD absent. Currently, only one comes to the synchronized movies, not to the original soundtracks. Trailer is available for all films. The offer is still out less than in Apple's iTunes store, the TV series are completely missing.
Could rent the videos from Channel Store to date. In the U.S., UK, Australia, Canada, France, Japan and Spain In the U.S. it is also possible for users to buy movies and episodes of TV series in the Play Store.
Even if advised when buying that a film can be viewed only on Android devices in HD, even when streaming in the browser, the HD (720p) can be selected.
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