Ziggo launches live TV on Android

Ziggo is the Android version of its 'Ziggo TV' app update, which now can also be used to watch live TV on Android Tablets and smartphones.

For iOS devices, this feature was already available.
With the updated app Android Users can watch live television on their smartphone or tablet. For this one must be the Internet through a Ziggoverbinding. The application can be downloaded for free via the Google Play Store.

The app allows fourteen channels directly view, including most major Dutch broadcasters. To use this feature, tablets should at least be equipped with Android 3.0, while Android 2.3 smartphones sufficient.

The live TV feature came last year available for iPad, iPod touch and iPhone users. Ziggo showed earlier this month that the Androidapp in the course of September would also be extended to include such a feature.

Update for Google Play Books Android application

Japan has today about the Google Books app and there one can now buy and read books from the Google Play Store, in the Netherlands, we are unfortunately still waiting. That keeps Google obviously not for his Books application to update with some new features. It is possible to include difficult words to search.

Google Books
We must ensure that its applications to remain competitive with those of competitors. In the case of the application Google Play Books that, inter alia, Amazon, Apple, and Nook.

For those countries that are able to buy and read books from the Google Play Store is today an update available. In this new version some new features added to the application. The first is the integration of Google Maps, when a book talks about an area or location you can use a tap on the word this place calls through Google Maps. You can also use Wikipedia or Google Search look up more information about this area.

Also, the application now integrated translation module, a tap on a word gives the suggestion to the subconscious word for you to translate. If the word is in Dutch, but you still understand nothing you can from the text meaning in the dictionary.

The notes and 'highlights' that you now make in the book will be saved and synchronized between different devices that you read that book.

availability
So we will have to wait before we can use this new application. There is still no date on which this part of the Google Play Store in the Netherlands 'open' will.

Galaxy tab getting Android 4.1 Jelly Bean? Samsung gives clarity

It is a bit of a soap opera regarding the Android update for the Samsung Galaxy tablets, mainly because it always lacked clarity from the Korean company. There have been many promises and today is once again a promise to. Samsung in the U.S. clarity about what Galaxy tablets update to Android 4.1 Jellybean expect.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

There is good news for those who have one of the new tablets manufacturer bought. The Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) and the recently launched Galaxy Note 10.1 definitely get an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Logical consequence is bad news for owners of first generation Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Galaxy Tab 10.1. Also owners of a Galaxy Tab 7.7 do not seem to get updated to the latest version of Android.

When the updates will be rolled out is not clear. Across The Verge, Samsung know that this depends on the location and (if applicable) the provider. Previously, Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy Note 10.1 for the end of this year an update to Android 4.1 Jellybean would get. It is likely that the other models later.

Android 4.1 Jellybean standards contain already a large number of improvements, of which the most important is Project Butter. Yet Samsung itself carries a number of adjustments in the Touchwiz interface. Thus it is possible the size of the "Pop Up Play" window to passsen and a video recording pause. In addition, an Easy Mode added that helps you organize your favorite contacts in a widget can store on the home screen, and there will be a "Blocking Mode" that allows you more control over incoming calls and notifications.
Android 4.0 ICS

For that matter, the first generation Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Galaxy Tab 7.7 in the Netherlands continue to update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

DTS Play-Fi: Wireless audio streaming from Android tablets

In the field of tablets and smartphones, there are already several ways to wirelessly stream audio to speakers or your home theater system. As we all know DLNA or Apple users know and of course the AirPlay technology. DTS, a company that specializes in audio, today announced a new streaming technology presented in the form of Play-Fi.

DTS Play-Fi
The DTS-Play-Fi technology (or standard), according to the company's most comprehensive and advanced ability to stream audio currently on the market today. In terms of function does Play-Fi much like Apple's AirPlay but the technique has some advantages over the technique of Apple. Although the technique is suitable for iOS and Windows devices, the company concentrates purely on Android currently.

App and accessories
The Play-Fi system consists of two parts: an application for your Android tablet or smartphone and an accessory, such as a speaker. With the Android application, the volume can be adjusted, the speaker can be selected and you can of course choose your music. The accessories are produced by a subsidiary of DTS called Phorus. Initially there is a stand-alone speaker launched for $ 199 and $ 149 costing a receiver to music through your existing home theater system to play.

File
The system makes it possible to MP3 and FLAC files to multiple speakers to send via WiFi 802.11b/g/n. In addition you can use your Android device music on a DLNA PC or server stored playback using the Play DTS-Fi speakers or receiver. In the near future will also support AAC, Ogg Vorbis and online streaming music services like Spotify and Last.fm was added.

Multiroom and Multisource
Using 16 speakers within networking sites which are up to eight can be used simultaneously. Of these eight speakers, four copies simultaneously from a music source. In total you can within a network four Android sources. according to the company, the delay is minimal and the quality of high-level data by using a Play-Fi connection is preferred within a WiFi network.

From 1 October
On 1 October, the above two accessories in the U.S. market. DTS hopes that current licenses with manufacturers including receivers and home theater systems technology quickly implemented and will be accepted.

HTC One X gets Android 4.1 in October

Since HTC in July announced that the HTC One X, One S and One XL went with an Android Jelly Bean update the HTC users impatiently waiting. It seems that this wait will soon come to an end for the HTC One X users now HTC has announced that this device will get the update in October.

HTC also plans to Jellybean before Christmas available to all their newer smartphones, with the One X first followed by probably the HTC One S. One or the HTC V also gets an update to Jelly Bean remains a mystery. All that is in our view be under 'newer smartphones. For now only the update for the HTC One X and HTC One S confirmed by HTC.

The upcoming X + One and One XL from the store will be delivered with Android 4.1 Jellybean. The HTC One X is currently the flagship of HTC but will soon be two bigger brothers in the form of the One X + and One XL.

Google Maps for Android goes forward again

Now yesterday iOS 6 is released, Google Maps lapsed permanently in the mobile operating system right now, Google has released an update to the Google Maps application for Android. New in the application so you can sync to multiple devices have recently performed searches.

This new feature can be very useful. Suppose you have searched for a restaurant on your computer while you were logged in with your Google account and once on the road location yet just want to watch on your phone. In that case zodraj you start typing it will just searched restaurant directly as suggestion along with other locations where you have looked recently to your computer, appear on your phone. Because typing on a phone simply not very fast (except for some people) is the goal of Google to the need to type as much as possible.

Directions made on a computer can also be found in the application.

Apple
Google did not respond further to the new card application from Apple that Google Maps is replaced. It is also not clear whether Google is currently working on the development of an application for iOS or Apple for example blocks. In addition, Google Maps course also be opened in the mobile browser.

However, it would be a logical step could be to make an application, YouTube with iOS 6 also lapse and instead, Google has a separate application made since last week is available in the Apple App Store. Google does indicate that the goal is to Google Maps finally available to anyone who wants to use the product, regardless of device, browser or operating system.

Cube U9GT5: Android Tablet with Retina display

Tablets and other products coming to Asia and China never cease to amaze us. They are produced there quad tablets and sold at the price at which you bought from us or a total ordinary tablet. One is a quad-core tablet Cube U9GT5.

The tablet comes with the Android version of Jelly Bean and now hold, display, which Apple calls Retina. Apparently, the Cube in China large and well-known manufacturer of electronics. Novelty is equipped with a display with a resolution of 2048 x 1356 pixels with a density of 264 pixels per inch. Hidden inside a Rockchip RK 3066 Cortex A9 processor with two cores. Mali graphics drives 400th GPU is not one of the best, but popular game moving. On the body of the tablet is a rear camera with flash, which unfortunately do not know the resolution.

Tablet Cube U9GT5 not yet announced an official release date. Information on price, however, we have and the movement should be somewhere around $ 200, which is about two times less than the new iPad 3rd Check out the video and let us know what you think about tablet Cube.