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Opera for Android recently updated their mobile browser and dropped their beta tags, and today Chrome answered with some updates of their own. Updates include performance enhancements and some bug fixes. Search queries are now included in the omnibox. Users can view and refine more results in their query directly in the omnibox, previously displayed in a long URL. On tablets, users can long press the browser’s back button to view the tab history. This update also brings fullscreen viewing. The location bar becomes hidden when you scroll through a page, showing the webpage in its entirety. The Chrome for iOS updates add voice search, a feature already available in Chrome for desktops and Chrome for Android. You can find the update for Chrome on Google Play. Google Chrome for Android Play Store Link

Samsung announces that the Galaxy S4 has officially sold more than 10 million units worldwide, making it the most successful and quickest selling Android device to date.

LG Optimus GJ announced, featuring near identical specs to the Optimus G, only with a new waterproof/dustproof body.

Receipt scanning and a new interface, heavily influenced from the Cards look of Google Glass and Google Now, greet you in an update to Google Drive for Android. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media

Welcome to the latest entry in our Bonus Round series, wherein we tell you all about the new Android games of the day that we couldn't get to during our regular news rounds. Consider this a quick update for the dedicated gamers who can't wait for our bi-weekly roundups, and don't want to wade through a whole day's worth of news just to get their pixelated fix. Today we've got a new puzzle game from noted developer ustwo, Zynga's latest attempt to enslave minions via word games, and another licensed title from Gameloft. Without further ado: Blip Blup Developer ustwo has cultivated a reputation for simple, unique titles, and Blip Blup is no exception. Done With This Post? You Might Also Like These:Zynga Releases Words With Friends For Android Gameloft Treats Sprint's Epic 4G And EVO 4G Owners To A Buy-One-Get-One-Free Offer On All HD Android Games Zynga's Hanging With Friends Now Available In The Android Market Zynga Releases Scramble With Friends Deluxe For $0.99, Removes Ads And Lets You Earn Tokens Twice As Fast [Bonus Round] Blip Blup, What's The Phrase Free, And Gameloft's Epic was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Give the community enough time and almost any device can be cracked open, no matter how determined a carrier or OEM is to keep it locked down. The Verizon Galaxy S4 has proven a tough nut to crack, but a new root method is much less convoluted than previous ones. Just flash a kernel, run some tools, flash again, and you're done! Well, it's a little more involved than that, but not much. Here's how you do it. First up, grab the necessary tools: Samsung Official USB Drivers - Link ODIN v3.07 - Link VRUAMD2 Pre-release Kernel - Link VRUAMDK Stock Kernel - Link Motochopper Root Exploit Tool – Link ODIN is a tool used for flashing firmware and kernels on Samsung devices. Done With This Post? You Might Also Like These:Chainfire Releases Modified CF-Auto-Root And SuperSU For Qualcomm Versions Of The Galaxy S4 Koush Releases Final Version of ClockworkMod Recovery For Samsung Galaxy S Having Problems After Rooting Your Samsung Epic 4G Touch? Stock Kernel Is Now Available For Download Chainfire Does It Again – Mobile ODIN Lets You Flash Firmware Right From Your Device, EverRoot Keeps You Rooted Through It All [How-To] Root The Verizon Galaxy S4 With No Device Wipe Necessary was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Do you still bring your wallet everywhere you go? Chances are you still do, but with the rise of wallet and “passbook” apps, we might soon find no need to bring actual cash, tickets or coupons (except perhaps your driver’s license, or maybe the DMV can support e-copies, too). Samsung has joined the fray, announcing Samsung Wallet earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Apparently, Wallet is now online in South Korea, and is also in beta stage in the US. Users of select Galaxy devices in South Korea can now download Wallet on their compatible Samsung devices — namely, the Galaxy S4, S3, Note, Note 2, Note 10.1 and S2 HD LTE. Currently, Wallet in South Korea is more of a single point of access for users’ credit cards, as it promises convenience by having to key in your PIN or one-time-password (OTP) once at point of purchase. No need to whip out your credit card(s), as you can pay straight from the app assuming you’ve already keyed in your card details beforehand. Engadget reports that the app is now available in beta in the US, where the coupon-storage capability is in limited availability. Once fully launched, Samsung Wallet — simply named “Wallet” — can store transit tickets, event tickets, coupons and membership cards. According to Samsung, about 30,000 retailers in South Korea already support its Wallet application, and NFC payments will be supported in the near future. Given that Samsung Wallet comes with an open API, it should not be too difficult for establishments, shop owners, e-commerce providers and other services to integrate into the system. Now the question at this point is availability and applicability. Given that Samsung is essentially competing directly against Apple’s Passbook for iOS devices and Google’s own Wallet app, how big can Samsung’s market be? Granted, it can probably dominate in its home South Korean market. Samsung is also the top-selling smartphone brand to date, which means the brand can likely get enough traction with its tens of millions of devices out there. But will Samsung also make its Wallet app available to other brand Android devices, as well? Have you tried Samsung Wallet already? How does it compare with Apple Passbook and Google Wallet?

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Love using Skype and Hangouts but have friends or family that are rarely available to video chat? Glide is an attempt to solve that problem by taking an asynchronous approach to instant messaging. Here's the concept: conversationalists can login with their Facebook credentials, join a chat room, and respond to one another with videos up to 42 seconds in length. Videos are stored in the cloud, available for playback either immediately or some time after their initial posting. There isn't any message limit and data retention is currently unlimited – you won't see your videos disappear in the foreseeable future.    Glide, which launched on iOS early this year, is the brainchild of Israeli company Glide Talk. Done With This Post? You Might Also Like These:HTC Announces Q1 Financial Results, Blows Past Everyone's Expectations [Update: Now Available] Facebook Introduces Messenger, A Powerful Mobile Extension To Chat Facebook Brings Messaging Improvements To Messenger And Main Facebook Apps, No It's Not The New Native App Facebook Messenger For Android Updated To 1.7, Brings Message Read Status And Tries To Call Itself A "Texting" Service [New App] Glide Instant Video Messaging Now Available On Android, Currently In Beta was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

Remember Boxee? It was a great little DIY set-top streamer, and it might still be, if Roku wasn't so cheap. The company's latest endeavor is a cloud video sharing service, cleverly called Cloudee, and the Android app just landed. You might think that the functions in a cloud-based video upload service are eclipsed by YouTube, and for most situations you'd be right. But Cloudee focuses on sharing videos with specific individuals or groups, and it does so very well, with an interface that's easy on the eyes.     There's nothing too complicated here: take a video, open the app, and upload it to Cloudee's servers. Done With This Post? You Might Also Like These:Picasa Now Has Unlimited Storage For Google+ Users... Sort Of COMODO, Bitdefender, Zoolz Cloud Apps Hit The Play Store, Offer Users Tons Of Ways To Store, Sync, And Share Files From Their Android Device Autodesk's Recently-Acquired 'Socialcam' Updated To v2, Brings New Filters, FFC Support, And An All-New Interface Dropbox Update Hits The Market - Automatic Photo/Video Uploading, More Free Space, And Various Bugfixes/Improvements [New App] Cloudee (From The Makers Of Boxee) Makes It Easy To Share Videos With Limited Groups was written by the awesome team at Android Police.