Google has updated the Google Docs Android app with an offline capability that lets you read your documents without an Internet connection. With the highly anticipated update, you can now mark a document for offline access, though you still can’t edit files. That said, the app will refresh offline files that were edited on another device or computer once you get connected. This update is timely as more smartphone users are facing instances of spotty 3G connections. Along with the offline feature, the app’s tablet interface now sports a new reading view. When you open a Google document on your tablet, you’ll get a high-resolution version of the document and the ability to swipe left and right to flip pages.
Rara.com, yet another streaming music service, was officially launched in Singapore just about two weeks back.
The music service offers ad-free access to more than 10 million tracks, and will initially be offered at a rate of S$0.99 (for web) and S$1.99 (for web and mobile on the Android platform) per month in Singapore.
After three months, the price point will jump to S$4.99 per month for web and S$9.99 per month for web and mobile respectively.
Take a look:
My initial reaction was: meh. I’m not really impressed after I visited the site.
It’s hard to fault Nokia for the good work that has been put into the Lumia 800.
With a unibody polycarbonate shell, an AMOLED display and an eight-megapixel Carl-Zeiss lens, Nokia’s comeback phone is up against the top smartphones in the market, such as the iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy SII. …
Symantec has discovered over a dozen apps with malicious code that could cede control of your smartphone to perpetrators.
In a recent blog post, the security company said the apps, which are hosted on the Android Market, can be used to propagate a “bot-like threat that can receive commands to carry out certain actions, as well as steal information from the device”. …
The Dolphin HD browser just got better on when it unveiled two powerful add-ons on Tuesday that make it easier to save web content on a smartphone.
With the Evernote and Skitch add-ons, features that were once available through separate apps can now be accessed directly through the Dolphin browser. …
Android might not be the smoothest of mobile operating systems – I’ve seen it slow down even on dual-core chips – but that’s all about to change with the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime and its brand new quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor.
A brief hands-on I had earlier in the week revealed that it truly is a sea change in the responsiveness of Android, even more so than the Sony Tablet S, which until now is the smoothest Android tablet I’ve tested. With a whole range of goodies packed into this tablet, the Transformer Prime is easily the best Android tablet on the market right now.
If 2011 was remembered for shiny new tablets that made people part with their hard-earned cash, then 2012 may just be the one where the craze for these thin and light yet powerful and affordable ultrabooks takes off big time.
At the annual CES show just concluded earlier in the week, a good number of laptop makers joined the fray with their takes on what people would be carrying to meetings and classrooms in the coming months.
Perhaps having seen Asus, Acer and Lenovo whip up demand for such ultra-light PCs in the closing months of 2011, the likes of Sony, Dell and HP showed of their versions of the ultrabook at CES this year. Lenovo too came up with a quite surprising “yoga-like” ultrabook cum tablet.
Motorola is putting up a lighter, more powerful follow-up to its Xoom tablet for sale here in Singapore from today, but with a rather hefty price of S$978.
The new Xoom 2, which will come with both 3G and Wi-Fi, sports a 10.1-inch screen and a faster processor, but will run only on Android Honeycomb (3.2) for now. It should likely be upgradeable to the newest Android 4.0 later in the year, if Motorola Singapore follows the practice of its US headquarters.
The much-awaited Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the next “Google phone” featuring the new Android 4.0 operating system, will only reach Singapore stores in February 2012, a month later than expected.
Samsung Singapore today said the units would be sold at S$948 (without contract), as it revealed earlier in November. However, the delay will not be good news for folks here who have been waiting for the latest and greatest from the Android camp.
The Galaxy Nexus, following in the Nexus One and Nexus S tradition, would come with a “clean” interface without any add-on software, which is a boon to those who want a “pure” Google experience without clunky extras. It has another plus: being a Nexus phone, it will be the first to get the latest updates direct from Google. …
In the time between the launch of the first iPad and today, a sea of Android tablets have attempted to cash in on the tablet craze, but with the noticeable exception of one Japanese consumer electronics giant. Late last year, Sony caught up to the crowd with their Tablet S, which we managed to get hold of for a review.
Eschewing the traditional flat slab for a shape, Sony took a turn and designed a tablet which looks distinctively different from its peers. Does the Tablet S have what it takes to stand out? …
Facebook’s dependence on advertising the focus of IPO worries
Singapore 3G networks to cover more of buildings, roads and tunnels with stricter rules
2012 is shaping up to be a year of ultrabooks
WiFi-only PS Vita arrives in Singapore on Feb 22
HTC and Nokia first to roll out LTE Windows Phones
