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There is no shortage of great games for mobile, and one of the top platforms for mobile gaming is Android. See the best games for Android in this video! The post Try these beautiful games on Android (Video) appeared first on Pocketnow.

Although the majority of Shazam‘s over 93 million U.S. users still use the app on their smartphones to identify, tag and share the songs they’re “hearing,” a growing chunk of that user base – around 10 million in the U.S. last year – has used Shazam to identify TV programs and ads. Today, the company aims to better serve this audience with the release of a new, universal iOS application which introduces a number of new features, including the ability to have the “shazaming” process run automatically in the background. This feature, called “Auto-Tagging,” is the standout in today’s release. Before, users had to kick off the tagging option by tapping on the screen, then waiting while Shazam listened and then identified the sounds they were hearing, whether that was music, a TV show or a TV ad. While that’s still how things will work on the smartphone version, the updated iPad app now offers a more passive experience, designed for those using the app as a second screen while watching TV....

Putting a thick case on a thin phone is a horribly, terribly, bad idea. It makes a beautiful phone ugly for the sake of preserving its beauty. The post TLDR: Putting a thick case on a thin phone is tasteless. Stop it. appeared first on Pocketnow.

After the aesthetic elegance of Dots, prepare for another injection of minimalist puzzle game beauty. Blip Blup is the new game from London-based design house and app studio ustwo -- maker of Whale Trail, a mobile game that snagged an e-book deal, plus a raft of other interesting apps including most recently Rando (random photo-sharing) and Honk (visual messaging).

Jawfish Games, a Seattle-based startup run by a former professional poker player and the engineering team that built the Fult Tilt Poker site, launched a gaming platform that can host more than 100,000 simultaneous players in real-time tournaments across iOS, Android and the web. While asynchronous, turn-based games have done well on mobile platforms and Facebook over the last five years, pure, real-time multiplayer games haven’t caught on as quickly partially because data connections haven’t been fast enough and because a game developer would need a critical mass of players to match them synchronously. But Jawfish, which has raised $3.65 million in funding from firms like Founders Fund’s angel fund, Right Side Capital and other angels, says it has built a platform to do just that. Their platform can support more than 100,000 simultaneous players and host 1 million tournaments for less than $10 in bandwidth. They initially came out with a few games in partnership with Seattle’s Big...

HTC announces Desire 600, a mid-range Android device featuring Sense 5 with BlinkFeed and BoomSound. Check out the details, regions and availability. The post HTC announces Desire 600 with BlinkFeed and BoomSound appeared first on Pocketnow.

No, we still don't have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the e-commerce giant took two more steps in its strategy to scale up its Kindle Fire tablet business. It announced that it will now sell the two higher-end versions of the device, the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9", in 170 countries. And it also said that its Amazon Appstore will now be available in 200 countries.

We’ve been huge fans of future possible sapphire solutions for smartphones ever since MWC. We’ve also visited the factory that can make this possible. Sapphire is known to be an extremely tough material, almost impossible to scratch. It has its [...] The post Gorilla Glass vs sapphire, Corning sees no real threat appeared first on Pocketnow.

10 million Samsung Galaxy S 4 units was the number we expected officially from the company after reading reports concerning the success of this year’s flagship coming from South Korea. Right on schedule, the phone-maker officially announced global channel sales [...] The post 10 million Samsung Galaxy S 4 units sold through global channels, more colors coming appeared first on Pocketnow.

Samsung's Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company announced its latest milestone today just eight days after confirming that it had shipped over 6 million units of the S4 since its international launch on April 26. According to Samsung, this is the fastest ever sell rate for any of its smartphones.

The heterogenous network will eventually allow our devices to connect to Wi-Fi and cellular networks simultaneously, but first those networks need to coordinate with one another.

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about LG’s new Optimus GJ and what’s different from the previous Optimus G, if there really is any difference. Then we talk about Microsoft and how it had to water-down its YouTube app [...] The post HTC quietly sinking, Google Drive improves, YouTube on WP8 watered & more – Pocketnow Daily appeared first on Pocketnow.

The mythical Nokia Android phone isn't gonna happen - not anytime soon. But so what? A Google-friendly Windows Phone is what I'm really after. The post Nokia Android phone? Yawn. Google-friendly Windows Phone? Take my money. appeared first on Pocketnow.

Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space. TechCrunch has found out, and confirmed, that the social network has aqui-hired Maybe, the social polling startup founded by Omar Hamoui -- the man who set up, ran and then sold mobile ad company AdMob to Google for $750 million.

When Henry Ford was asked almost a century ago why he focused so intensely on making automobiles a mainstream in complete contradiction to what the experts thought at the time, his response was simple – “If I would’ve asked people [...] The post Imagine a world without HTC appeared first on Pocketnow.

Voice search will be available as part of an update to Chrome for iOS "in the coming days," Google announced Wednesday. It's yet another part of Google's broader effort to create a layer on top of its chief competitor's mobile OS.

Google hasn't been too happy with the new Microsoft YouTube app - learn what Microsoft's changed in order to stop offending Google. The post Microsoft downgrades YouTube app to appease Google appeared first on Pocketnow.

Find out about all the changes in the latest Google Drive update, including scanning, editing, and a new look for the app. The post Google Drive update: new editing, scanning tools, refreshed UI appeared first on Pocketnow.

Are you ready for Google to take over the desktop? You'd better be if you use Chrome. With it, Google is making a play to rule the computing world as a back door to a new app economy.

Viva Movil launching a line of mobile device stores targeted at Latinos and has tapped Verizon Wireless to be its exclusive partner. The phones and service will be Verizon, but the marketing will be all J-Lo.