Android weekly summary # 49: YotaPhone 2 Popcorn Time app and Inbox by Gmail – Android Planet

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Striking YotaPhone 2 from Monday available in the Netherlands

The YotaPhone 2, the striking unit of Russian origin with an e-ink screen at the rear, has been given a release date and price. The smartphone is from upcoming Monday, December 8 on sale for 699 euros. It gets set, as we expected, quite a price tag. Get you home, then you have two devices one at your disposal. The YotaPhone two functions both as smartphone as e-reader, which is due to the e-ink screen at the back. This is in addition to reading digital books, also suitable for checking notifications, missed calls and weather thanks to the display technology used in the display is very economical:. only if it is changed, it consumes energy

Android app PopcornTime.io in development

The team behind PopcornTime.io, a fork of Popcorn Time based on the code of the original creators, is working on an Android app. An iOS version is “certainly not in the making” because the team currently has access to people with the ability and willingness to make an iOS app. The Android app comes to do so, though PopcornTime.io can still give a specific date for its release. “Obviously we want the app to launch as soon as possible, but we want to make this partially complete at least before we release the app.” PopcornTime.io further indicates that the Android app will include many of the features that you also on the desktop version will. “Movies, series and find their subtitles are in the app, as well as reviews, video quality, a synopsis, cover photo, trailer and search.” Whether the anime section also makes an appearance in the app, is unclear. Also regarding Chromecast- and Android TV support has PopcornTime.io no decisions about that.

Google hopes Inbox Gmail replacing

Google hopes that eventually will replace Gmail Inbox. That does not mean that Gmail will disappear, but that Gmail users Inbox go users to manage their e-mails. This gave a spokesman for the Inbox by Gmail team during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit . “Gmail Inbox will not be replaced in the short term, but we hope that in the long run it was. Inbox is a new product and therefore we launch it as a separate product in addition to Gmail. Ultimately, we hope that Gmail users choose Inbox as an app, “the spokesman said. Inbox by Gmail allows users to e-mails as they mark completed by swiping to the left, or as a reminder to set them by swiping to the right. Finish provides a green color when swiping a reminder turns dark yellow.

Samsung started rolling out Android Lollipop update for Galaxy S5

Samsung last week started rolling out the Android Galaxy S5 Lollipop update, though it is still downloading only in Poland. According SamMobile however it will not be long before the update is also available in other countries. The update is pretty on track this month – as Samsung promised earlier – to be available for all owners of the unit. He brings with him a large number of changes and improvements. So get all Samsung Apps a Material Design-sauce making them look simplistic, cleaner and whiter. The phone app, messaging app, clock and note app eyes, for example a lot fresher. There are cool new animations for each part of the interface.

Google will own apps make more child

Google Apps are used daily by millions of people all over the world, including many children. For the latter group, Google intends to make its apps child friendly. The search giant is developing separate versions of Chrome and YouTube, so that they are child-friendly. This is an attempt to make the Internet safer for children, so that results better fit the younger audience. The apps are also likely provide more options for parental control, so that certain websites are screens manually. A logical step from Google, especially when you consider that children ever before with the web in contact and parental surveillance will be much more impo rtant

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