Kyle, Author at Droid Life

Amazon Adds New Playlists and “Hundreds of Thousands” of Songs to Prime Music

Kyle July 23, 2014 9

Curious Prime customers who have had a chance to try Amazon's Prime Music may have found the service a little lacking in terms of selection, as its catalog consists of around a million songs, while incumbents like Spotify and Beats boast well over 20 million....

HTC Begins to Break Down Firmware, Releases Sense Keyboard to Google Play

Kyle July 22, 2014 29

Like Google and Motorola before it, HTC has uncoupled a system app from firmware. HTC Sense Input, the default keyboard on HTC devices, made its unceremonious debut on Google Play this morning. Predictably, Sense Input is only compatible with the HTC One (M7),...

Verizon Earns Record $4.21 Billion Q2 Profit, Gains 1.4 Million Subscribers

Kyle July 22, 2014 145

Patronizing and sleazy as Verizon can be, you've got to admit: they know how to make money. The wireless carrier raked in the dough this quarter, earning a $4.21 billion Q2 profit on total revenue of $31.48. That represents an improvement of 7.5% and 5.7% year...

Android Wear Collection is a Storefront for Digital Watch Faces

Kyle July 21, 2014 34

There may not be an officially sanctioned API on Android Wear quite yet, but that's not stopping enterprising developers from making watch faces anyway. A few of these developers have chosen to release watch faces as individual apps on Google Play, but others...

Verizon’s Targeted Advertising “Smart Rewards” Program Going Nationwide on July 24

Kyle July 21, 2014 55

The day when Verizon discounts postpaid pricing may also be the day in which pigs take to the skies, but the carrier is apparently willing to offer some form of reward for your ... continued devotion. This morning, Big Red announced that Verizon Smart Rewards,...

Samsung Galaxy Gear Receives Update to Tizen, Now Functions Like Gear 2

Kyle July 21, 2014 40

Samsung continues to devote development and marketing resources to its homegrown smartwatches, much to Larry Page's chagrin. Reaffirming the South Korea-based company's commitment to its non-Android Wear-based devices, Samsung announced this morning the...

Tasker Updated With Over 30 New Features, Plus Ton of Bug Fixes

Kyle July 18, 2014 66

Tasker is one of those indispensable apps you download after Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. If you want to imbue your smartphone with true synthetic intelligence, it's an application you can't live without. And it only keeps getting better for users. Today,...

Rendering of HTC Android Wear Device Leaked, Confirms Square Shape

Kyle July 18, 2014 81

Move over, Gear Live and G Watch, the Android Wear space is about to get a lot more crowded. Rumors suggested HTC was prepping an Android Wear device of its own, and a rendering tweeted by @evleaks confirms it. Ignoring the obviously mocked-up UI, one thing...