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Opera mini offers some of the major data savings with its data compression techniques, but it has also been criticized for the same as it sometimes completely destroys the layout of the website in the name of saving seemingly small amounts of data.The latest update for Opera Mini aims to address this problem with a new “high” compression setting. While that might still sound strong, the old compression option has been bumped up to the title of “Extreme”, so the new setting is toned down quite a bit.Most importantly, image sizes and layouts are regularly maintained and under this new option and you will even find that video playback is enabled.Opera says that the setting offers a “full web experience”, and the only customization option is an image quality setting. Though the data savings ar...

Adblock Plus is by far the most popular way to block advertisements on desktop, so it should be no surprise to see the service finally make its way to mobile devices. After being available on Android in open beta form for some time, Eyeo, the developers behind Adblock Plus, have finally brought its Adblock Browser to the Google Play Store for all to download. Adblock Browser for Android lets you browse the Internet more quickly without running into advertisements wherever you go.This new app claims to be able to load webpages much faster while also saving precious battery life and mobile data.         It was removed from the play store in 2013 for breaching the Google Play Developer Program Policies.The company has successfully found a way to re-list the app in the Play Store without getti...

Motorola is not going to slow down anytime soon, despite announcing its latest flagship, the Moto X Style (aka Moto X Pure) earlier this month and if we believe in the rumours, they point to two new Verizon Droids in the near future, a new tweet from @upleaks has now outed the Motorola Bounce as well. According to the leaks, the specs of the Moto bounce are as follows: Display: 5.45 -inch QHD display. Processor: Snapdragon 810. RAM: 3GB. Storage: 32 or 64GB. Camera: 21MP camera. Battery: 3760 mAh. The phone is going to offer a “shatterproof” design which means that it is going to have probably a MIL-STD rating.The rumor doesn’t mention it, but we wouldn’t be too shocked if it ends up with water/dust resistance as well, but at the very least it is probably splashproof. One question that com...

A new smartphone from LG passed through TENAA, which could be the anticipated second flagship that LG has planned for the second half of the year. Last week, LG’s Cho Juno confirmed that a new flagship would be unveiled sometime in Q4 2015 and reports from Korea suggest that October 10th could be the launch date. An LG official recently let the release date slip during a briefing about the company’s plans for the second half of the year. However, nothing else about the handset seems to have been mentioned. There’s nothing much about the next LG flagship,although the TENNA pictures suggest that the company’s laser auto focus technology may be heading to the phone’s front camera too.However, there was no stylus spotted in the TENAA images. There are chances that the phone may not be of...

Did you notice a new update to Google Translate App? Chances are that you may have not realized the change. That is,unless you are running the latest android version 6.0 that is Marshmallow,in which case you definitely have something new to look forward to. The Google Translate team has been hard at work bringing system-wide translation to our devices, adding the ability to decipher text across all applications.This means users no longer need to go through the hassles of switching to the Translate app, entering a word (or phrase), translating it, copying it, then going back to paste it in the application of choice.Those who have the latest version of the Android can now simply highlight the text from any app and translate it instantly. Its very easy. This is simply a taste of what Marshmal...

We all are eagerly waiting for the upcoming nexus devices as the end of the year approaches.Google may have bunch of surprises for us? This year we are expecting two devices, one from Huawei and one from LG. If you are looking for a good image,today we are taking a look at the best one we have seen so far. The photo comes from Android Pit, a Germany-based website that seems to have some helpful sources in hand.Though the image may look like a render, it is not. The photo was straightened and the background was cleaned out, in order to protect the source. The only main difference is that the version AP has seen has the LG logo below the Nexus wording. But this could simply be due to regional differences. From the image we can see that nifty fingerprint reader, a laser auto-focus module, a d...

Instagram has always been the one of the easiest ways to share the photos to the world, but in the past that hasn’t come without its caveats. The Facebook-owned social networking platform has only ever allowed for the sharing of square photos, but that’s changing. In the new update rolling out on Android, Instagram will finally let you post full-size portrait and landscape photos. In fact, the Instagram team says that nearly one in every five photos posted to the site aren’t in the standard square format, which is why the company is changing its ways. After you receive the update, simply tap on the format icon to adjust the orientation to portrait or landscape instead of square. Your photo will show up in your feed in the orientation that you’ve chosen. But to keep your profile looking cle...

Facebook has just released a new update to its Moments App, bringing its version up to 2.0. This is the first major revision to the app since its launch back in June. The latest update adds a small number of features,but also marks the application’s release outside of the US. You can now find new ways to create moments by simply tapping the plus button in the top right.Not listed on the change-log is another new feature, which allows users to create a short video clip from a selection of six or more photographs. The video creation feature has also options for background music and the pictures can be swapped around until you’re happy to upload the creation to your Facebook page. It now supports more than 30 languages,and version 2.0 has seen its share of bug fixes and performance improvemen...

Link Bubble has gone through a ton of changes lately, most notably a few weeks ago when app creator Chris Lacy announced the browser was getting some new, unnamed owners. It’s looking like the app is going through some more changes, as the new developers, who are now operating under the name Link Bubble in the Play Store, have just announced that the Link Bubble browser is now a completely free application. There’s now only one Link Bubble application available for download from the Play Store. It’s completely free and comes with all of the benefits only Pro users used to be able to access. Now that the app is free, the new owners are offering refunds if you’ve purchased the Pro version of the app since its acquisition on August 4th, 2015. As for the future of Link Bubble, the new owners s...

There are number of ways in which we can control our android device from our desktop but most require lengthy setup processes, and some just flat out aren’t that easy to use. That’s where Vysor comes in. The developers of popular android apps like Helium, ROM Manager and All Cast, Vysor is a new application available in the chrome web store that lets you control your android device from your desktop, no root required.You don’t even have to download an Android app to get the service to work. To use Vysor, first you’ll need to download the Chrome app, and make sure USB debugging is enabled on your Android smartphone or tablet. Plug in your Android device to your computer, follow the on-screen connection instructions, and that’s it. A resizable window will pop up on your desktop, allowing you...

Back in April, a “clever” Google Map Maker user submitted an image of an Android logo urinating on an Apple logo to Google Maps, which forced Google to apologize for the inappropriate incident soon after. To ensure this kind of thing never happened again, Google shut down the Map Maker program in May so it could revamp the way users could submit their entries. As promised, Google then relaunched the service a few weeks ago, but only in a few select markets. Now the service is seeing a much wider expansion, as the United States, along with 44 other countries, are now able to make edits and submissions in Map Maker. Just like with the first wave of countries, Map Maker is a bit more closed off now. Every edit will need to be approved by a “regional lead”. As Google puts it, “[Regional Leads]...