For the record, this offering is notably different from Microsoft's earlier launch of Bing Deals, which basically features links to aggregated deals from a number of partners, including group buying service providers like Tippr, Groupon, LivingSocial, Zozi and Gilt City but also over 2,000 merchants through Bing Shopping, including Target, Nordstrom, and Zappos.
Other established players include Emporia, which basically makes simplified feature phones, and Doro, which makes a mix of devices (including dabbling in tablet software).
Other established players include Emporia, which basically makes simplified feature phones, and Doro, which makes a mix of devices (including dabbling in tablet software).
The strange panning of Astrud Gilberto's voice all the way to the right on "The Girl from Ipanema" can be rectified by turning the 3D feature, which basically reroutes part of the signal (her voice) to the opposite ear.
Its first Facebook app was called Courses, which basically aped the canceled feature that students loved (along with other, more popular apps by other companies, such as Cramster's Courses 2.0).
The main selling point is the game's deformable terrain feature, which basically entails your character blowing the hell out of the ground to create mounds and/or holes to help you get over and under walls and whatnot.
The first is the user interface that Dent has built seems a little unwieldy… and the feature — which basically amounts to measuring a heart rate and checking certain indicators of how many calories a person has burned watching a video — seems a bit obvious.
The main selling point of these "cans" (as I used to call them back in my college radio days) is a dynamic audio leveling feature which basically keeps your teammates' voices coming through loud and clear even as explosions and gunfire increase in intensity around you.
I also used the app to set a daily time limit, turned on "tiny reminders," or push notifications that tell you how much time you've spent on your phone so far throughout the day, and enabled the "Force Me Off When I'm Over" feature, which basically annoys you off your phone when you go over your daily allotment.
In its announcement today, Google is promising some "big improvements" to its new YouTube app, among them that navigation is smoother and faster, along with some much-needed additions to its UX, like the new "Discover" feature, which basically just brings YouTube channel categories to Google TV, enhancing their browse-ability within the app.
The new feature pane, which basically functions as a shortcut to privacy settings, allows you to customize the sharing of statuses.
