Volvo gives you back your commuting time with new concept

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Volvo’s new concept car has been named after the average number of time an American spends in the car to drive to work. While 26 minutes might be on the dot for you or slightly more or less than that, what Concept 26 has in mind is to give you back some of your time.

Shown at the LA Auto Show, Volvo’s take on the autonomous driving trend isn’t like the steering wheel-less Google concept car hopes to bring into the future. What Volvo wants is still give you access to manual controls, since their research showed that car customers still want a steering wheel on the autonomous car. Volvo’s research also showed that people will use autonomous drive when they drive to and from work and while stuck in traffic. And at this time you probably won’t have someone else in your car, so no need to swivel seats to face your companion. The company also claims people aren’t too keen on riding backwards anyway.

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Google Photos update helps free up your storage space

It’s sometimes frustrating to own an Android device that has 8GB or even 16GB of storage and you find yourself having to rearrange or delete apps just to have more space on your phone. It’s even more troublesome when said device doesn’t have expandable storage. Google Photos is hoping to ease your troubles a bit with its latest update for Android. It’ll let you store your media files online to free up space on your device. All you have to do is select the “Free up space” option under Settings and this will delete local copies of the files from your device, as long as they’ve been backed up already.

The app will also be able to alert you when you’re running low on storage space. It even makes it easier for you to delete backed up photos you don’t want, including those older than 30 days. Google’s John Elstone says you also now have the ability to downgrade photos from Original quality to High quality—the former is the full resolution of your shot, while the latter is a compressed version of your photo. The update is said to be coming to iOS soon, too.

Source: Google’s John Elstone + Google Photos’ Google+ | Via: Android Community | Download: Google Play Store

Gartner: Windows Phone market share is at 1.7 per cent

Gartner's latest study says that Windows Phone has less than 2 per cent of the market share right now as it falls way behind iOS and Android. To be precise, Windows Phone devices count for 1.7 per cent of smartphone in the market today, down from 3 percent market share a year ago. It's pretty much over, folks. How can a so called platform this small entice developers to keep plugging away?

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Apple Watch gets official magnetic charging dock

Apple has just announced the Apple Watch Magnetic Charging Dock. Designed as the perfect place to keep your watch at night. You charge Apple Watch on its side where it automatically goes into Nightstand mode to become your personal bedside clock.

Nightstand mode even changes how the watch buttons function. When an alarm sounds, you press the side button to turn it off, or the Digital Crown to snooze. Nightstand mode works with both the Apple Watch charger and the Apple Watch Magnetic Charging Dock. The accessory retails for $99.00 and should be available in Apple Retail Stores.