Line launches iPad app for messaging, doesn’t have voice or video call functions

Looking to be an extension of its popular messaging app, Japanese company Line introduced the iPad version of its app. But it seems to be missing a number of key features from its iPhone version, including the ability to make video and voice calls and create new accounts. It doesn’t seem to have a Sticker Shop and Timeline support as well. We hope they remedy even just those latter features. But if you need to be messaging someone on Line and just have your iPad with you, then the app should work fine for you.

Source: The Next Web | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Potential app shows you battery life of your devices

It’s perfectly normal to be carrying two or more devices on a daily basis. Now, you couldn’t possibly keep track of the battery life of all of those? Paranoid Gems introduced its new Potential app that will let you monitor the battery status of your devices. It syncs via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and checks on the battery levels of your gadgets. It will notify you when one of them is running low. It will even let you disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on your devices. You just need to make sure you are logged into your account on all your gadgets. The app, however, is on beta mode so be prepared to encounter bugs.

Source: Android Community | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

New Sony Xperia Z3 compact coming exclusively to Bell

Sony Mobile Communications  today announced that the Xperia Z3 Compact smartphone will launch across Canada exclusively at Bell and in Sony Stores on October 31, 2014.

Following the success of the Xperia Z2 and the Z32, the new Z3 compact features a 4.6” form factor combines all of the details that make Xperia smartphones great – including the highest level of waterproofing, enhanced camera experiences and applications, up to two-day battery life, our best audio quality and PS4 Remote Play.

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Google launches Android OS 5.0 codenamed 'Lollipop', intros new Nexus line

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Google today revealed the next version of its Android OS and while the look and feel of the leading mobile OS is more mature than ever before with Material Design, the search and advertising company continued its tact in naming their OS after something sweet.

Codenamed Lollipop, Android 5.0 is set to break cover in a bunch of new devices including a larger Nexus 6 phablet made by Motorola, the Nexus 6, a 9-inch tablet made by HTC and a new Nexus Player set top box that expand the functionality first seen on the Chromcast dongle.

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