Snapchat boosts chat features with Chat 2.0

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Snapchat is honing in on its competitors with the new features the messaging service integrates into its app. Its new Chat 2.0 hopes to bring a more intuitive chatting experience for its users. The feature makes it easier to share videos, short audio notes, and stickers to help you communicate with friends within the app. As stated on Snapchat’s blog: “What we love about the new Chat is how easily you can transition between all these ways of communicating—just like you do in person. When that’s possible, you aren’t texting, calling, or video chatting… you’re just talking.”

The app also gets a new Auto-Advance Stories feature that lets stories from your friends play one after another. You can swipe to skip ahead in a story or pull down to exit completely.

Source: Droid Life

LG G5's UX 5.0 is the key to the ecosystem of new experiences and accessories

The LG G5, which we previewed recently here, brings a lot to the table in terms of specs, new design and materials as well as some accessories to expand what the phone can do. The user interface, named UX 5.0, has also been revamped significantly and the above video walks us through what to expect.

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BQ's Aquarius M10 Ubuntu tablet doubles as a Linux desktop for $289

Ubuntu has remained largely in the domain of desktops and notebooks and while they attempted to put it on a phone (which could eventually convert the OS into a desktop, foreshadowing Windows 10's Continuum), that never came to fruition. The Aquarius M10, however, is a real product and one that enables touch-based Ubuntu in a tablet form factor which can double as a Linux desktop.

Slted to ship mid-April, the M10 is available in two prices corresponding to different screen resolutions (an HD offering and  1,280 x 800 resolution costs US $289, the 1,920 x 1,200 panel (with faster processor) costs US $335. Read more about it here.

Source: Phoronix

Google brings saved image searches to the desktop

The Pinterest-style photo bookmarking you can do with Google Image Search makes its way out of your mobile devices and into your desktop. Google’s released an update so you can save photos from your browser and organize them by folder on your desktop. The features are similar to what you get on mobile. You just need to click on the star to favorite an item. After that you can tag said photo and add this to a collection. This way you can save those images no matter what device you use. It’s currently available in the U.S. and we’re hoping it makes its way here soon, too.

Source: Google Inside Search | Via: The Next Web