Huawei aiming for the luxury Android smartwatch segment

After slyly teasing its upcoming Android Wear smartwach in various airport advertisements and videos, emerging monile giant Huawei looks to be gearing up to make a splash in the Android Wear smartwatch game with its luxury. Titled the Huawei Watch, Huawei's first salvo is a circular watch that boasts a sapphire crystal covering the touch display plus the use of a lot of lavish leather and metal materials. We're a day away from Huawei's press conference in Mobile World Congress and we should learn more about pricing, availability an whether any features of Huawei Watch will separate it from the pack.

Source: Engadget

BlackBerry OS 10.3.1 begins rolling out internationally

The highly anticipated update to BlackBerry 10 devices, version 10.3.1 is currently rolling out to older devices. Bringing parity in features and functionality across BlackBerrys product line, the latest update offers various improvements, bug fixes and the much awaited BlackBerry Assistant and BlackBerry Blend functionality to the Z10, Z3, Q10, Z30 and Q5 handsets as well as the limited edition Porsche Design P'9983 and P'9982 smartphones.

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MLB.com at Bat app for Android receives Material Design makeover

Just in time for Spring Training, the popular MLB.com at Bat application for Android devices is getting a Lollipop-like makeover that follows the design principles of Material Design. The subscription-based service allows access to live video and audio feeds of MLB games and the latest update sports a more native look that fits in with the look and feel of Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Source: Phandroid

You don’t have to define your gender on Facebook anymore

Last year social network Facebook worked with GLAAD to generate custom genders, such as transgender and cisgender, but it wasn’t universally well-received because users were still boxed in by pre-selected options. Facebook seems to have scrapped that and now has a custom gender field. It still populates suggestions as you type but you can put in whatever gender you want to represent yourself on the site, similar to the “infinite” gender options on Google+. Aside from that, you can choose the pronoun you want to be called on the site. You can even tweak your privacy settings for gender if you just want a select audience that can see your gender. There isn’t any word though how fast the roll out of the option is. So best keep your eye out for it.

Source: The Verge