Multi-Platform Updates

 

Viber

This week's update brings the ability to make VoIP phone calls to any phone number, landline or mobile, for an allegedly low rate (calls to other app users are free). The app also displays your phone number on caller ID, so your far-flung friends need not know you're calling them on the cheap, and the app is 100% free, no ads involved. [Android] [iOS]

Socl

Microsoft's try at social media (it's even pronounced "social" - get it?) has a new app for Android, iOS and naturally, Windows Phone. The search-based social network focuses on the visuals, letting you create collages and respond to others' images by making your own changes. Let's see where this one goes. [Android] [iOS] [Windows Phone]

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Android

Convert Everything

This is one of those rare, pleasant apps that does just one thing, and does it exactly the way you'd want it to. Think of a parameter - seriously, any unit, be it shoe size or kinematic viscosity. Convert Everything will let you convert between standard units of measure with ease. The lite version is ad-supported, but if you work in a field where you've got to juggle standard and metric, this app will totally justify itself. [Free]

Cover (beta)

A smart lockscreen that promises to give you the right apps for whatever you're doing, Cover gives you quick app access based on the time of day and your location. It's also got a smooth single-swipe app switching function to make for quick navigation. [Free]

Android Device Manager

Android's formerly desktop-only device locator now has an accompanying phone and tablet app. Like the desktop version, the app shows you where your misplaced device is, and offers to blast its ringer, change the lockscreen password, or nuke it entirely. Now you can use your Android to find your other Android. [Free]

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iOS

Peek

This brand-new app helps you find the best things to do in a bunch of major U.S. cities, London and Paris. Start by taking a quiz to determine your "travel persona", then browse activities by category, neighborhood, or date. Offline browsing even lets you figure out what you're going to do while you're in the subway. [Free]

Pandora Radio

The popular streaming music app's iOS 7 update brings fresh new design, and perhaps most importantly, the return of the alarm clock feature. Now you can wake up to a genre, not just a specific song like iOS's built-in alarm clock. [Free]

Fiverr

Fiverr, the anything-for-five-bucks freelance marketplace just rolled out this app that lets you hire yourself or someone else to do the things you need done. It's even got in-app direct messaging and push notifications to ensure you never miss out on a gig. [Free]

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Windows Phone

MetroMail

Finally, a slick third-party Gmail client designed from the start for WP! MetroMail brings unbroken conversation threads, easy organization and plenty of options to search and archive old messages. [$1.50]

AccuWeather

Nice big update to this weather app this week, including adding Location Search and making the local forecast summary more prominent for quick appraisal of what you should wear. Finally, the app can now support unlimited locations, so you can swipe to see what the weather's like anywhere. [Free]

LinkedIn

The ubiquitous professional social service now lets you add photos to your profile and monitor who's been checking you out. It also can pull contacts from your address book to help you boost your connections. Now get out there and start networking! [Free]

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LG G2 to start receiving Android 4.4 KitKat update in Q1 2014

LG has finally revealed plans for rolling out the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the flagship smartphone, the G2, over-the-air. A Canadian site, Mobile Syrup quotes LG Canada's representative, Court Elliot, who confirmed that the Android KitKat update for LG G2 will be rolled out in late Q1 2014 or at the end of March.
Further, the report claims that the South Korean manufacturer will also release the Android 4.4 KitKat update for carriers around the same time. However, no exact date for the update was revealed by the representative. The LG G2 is expected to receive the Android 4.4 KitKat update via FOTA (firmware over-the-air).
Earlier, a report claimed that LG would release the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the company's flagship smartphone in November or December 2013. However, there has been no such announcement from LG on the G2's software update, yet.
LG has been the official manufacturer of Nexus smartphones, the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, for two years in a row, but the South Korean major is yet to announce the Android 4.4 update rollout plan for its devices including the LG Optimus G Pro, LG Optimus G among others.
The Android 4.4 KitKat iteration brings some new features such as the translucent menu bar, which is located at the bottom of the screen; new dialler and caller ID; unified Hangouts messaging app; smarter Google Now integration; step counter and detector, and support for screen recording.
LG unveiled the G2 in August this year, and it was launched in India at Rs. 41,500 this September. The LG G2 natively runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean.
The highlight of the LG G2 smartphone is that it houses the power buttons and the volume rocker at the back of the phone, below the rear camera, instead of the sides of the phone, as is usually the case.

 

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