Usian Bolt Now Playable in Temple Run 2

 

The six-time Olympic gold medalist and so-called "fastest man on Earth", Jamaican runner Usian Bolt, is now a playable character in the mobile game Temple Run 2.

This is the first instance in which Imangi Studios, the game’s creator, has added a character based on someone in real life. Imangi Studios, called Bolt's addition to the game an "obvious and fitting partnership."

Bolt joins the game's cast of fictional characters as a 99-cent in-app purchase available from the game's "Upgrades" menu, wearing his signature yellow-and-green Olympic uniform. He also brings the unique power-up, "Bolt", when activated, the character auto-dashes at breakneck speed, immune from the game's traps, with the coin magnet.

"I am a big fan of Temple Run. I travel all over the world, and travel time gives me lots of opportunity to play Temple Run at airports or on car journeys," Bolt said. "It's exciting to see myself represented within a game I already play."

Temple Run 2 is free for iOS and Android

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Sony announces 4.3 Jelly Bean will come to Xperia Z devices

                Sony has confirmed that the latest version of Jelly Bean will be coming to the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia SP and Xperia Z Ultra. For now, the only tablet that is confirmed to be getting Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean is Xperia Tablet Z.  

            

           Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean may have only been revealed by Google few day ago in Nexus Range, but Sony isn’t wasting any time at all. The company has released a software roadmap for Xperia devices that will be taken into the 4.3 Jelly Bean fold. 

           The smartphone manufacturer has admitted that the Jelly Bean 4.1 rollout for Xperia 2012 products had not been “as succinct or as timely” as the customers might have expected. Sony has written quite a lengthy, informative piece about how it tries to improve and refine its efforts to bring users new Android versions in a blog post.

           

          The rollout of Android version 4.3 for Sony phones will depend on the carrier and market you are in, but the Japanese company says that it is keen on bringing the latest iteration of Android to customers as quickly as possible.

             The company is currently working on making Android version Jelly Bean 4.2 available for Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. Starting early August, Sony will be rolling out the update for the Xperia ZR and Xperia Tablet Z. The company has some more good news – Sony will be looking at pushing some of its other devices running Android version 4.1 Jelly Bean to version 4.3 directly. 

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Motorola unveils 3 phones under Droid range

                  Verizon Wireless, the biggest US mobile service provider, on Tuesday announced three new phones under its Droid smartphone brand from Google's Motorola and said that Motorola would be its exclusive Droid phone vendor going forward.

                The phones, the Droid Mini, Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx will go on sale for $99, $199 and $299 for customers who sign a two year contract and will be available in Verizon stores August 20, according to Verizon Wireless.

         The Droid brand helped to resuscitate a struggling Motorola at the time as Verizon Wireless supported the device with a massive marketing campaign.

The exclusivity agreement with Motorola could be a blow for phone makers including HTC, whose devices have also carried the Droid brand in the past as have devices from Korea's Samsung Electronics.

           Verizon Wireless vice president of marketing Jeff Dietel said that since Droid phones should only include its "elite" phones based on Google's Android software it wanted a manufacturer "that matched all the expectations" for unique hardware and services.

            Verizon said the full retail price would be $499 for the Mini, $599 for the Ultra and $699 for the Maxx.

        Verizon Wireless is a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group.

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Android 4.3 announced, for Nexus 7, Nexus 4, Nexus 10 And Galaxy Nexus

After weeks of leaks, other leaks, and false starts, Google finally took the wraps off its next version of Android at an event on Wednesday in San Francisco. The new version of Android is actually the third version to carry the "Jelly Bean" label, as opposed to the rumored next-generation leap, "Key Lime Pie." Android 4.3 isn’t an overly dramatic advancement over Android 4.2, but its highlights include:

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New iPhone 5S photos leak appear

New iPhone 5S photos appear, specs hint at 12 MP camera, higher CPU clock, quad-core GPU

           

          Parts for the iPhone 5S have leaked quite a few times before, and now we have another batch of what seems to be chassis waiting to be stuffed with internal silicon.

          The more interesting part here are the claimed specs accompanying them, which say that we'll get a 4" 2272x1280 pixels IGZO display accounting to whooping 652 pixels per inch<ppi>, meaning high brightness at frugal battery consumption, the same A6 SoC like in the iPhone5, but clocked higher, and a quad-core PowerVR SGX544MP4 GPU, instead of the tri-core unit we have now.
         

          The source also confirms 2 GB of RAM, NFC at last and the elusive fingerprint scanner we've been hearing about for a while, linked to mobile payment system of sorts, though we have to see the two gigs of RAM listed officially to believe them. As for the camera, it gets downgraded a bit in terms of resolution from the last leaks, claimed to be 12 MP instead of 13 MP now, but a dual LED flash system is confirmed. 

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Motorola Moto X first press images leaked

Press images of Motorola's Moto X have been leaked online, according to tech-savvy Twitter user @evleaks

The press render images for the highly anticipated handset from Motorola are featured above after leaking online, tech site TheUnlockr reports.

Moto X launch date is confirmed for August 1:
The Moto X will be launched at a New York event on August 1. Email invitations sent to the media on Friday, depicted several youths holding the Moto X.

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