A system update for the Nextbit Robin for Android 6.0.1 fixes a few issues with the camera and brings in better sound quality and control. We noted in our review how the Robin’s camera was a bit on the slow side, and this update promises to fix this as well as bring in improvements with image sharpness and vibrancy.
Xamarin, which was acquired by Microsoft in February, has announced major updates to its cross-platform development tools. Notably, Xamarin is open-sourcing its SDK’s for Android, iOS and Mac under the MIT licenses. These SDK’s include the command-line tools for building applications as well as Xamarin’s cross-platform Xamarin.Forms UI framework.
The tweets from Nintendo of America have been taken down, but Engadget was able to preserve the text from it. Earlier today, Nintendo went on Twitter and said “More #Nintendo apps are coming to smart devices, including Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing!” It’s unclear if these will be ports of previous games or new games, but it seems these 2 franchises are next on Nintendo’s list.
Niantic is bringing in more people to test their upcoming game, Pokemon GO. If you live in either Australia or New Zealand, then you have the opportunity to get a field test invite for the game. Invites will be sent out based on which mobile platform you’re using, if you have any experience in real world games (hint, Ingress players), and a little bit of luck.
In an effort to avoid dumping of low quality products in India, the government of India has banned the import of mobile phones and certain other products from China. The Chinese mobile phone import ban is restricted to phones that ship without an IMEI number (such as unbranded generic feature phones), which implies that smartphones are outside of the scope of this ban.
3 Minute Games is a game developer studio known for their Lifeline series of games. So far, the team has released Lifeline, Lifeline 2 and Lifeline: Silent Night. You can pick up each of these games in the Play Store right now for only a dime a piece. It’s unclear how long this sale will last, so be sure to take advantage of it while you can.
With Fenix recently hitting its Twitter token limit, Luke Klinker (the developer of Talon) has been getting a lot of questions about the future of his Twitter application. He says Talon “still has plenty of tokens available” and then goes on to explain that he will continue to support it with updates once it finally does hit the token limit.
