Sentences with phrase «standalone apps like»

Facebook has tried multiple times to copy Snapchat with standalone apps like Poke, Slingshot and Instagram Bolt.

Many insurers have their own home inventory apps, and there are also standalone apps like iKeepm, Encircle and Sortly.

Not exact matches

Sports Stadium looks and sounds a lot like an app, but one that functions inside of the social networking platform instead of being a standalone (although you can definitely see how it could become a standalone app if Facebook wanted to do that).

By making payments part of its oft - used messaging service rather than a standalone app, Facebook is looking to edge out dedicated P2P payment competitors like Venmo / PayPal, Google Wallet, and Square Cash, which people open less frequently.

Then, in the week after F8, it announced a new standalone, Snapchat - like camera app.

While some moves by the networking giant seem to give the signal that it is going out of the way to endear itself to people — like Zuckerberg holding an open Q / A session for the first time, explaining why they made the Facebook messenger a standalone app, making the privacy policy shorter and simpler to understand, others make it more than obvious that they care two hoots for the people who make up the site!

Instead of buying an ebook from a bookstore like Amazon, or Kobo, you are buying a book that is in a standalone app.

There will always be a market for companies like Zinio and Newspaper Direct that offer many subscriptions within a singular app, but you will see dedicated standalone apps die off.

With both browsers appearing on the Galaxy Nexus, we have a suspicion that Google will keep the stock Android browser in Jelly Bean, which will be modified by the likes of Samsung and HTC with updates to their devices, and continue to offer Chrome as a standalone browser app, as it currently is.

There is a second interface screen too, which takes you to the settings menu and secondary features like the standalone dictionary, audio player, picture gallery and doodle-fest handwriting app.

Walt Mossberg says he likes the user interface, but he's disappointed at the lack of standalone personal information management apps, as well as the fact that you need a BlackBerry phone to pair with the tablet in order to use an email or calendar app.

Like movies and music, there's no standalone store besides Google Play to get access to extra apps and games.

Why we like Thinkorswim: There are a few standalone apps specifically designed for testing investment strategies and learning how to invest in the market without using your own money.

Messenger has evolved a lot as a standalone app; it has added things like payments, chat bots and video calls.

The product is an extension of the smartphone, but it has the capability of running some standalone apps, and — like all things introduced at CES — it has voice control functionality with Amazon Alexa built into the device.

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A standalone app is likely to be a hugely beneficial for those that utilize their Android Wear smartwatches on a daily basis and are busy enough that even something like a using the watch for messaging entirely would save them time.

Facebook constantly experiments with other products like Workplace, but the ones that fail to get any significant traction slowly fade away in the background, like Lifestage and its standalone apps for Groups.

While some iMessage apps, like the sticker packs, are completely standalone, iMessage apps that are essentially an extension of a bigger iOS application (like the Confide privacy iMessage app we just downloaded) will trigger the download of the full application.

The easiest options offer standalone solutions, like SurfEasy and its quick and easy Android app.

Don't forget that Sticky Notes is also a standalone app, just launch it from Start if you'd like to use it outside of Windows Ink Workspace.

I will occasionally try a specific kind of shot in a standalone app, like «supersampled» photos in Camera Super Pixel, but that's about it.

Bixby isn't designed the same way other virtual assistants like Google Assistant and Siri are, rather it's designed to work inside of your apps instead of just a standalone way to search for things.

With the headset, Microsoft says, everything from gaming, through streaming media in apps like Netflix, to productivity apps, Skype video calling, or even creating virtual 3D objects in the new HoloStudio app - think Paint for the 21st century - are possible in a full standalone wearable computer.

I appreciate that the Fn and Control keys are swappable using the Lenovo settings app, which means you can decide if you'd like the outermost key to perform the Control function as it would on a standalone keyboard.

That might save it from the lackluster traction that led to the shut downs of other standalone Facebook apps like newsreader Paper, Snapchat alternative Slingshot, news alert app Notify, and video profile app Lifestage.

Facebook has been quietly testing a new standalone group video chat app, called Bonfire, which allows up to eight friends to engage in conversation as well as use special effects, similar to those you'd find in apps like Instagram and Snapchat.

In addition to speed improvement, the software update will also introduce all of the things that can be expected to come to every watch that's scheduled to get the Android Wear 2.0 upgrade, like the capability to download standalone applications onto the watch as Android Wear 2.0 brings the Play Store to smartwatches, so users won't have to mess with downloading the app to their smartphone first.

Facebook has shutdown Lifestage, its standalone app that featured Snapchat - like features high schoolers.

That's why the initiative is focusing on basic features like storage management — as with its last standalone app — and data usage.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see developers create standalone Animoji apps that work on more iOS devices, not just the iPhone X, like this one.

Keep in mind Facebook has many standalone apps for features, like the one you can use for managing Facebook Pages.

It offers a bleeding edge look at incoming technologies; think of it like Chrome's various channels (stable, beta and dev) only Apple chose to break its «dev» channel out into a standalone app.

While some Android Wear developers like Lyft pulled their original offerings as they started working on standalone apps for Android Wear 2.0, AccuWeather decided to continue offering its original product, regardless of how limited it may be.

The update to Android Wear 2.0 added a bunch of really nice features, like standalone apps.

Much like Allo, the upcoming web client for Android Messages won't be a standalone platform but a desktop shell meant to serve as an extension of one's mobile app, according to the newly uncovered code.