Poll: Is it time to cut your KitKat phone loose?

Is now the time to abandon your KitKat phone? / © ANDROIDPIT

There are a few problems with older smartphone OS versions. One is security: more ways to exploit software are discovered all the time, and once Google ceases to support an operating system, youre on your own.

Another problem is that smartphones running older software tend not to perform as well as those with newer software. There are exceptions, crippling bugs, etc, but at this point, Android Lollipop is running fairly steadily.

Lastly, Android Lollipop and Marshmallow have a handful of unique and interesting features, which you just don’t have access to with a phone that is stuck on KitKat. Features like Google Now on Tap, and the recent apps menu, to name just a couple.

So my question to you is this: if your phone is stuck on KitKat, and won’t be updated, do you think that now is the time to abandon it?

If your phone is still running Android KitKat, is it time to upgrade?

                                               source :- https://www.androidpit.com

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Microsoft Skypes Real-time language translator helps you say hello in 7 languages

Microsoft officially announced the development of its new language translating feature for Skype users.

With the new built-in real-time language translator brings Skype users improved conversation experience, making it possible to converse in 7 different languages.

Skype users before now do make use of stand alone Skype translator app to improvise translation, the new language translation feature has been fully integrated into Skype app available at their official
website for Windows PC users.

The company of its official blog explained that English and French is the widely used pair of language by Skype users, an since the new feature was introduced calls have skyrocketed to up to 400%, especially from Germany to Ghana.

The translation featured is coined based on machine learning and may not be at its best now, but with time will get better with converting multiples of language.

The company promises to add other languages in the future, however, here are the seven languages integrated into the app for enhanced real-time voice-to-voice language translation;

English
Italian
German
Mandarin
Spanish
Chinese and
Portuguese

An extra feature introduced into the chat app is text-to-text language translator that helps users translate imputed text into more than 50 languages.

Skype real-time language translator is available to windows PC user, the company did not disclose if the feature will as well be available for android and iOS users.

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500 million tweets a day and 230 million users: Twitters job of neatly summarizing the year is probably getting tougher each time. For 2013, the social networks displayed what happened and when in month-by-month summaries of both the major events and hashtags of the moment -- including the most-retweeted post of the year. It also has specialized synopses for sports, news, entertainment and showcase. The latter is curated highlights from Twitters selected publishing partners, so its pretty classy fare.

Twitters slightly limp #music service has ensured the same hashtag was the top trend of 2013, followed by #nowplaying at no.3. If you already cant remember whats gone down since January, hit up the source, or watch Twitters summary after the break, which pulls together Royal babies, typhoons, red pandas and well, the launch of its own six-secondvideo sharing service, into a single-minute highlight reel.

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