Twitter has unveiled Instagram-like photo filters for its official mobile apps on Android and iOS. It’s been rumored that Twitter would roll out this feature by the end of the year, and the time has come.
You can choose from 8 basic filters and crop/enhance your pics before sharing them in the Twitter app. This addition comes after Instagram recently shut off photo previews for links shared in Twitter.
Same Instagram, fresh coat of paint.
A big Instagram update is now available for Android and iOS devices. The camera interface of the app has been improved with a quick preview of the last picture you took on your device. Now there’s an optional grid guide for taking pictures and a permanent grid to help you with aligning when you’re scaling and cropping. For iPhone 5 users, Instagram has included an “improved Camera Roll image selector for quick access to your last photograph.”
Today’s update also includes a number of speed enhancements, Foursquare buttons, several design tweaks, and a new filter called “Willow.”
TomTom has updates its popular Navigator app with support for a slew of newer Android handsets, including the Samsung Galaxy S III and Google Nexus 4. Sadly, version 1.0 of TomTom’s app has only been compatible with 480 pixel-wide displays, which isn’t good for devices like the GS III. Now that version 1.1 is out, the app fully supports more than 200 Android devices on the market with resolutions ranging from 800 x 480 to 1280 x 800.
Another big addition is the ability to store offline maps onto your handset’s microSD card to conserve storage on the device itself. You can even download maps in the background while you’re not using the app.
AT&T announced last month that it would be launching shared plans for pooling monthly data allotments between up to 10 devices per account. Instead of paying for a separate data plan for each smartphone, subscribers would be able to use a 1-20GB shared plan across multiple devices, including tablets and desktop computers. Verizon announced a similar strategy in June.
Today AT&T has confirmed that its shared data plans will be available to new and existing subscribers on Thursday, August 23rd.
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Facebook has begun rolling out an improved photo layout for its news feed across its mobile web, Android, and iOS apps. The update addresses the way a series of photos are displayed in a feed, making it hard to see each small thumbnail. Thanks to the new design, album photos will be displayed more elegantly in a collage-like view. You should start seeing the new look across Facebook’s mobile apps today.
