LINE makes a similar move to Facebook, launches a lighter version

When LINE was launched last year, it took second position in Top Free Application Chart of the App Store within three days of its initial release back in August 2014. Though the app has much to offer, the newer Lite version of the app takes away some of its prominent features and cuts down to texting only. This is a move similar to Facebook Lite, which also offers increased performance at the cost of reduced features.

LINE has developed the lite version of their app for reaching out to users with low-cost Android phones. The main app caters to over 205 Million monthly users, with the majority of these users located in Taiwan, Thailand, and Japan.

The lite version is less than 1 MB in size and is currently exclusive to text chats but Line will expand its features in the future. While LINE lite is indeed a diligent effort for growing its users, there are still too many competitors in Pakistan for them. WhatsApp is easily the best alternative to LINE Lite which runs passably well even on 512 MB RAM phones and offers good quality VoIP calls.

If you wish to give LINE Lite a try,you can download it from Google Playstore.

Do you prefer LINE, Viber or Whatsapp? let us know in the comments section.

Via TechCrunch & Featured image from Digital Trends

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Download Google Play Store 5.7.10 APK

Google Play APK 5.7.10 Update: You can now download the latest version 5.7.10 of Google Play Store APK which brings with it a bunch of changes and bug fixes that users have been facing for quite a while. This release also includes more Material Design, Details Page, updated look for What’s New, Wearable sensors/activity data, Enterprise apps support, among other things. The download link below has been updated with latest version.

The all new Google Play Store carries more elements of Material Design compared to initial releases of Android Lollipop. Apps like Google Play Newsstand, Gmail, Google+ are all now updated with additional Material Design elements.

You will also notice that the app icon for the new Play Store carrier the new, flatter look, keeping itself in line with Material Design’s aesthetics.

Apart from the design language, things have changed under the hood as well. Fire up the app and you will instantly recognize the subtle changes in animations for say, when accessing the slide-out drawer menu, along with changes in the iconography.


The What’s New section has been moved to the top and is now visibly highlighted in green, allowing for it to be prominently visible in each application listing.



Even the Widget Suggestion icons for the home screen have changed, maintaining the flat, paper like design, as was expected. Google went to the extent of changing the notification icon for the status bar as well, after all, it is this attention to detail that ultimately counts.

Version 5.7.10 of Play Store should start rolling out to users over the course of the next few days, but, we can’t be entirely sure, and it may take longer. Regardless, if you do not want to wait for that update to hit your device, you can download the APK of this new version of Google Play Store from the link at the foot of this post, side-load it, and give it a run.


Please note that this APK is not quite ready for Android M Developer Preview or ROM ports based on the Preview images. If you did not pay heed to this warning, and your Play Store is crashing, you will need to revert to an older version to get things up and running again.

If you happen to have tried the new Play Store and are running it on your device, do share your thoughts and opinions on the changes and any other improvements that we may have missed.

Download Google Play Store APK version 5.7.10 from here.

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Official Star Wars Mobile App Released, Download It For iOS, Android From Here

It’s difficult to believe that Star Wars, one of the most iconic franchises ever to exist, has been in our lives since 1977, spanning a total of six movies so far, with more to come, and it hasn’t had an official native mobile app presence – until now. After acquiring Lucasfilm for approximately $4.05 billion back in 2012, Disney has now launched an official mobile app for iPhone and Android that acts as a mobile centric gateway to everything Star Wars.

Have you ever wanted to go ‘behind-the-scenes’ and get immediate access to fun facts relating to Star Wars? Well, thanks to the ‘This Day in Star Wars History’ feature within the app, you now can. Have you ever wanted to embrace the selfie revolution but stand out from the duck-faced crowd by visualizing yourself in one of the Star Wars iconic costumes, such as a Jedi Knight, or Princess Leia? You now can, directly from the official mobile app.

The app is essentially a single gateway to pretty much anything that a Star Wars fan could want. Instant notifications are provided relating to big announcements regarding the franchise, including immediate access to new movie trailers and news. The app has augmented reality features built in to allow 3D characters from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to be interacted with. Disney even had the foresight to engineer a Stars Wars themed weather forecast that includes five-day predictions set in stunning parallax environments of the Star Wars universe.

Official Star Wars news, countdowns to major milestones, access to official Stars Wars social channels, lightsaber training against a training remote, access to a growing Star Wars community, and even the ability to share animated GIFs is part of the official app that has been released today.

It may have taken literally decades to come this far, but the app is undoubtedly worth the wait and should contain something for absolutely everybody who feels giddy whenever Star Wars is even mentioned.

The apps for both iPhone and Android are absolutely free to download and can be grabbed from the links embedded below.

(Download: Star Wars for iPhone / Android)

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