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Taking a page out of its parent company Google’s playbook, Motorola has released one of its smartphone’s core applications on the Google Play Store. The Motorola Camera app has now been released, and is readily available for download. There’s a caveat though, the app is only compatible with Moto X right now and it doesn’t seem like compatibility will be expanded to include other Android devices as well, quite unlike Google which doesn’t limit core apps to a specific device. Though its possible that Motorola might make the app available for its DROID lineup somewhere down the line.

Motorola Camera app makes it easier for the company to update camera software on Moto X without having to first develop an app updating system of its own. To roll out camera software updates for the Moto X, the company merely needs to update its standalone app. This particular release brings a number of improvements. The camera viewfinder has been brightened and Quick Capture has also been enabled for more enterprise users’ IT policies. The usual slew of bug fixes are present as well. Motorola Camera app for Moto X is available as a free download from the Google Play Store, it weighs in at just 2.5MB.

Motorola Camera App Released, Only Compatible With Moto X original content from Ubergizmo.

Moto X users tired of waiting on their laggard service providers for camera updates should be happy to find out that future camera updates to Motorola’s latest big deal are bypassing carriers and headed straight for Google Play. The first such update is already available on the Google Play store, as …

Another day, another Nexus 5 leak. Google has still not officially announced the device, and apart from rumors, there’s no confirmation as to when the next Nexus smartphone is going to be made official. Its not like anything left to the imagination, pictures of the Nexus 5 have been leaking almost every single day. Even today we get to see high quality pictures of a Nexus 5 teardown, that too before the actual announcement of the device itself.

In these Nexus 5 teardown pictures we get to see its battery, rear and front facing camera, earphone jack and other internal components. The display panel gets photographed as well, though it has already been seen multiple times before. The Nexus 5 is said to have a 4.95 inch full HD display. Other expected specifications include a 2.3GHz quadcore Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB RAM, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, 8 megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilization and Android 4.4 KitKat. Nexus 5 will apparently be sold in 16GB and 32GB flavors. Despite its impressive specifications, it has a it has a 2,300mAh to provide the juice, which is likely to put off some power users. The new Nexus smartphone will apparently be offered in both black and white colors, it is expected to be launched come November 1st. [Images via FanaticFone]

Nexus 5 Teardown Pictures Surface Ahead Of Official Announcement original content from Ubergizmo.

HTC isn’t expected to launch another flagship Android smartphone in what’s left of this year. It launched the HTC One earlier this year, which was very well received. The launch was followed up with HTC One Mini a few months later. After that, we started hearing rumors of a HTC One-esque phablet being in the works. Sure enough, a few weeks ago, the HTC One Max was announced. The first rumor about what to expect from HTC next year, presumably, has come in. A device, codename M8, is said to be the first device to run HTC Sense 6.0.

Unfortunately, the source doesn’t offer any details about Sense 6.0, particularly about how it will be different from Sense 5.5. The little bit of information comes from serial leaked @evleaks, who tweeted about the HTC M8 earlier today. No details about the device have been offered, so its too soon to say right now if it will opt for a metal design like the current flagship and exactly what it will tout under the hood. HTC M8 is obviously not going to be the final moniker of the device, the company still has a lot of time to make a decision on that. Just to jog your memory though, the HTC One was codenamed the HTC M7.

HTC M8 Will Reportedly Be First Sense 6.0 Device original content from Ubergizmo.

An artist's concept of Kepler-78b with its star.

(Credit: Karen Teramura/University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy)

Kepler-78b might seem kind of familiar. It’s one of only a few planets scientists have found that are about the same size as Earth. It has a rocky makeup like Earth as well. But we won’t be building leisure colonies on it anytime soon. Our doppelganger is rocking some hellish temperatures.

The planet was pinpointed thanks to NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Two different research teams took on the task of ferreting out some of the details on the planet, and both have published papers this week about the discovery in the same issue of the Nature journal.

One paper is titled, “A rocky composition for an Earth-sized exoplanet,” while the other is “Extrasolar planets: An infernal Earth.” The two teams coordinated with each other, and their independent results corroborated the findings.

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