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There are some who after parking their car, will take a photo of the place they parked, like a pillar which shows which level and which zone they are parked in. This makes it easy for them to remember where they left their car. However according to a recent APK teardown by the folks at Android Police, it seems that Google could be planning something similar with Google Now.

According to the APK teardown, they discovered several strings that are seemingly related to parking. This includes strings that mentions where your car is and where is its location. At this point in time it is unclear as to how Google might implement the feature but given that there are apps like Auto Finder and Valet that offer similar features, it could be based on an activity that has already been built into Android that Google will leverage in order to make it a native feature.

The cards on Google Now have been designed to catered to your specifications and needs, or at least what Google thinks you need. For example it will be able to pull up local weather, currency conversion, some choice translations when it detects you’re in a foreign country. It is also able to curate a handful of news articles based on what it thinks you like, so it would not be a stretch of the imagination to think that the cards could also help remind you where you parked.

The image to the right is not the actual image of the card but rather a mockup by the folks at Android Police at what they think it could look like. So far it seems entirely plausible but there’s no telling if this is a feature Google will actually include in its next Android build/update, or if they might decide to omit it, but what do you guys think? Would you like to see that feature arrive in future versions of Android?

Future Android Builds Could Remind You Where You Parked Your Car , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, Rumors, Android, Google,

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A couple of weeks ago we reported on an interesting insight which found that for the most part, many gamers don’t finish the games that they’ve started. Perhaps they got bored, perhaps something new and better came along, who knows? However interestingly it seems that when it comes to mobile games, gamers have even shorter attention spans.

According to app testing firm Swrve, they have spent the past 90 days tracking 10 million players from last year, seeing how they reacted to games released by big name publishers like Activision, Epic Games, Gameloft, and so on. The results are actually pretty amazing because they found that most mobile game players tend to quit the game after only one day.

They also found that by the 30th day, only 5.5% of the gamers of the original gamers are still playing the game. The number of sessions played is also an interesting one as they found that 45% of gamers never had more than 4 sessions of a game, and that 19% only played the game once.

Personally I’ve been guilty of downloading games and trying them out and only to quit a couple of hours later. Usually this is because while the premise of the game is interesting, early parts of the gameplay haven’t been particularly engaging. Then again everyone has different play styles, some love to get as deep into a game as possible, while others just want quick entertainment while waiting for the bus or the train.

What do you guys think of this report? Are you guilty of quitting mobile games shortly after downloading it yourelf?

Mobile Gamers Tend To Quit After One Day, According To Study , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, Gaming, Apps, study,

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