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The Nook app from Barnes & Noble isn’t the only one getting an update today. Google is also updating its own Google Voice app to version 1.4.3. Users on iOS 6 who are dying to use Google Voice but just can’t due to the poor support will be happy to hear that the app is now optimized for iOS 6 and yes, the iPhone 5. Version 1.4.3 comes just two months after Apple officially launched iOS 6. The new version now requires iOS devices to run iOS 4.3 and above. It also brings a couple of performance enhancements as well as the much needed bug fixes. In case you haven’t downloaded Google Voice yet, you can get it here. (more…)

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Some of us are still recovering from our food comas, but luckily the weekend is here so most of us can use that time for recouping (or chowing down on leftovers). Let’s recap the news from the day, shall we? Of course, today is Black Friday, with Apple kicking off a Black Friday sale of its own and the NPD saying that sales today could be what pushes tablet shipments above notebook shipments. We also heard from various companies that people were reaching for their phones and tablets on Thanksgiving to net some great deals, apparently not willing to wait until the Black Friday “festivities” kicked off.

Speaking of Thanksgiving, it turns out the holiday was Instagram’s biggest day ever, with tons of users taking pictures of Thanksgiving dinner and uploading them to the service. AT&T is offering refurbished iPhone 5s on its website for $99 a pop, while we caught a glimpse of the HTC Deluxe in a leaked press shot today. Nokia suffered a pretty big setback today when the head of its camera and imaging department, Damian Dinning, announced he would be leaving the company, and T-Mobile’s online stock of the Nexus 4 was brought down to nothing in mere hours after the Google Play Store linked to the listing.

The long-awaited Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition was given a gameplay trailer today while we learned that mobile data usage has doubled in the past year. The Samsung Galaxy Camera will be launching in Canada on December 7, and Nintendo has partnered with HMV to give some early Wii U adopters free games when the console launches in Europe. Nexus 4 LTE functionality has been unlocked through the use of a simple hack, and the Toyota Prius has been named the car least likely to be stolen, despite its relative popularity. Finnish police have taken a nine-year-old’s Winnie the Pooh laptop for suspected file sharing, and scientists have studied the dwarf planet Makemake for the first time.

Finally tonight, we have a number of reviews for you to read through. Cory Gunther gives us his review of the Barnes & Noble Nook HD, while Chris Burns reviews the Acer Aspire S7 and the AERIAL7 TANK DIY over the ear headphones. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, we hope you enjoy your weekend!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 23, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The musician, entrepeneuer, and Intel Creative Director known as Will.i.am has come forth with an accessory for the iPhone that he says will redefine what the device is used for. With this camera add-on, part of the new “i.am+” brand name, you’ll be able to get much higher-quality photos than ever before, all while using the iPhone’s standard iOS interface from Apple. In other words, it’ll be an iOS Samsung Galaxy Camera – sort of.

The producer and head honcho of the Black Eyed Peas was deliberately vague about the accessory before it makes its global debut next week. This device will fit around the iPhone (iPhone 4 and 5, so he says), making it a “genius-phone.” We must assume that this simply meant it’ll be working as a “genius mobile camera”, as he went on to note with The Daily Telegraph that the accessory will do the following:

“We have our own sensor and a better flash [than the standard iPhone hardware.] You dock your phone into our device and it turns your smartphone into a genius-phone. We take over the camera.” – Will.i.am

The camera will allow you, the user, a bit of internet “digital real-estate” with a web address connected to the soon to be revealed “i.am” webspace. You’ll be working with “http://www.i.am/Will” for example, with users of all i.am+ accessories being given their own address. At the moment all you’ll see there is a “coming soon” notification, mind you.

The full accessory lineup – or at least this one camera add-on – will be revealed next week in London where it’ll be sold exclusively at Selfridges stores across Europe. We must, again, assume that the accessory line will expand past this high-end store in the near future. The first accessory will be sold starting in early December.

Will.i.am iPhone camera accessory sets off larger line is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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A video discovery app that takes all of the UI greatness of Pulse and smashes it into an environment dedicated to searching through not only your favorite blogs’ feeds of videos, but YouTube, Netflix, and Hulu as well. This app has been out for more than a few weeks, but here in its newest iteration it’s become something of beauty – and it’s free, to boot. You’ve got a “What’s Hot” section for new video discovery and a way to search for the video you want across multiple platforms spanning essentially the entire web – what more could you ask for?

The folks at Squrl have a search engine for instantly playable videos from YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Ted (aka Ted Talks), AOL, Vimeo, Blip.TV, and more. This list is expanding in Squrl, and the app works just as well on the iPhone 5 as it does on the iPad – and the iPhone 4S/4, the iPod touch, and the rest, too, of course. You can make your own profile and share your favorite videos if you want, or you can remain entirely anonymous.

You can add your own feed collections or you can use the app purely for search. Add the Android feed and you’ll find our favorite sister-site Android Community featured prominently – but you want to stick to Apple, right? There’s an Apple feed as well. You can connect to your Facebook to show an interest graph for yourself over time, this generating suggestions from the app itself as it gets to know you better. It’s one of those things that seems a bit creepy to some people and quite magical to others – I tend to lean towards the latter.

You’ll want to check out the competition in Flixter and Dijit, Showyou and every other app just like this one if you want o judge the best user interface experience for yourself, but the end result right this minute will be thus: Squrl is fresh, it works, it feels nice to use, and it’s free. This app is up on the iTunes App Store right this minute and you can hit up Squrl.com to see if they plan on releasing any Android-based solutions in the near future – or Windows Phone, for that matter too.

Be sure to head down to our iOS App Reviews portal for more of the best for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch from all angles. Games, utilities, oddities, and everything in-between – have at em!

Squrl for iOS Review is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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