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Google Chrome On Its Way To iOS
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Its Sunday Photo 02 of the Week
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Yakuza Kiwami � PS4

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Friday, April 3, 2015
Its Thursday App Review of the Week 02 Tower of Saviors
Welcome to our second In Depth Review of the week : Tower of Saviors (Free)
Introduction
It is a strategic puzzle card game created by the Hong Kong Studio, Madhead. It is massively inspired by the Japanese game Puzzle and Dragons, but it is only available to North America and Japan.
There is a possibility to link your account to your Facebook one or Twitter which will save your progression in the cloud. So you can resume your game while changing devices (Smartphone to Tablet) or when upgrading your latest Smartphone.
The game is a massive hit and just reached 7M of downloads and just hired Taiwanese actress, Michelle Chen to represent the game.

Basics

The game world is divided between 7 worlds and there are 5 elements with a paper/scissor/rock logic :
- Fire beats Nature
- Nature beats Ice
- Ice beats Fire
- Dark beats Light
- Light beats Dark
There is one territory dedicated to each element plus a special challenging area (various challenges changing everyday) and the main tower which concludes each chapter.
Among the different possibilities of the game, you will be able to change your team composition :

Every 10 levels, you will be afforded a second team composition, so you can adapt depending on your opponent.

In your inventory, you can choose how you arrange your cards (HP, attack, etc...). You can also check each cards profiles and then level them up or make them evolve after reaching the max level.
Game Mechanics

Before each game, you need to choose an ally to complete your team. So you will be controlling 6 cards instead of 5 and it will act as if it was part of your team.
More often than not, you will be offered to partner up with very powerful allies and after a while (~ 5 hours), you wont be able to win fights (unless youre grinding) without such allies.
At the end of each stage, you will be able to make a friend request if the chosen ally wasnt one.
Each successful completed stage will award you 10 Friend Points if your partner is a friend and 5 otherwise.

Battles consist in aligning 3 blocks of the same color. There are 5 different colors representing each elements plus Heart stones which allow you to heal yourself if you sustained damage.
Each turn, you can choose one block and drag it on an unlimited distance but in a limited time frame (somewhat around 5 seconds or less). While moving your stone, you will move others as well and making combos : aligning several 3 blocks or more. The more you make combos, the more damage you will inflict on your opponent.
If you align 5 stones or more of the same color, you will be awarded a super stone on your next turn.

At the end of each stage (from 3 to 7 battles), you will be awarded new cards and experience.
In order to participate to a stage, you will need to invest Stamina Points. When you level up, all you Stamina Points will be restored.
At the beginning and even after a while (~ 10 hours), you wont need to spend money in order to restore your Stamina Points.
Game Store

The game currency is Diamond except for Friends Points which can give your a card for every 200 Friend Points.
1 Diamong will be awarded to you when you complete a full level consisting on defeating 5 stages and the main tower. So far, I have spent 5 free Diamonds to extend my inventory and the need to pay hasnt manifest itself yet.
The friend list is limited to 50 but I havent reach the limit yet either.
Those are the prices of the Diamonds :

Verdict
This is must have for every strategic puzzle game fan. It is a complete free game and it will be a while before paying for anything especially if youre not a ultra heavy gamer. I play around 30 to 60 minutes everyday which is already quite something and I have not spent a single penny so far.
On top of that, the game is Adsfree.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Its Thursday Weekly App Selection 05 by PhonAsia
Army Truck Driver (Free)
Army Truck Driver looks like a lot Trackmania. There are currently 2 racetracks in which you need to collect every available ammo and 3 stars to get the max score.
The racetracks are really well designed with crazy curves, uphills and downhills "roads" (you will see that there will not often be standards roads out there).
Yes, you will drive a truck but the physic is much more like a very light kart, you will need to drive carefully if you do not want to get a reverse truck (very easily done).
It took me almost 45 minutes to get access to the second racetrack without 100% completing the first one. Every racetrack try is about 2 minutes length, so it is a nice fail and learn game which is free.
Star Wars : Force Collection (Free)

Misc Apps


If you do not know about Vine, now it the time to really read this and download right away this app. Vine is the official built in video service of Twitter. It allows you to make up to 6 secs mini-movies and share them on Twitter.
The video format is ideal for the intended service and align itself with the 140 characters limit.
Comic Rack (Free)

Sunday, March 29, 2015
Eyefi announces cloud service for its Mobi cards
XiaoMi sold its first 100 000 HongMi Red Rice phones batch in 90 seconds and even more

We told your earlier this month that XiaoMi partened up with China Mobile and QQ to make a special event offering the very first HongMi in China Soil on August, 12th.
Well, everything is already sold out in 90 seconds, I didnt have the time to breath, it was so fast.
But even more impressive, the pre-orders just reached 7.45 millions for the budget phone HongMi which forced XiaoMi to revisit its annual previsions, the Chinese Smartphone firm wants to sell 20 millions devices from the old expectations of 15 millions.
PhonAsia is glad to be part of such a ambitious project and still offer the HongMi for pre-orders in our shop.
Be careful about the 3G network which works only in China using the TD-SCDMA technology only available in China.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 confirms part of its specifications in AnTuTu
The Samsung Galaxy S6 is starring in many news lately but their appearance in AnTuTu is perhaps the most juicy as it allows us to confirm some of its features such as the 5.5-inch QHD screen. The Samsung Galaxy S6 starts to get ahead of your competitors and increasingly know more Korean News from the terminal, if the tradition is fulfilled, will be presented at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona.
Until then, all we have is conjecture and occasionally as today, some information outweighs going forward us your specifications. In particular, and as usual, it is through performance tests AnTuTu from which we can see part of their characteristics.
The truth is that some cause some confusion, beginning with those attributed to your screen. AnTuTu indicated from the terminal, with the SM-G925F code would wear a QHD 5.5-inch screen (2556 x 1440 pixels). This is the same as the current Samsung Galaxy Note 4 both in size and in resolution. Let’s wait then view the details of the range of phablets next year but may, in its effort to cut costs and reduce the catalog, Samsung is planning to standardize and unify both families of terminals to focus on a single product, since this Galaxy S6 also would have a display model “Edge”.
Returning to the data AnTuTu offers, would also be present the Exynos 7420, something that had already commented. It is logical that the first tests of Samsung Galaxy S6 are being made with the chip itself 64 bits since it seems that the Snapdragon 810 passes through some trouble to go into production. Also take 3GB of RAM and a camera with 20 megapixels for the rear and 5-megapixel on the front.
Finally, although as in other times is expected to arrive with different capacities of internal storage, the screenshot we at least confirms the variation of 32 GB and that, if there was any doubt, come now with Android 5.0 Lollipop installed with TouchWiz 3.0, software that is about to reach current terminals of the company.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 confirms part of its specifications in AnTuTu