Thanks to XDA member Rv57500 shared the leaked Gmail v4.5 .apk link that uploaded by Android Police . Installed on HTC One X+ and it works well. Google refreshed user interface of its mail service with more colourful design, swipe down gesture for refresh and placement of buttons bar.

Gmail v4.5 APK Download

The long awaited video sharing application from Twitter is now available for Android, months after it launched on iOS platform. Stated “Vine for Android has many of the features that more than 13 million people have grown to love: easy video creation with automatic playback and sound; Explore, where you can discover popular posts and see what’s trending; and Find Friends, where you can find and invite people you know to join. You can also share your posts to Twitter –– people will be able to watch them right within your Tweet. We even added a few features that are unique to Android: zoom (on devices that support it), and much improved offline browsing.”

The Zoom feature on Vine is available on HTC One X+ by pressing volume rocker button. Vine enable user to record a video with maximum length of 6 seconds, and share the video on social network on Vine itself or embed it in Twitter. Few features are missing on Android version which is Front-facing camera video shoot and Embed Vine posts on the web.

Here’s the announcements Google made at I/O:

Detail information such as photos, videos, and announcements at: https://developers.google.com/events/io/. Check out the 3 hours+ video of Google I/O 2013: Keynote, the show starts on minutes 6:27.

From the official press release from HTC Malaysia, seems like stocks for HTC One has finally arrived in Malaysia and available in retail stores now, as below,

Asian consumers will experience the stunning new HTC One starting May 2013

MALAYSIA, Kuala Lumpur, 7 May, 2013 — HTC, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, today announced the successful roll out of its flagship smartphone, the new HTC One, across major global markets in Asia, EMEA and North America.

The new HTC One was introduced to great fanfare at media and consumer launch events in mainland China, Malaysia and Indonesia, and through AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Cincinnati Bell in the United States, after successful introductions in the United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan, Australia and Singapore. This marks the first time that HTC is mounting a massive global sales and integrated marketing campaign in response to unprecedented consumer demand for the new HTC One superphone.

“We are humbled by the support and demand for the new HTC One from the media, fans and consumers alike,” said Benjamin Ho, chief marketing officer, HTC Corporation. “We will strive to justify this faith and conviction in HTC by demonstrating just how bold, authentic and playful the HTC brand is, and continuing to deliver the best smartphone experiences that people want.”

Experience the new HTC One in Asia

Asian consumers will be able to experience the new HTC One across multiple touchpoints, including roadshows, retail stores and other authorized HTC distributor channels. A simultaneous advertising and marketing campaign will support sales efforts, and is expected to reach millions of consumers nationwide in China and Southeast Asia, as availability begins in May 2013.

The new HTC One

Crafted with a industry-first distinct aluminum unibody, the new HTC One introduces HTC BlinkFeed™, HTC Zoe™ and HTC BoomSound™, key new HTC Sense® innovations that reinvent the mobile experience and set a new standard for smartphones.

HTC BlinkFeed: The new experience that transforms the home screen on the new HTC One into a single live stream of personally relevant information is re-created in the HTC Showroom as a larger-than-life interactive phone display that will provide news updates to shoppers.

HTC Zoe: Create instant cinematic movies of your memories with Video Highlights and watch HTC Zoe™ literally come to life in a living, breathing gallery.

HTC Sense TV™: HTC experts demonstrate how the new HTC One transforms into an interactive program guide and remote control to easily sort through and check all content on TV by selectable categories.

For more information about the new HTC One, visit www.htc.com.

Tested out many of those free Android photo editor/ effects add-on applications, such as: Otaku Camera, Camera Zoom FX, Camera360 Ultimate and more. Fews problem on these apps are either complicated user interface, slow app launch time or unresponsive/crash randomly. For currently, these two below are my top pick among all because of its easy with practical use which stayed in program list for months now and still often use.

i) Photo Editor by Aviary

As stated by Aviary, the app is a powerful photo editor which we created because we wanted a quick and easy way to edit our photos on the go with no fuss. Features: One-tap auto enhance, Gorgeous photo effects and frames, Fun stickers, Color balance, Crop, rotate, and straighten your photo, Adjust brightness, contrast, color temperature, and saturation, Sharpen and blur, Color temperature (“Warmth”), Color Splash, Focus (Tilt Shift), Draw and add text, Create your own memes, Cosmetic tools: fix redeye, remove blemishes and whiten teeth.

Google Play: Photo Editor by Aviary

Friend of mine that using HTC Butterfly asked me how to add Power Control widget (some called as Power Dashboard or Data Dashboard widget) on the notification drop down menu. Unlike Google Nexus and Samsung Galaxy devices, the useful shortcuts doesn’t come together with stock HTC sense. Searched it around and found this amazing app on XDA forum, created by j4velin named as “Notification Toggle“.

Its been a year since Google make the decision and dropped Android Market that surprised smartphone users which they found the Android Market icon is missing. On the same day, Google launched Android market replacement, dubbed as “Google Play” which offers more varieties, includes e-books, musics and movies.

To celebrate Google Play’s first anniversary, developers added android related scene or characters to their games as video below. In addition, there are some free giveaway (ex: discounted in-app purchase, $15 Fancy gift card) from Google too, check out free-gift over here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_2013_play_birthday

According to CNET, these special offers from Google Play will only last for a week long.

Samsung Mobile confirmed the company’s flagship Android smartphone will be unveil real soon with a tweeted image titled “Samsung Unpacked 2013 Episode 1″ with tag line of “Ready 4 The Show”, “Come and Meet The Next Galaxy”. The New York media event set on March 14th 2013, 19:00 EST, livestream will be available on youtube.com/SamsungMobile.

Current rumoured spec for the coming Samsung Galaxy S IV are: 4.99-inch Full HD AMOLED Display, 1.9 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset instead or 1.8 GHz Exynos processcor 5 Octa, 2GB RAM, 13-megapixel main camera and Photo Sphere alike “Orb camera technology” that capture 360 degree image.