Temple Run 2 For Android

Good news! Imangi Studios just released the sequel to Temple Run which is appropriately named Temple Run 2 for Android. You can download the game from the Play store or by clicking this link.

If you ask me, the game is a worthy upgrade to its predecessor. It’s the same gameplay wherein you have to use your fingers to move left, right, slide, and jump. However, there are now a lot more obstacles. The maze is also now curved so you’d have to take advantage of your phone’s gyro to steer your character. Also, you’re now able to zip line through ropes and there’s also an obstacle wherein your character goes into a mine and ride through a cart.

Here are a couple of screenshots:

Samsung Galaxy S3 JellyBean 4.1.2 Smart Rotation

Smart rotation is a new feature added when my Samsung Galaxy S3 updated to JellyBean 4.1.2. This feature disables the screen auto rotation by using the front camera of the Samsung Galaxy S3 to determine your face’s orientation. This feature good say for example you are using your phone while lying in bed. When you tilt the screen, the phone will then use the phone’s front camera and see if your face is the same orientation as the phone. If your face and the phone are on the same orientation, the phone will disable the auto rotate feature and you can continue merrily with whatever it is you are doing.

This feature can be accessed by going to your phone Settings and scrolling down to Display. On actual usage, this feature indeed works. Personally, however, I have this feature turned off. Why? The moment you turn this feature on, you will immediately notice/feel a lag at times when you actually want to rotate your phone’s screen. This happens because your phone will still try to scan your face whenever the phone’s orientation is changed. Also, as with Smart stay, this feature has problems with poor-lit areas because the phone’s camera will not be able to properly read your face.

What do you guys think? Do you have this feature turned on?

JellyBean 4.1.2 Update For The Samsung Galaxy S3

At last! My Samsung Galaxy S3 is now updated to JellyBean 4.1.2 (DXELK1). I can’t really comment on it performance-wise as it may just be a placebo effect. However, there are a couple of changes that I noticed. The most noticeable of those changes is the addition of a tab that appears on the left side (can be transferred) of the screen that allows you to launch commonly used applications. Another new feature is the multi-window feature -- This feature is a port from the Note 2 and allows you to launch 2 applications at the same time.

Other features include page buddy, rotation, changes on the toggle buttons in the notification area, timeline and spiral view in the gallery application (also from the Note 2), the grid view of the gallery application has also been change to match that of the Note 2.

Also those changes are well and good. However, what I dislike about the new update is the removal of the Sync toggle button in the notification area. I’ve read that I should be able to change the toggle buttons with JellyBean 4.1.2 but that option does not seem to be available for the Samsung Galaxy S3.

How about you? What do you think of the new update?