The one on the left has three positions: app mode, off and standalone.
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Once the Cyberhoop is in app mode, firing up the game automatically "pairs" the two without any input from the user.
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An enhanced iPhone "App Mode" function allows for in-dash, touchscreen control of play, pause, seek and stop functions for popular apps when connected to a properly enabled iPhone.
The App Mode feature, which can only be accessed when the vehicle is in park and the hand brake is fully engaged, lets users view a connected iPhone's video content from Safari, YouTube and other select apps2 directly on a larger high resolution screen.
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Phone-controlled cars Samsung smartphones will soon be able to connect with Toyota's In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system using a new Car Mode app.
They need a UI ninja that will be able to direct the whole look and feel of the UI so that everything acts consistently in just one way no matter the mode or app that the handset is in at that moment in time.
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While the app works in both phone mode and tablet mode (but disabled when headphones are inserted), we've been told that it's tuned specifically for the PadFone Station's loudspeaker, but nonetheless, the improvement is apparent: audio is both louder and livelier with added warmth.
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The app will also run in "background mode, " so users can pause a game, and then take a call.
The app is designed to provide a portrait or landscape mode interface, depending on the device, for easy visibility and use.
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In standalone mode it operates independently of the free app, pumping out sound effects and color commentary as you rack up points.
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Once the car is parked, the app will automatically save its position and switch into pedestrian mode to provide walking directions.
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However, the privacy mode requires a separate mail and address book app designed by Fujitsu, rather than the default email program and address book provided by the carrier.
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There's no minimum service, customers are allowed to change their plans on the fly, and there's even a handy parental control mode that lets concerned caretakers set curfews and app restrictions on their kid's phones.
The Camera app has built-in face detection, a burst shot mode, and modes for HDR pics, macro shots and panoramas.
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For offline mode to work, people have to install the Gmail Offline app in the Chrome web store.
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Worse still, in our testing with the Galaxy Nexus, the app refused to work properly while the D3200 was in "Manual" mode.
The VF app offers the same scrubber, but its floating nav bar works only in portrait mode, forcing the user to switch out of landscape if he wants to bounce back to the Table of Contents.
Another nice feature available on the Android, but not Google's iPhone app or Apple's software, is that the phone's screen enters a night mode when you're driving at night.
Finish, an app brilliantly named for the person always adding to their to-do list or in procrastination mode, was built, iterated, and shipped in less than a year by young Colorado natives Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen.
The Android-based MOD Live ships with four new, industry first applications: Buddy Tracking, Smartphone Connectivity, a Navigation app pre-loaded with the largest database of trail maps in the world, Music Playlist Mode, and Camera Connectivity for use in the future with select wireless point-of-view action cameras.
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One drawback was that in the teach-me mode, we didn't see all of the examples of compound kanji words that the reference mode gave us. (A kanji can have different readings and, depending on the character or characters it is combined with, different meanings.) App creator Rory Prior says he is considering adding a vocabulary-training feature to the teach-me mode to address that.
Human Japanese app designer Brian Rak says he'll be improving the quizzes so users can select the continuous "freestyle mode" of quizzes or a version that awards points toward an overall score.
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