Not too long ago, BlackBerry 10 developer Toysoft Development ported over his popular Power Tools app to the Google Play Store. This Swiss Army knife of apps provides an extensive list of features to enhance your efficiency on a daily basis. The latest version is now available for you to download in Google Play and comes with several new options, enhancements, and bug fixes.
New features in v2.0:
- Power Tools is now free to try with In App Purchase for $2.99 USD
- Speak SMS - Speak incoming text messages. Perfect when you are driving. Supports over 20 different languages such as Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and more
- Added Good Morning. Every morning when you turn on your device you can tell Power Tools to speak the current time, current outside weather temperature, coming up appointments (Only Google Calendar), new email messages
- Email Spam Filter and Ringtone - Be spam free and get ringtone when email arrives at your inbox. Supports GMail, Yahoo, Outlook/Hotmail and IMAP servers. Note: Power Tools pools the server for new messages and spam filtering. You can set the interval to check for new messages
- Added AppLock support for OS 4.x. Protect any app from launching
- Bug fixes
You can download this all-in-one utility app for free in Google Play, though it's worth noting that the free trial has a limited feature set (though you can use it forever). Unlocking the full feature load of Power Tools comes in the form of a reasonable $2.99 in-app purchase.
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