Friday, 11 July 2014

Pressy, the ''almighty Android button'' brings cool shortcuts to your device

This gadget of the week has been a long, long, looong time coming. After repeated delays, Pressy buttons have finally started shipping and we've got our own little hardware button that could. Despite a few hiccups in manufacturing and delivery we love the thing now that it's finally here, so check it out!

What is Pressy?
Pressy is a tiny hardware button that plugs into the headphone port of your Android smartphone or tablet. It's clickable and with the companion app, you can set a whole range of actions for different combinations of long and short presses. You can do heaps of different things with Pressy, from controlling your music playback with it, to snapping pictures, starting your flashlight or launching an app you have on your phone.

How does Pressy work?

Pressy won't work without the companion app, which you can grab from the Play Store and activate with your unique code that ships with the button. Once you've activated the app and set Pressy as the default app to handle button presses, you simply assign button combinations to actions. There's a bunch of combinations available (14 to be exact), so you're really only limited by your ability to remember them. You can also use the same combinations at different times of day to get different results....

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