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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 14, 2013
Ingress has just been updated today to give users the ability to submit and update portal location information. For existing portals, players at those portals can now submit new photos that they fee...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 14, 2013
Right on schedule, Rovio has just released its latest game "The Croods" into the Play Store to coincide with the upcoming release of the DreamWorks movie. In the game you get to play as th...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 14, 2013
The Mint.com app has received a solid update today with lots of background improvements and a couple of forward-facing fixes. One of the biggest improvements in this update is the ability to update ...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 14, 2013
Whatever your own personal opinions on the birth of the Chameleon Launcher project, one thing remains the same. People are talking about it. As people talk, interest grows, and Chameleon certainly b...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 13, 2013
Get ready to rumble boxing fans, because Real Boxing is now available for Android devices running NVIDIA's Tegra 3 chip. A smash hit on iOS, Real Boxing has been updated for Android, and optimiz...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 12, 2013
The Humble Bundle 5 has been out for a few days now, and after raising over $1 million in donations, the bundle is growing with three more games. The updated bundle adds the following three games, w...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 12, 2013
doubleTwist needs little introduction really. Charting over 10 million downloads from the Google Play Store, it's without question one of the finest and most popular music players available on t...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 12, 2013
Nuance has announced a handful of new features to their Dragon Mobile Assistant app, which launched just last fall. In addition to the usual stuff, like updating Facebook and Twitter, finding busine...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 11, 2013
Marvel has announced an awesome limited-time promo as a part of their SXSW presence. Anyone using the official Marvel Comics app for Android can download over 700 first issues for free. These #...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 10, 2013
Samsung has been using a fictional game called "Unicorn Apocalypse" in a barrage of internet and TV commercials lately, and has followed up on it by actually releasing the game in the Play...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 09, 2013
Ahh yes, the Apps of the Week. We meet here every Saturday afternoon to bring you an app from each of the Android Central writers. But not just any apps, these are the apps that we're using day-...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 09, 2013
While third-party Netflix applications are somewhat limited as to what they can offer anyway, some folks still love to use them. Netflix is putting an end to any future third-party clients however, ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 08, 2013
Chrome for Android (stable, not beta) has just received a small follow-up update to the large version 25 release from last week, with mostly behind the scenes performance enhancements. There are une...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 08, 2013
Riptide GP is somewhat of a favorite among the Android Central staff. Its excellent graphics, combined with superb controls and a great pick up and play approach make it to this day one of Android&#...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 07, 2013
The last time we heard from Scope, the all-in-one social aggregator, they were opening up a VIP program for interested beta testers. We've been part of the VIP program since it began, and some i...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 07, 2013
Path has just been updated to add private messaging, stickers and "The Shop" to fall in line with the update that hit iOS yesterday. If you're not familiar, Path is a social network th...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 06, 2013
SO.HO (which stands for "the social homescreen") is a new launcher that puts your Facebook and Twitter feeds directly at the center of your device. Just released in beta, SO.HO takes the p...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 06, 2013
Google Shopper received a few new features in an update today, including an improved search result page and location data collection. Search results will now come back with the most popular products...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 06, 2013
It might be all doom and gloom for popular third-party Twitter clients, but at least the official app is getting some love. Twitter's own Android app has been updated to version 3.8 today, with ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 06, 2013
Fitness app Endomondo got itself an update today that brings a pair of new premium features, as well as a couple nuggets for the cheap seats.
New for those who shelled out for the full version...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 06, 2013
The Conan O'Brien Team Coco app now supports phones as well as full episode streaming right inside the app. Previously, the app was only available for tablets, which didn't make a whole lot ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 05, 2013
The rebranding of Android Market to Google Play happened just one year ago today, and to celebrate Google is offering discounts, gift cards and exclusive in-game content. The deals range from free b...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 05, 2013
There's an update to the Chrome beta channel for Android, bumping it to version 26.0.1410.26. Along with a new number comes some fixes and enhancements that are important, but the real news...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2013
There's no better way to get a handful of awesome Android applications for one low price than the Humble Bundle, and it's back in its fifth iteration with up to six titles. The gist is that ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2013
Super Hexagon, that ridiculously difficult and ridiculously awesome game from Terry Cavanaugh, received an update today that, among other things fixes input lag on a number of devices, notably the N...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2013
TweakDeck dies alongside its master; tablet app from Carbon developer won't be released
We've got a couple more deaths to report in Twitter's ongoing war against anything third-party...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 05, 2013
The folks at Opera have released their new web browser for Android, dropping the Presto browser engine in favor of webkit, which is also used in Chrome and the AOSP browser. The beta build is availa...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 04, 2013
Mobiroo is hoping to hop on the popularity of mobile device subscriptions by offering users access to hundreds of top paid apps at a flat monthly rate. At the promotional price of just $2.49 pe...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 04, 2013
The Facebook Messenger app for Android was updated today, bringing feee VoIP calling to users in Canada. This mirrors the way things were done on the iOS app, which saw support for folks in the U.S....
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 04, 2013
TweetDeck, which has been owned and operated by Twitter itself since mid 2011, is closing down its Android and iPhone apps to focus on future development of its web app. The app itself hasn't se...
