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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 06, 2012
There's no doubt that Amazon is trying to become a strong competitor in the Android tablet game, and a big part of that is the success of its own Appstore. There's always been an issue with ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 06, 2012
Archos announced back at the end of August an interesting product it called the GamePad. The idea was the make an Android tablet that was very gaming-focused, with a full host of physical gaming con...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2012
Want to play a game where someone has to describe a word somehow, and you have to guess it? Not new, we know. But WordTag takes the the style of the old "Password" game with the new h...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 06, 2012
There seems to be no shortage of RPG (Role Playing Game) titles on Google Play, but some really are better than the rest. Popular game developer Game Insight is throwing its proverbial hat...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 06, 2012
Snapseed developer Nik Software, now owned by Google, has released an Android version of its photo sharing app. The app has several filtering and tweaking options to allow photos to be improved, dis...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 06, 2012
Tasks is a bit of a favorite in these parts. We all rely on Google's services immensely day in, day out, one of which is Google Tasks. In lieu of any kind of official application from Google, Ta...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2012
It's been interesting to watch the continued evolution of Android keyboards. Google's didn't start getting decent until the last year or so, but it lacked the excellent prediction of Swi...
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by Richard Devine
Dec 05, 2012
Samsung has continued their seemingly endless quest for Global domination with this, the opening of their first "Samsung Mobile Store" in Paris, France. The concept of a brand store isn...
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by Alex Dobie
Dec 05, 2012
When TomTom for Android first appeared a couple of months back, support was limited to a few devices with WVGA displays, a move which excluded many of the most popular handsets. Today the app h...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 04, 2012
Remember when Samsung awkwardly (and unexpectedly) came out with the "S-Pebble" music player at a press conference earlier this year with the Galaxy SIII (S3)? It has chosen to finally rel...
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by Sean Brunett
Dec 04, 2012
Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) is now rolling out to the WiFi version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (see our review) in the United Kingdom. Back in September, we saw an update roadmap from Samsung th...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 04, 2012
Starting this week, Verizon will be rolling out a targeted advertising system it is calling "Verizon Selects." The basic idea is that customers can opt-in (thankfully) to a system that let...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Starbucks lovers with a device running Android 4.2 -- quite a few of us now -- have been out in the cold waiting for an update to fix compatibility with the latest OS update. Some problem with ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Coming up on 3 weeks after the T-Mobile Galaxy SIII (S3) started receiving an OTA update to Jelly Bean, users in our forums are reporting seeing the update become available via Samsung Kies for thei...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Starting today, that fancy new Gmail update -- version 4.2 -- is bringing the much-requested features of pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-delete to any device running Ice Cream Sandwich or later. But curi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 03, 2012
Polk Audio, makers of quality headphones and speaker systems, is announcing today that it will be offering three different headphones made specifically to work with Android devices. The headphones o...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 01, 2012
It's the first day of December, and for some of us that means terrible, cold weather. When it's nasty outside, you're probably just better off staying in and downloading some great apps ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 01, 2012
It's a perilous time to be the developer of a Twitter client, with major changes to the service's API looming on the horizon. We've already seen one Android client shut down in large par...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 30, 2012
Falcon Pro (Beta) was my weekly app pick last week, and for good reason. Twitter clients aren't in short supply, but with Twitter's new rules, some of the better ones seen recently are start...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 30, 2012
Electronic Arts is currently offering up a series of deals every day, funnily enough known as the EA Daily Deals. The offers vary as one would expect, but to help us keep an eye on what's up for...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2012
Plague Inc. easily is in the running for my 2012 Android Game of the Year, and it's about to get even better. Developer Ndemic today let loose a blog post detailing some upcoming features in Mut...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 30, 2012
We all love our Android collectibles, and it just wouldn't be the holidays without a properly themed Android mini figurine. The folks over at Dyzplastic have always offered some great ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2012
Gaming start-up OUYA today announced via its blog that it's planning on getting developer consoles to those who backed it at the developer level on Kickstarter by the end of the year. Dec. 28, i...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 30, 2012
ADW Launcher, once a staple in the Android community, mysteriously stopped being updated some time ago. While updates to Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean started to come out, ADW still looked like ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2012
Google's semi-secretive game Ingress is still in closed beta, but the numbers are growing every day. And overnight, the Android application got itself a little update. According to the one of th...
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by Richard Devine
Nov 30, 2012
A quick heads up to all the Xbox users out there, that the Xbox Smartglass application has been updated. It's not a big update save for one feature. It now works on the Google Nexus 7 and o...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 29, 2012
We first saw shared data plans come to market with Verizon and AT&T -- albeit with mixed results. C Spire (formerly Cellular South) is hoping to get in on the buzzwords today by offering it...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 29, 2012
Peel, a so-called "second screen" app used as a TV guide (and in some cases to control your TV), has been available for download for some time now. The company has even struck a deal with ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 29, 2012
We got a teaser video yesterday showing off new content for the recently released Angry Birds Star Wars game, and now it has gone live in the Play Store. The update brings new levels on the planet H...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 28, 2012
Sailing is one of those things that can be explained in a couple of minutes, but it really takes a lifetime to master. Sailboat Championship (from Infinite Dreams) marries the fundamentals of being ...
