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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 19, 2012
Exciting times are ahead, folks. We're starting to work on the next generation of the Android Central App to complement this little website here and our Google Currents Edition, and we're go...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 17, 2012
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We're not implying that the insanely cute and colorful Android game Whale Trail was inspired during some sort of psychedelic episode, but -- OK, who are we kidd...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2012
It's easy to make a side-scrolling game. It's a little harder to make a good one, and harder still to make a side-scroller that will keep you coming back. Attack From Outer Space falls into ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 16, 2012
Our pals at Borange today unleashed Textie for Android, bringing cross-platform text and picture messaging from the land of iOS (they've had something in the neighborhood of 1.6 million dow...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 15, 2012
Ever have that moment of panic when you realize you've left the house without your trombone? Yeah. We've all been there. Fortunately there's iBone.
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 14, 2012
I've been desperately trying to convert from Foursquare to Path for bothering most of my social networks at once, but a pretty critical bug was keeping that from happening. But Path's just r...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 13, 2012
Over the next little while we're slowly going to see Android 4.0 ICS rolled out to a number of devices and for some -- that may cause some havoc when it comes to app compatibility. One of the mo...
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by Simon Sage
Jan 12, 2012
Samsung announced a new smartphone app here at CES 2012 which will help you handle your laundry by communicating wirelessly to a Wi-Fi-enabled washing machine and dryer. I got a closer look, and am ...
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by Sean Brunett
Jan 11, 2012
Google has released an update for their Google Search app for devices running Android 2.2 and Android 2.3.
The update brings several enhancements, including:
Faster, smoother performance wi...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 11, 2012
The latest Square Card Case update has now made its way to the Android Market and is sitting pretty at v1.1. The latest release adds onto Twitter integration, has an improved directory and also incl...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 10, 2012
If you're making use of Kindle for Android on an ICS equipped device then you may have noticed it has some slight issues with freezing when you launch it. If you never noticed it -- awesome but ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 10, 2012
The latest update for Google Maps is now showing up in the Android Market and according to the updated change log it's mostly optimizations of already existing features and battery optimizations...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 10, 2012
Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition applications have been around for a while but they've been working on a new project for Android recently and with CES 2012 in full effect, they've gon...
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by Simon Sage
Jan 10, 2012
One of the more interesting things to come out of Samsung's CES 2012 press conference was a quick glimpse at this Android app which would connect to one of their smart washing machines and notif...
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by Rene Ritchie
Jan 09, 2012
Instead of capitulating to the National Transportation Safety Board recommended, iOnRoad by Picitup wants to turn the tables and show how mobile technology can keep you safe and sound on the highway...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 09, 2012
If you own a TiVo and an Android device and have been waiting for the official TiVo app to arrive for Android, then the wait is now over. TiVo has finally announced the full release of the And...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 06, 2012
With the Amazon Kindle Fire making its way to plenty of consumers hands, a lot of companies are working on making their apps compatible with the Kindle Fire. Once such company that has completed the...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 05, 2012
Qualcomm this morning announced that its Game Command will launch the Snapdragon GameCommand app in the Android Market on Jan. 10, the opening day of CES.
GameCommand is a portal for ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2012
Good news, everyone! The NFL Mobile app is finally working correctly on the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. The app actually got its update fix last night, but the login was still borked for a lot of people. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2012
There's a fallacy about Android users: We're cheapskates. We refuse to purchase applications. Or, at least, we don't purchase apps as frequently as users of other platforms. On one hand,...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2012
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To all the hamsters in all the balls in all the world, you have our apologies and our everlasting love for being not only good fist-size companions, but for allowin...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 03, 2012
Once upon a time Microsoft ran a little Hackathon in which 40 developers had 40 hours to create an app for the new Nokia Windows Phones. The winner of the Hackathon was Visiarc, which came up with a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 02, 2012
We're about a week away from the insanity that is the 2012 International CES in Las Vegas. That's the little show with 120,000 or so of our closest friends in the desert oasis. Like we said ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 01, 2012
We really do have a hard time without using the word "BlackBerry" in a sentence without also using the words "dying," "obsolete" or "time to switch." But we&#...
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by Joshua Munoz
Dec 31, 2011
Being the "apps guy" is an interesting position. It means I get tasked to play with apps all day long, each and every day. It feels a lot like being an adventurer, wandering through a dens...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2011
Fun fact: Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow has at least six Android apps and a live wallpaper in the Android Market. (Make that eight total if you count the misspelled "Tbows World.")
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by Joshua Munoz
Dec 27, 2011
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Ed. note: The game was sideloaded on a Toshiba Thrive, as it doesn't natively install from the Android Market.
Oh, boy, here we go again. One man stranded on a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 26, 2011
Weather Underground has long been a go-to source for weather information online. And now, finally, we have a proper Weather Underground Android app.
The main view is a nicely laid out three-panel s...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 23, 2011
Norad tracking Santa started back in 1955, pretty much by accident when a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement accidentally printed the number to the Continental Air Defense ...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 23, 2011
Having previously slipped a preview of the Dropbox update with optimizations for Ice Cream Sandwich, we all knew it was coming but we didn't know when, exactly. As it turns out, the latest updat...
