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by Alex Dobie
Apr 04, 2012
Cloud storage provider Dropbox has just doubled the referral bonus it gives users for referring friends to the service. Previously Dropbox referrals resulted in a bonus of 250MB for both the re...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 04, 2012
SwiftKey -- the Android Central 2011 keyboard of the year -- has declared war on the spacebar. Never mind that its April Fool's joke actually was to introduce the world's longest spaceb...
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by Alex Dobie
Apr 03, 2012
Hours after today's launch on Android, the Instagram developers have released a quick patch to address compatibility issues with certain cameras. Instagram for Android version 1.0.1 is now ...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 03, 2012
Research In Motion has had a rough go the past little while but they're looking to get things moving in the right direction once again and one of the tools they're deploying to help get them...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 03, 2012
We've known for quite some time it was coming but the folks from Instagram never said when, exactly. Now, without any pre-warning Instagram for Android has turned up in the Google Play Store and...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 03, 2012
The latest update to Path for Android update has now hit the Google Play Store, and this release will be of interest to those who previously had concerns over Path not properly securing personal dat...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 02, 2012
It's been a while since we hard from the folks at Orbotix but they've been hard at working coming up with some new apps and working out arrangements so that they may ship the pretty awesome ...
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by Android Central
Apr 01, 2012
Just a quick heads up that the Android Central Forums app is now available in the Amazon Appstore, for those of you who roll like that. It's all the same incredible forums content you get right ...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 29, 2012
Although the last update to the Amazon App Store brought us all the ability to go ahead and disable notifications it really didn't work all that reliably. Amazon however has now jumped the versi...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 29, 2012
It's been a while since we heard anything from the folks over at Hulu. Today though, they've gone ahead and updated their Android app to include support for a few more tablets in addition to...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 29, 2012
If you're a big consumer of news and information on your Android device, you'll be happy to hear this news. Zite, the personalized magazine app that's been popular on iDevices for about ...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 29, 2012
Google has today announced the launch of Google Play Movies in France. The service launches in France as "Google Play Films", and Google's touting the availability of French language c...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 27, 2012
As you're no doubt aware, the Android Central Forums are the friendliest and most helpful Android community around. And now there's an even easier way to check up on the latest discussion, p...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 27, 2012
After we got wind that Bluestacks was going to be releasing a beta soon, we could only wait with bated breath at what exciting new enhancements would be dropped on us come unveiling time. Final...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 26, 2012
The folks from Ustream are celebrating today with their app having now hit 2.5 Million downloads. To ensure everyone else can get in on the celebrations, they've gone ahead and released Ustream ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 26, 2012
I'm still looking for my perfect Twitter client. This might well be it. Carbon for Android -- a longtime favorite on webOS and more recently on Windows Phone -- now has a video sneak preview to ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 25, 2012
We're not gonna muck this up with a bunch of words. Just watch. And wait for April, apparently, for SAWS | The Puridium War. Mechs. High-def Mechs. Or, as the dev puts it:
The year is 2210, ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 23, 2012
Flight Track -- an indispensable app for those of us who go places to do things for a living -- just got itself a sizable (if slightly cryptic) update. First, the changelog:
Customiz...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 23, 2012
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I absolutely adore my Galaxy Nexus. It's fast, has a gorgeous screen, and perhaps most of all, has a notification LED that supports more than three colors. Whil...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 23, 2012
Verizon has now teamed up with IndyCar to offer exclusive access to the Official IZOD IndyCar Series Mobile application. The app is being made available to all Verizon customers for their smartphone...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 22, 2012
We've gotten a bunch of reports from you fine folks today regarding your Gmail apps causing a screen flicker, and being unable to get to your inbox. We never experienced it here, but that doesn&...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 22, 2012
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Imagine this with me, if you will: Blocks are raining from the sky. Strange hieroglyphs are scribbled upon them, and with each hieroglyph, a color. They continue to...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 21, 2012
See that there? That's the Weather Flow app. And that's pretty much all there is to it. Simple, easy-to-read data like date and time, temperature and forecast (daily or hourly). Don...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 20, 2012
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Drawing is a really funny thing. Most people fall into one of two categories: excellent or incredibly terrible. What better way to expose people and complicate the ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 20, 2012
Tripit easily is our favorite app for frequent travelers, and it's just gotten an pretty significant update for tablets as well as phones.
On the larger screens, there's a new layout that i...
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by Sean Brunett
Mar 19, 2012
Official apps from NHL teams are being released on a staggered schedule. Last month, four more teams received apps, however, many fans were still left in the cold. The Winnipeg Jets have recently re...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2012
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Dunno what's better — the fact that you can get five new games (well, new to Android) and pay whatever you want, that you can designate where you wan...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2012
The folks at Fitbit over the weekend slipped an official Fitbit Android app into the Google Play Store. It doesn't take the place of the Fitbit tracker, but it does let you check your daily prog...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 19, 2012
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If there's one thing Android isn't hurting for, it's puzzle games. Knowing that, I wouldn't be putting another puzzle game in front of you if it was...
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by Joshua Munoz
Mar 16, 2012
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Music is something really close to my heart. It's what I'm majoring in (Go Bobcats!), something I've been involved in for years, and my other great pass...
