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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 15, 2013
One of our favorite Google Reader clients, Press, released an update to its app today explaining that it plans to continue development after Reader shuts down on July 1, 2013. First and foremost, Pr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2013
It's one of the more controversial moves a smartphone manufacturer has made in recent memory. HTC has pared down the out-of-box home screen experience, instead going with a single traditional An...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 25, 2013
News360 chooses to sidestep other apps that focus on social news recommendations, and instead offers user-focused content generation from a wide variety of sources. The aim is to provide multiple an...
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by Andrew Martonik
Feb 22, 2013
Material is an interesting app that's hoping to take a slice of the pie in the social news reader space, and is doing so with a beta version of its app that initially impresses in both design an...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 21, 2013
A quick heads up for users of the New York Times Android application, that an updated version has pushed out into Google Play. The two headline new features are a night mode -- otherwise known as wh...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 31, 2013
PaperBoy is a quick and easy way to browse through news stories from a useful but concise list of sources. Some of us like to have our Google Reader lists filled with hundreds of RSS feeds at our fi...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 24, 2013
There are plenty of news readers and widgets out there, but not many do their job as elegantly as Big News Pro. Since moving to a new design language with Ice Cream Sandwich, we've been looking ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Jan 22, 2013
Deer Reader, a Google Reader client for Android, has a great design and set of features that has the ability to appeal to a wide range of users. News reading apps usually fall into either the "...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 27, 2012
Press, a brand new Google Reader news client, has been the focus of the Android app community since its release, being heralded for its great design choices and general ease of use. It certainly isn...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 20, 2012
Flipboard, the popular newsreader app (which basically made RSS look like the dinosaur that it is and paved the way for other platforms like Google Currents) has finally updated itself for Andr...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 12, 2012
Google's own news reading aggregation platform, Currents, is receiving an update today with pretty much a complete UI overhaul. When first launching the app, you're now greeted by your news ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Scope, a client meant to help you manage all of your social media accounts, has been updated today with several improvements. On top of your usual Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr feeds, the update brin...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
Starting today, Google will be improving the Google News webpage reading experience on 7- and 10-inch tablets. Rolling out over the next few days, the new interface provides a more intuitive navigat...
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by Andrew Martonik
Dec 11, 2012
The official New York Times app for Android has been updated to version 3.0 today with a substantial improvement in UI and usability. The big news is that this new application is responsive to man...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 28, 2012
Another big news day is done, and I sit here with a frosty beverage winding down for the evening. I like to do that by catching up on all the stuff on the Internet I might ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 27, 2012
Another day full of Android news that no sane person could keep up with. No worries, we're here to help. Here's a quick recap of what you might have missed.
The...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 01, 2012
Extremely popular news reading app Pocket has just received an update focused on one thing: speed. Sure we all like new features and UI elements, but if an app is slow, nothing else really matters. ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Oct 17, 2012
These holo app updates just keep coming. The NPR News app has received a very nice facelift and integrated new Android design guidelines to fit in with other popular apps on the platform. You get pr...
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by Simon Sage
Aug 11, 2012
With only a few days left in the Olympics, you may still be hunting around for the perfect way to follow the last few events. Yahoo has made an app called Beyond Gold with a stark, mobile friendly U...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 22, 2012
After running a short beta and having Samsung Galaxy S III exclusivity, the developers of Flipboard have gone ahead and opened the doors to the masses. The beta testing phase allowed for testing on ...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 03, 2012
Flipboard is finally coming to Android. Well, sort of. Flipboard is coming to Android on the Galaxy S III. Exclusively on the Galaxy S III, we're told, at least for some amount of time, tho...
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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 Android Central
Mar 07, 2012
Google Currents so far has survived the Google Play rebranding. (Play Currents?) So now's as good a time as any to check in and see how it's doing. And at the time of this writing, Android C...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 26, 2012
Welcome to Barcelona and Mobile World Congress. And things are already pretty insane. And we're not just talking tapas here. Though if you want to talk tapas, I can go on for days. And if his...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 12, 2012
Hell of a week, eh? We saw the rise of Chrome for Android, and Google Wallet hit a couple of potholes -- but nothing we're really worried about -- but some of the coolest news out of Mountain Vi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 01, 2012
Google today has updated a couple of its apps -- Chrome to Phone and Google Docs.
Chrome to Phone, which was rolled out alongside Android 2.2 Froyo in 2010, is a slick little service that lets you ...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 13, 2012
British tabloid newspaper The Sun has decided to head down the digital route, with the arrival of its very own subscription-based Android application.
The premise is quite promising if you...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 13, 2012
We've got three days down, and CES 2012 is slowly winding down. We've seen a number of new devices, heard a lot of promising news from folks like Intel, and had time with some awesome ...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 10, 2012
Verizon has been rolling out quite a few exclusive deals today and their latest announcement brings a long-time iOS app to select Verizon wireless Android devices, namely -- the Samsung Galaxy Tab 1...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 08, 2011
Download Android Central on Google Currents now!
Now that Google's announced its Currents project, it's time to let you in on a little secret.
It's pretty darn awesome.
We've been...
