The Sporcle app finally brings the very popular website onto the market and into your phone. With over 15 categories including geography, entertainment, science, history and many different game choices this app is a trivia buffs dream. After selecting a category you will get a list of all the trivia games available to you. The [...]
Unless you have a Nexus S, that fancy new keyboard that we’ve all seen for Android 2.3(Gingerbread) has been out of reach. Not to leave all the Froyo and Eclair OS people with nothing new to play with, XDA Developers have posted a shiny new APK to download the Gingerbread keyboard for your current device. [...]
Top 20 Apps for the past 24hrs Free Screen Filter by haxor industry Reduce the brightness of your screen for night-time viewing. Applies a shade that acts as a dimmer to ensure your eyes d … 5,000-10,000 downloads, Rating 4.77 (384) Free Android 2.3 Launcher (Home) New Price Drop by Steven Lin Original launcher from [...]
Can’t wait for a taste of Gingerbread (Android 2.3) on your Nexus One? Nexus One will more than likely be first to receive the update, but if you really can’t wait, thanks to Chris Soyers you can manually install Gingerbread to your Nexus One. Please take heed to the following, this is a working version, [...]
The Nexus S of course is the new kid on the block and the only phone running Gingerbread Android 2.3. Both phones are high-end devices and neither will leave you lacking in the feature department. The main difference will be that the Nexus S comes with the pure Google experience no additional custom UI to [...]
Intro The galaxy tab was something I have wanted a while, a tablet that is android and can be used in many situations, a good set up and quite responsive! Looks It looks like a big Galaxy S, it feels like a very nice device, It is clean and has good curves, Every model but [...]
Big News, Android 2.3 Gingerbread’s source code just hit the Android Open Source Project’s repository! Â This is great news for all you hackers that want to seriously dig into some source code. Hardware companies that don’t get Google’s certification to include Android Market access can also benefit now. Android operating system has come a long [...]
Twitter might be the most popular forum for social media, opening up easy blogging to the masses, where news and info spread like a virus infected computer. Of course we all know there are plenty of Twitter clients out there as well, with Touiteur being one of the most popular. While the client has been around for a while, [...]
In case you hadn’t heard, Gameloft, the company responsible for popular games like Modern Combat: Sandstorm and Let’s Golf HD, recently received some bad press regarding some users being overcharged for their titles. According to reports, users who purchased games from Gameloft were charged multiple times — one user was charged four separate times for [...]
A year after launching it on iPhone, EA Mobile is finally bringing Sims 3 to Android, for all Sims fans out there. The game has been very popular on iOS, so I expect it to gain some popularity on Android as well. It currently sells for $4.99 in the market. It was available before on [...]
Everyone wants to video chat on their brand new smartphone…right? Â That’s why you bought a model with a front-facing camera after all. Â Well, the new update for the Yahoo Messenger App for Android allows you to do just that! Â Yahoo Mail also added linking multiple accounts and viewing photo attachments in a gallery. Here’s the [...]
We have the video from Rohan. Give this a look and tell us what you think. Other sites obtained this video, it is what it is. We should have got a review unit last week but nothing ever happened with that and the very site that bashed Notion Ink and gave them pure hell got [...]
Up until now, LG has not been a very big name in the Android scene. Â They had a few mid-range phones, but nothing big and special. Â All that is changing. First, the LG Optimus 2X was announced. Â It will be the world’s first dual-core phone, and will launch in Korea next month, followed by Europe [...]
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One of the great aspects of running Android is that if you’re not happy with the skin your carrier lays over top of the OS (I’m looking at you Motoblur) you can change the launcher to create virtually whatever look and features you want. There are plenty of home replacement apps available, but the big [...]
Waiting to have peek of the full version of the Madden game? Luckily, there are couple of guys who got their hands on Madden 2011 for Android.The upgrade version ($9.99)Â of the demo was included in a Droid X update and took video of the gameplay. As per the review, the game runs well for being [...]
ooVoo has launched its 6-way video-chatting to the Android platform. Â Yes it can handle up to 6 members at a time. Â Calls are made over WiFi, 3G, or 4G (ideally). Â You can get contacts from your phone contacts and social network contacts. Â Also ooVoo gives the option of texting your contacts instead of strictly video [...]
One of the most competitive browsers for Android devices is Dolphin Browser, which 0ffers both Dolphin Browser and its HD version. Â They now offer us the ‘Mini’ version for their set of browser apps. Dolphin Browsers have always made the web browsing experience more fun with their sleek look and phone-optimized data. Â It is also [...]
Google has recently announced its Android App Inventor. It has been out in private beta version for some time but now it’s released and available around the world. How does this help? If you have any great ideas for creating an app but do not have the technical skills to write the code for it, App Inventor [...]
Looks like GameLoft in Italy has the inside track with HTC.  While most of us haven’t heard anything out of HTC in quite a while, GameLoft seems to know more then anyone.  This shows the Italian version of their site listing the HTC Scorpion in the compatable devices section for Lets Golf! 2. What is the [...]
The feature that is often being touted by WP7 users as the most important and unique one that WP7 has is the Xbox Live integration. Although I don’t see what the big deal is, since it’s not like it means you can play Xbox games on your phone, or anything like that. What it gives [...]
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If you remember back to the release of the Nexus One, ninjas were in charge of the unboxing.  Well the Nexus S came out this morning and the little guys are back with a vengeance.  This time the action is so intense that the video window can’t hold them. There is even a hidden pair of [...]
Do you wonder about what great apps you are missing on Android? Â Do you wish you could share the apps you think are the best with your friends? Â How about knowing your friends’ favorite apps? Â Now, there’s an app for that. It’s called AndFriends, and it helps you slog through the muck of the Android [...]
For quite some time, Android users have been fed up that the iPhone has been getting all the good games while they sit and wait (hope) that their favorite game gets ported. Well, for once the good fortune  has landed on our side first, with the release of the highly addictive gam, Rocket Bunnies. Created [...]
Google Maps for mobile is great, but it still had a pretty big disadvantage – you couldn’t save the maps offline, and they used quite a lot of data. So it wasn’t so easy to use Google Maps when driving, especially if you didn’t have a very good connection. Today, Google Maps 5.0 changes all [...]
As I’m sure you already know, the Samsung Nexus S was just released to the masses at Best Buy. It’s available on T-Mobile with a 2 year contract at $199 or the ridiculous $529 without. You gotta love those no contract prices. For anyone that hasn’t had a chance to grab one yet, the people at [...]
One could easily argue that the big three social networking sites today are: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Android users have been enjoying Facebook and Twitter apps for awhile now, but LinkedIn has been curiously absent from the party. Until now, that is. LinkedIn has just announced an Android app for their popular networking site. This [...]
Hot off the news of the LG Optimus 2X, the lastest from phandroid is that LG is promising yet another high profile Android device next year, codenamed the LG B. In the picture above, courtesy of phandroid, you can see that the B must stand for bright. The future device is sitting between an iPhone and a Galaxy S, and [...]
Anyone with a Samsung Galaxy S might find this a little interesting. The great minds from XDA developers have posted on their forum the Android 2.2.1 I9000XXJPU Froyo build, specific to the Galaxy S. It’s said to fix plenty of issues that the Galaxy S had with Froyo, making the device faster and lag free. In addition [...]
It is the holiday season and for a lot of people who means traveling. No one wants to leave their car in the airport parking lot and not only have to pay for it but also worry about theft. To make this experience better the SuperShuttle app is here! SuperShuttle provides transportation for over 8 [...]
While the stock Android keyboard is good enough for many people, there are those who find it lacking in features and usability, which has spelled great news for developers of third-party keyboards. Next to Swype, one of the more popular alternative keyboards on the Android platform has been Swiftkey, thanks to its Fluency prediction engine, [...]
Some people who pre-orderd the Notion Ink Adam tablet are reporting that their original planned shipping dates have been pushed back. In one instance, a customer who pre-ordered the tablet was told to expect the device to ship on January 6, 2011 only later to find out that the date had been pushed back to [...]
In recent news, some networks such as Telus, Bell, and others announced that they will allow and will have an Unlock Device service. Â As to this current trend both Rogers and Fido decided and also announced that they too will offer these service. Â They have announced that starting 2011 there will be a ‘Handset Unlock [...]
If you are the type of Android user that doesn’t like clutter on your display but still want a lot of information available, Minimalistic Text is the app for you. This app shows off the great thing about Android, Customization! It is able to show you four types of information –Battery, Time, Date, and Weather. [...]
While it’s not an earth-shattering update, Skype for Android now has the ability to be stored on your phone’s SD card for those running Android 2.2 Froyo. Skype says that moving the app to your SD card will, on average, free up about 15 MB of space on your device. Although the app will still [...]
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