With Halloween coming up so quickly we decided to treat you to a little bit of fun with a Halloween themed round up for this week! So, let's hit the break and take a look at some of our favorite Halloween flavored apps! read more … Continue Reading Here Android Central Editors’ app picks for [...]
Booyah! What you see above is the possible future for our beloved smartphones and tablets - for all technology with screens for that matter! What you are looking at is two variations of glass, the left being untreated and glare ridden, while the right, treated and virtually glare free. This new technology called “invisible glass” was [...]
It was a while back that carriers caught on and started blocking customers from downloading wireless tethering apps from the Android Market. You may still be able to tether via USB cable but the wireless method is now all but extinct. Sprint held out the longest allowing customers to use their phones in conjunction with [...]
Let’s not mince words here: This “Android and iPhone Update History” chart is not a good chart. Oh, it’s a pretty chart, to be sure artfully illustrated and researched. But this chart — done up by Michael Degusta at The Understatement and reposted by anyone unable to think clearly, apparently — is not a good [...]
Barnes & Noble’s Nook line of eBook’s have been fairly popular with consumers, not only as a digital book but as an affordable tablet capable of running the Android OS. Sources say that the newest version of the device, the Nook 2, will beat Amazon’s Kindle Fire to market and will arrive in stores on [...]
According to reports from multiple sources, the HTC Desire S is currently receiving an update to Android 2.3.5, which also bumps the mid-range handset from HTC Sense 2.1 right up to Sense 3.0. The new version of Sense, which first shipped on the Sensation earlier in the year, features a redesigned 3D launcher and lock [...]
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YouTube is the ugly duckling of the Gapps family. That’s right, I said it. The 100% black design and horrible gradients make it look like a 13 year old boy’s geocities page. It certainly doesn’t look like it’s from a professional company. It’s only saving grace it that, since it’s a video app, you [...]
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You don’t encounter a lot of apps that have been downloaded over 1,000,000 times with a 4.7 user rating. Pumpkins vs Monsters is one of those apps, and it’s a highly addictive game that is really fun to play. If you are a fan of games like Bejeweled or Plants vs. Zombies! you will love [...]
Amazon’s free app of the day is another method of killing time. CandySwipe by Runsome, is a brain teaser similar to Bubble Popper, but with a twist. You see delectable treats such as Hershey’s Kisses, peppermints, candy apples, and gingerbread men among other sweet treats instead of bubbles. You simply swipe your finger left, right, [...]
The reign of Spotify as music subscription of choice in the UK market may be about to face its toughest challenge yet, as premium radio manufacturer Pure is ready to launch it's own service. Like Spotify, they're also bringing an Android application to market with them for all your music on the go needs. “The [...]
AndroidAppReviewer | Oct 29, 2011 | Comments 0 The Miracle City Online Android App by DroidHen SNS is a social game to run a city together with your friends. By growing crops, building houses, and mining, you gain money and energy to develop your city. Decorations will please your citizens and so to make them [...]
Samsung Italy has confirmed that a number of devices will be receiving the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. And though we figured these would make the list, it’s nice to have it writing. Devices: Galaxy S II Galaxy Note Galaxy Tab 10.1 Galaxy Tab 8.9 Galaxy Tab 7.7 Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus We’re digging deep [...]
Samsung claimed the top share of the global smartphone market in the third quarter with 23.8 percent, compared to Apple’s 14.6 percent. (Samsung fans rejoice.) Nokia took third with 14.4 percent of the market. Apple had the lead in the second quarter with 18.5 percent and Samsung was in second with 17.5 percent and of [...]
My three favorite things in life are Android, football, and a steak cooked rare on a grill. Unfortunately, my phone hasn’t learned how to properly cook a steak. However, football and Android seem to have come together to give us Madden NFL 12, an app that will keep any football lover busy in between Sundays. [...]
We are back with today’s round of the best, fun-filled, and extraordinary apps the Android Market has to offer. Halloween is only a few days away and keeping with that holiday spirit, I thought it only appropriate to feature the most goulish, creepy and gory Halloween themed apps from the Market. Let’s have at it! [...]
According to The Digital Reader (confirmed by The Wall Street Journal), Barnes and Noble stores are expanding their NOOK areas in retail stores for the holidays, and likely in time for the next generation of NOOK. Digital Reader claims that on November 7, B&N will make an announcement regarding the NOOK line of products, and [...]
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While people were complaining about the Nexus One not getting updated for longer than 2 years, The Understatement blog tracked down every major and minor release of Android over the years and how the Android manufacturers handled it. And let me tell you, it’s not pretty. Compared to updates the other phones got, the Nexus [...]
According to The Digital Reader, Barnes & Noble is getting ready to release the Nook Color 2 on November 7. The Digital Reader is also reporting that Barnes & Noble is preparing their brick and mortar locations for the launch of the new color Android-based tablet by completely redesigning stores to include a “Nook” department [...]
After reading a couple of great pieces on Droid-life about how Android manufacturers seem to be moving at breakneck pace to advance hardware and iterate handsets like crazy, I had an idea – let’s visualize it in different ways. First, we’ll start with a pretty basic comparison, showing the US’s four major carriers and the [...]
The Nook Color is somewhat of an Android phenomenon, and according to the folks over at The Digital Reader the sequel is potentially just around the corner. Sources close to them from Barnes & Noble have previously leaked information regarding a successor to the popular e-Reader. Now though they go one better and claim that [...]
Back in September, Sony Ericsson announced that they would being rolling out the Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread update to their devices, unfortunately for us here in the states (and other parts of the world), it was only for Nordic countries. Thankfully, today, SE announced that the 2.3.4 update has begun rolling out for the rest of [...]
If you’ve got an Android phone that’s at least as powerful as the Nexus One/HTC Desire, and if you’re reading this, odds are excellent that you do, you owe it to yourself to check out Wind-Up Knight. It’s a classic sidescrolling platformer with up-to-date 3G graphics and a sense of humor to boot. It’s a [...]
Samsung announced earlier today that the galaxy S II portfolio has received three awards at the 4G World expo with the Epic 4G Touch, T-Mobile Galaxy S II and AT&T’s Galaxy S II all grabbing first, second and third positions consecutively for best new mobile devices for 2011. Dale Sohn, President of Samsung Mobile, said [...]
Bummer news for those who were hoping to pick up a new HP TouchPad at fire sale prices only so you could port some Android goodness onto it. It looks as though the future is grim for the TouchPad and it has reached the end of it’s production. With the majorly successful fire sale that [...]
It’s no secret that Motorola is working on a successor to its first tablet, the Motorola Xoom. Pictures of the Motorola Xoom 2 have surfaced numerous times in the past month (more pics here). So far, we know that Motorola is working on at least 2 models; a regular 10.1-inch model and a smaller Media [...]
If you attend the University of Phoenix, you will be happy to know that the popular school now has an Android application available. The application will allow you, if you’re a University of Phoenix student, to do a bunch of things to help you stay on top of your school work. Features include the following: [...]
LG Revolution owners, there’s some good news for you today. Verizon Wireless has finally started to push the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to your 4G LTE device. The OTA update is currently being pushed out to all LG Revolution phones, so if you haven’t been prompted to update, simply sit tight and wait for your [...]
Want to get yourself a brand new Android Tablet and PC or console game- Then you might want to head over to Gamestop. The popular game retailer has begun selling Android tablets to go along with their video game sales. The tablets, which include the Acer Iconia Tab A100, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, and Samsung [...]
Well, color my goose and slap me silly! Looks like there was still a few more HP TouchPads stashed somewhere after their big fire sale to go around. As it turns out, Best Buy will begin selling the 32GB version of the Android-hackable TouchPads for 0 but this time under one condition – customers looking [...]
WebOS may be doomed, but there’s still plenty of interest in the HP TouchPad, due to the dual charms of insane firesale pricing and an increasingly stable Android port. If you missed your chance to pick one up when inventories were liquidated, everyone’s favorite evil electronics retailer Best Buy has your back. Not that you [...]
Halloween is just a few short days away (scary noises) and we have a few treats we thought we’d share before the weekend gets under way. First off we have some Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich carved right into a pumpkin directly from our friends at Google thanks to their @Android twitter page, then we’ve [...]
A new root method for Motorola devices has shown up on the interweb claiming that it may be a permanent solution. There is still the possibility that Moto will patch this method closed in future updates but if you are already rooted you might as well give it a try. It should only take a [...]
It’s nothing new for Kristen Schaal to be doing Xperia Play promo videos anymore and, although generally funny most of the time, Kristen Schaal doing a 9mm Xperia Play promo video had me guessing this was going to be a bit funnier than normally. I certainly wasn’t wrong. Read more… … Continue Reading Here Friday [...]
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It’s game time again and we have a new racer monster truck rally game for Android called MEGASTUNT Mayhem. We have a lot of options regarding racing games and things of that sort but this is an entirely new level. It’s the perfect action sports game that mixes racing, showmanship and total destruction into one [...]
We’ve known for a while that Barnes & Noble intended a second model of its successful Nook Color tablet for later this year, as the original passed its first birthday this week. The Amazon Kindle Fire may have hastened the bookseller’s plans: multiple sources claiming to be Barnes & Noble employees are reporting that kiosks [...]
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