Security is important. We carry a crapload of information in our phones, and with the world of NFC payments slowly becoming a reality, we'll be keeping even more in our pocket and in the cloud. As we saw earlier today late yesterday, keeping things like PIN codes safe is tough with so many eyes out [...]
Would you look at that? The MIUI 4 ROM is now available for the Amazon Kindle Fire. In addition to the sexy Android 4.0-based UI, the ROM includes full support for both the Android Market and the Amazon App Store. Keep in mind the ROM is a work in progress, so the following features are [...]
Good news for all the ASUS Transformer Prime owners today folks. You should have awoke to a new update ready to install for your Android 4.0 powered tablet. Today ASUS has officially started pushing their latest update to the quad-core device and it should be fixing a number of problems and enhancing overall performance. If [...]
One of the best Android apps just got better. The Google Voice app has just gotten updated to version 0.4.2.44 brings some minor tweaks, a complete UI overhaul for Honeycomb & Ice Cream Sandwich devices and wait for it— the ability to now queue outgoing text messages. That means if one message fails to send [...]
Back in late 2010 and early 2011 there was an MMORPG called Runes for Android that was in development. It had reached a sort of closed/open beta type of stage in testing before its development stopped and the developers went on to make another game. It seems as though they are back working on Runes [...]
So we've now got Google Chrome for Android, eh? How's about that. And one of the shining features Google's pimping is the ability to sync your desktop tabs over to your phone or tablet. No muss, no fuss. That's not actually a new feature for mobile browsing — Mozilla's certainly had it in Firefox and [...]
Google is ready to bring Voice into the Ice Cream Sandwich age with an update to the service’s native Android app. Immediately noticeable is a new Android 4.0 style icon, though on the surface the app doesn’t seem to change much from the previous version for smartphones. Tablet users will notice a few differences on [...]
It's been rumored for some time, but now it's finally here — Google Chrome has landed on Android. Android 4.0 phone and tablet owners in selected countries can now grab a beta version of Chrome from the Android Market. Chrome for Android expands on the stock ICS browser with faster performance and speed-boosting features like [...]
Google has finally release its long-wanted Chrome browser for Android roughly a few minutes ago. In order to run the app you must have Android 4.0 installed. It’s in beta right now so expect a few bugs and while we haven’t had a chance to play with it yet you can expect a review from [...]
If you’re like me and have kids who play with your phone, why not let them work their little brains with the Math Training for Kids app. It is currently featured as Amazon free Android app of the day, so you may want to give it a try before the end of the day and [...]
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The moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here. We’ve been longing for a Google Chrome browser on Android for quite some time, and while the default browser has been outstanding we are excited for all of the potential benefits of having a fully-fledged Chrome browser on our phones. Bookmark sync is back from [...]
What is a Froad? Aside from being YoYo Games’ newest title for Android, it is apparently a half frog, half toad type of creature that lives in a tree and likes to eat everything, except bees. For some reason it doesn’t like bees, probably because they sting him. Read more… … Continue Reading Here YoYo [...]
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We see the periodical updates from Google on which operating system versions are more highly adopted and which are struggling to grow but we’re curious as to how our own reader base is distributed. We want to know which version of Android you are on. Whether it be via custom ROMs or official OTA updates, [...]
Artist Chris Bishop has gone ahead and designed another great Android t-shirt that you can add to your collection. The new shirt, titled Android: Winning, is all about the Android vs. Apple fight, as usual. In this new T-Shirt, which is just an updated version of the Andy Versus Apple T-Shirt, sees the Android army [...]
Well folks it looks like the Atrix 4G soak test we previously told you about is finally about to commence. Motorola has indicated the following heads up on the imminent update: “Tomorrow after 12 Central/10 Pacific, you will receive a pop-up message on your phone that will mark the beginning of the software pre-release test.” [...]
Samsung wants you to use its app store, and to entice you, it’s giving away one of the most popular games on Android. For today only, Samsung is giving away GameLoft‘s Modern Combat 3 to Galaxy S II owners. To get the game free of charge, you will need to head to Samsung’s app store. [...]
Romance of Rome is Herocraft’s latest release for Android which blends a couple of gaming genres into one title. At the core of Romance of Rome though is a hidden objects game but blends in other puzzle solving gameplay and a pretty in-depth storyline for you to follow. Read more… … Continue Reading Here Herocraft [...]
If you’re a dedicated Android modder, you’re probably aware of the myriad tweaks you can apply via the build.prop file, located in the /system folder. It’s a popular method of changing your phone or tablet’s screen density (as in our Galaxy Nexus Tablet experiment) or fooling the Android Market into thinking you’ve got a different [...]
Motorola has yet another soak test on its way out, this time for the DROID Bionic smartphone. It is perhaps the mysterious 5.9.902 update we heard about previously? It’s highly unlikely this update is the anticipated Ice Cream Sandwich update you owners are yearning for, as the DROID RAZR/RAZR MAXX would likely be the first MOTO phones to [...]
A user over at Android Central received an OTA notification on his Verizon Galaxy Nexus, and managed to pull the file and make it available for download. Apparently the update contains Android 4.04 IMM30B. This seems to be a limited release, most likely for internal testing, so if you decide to flash this, don’t be [...]
We're back for another look at the best Android Phones, and this time we're heading down under. We've teamed up with our pals at Ausdroid.net for this one for the best Android smartphones available in Australia. So without further ado, let's get to it. And be sure to check out our other Best Phones lists [...]
Well this is a shocker. According to research done by Crittercism, applications on iOS crash significantly more than on Android. This just proves how much perception matters, and Google isn’t helping itself here. Many people right now believe that it’s actually Android that crashes more often. One reason is because Android actually shows you when [...]
It looks like the wheel does turn around. Apple may keep getting small wins against Samsung, especially in Germany, where they seem to be very strict about patents, but the same happened to them this time around thanks to Motorola and their 3G patents. Motorola managed to put a permanent injunction on all Apple’s iOS [...]
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Smartphones seem to get bigger & bigger. First was the boundary to push towards 4.3″ devices but now you can find 4.52”, 4.6″, 5.2″ Android devices all over the market. Using a large device with one hand is starting to become a skill. It is not an easy task to navigate efficiently through your smartphone with [...]
In an effort to stay relevant, RIM is doing whatever it can to have some Android apps running on its BlackBerry platform. The company announced that it would be giving out free BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to Android app developers who register and submit an app to the BlackBerry App World by Monday, February 13, 2012. [...]
The Facebook for Android app received an update today, bringing the app’s version number to 1.8.2. According to Facebook, the updated app includes better memory management and a number of unspecified bug fixes. The updated app is now available in the Android Market. Source: Facebook … Continue Reading Here Facebook for Android gets update with [...]
We've seen at least a couple of early Ice Cream Sandwich leaks for the international Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-i9100) appear, and today yet another version has leaked out online, showing signs of progress as the update inches towards release. The latest leak comes from Sammobile, a longtime leaker of pre-release Samsung goodies. Early indications [...]
Facebook's Android application just got an update that the social network says will bring better memory management, and “all kinds of bug fixes.” If history repeats, we should see an update to fix this update any time now. Source: Facebook … Continue Reading Here Facebook Android app gets an update for bugfixes, memory management Phil [...]
Time for another edition of the state of fragmentation. Google have updated their platform distribution chart to show how widely adopted each version of Android is. Gingerbread gained a bit of share but was pretty much stagnant in the two weeks ending today. Ice Cream Sandwich got its full first percentage point in this period, [...]
App Name Big Business from Game Insight Description Big Business might be a city builder game, but it’s like no city builder that you have ever played. Big Business sets itself apart by incorporating infrastructure and commerce to make your city much more engaging and realistic. From the start of the of the tutorial phase [...]
So if you haven’t realized from my posts by now, I like to experiment with Android from time to time and today was one of those more special days. While poking around FaceLock.apk, which I decompiled with apktool, I opened this. The screenshot above portrays a file “arrays.xml,” which contains what looks like phrases to [...]
Remember the Androidified TPU Skin Case for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus? (Those are the ones we gave away just a week ago. We've now got them in stock at ShopAndroid.com. They're available in 10 colors — orange, green, teal, smoke, clear, pink purple, red, blue and black — and feature the Android “Bugdroid” icon, so [...]
We have an interesting application that just landed in our inbox today and figured we’d share it with our readers. NFC is still a niche in Android that has yet to really take off — although Android Beam should help things out. Today we have an NFC app that is actually fun, and not just [...]
It seemed like Google completely abandoned one of its most useful Android apps – Chrome to Phone, which I personally use almost every day, but an unexpected update that showed up in the Market today shows us they still care about it, even if only a little bit. The new version 2.3 comes over a [...]
Japanese mobile network KDDI says it'll stop using push notification ads on its Android handsets, following some recent online controversy. Late last month it emerged that KDDI was using an updated version of its “AU One Market” application to send ads via push notification to some of its customers. We're not the biggest fans of [...]
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