The official IMDb app for Android has been updated to support streaming high definition trailers. Users can now choose between 720p, 480p, and “standard resolution,” and have the option to set independent quality rates for Wi-Fi and mobile data. There’s not much else going in the update other than the new streaming options, but IMDb [...]
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Friendcaster for Android has received a pretty big upgrade we’re up to version 5.0 in the Google Play Store. Like Plume’s update earlier, Friendcaster 5.0 enhances the user interface for those running Android 4.0 devices. While a new user interface is always exciting, there are a bunch of other things to look forward in this [...]
Unless you’ve been habitating under a rock buried way back in a cave on some faraway island, chances are that you’ve most likely heard that Instagram was released yesterday for Android. Now, as an Android user, you finally have access to the holy grail of photo sharing applications and you can jump into the pool [...]
BulkyPix have had a few hits on their hands both on iOS and Android. One of their hit iOS titles, having been downloaded more than 6 million times, is their cutting puzzle game called iSlash. Featuring a ninja theme to it, iSlash will be making its way to Android next week. Read more… … Continue [...]
If you haven’t jumped on the Intsagram train yet, then what the heck are you waiting for? And before you say, “It’s just a bunch of hipster filters,” let me say that it is much more than that. Yes, you can apply tacky filters to your pictures, but it isn’t so much about the pictures [...]
The readers have spoken. The results of a poll we posted yesterday say that the majority of folks out there are perfectly content with Android and won’t be purchasing the Nokia Lumia 900 or another Windows Phone any time soon. For those looking for a bit of both worlds we present the WP7 ROM. The [...]
There were some things that I knew would be pain points for me going into this 30 day challenge, but my first few days on this challenge have been, well, challenging. I knew that I was going to miss HBO Go on my iPad, but I have access to it on my Google TV. This [...]
Spotify’s Android app has failed a number of its potential users. Not only is it visually uninspired, it doesn’t even seem to work on many devices (including those running Ice Cream Sandwich). On those that it does work, it rarely stays connected and suffers from poor sound quality when it does. However, according to the [...]
Google launched Google Books about a year and a half ago, with rather limited functionality for the app, limited number of e-book titles, and an even more limited availability, being available in US-only. Even if it’s very hard to make those deals with publishers, it still felt like a bad move for them to launch [...]
Last month we checked out Papermill, an Instapaper client for Android that’s arguably the first to offer a sleek, design-led experience. At the time, developer Ryan Bateman told us that he didn’t think he could really get away with the $3.99 price (plus required Instapaper subscription) as a business proposition, and the app was developed [...]
PerBlue, developers of Parallel Kingdom which is a location-based fantasy RPG, have released their second offering onto Android after having been working on this new title for quite some time now. So what is this new game? It is a mafia themed location-based RPG called Parallel Mafia. Read more… … Continue Reading Here PerBlue unleashes [...]
The epic and classic RPG called Shadowrun is hoping to make a return to the gaming scene with a new title appropriately named Shadowrun Returns. This time, however it won’t just be for the old school consoles. This new game will be for PC’s, iOS and Android tablets. Read more… … Continue Reading Here Shadowrun [...]
Google+ has been updated to pull data from Google Contacts and display it in the profiles of your Google+ friends, starting today. If you’re a Gmail or Android user, chances are you’ve got a well-populated contacts list, and now information on that list will automatically show up in a Google+ user’s “about” section – for [...]
Rumors say that Samsung’s next gen flagship, the Galaxy S3, will have a Super AMOLED Plus display at a HD resolution of 1280×720. This means that it won’t be Pentile, which usually gives a green tint to the display, damages color accuracy, and makes text fuzzier than regular RGB matrix displays. The display of the [...]
App Name Instagram Description After much hype and anticipation the number one photo sharing app for iOS is finally here on Android. Instagram is a fast, free and a simple way to share beautiful, artistic looking photos to the world. Instagram is more than a simple camera app with image filtering effects though. Instagram comes [...]
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab 2′s are reportedly being delayed in the UK.. Both the 7.0 and 10.1 G-Tab 2′s will no see a new launch set for sometime during the end of April. Both of the tabs were were originally supposed to launch in the UK in March, but with neither hide nor hair of [...]
Logo’s can be tricky. We’ve experimented with a few redesigns of our own in the past (a final decision was made and is, in fact,coming soon). Well, a few weeks back, the CyanogenMod team felt it was time to give their famous “skateboarding Andy” mascot a redesign, asking users all over the world to help [...]
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Alright, first off. I’m not trying to start a flame war here but — wow. I had no idea this kind of sentiment was going ’round the internet. I mean, I’ve oft read in our comments that iOS users can be a bit “stuck up,” thinking of their iPhone as more of a status symbol [...]
Spotify premium users, there’s some good news for you. The Verge is reporting that Spotify is working on an major update for their Android app. Unfortunately, there’s no information on when the update will be available. Since its last update back in November 2011, users have been complaining about bugs, glitches, and crashes that make [...]
The London Underground is by far and away the easiest way to to travel around the UK’s capital. As a UK resident who travels to London for work on a monthly basis personally, I can tell you first hand that it’s equal parts brilliant and frustrating. The wonderful Maps team at Google have managed to [...]
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Earlier today, Instagram finally launched its filter-heavy photo-taking and sharing app for Android, and we loaded it up on a Droid Razr running Android 2.3 for testing. If you’ve ever used the iOS version of Instagram, you’ll feel very much at home here. In fact, I was able to log into the Android app with [...]
The cult hit iOS game Space Kiwi, developed by a 16 year old school student by the name of Eli Bock, is gearing up for release onto Android in the near future. The head-on shooter landed on iOS and quickly gained notoriety not only because of the developer but because the game was actually quite [...]
Sources close to Spotify have informed us that the company is hard at work on a “major” new version of its Android app. While we couldn’t learn any more details, the news should delight the legions of Spotify Premium users flooding the company’s support forums (and even in our forums here and here) with complaints [...]
Our friends over at Pockett have told us that Gameloft is developing, and mostly likely close to releasing, two new games for mobile including Android. In fact Gameloft has been teasing one of the games, called Shark Dash, on Google+ for the past couple of weeks with pictures of sharks and witty sayings. Read more… [...]
We took the LG Viper for a spin at CES earlier this year, and Sprint has just announced that the Viper will be its first LTE phone, due out later this month for $99.99 – which could be as soon as April 15th if rumors are to be expected. The phone will run Android 2.3 [...]
London train riders will be happy to know that Google has added service alert support for the London Underground. It will allow you to check up on the status of a station and if any problems are affecting the lines’ normal routes and schedules. No update of the Android app is required for this new [...]
We get interesting things in the mail once in awhile and yesterday we got the non-Xperia Play copy of EA’s Battlefield Bad Company 2 game which has been available for the Xperia Play for some time now but exclusively for the Xperia Play. Well it looks like an official version for all other Android devices [...]
Sure April Fool’s Day has come and gone sadly, but many of us sure enjoyed the good laughs, right? Well sadly, a particular joke has taken an unusual— albeit comical turn that has gone on for the past year. Last year a CM ROM was renamed to “TehUberDuckDistro” for a single nightly release which featured [...]
Looking to buy a New Android Phone or See how your Current Phone Stacks-Up against the Competition? Every Month we Rank the Top 10 Android Smartphones on the market. We base our rankings on several factors: Device Age, Hardware Specifications, Version of Operating System, Sales , Popularity and Overall Buzz factor. Phones that have not [...]
I’ve kind of always wanted to do a 30 days with type of a project, and I’ve settled on what my first topic is going to be: 30 days with an Android tablet. For the next month, I’m going to lay aside my iPad, MacBook, Chrome Book and my desktop computer and do as much [...]
While we are all waiting for this year’s Google IO to hear about Google’s latest Android OS, Jelly Bean, some lucky XDA user was able to get his/her hands on a leaked build of the unannounced Android OS. It is currently available for the Galaxy Nexus and we’re not sure how stable it is. Be [...]
The Silicon Valley Android Developers, in conjunction with Google have 50 tickets to Google I/O to give away for developers who have a great idea for Google TV apps, or who have an app that can be easily ported to Google TV. If you're taking GTV seriously, this 2 1/2 day event just might be [...]
You gotta give it to the folks at Imangi Studios because they were able to reach the 1 million download mark within three days of launching Temple Run for Android. I have been playing this game since day one and I think those monkeys are creepy. Anyways, while I was enjoying the game on my [...]
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