Archive for February, 2011

GameLoft Will Soon Be Using Unreal Engine 3 for Android Games

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

GameLoft has just announced a licensing agreement they’ve signed with Epic Games to develop multiple games on their Unreal Engine 3. The deal includes four games to start: two of them will be released in 2011, while another two will come the year after that. Tucked away at the end of the press release is a mention of Android. We’re not [...]

LG Committing to One-Level Upgrades (Minimum) For All Optimus Smartphones

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

LG’s Kenneth Hong has gone on record saying that all of LG’s Optimus phones in 2011 and beyond will be getting at least one-level upgrades after their launch. (This means you can expect a Froyo device to get Gingerbread or a Gingerbread device to get Ice Cream whenever that debuts.) We have to take into consideration that LG would only [...]

Did Your Discounted Motorola XOOM Ship Yet? [Forum Talk]

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

For about 3 hours late last week, a 25% off code for Motorola’s online store was being tossed around for folks to purchase the XOOM for $200 less than it goes for at full retail without a two-year contract with Verizon. Many of you got in on it, Motorola caught on, and the code has since been marked as invalid.It appears that Motorola [...]

Use Your Android Device As A Bluetooth Input Device for the PS3 [Video]

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

An application from the ranks of XDA called BlueputDroid is now in beta. The application allows you to pair your Android phone up with your PlayStation 3 and use the phone as an input device. You can use the phone’s keyboard to input text and there’s a virtual trackpad that lets you move the cursor inside the web browser. Not all [...]

MegaVideo for Android is Now Available

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

MegaVideo fans will be happy to know that their Android application is now in beta and has hit the Android market for all to try. MegaVideo is a video upload alternative from the same folks who create the popular file upload service MegaUpload.Embedded MegaVideo players will launch the application when clicked inside a browser and will not only [...]

HTC Inspire 4G Overclocked to 1.8GHz?

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

We’ve been seeing a lot of overclock action these days. The XOOM got its piece of work over the weekend, and now one XDA dev is claiming he’s been able to get the Inspire 4G up to 1.8GHz as well. We’re approaching this with caution as no users have tried it and we can’t speak to its legitmacy. It’s compatible with the [...]

SlashGear for Android app hits Android Market!

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

If you’re looking for the latest and greatest app to install on your Android smartphone, then you could do a whole lot worse than checking out the brand new SlashGear Android app, fresh to the Android Market. Bringing all the tech news and reviews from our gadget-obsessed sister site, the free download offers streaming video access, [...]

Battery Issues Rumored as Reason for Thunderbolt Delays

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

Here we are, February 28th, nearly two months since the debut of the HTC Thunderbolt. Long expected to have arrived by now, we're still wondering if and when we'll ever see Verizon announce a launch date. We've seen the rumored release slip a couple of times over the last few weeks with no known reasons. The last we heard, it may be March 4th [...]

Enterproid Announces Android Business Environment for Personal Phones with ‘Divide’

Author : admin Published: February 28th, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of chatting up a couple of guys from a mobile startup called Enterproid, where they showed me their business solution for Android. Called Divide, it essentially loads a second environment on your handset which is all business. Regardless of whether you are running stock Android, Sense, MOTOBLUR, or whatever, Divide [...]