Archive for March, 2011
Opera Mini Spreads to Verizon Feature Phones, Androids Scorn
Today Verizon has announced that a set of feature phone including LG enV2™, LG enV®3, LG enV® TOUCH, Samsung Alias™ 2, Casio® G’zOne Ravine™ and Casio® G’zOne Rock™ will have Opera Mini available for web browsing starting immediately. This is an odd move for Verizon as feature phones aren’t exactly at the hight of [...]
HTC announces April 12 press event
HTC has announced a UK press event on April 12, where it promises to show “what’s next” in its range. Although HTC’s invite is short on clues, the likeliest candidates for an unveil are the new HTC Pyramid dual-core smartphone, or the European version of the HTC EVO 3D which was officially announced for Sprint last [...]
Hacktivist app fakes out and then embarrasses pirates
Generally, I don’t think Trojans and other things that can compromise your phone are funny. This one however is amusing and it’s called Android.walkinwat. The app is on file sharing sites where pirates frequently download apps without paying for them. It poses as the Walk and Text app that is really on the market. When the pirate [...]
Trulia App Helps Users Find Homes for Sale and Apartments for Rent
Those of you in the market to buy a house or rent an apartment should check out the new Trulia app for Android. New to the Android Market this week, the application lets users search for homes and apartments on the market using a variety of options, including city, number of bedrooms, baths, and more. The location-awareness pulls up results from [...]
Review: PowerSkin Cases
Last week, we talked about the release of the PowerSkin Cases, which are cases that include a backup battery, designed specifically for various Android phones. I had the opportunity to get my hands on one of these cases for the HTC Glacier/MyTouch 4G, and decided to do a few tests to see how it stacked up. Personally, I feel that I am a heavy [...]
mSpot Responds to Amazon Cloud Player, Offers 5GB Free Storage to All
One of the bigger news stories for Android this week is the new Amazon Cloud service and mobile application. Offering 5GB of free cloud-based storage for your music, pictures, and documents is terrific, right? Amazon is surely breaking new ground right? Well, actually there is another option that has been around for nearly a year now and [...]
Software Update Rolling Out for ATRIX 4G
Motorola is sending out an OTA update for ATRIX owners. This new update, which Motorola encourages users to update over WiFi, will show improvements in: Bluetooth Battery Life Car Dock Fingerprint Reader Overall Stability of Phone They also stated that it will allow the display to turn off while charging. For precise instructions, or more [...]
Tap Tap Revenge 4 hits Android Market
We briefly mentioned yesterday when we talked about in-app billing going live on Android that Tap Tap Revenge 4 would be featuring in-app billing. What we didn’t mention at the time was that Tap Tap Revenge 4 was hitting the Android Market as a free game the same day. This is the first time that the game has been offered on Android and it has [...]
HTC offers official HTC Flyer video on YouTube
We have talked about the HTC Flyer tablet and even offered up our own hands on video and images of the thing in action. What we haven’t seen so far is much in the way of official video and content from HTC about the tablet, but that has now changed. HTC has put the official Flyer tablet advert on YouTube. The video goes through the main [...]
Angry Birds Rio Now Available in the Android Market
Who's not an Angry Birds fan? If you're like millions of other people, you anxiously waited for Rio to be released, but until now, it was only available on the Amazon Appstore. That meant you had to download the Appstore, create an account, allow third party applications, and then you could download Angry Birds Rio. Many of us still did this, [...]
