Category: Android

Sky+ App updated for iOS and Android. Goodies inside

Right, Sky TV. We like them. We’d rather pay less each month, but heck, that’s the way things are. Now, a new version of their Sky+ app is available and adds Series Link. It’s a feature that many have wanted to see for some time, plus there’s a …

Google planning something for Android today.

  The Google Android Google+ account yesterday announced something was going to happen today. The story ends there. Is it news worthy? Is it US only? Will it be US times again like the 10p apps thing last week. Will it just an update for the Galaxy Nexus? Will it …

Nexus S Ice Cream Sandwich roll-out begins

So, we knew it was coming and now it looks to be here. Google themselves announced the start of the Android 4.0 roll-out onto Nexus S devices via Twitter. The update will be coming out over the next month starting immediately but, if you’re the impatient type, there’s …

Archos Home Products

Archos have a few new products that are starting to appear in stock on their website. The have the 35 Home Connect which is designed to be a small beside radio clock type thing and there is also 35 Smart Home Phone which is a 3.5 touch screen …

Adobe Flash Player now supports Android 4.0

During the night it looks like Adobe have released an update for Adobe Flash Player to the Market, which adds compatibility for Android 4.0. When the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was released a lot of people were surprised/shocked/angry that Flash did not work on their nice new cutting edge device. This …

Microsoft Lync now for Android too

Unified Communications. Collaborative working. Engaging, accessible, highly secure and connected. Well, that’s enough buzz-words for one paragraph. If you’ve got a fully licensed Lync Server then here, friends, is the Android version of the app. The app lets you do audio conferencing, instant messaging, viewing colleagues availability and …

99p Movies available to rent

Android users have been pretty spoiled recently with cut-price apps available in the Android Market. Now a similar thing is happening for films too. For a limited time you can rent and watch a selection of films including Johnny English, The Polar Express, Matrix Reloaded, Jurassic Park and …

Three launch the HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio

If you’ve read our review and want to buy the excellent HTC Sensation XE, try Three. They have just added it online and it’s in stores just before Christmas. Sylvia Chind, head of handsets at Three told us… Taking on board the huge amount of interest we had …

Microsoft dishing out free Windows Phones to “Droidrage” sufferers

Remember those text message issues on Windows Phone? If we’re honest there’s not a massive chance of your phone getting trashed, but the possibility of your Messaging Hub going AWOL is possible. So why, we may ask, are Microsoft mocking Android malware victims? The marketing stunt is running …

Grand Theft Auto 3 now on the Android Market

Do you fancy roaming around a large city and randomly shooting people, stealing cars, robbing banks and just generally recreating normal life? Well Grand Theft Auto 3 will be right up your street. Most of you will have heard of the Grand Theft Auto games and now you …

Hands-on LG Prada pictures

LG have just finished announcing the Prada 3.0 handset to the world here in London and we have a first hands-on look at this new device running on the Android OS.

LG Prada 3.0 Announced

Today LG and Prada announced the all-new Prada 3.0. It’ll be available in South Korea and Western Europe to begin and you should start seeing it in January 2012. Pricing is to be confirmed locally from networks. Running Gingerbread, the Prada 3.0 has 8GB memory, a 4.3″ screen …

Skype 2.6 for Android, now send photos and videos too

You’ve got Skype, right? No? Ohh man, you’re missing out. The new Android refresh includes some tweaks to give you better battery life and better video quality on devices with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU. For the unaware, Skype let’s you make video calls with friends, but now …

Live from the LG Prada Event

We are live at the LG Prada event from 5:30pm this evening in London where we are expecting to see the Prada 3.0 handset running Android. Please visit back to this page at 5:30pm to see live updates

Androidify gets ready for winter

You all remember Androidify? The Google made app to create Android robot based characters to use as avatars or contact pictures. Hopefully now this is ringing a bell. Well anyway the app has had an update which now includes a some winter clothing and accessories. So you can …

BBC iPlayer now streams over 3G

The BBC have just updated their iOS iPlayer app to support streaming over 3G. An update to the Android version will soon arrive which will also add this capability, meaning that you can finally watch and listen to BBC content on the move. The BBC have been quick …

Google get rid of some more dodgy apps

Google once again have had to remove some rather unpleasant apps from the Android Market. These apps seem to be pretending to be apps based around popular apps with “young people” i.e. Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Twilight or strangely Horoscopes (do people still believe these?). The user installs …

Sony Ericsson LiveSound Headphones – Review

We’ve had a number of headphones sent our way to review recently. These are the Sony Ericsson LiveSound hi-fi headphones and they sell for around £49.99. They don’t work with all phones or MP3 players, these are designed to work with Sony Ericsson Xperia handsets like the Xperia …

Sony Ericsson Nozomi Leaks Again

GSMArena have managed to get hold of some more pictures of the yet to be announced handset codenamed ‘Nozomi’ which is expected to be launched as the Arc HD either at CES or Mobile World Congress in 2012.  We have already seen some images but never as many as have …

New LG Prada Phone

We have been invited along to London this Wednesday by the team at LG. The swanky event takes place at Claridges to launch a new Prada Phone by LG 3.0 The internet is full of rumours that this will be running Android and there’ll be some really impressive …

Mobile Internet Radio, without the Mobile Data Charges

I love listening to radio on my Android phone. It’s great, and I’ve found a number of online radio stations that are either exclusive to the internet or broadcast in an area I’m not in. TuneIn Radio has been an app I’ve used for a good while now. …

Will the Asus Transformer Prime UK release be delayed?

You may have all heard of the Asus Transformer Prime, it’s the upcoming Tegra 3, slightly over hyped tablet from Asus and over the weekend three things have happened regarding the Asus Transformer Prime. First of all UK retailer Clove announced the Transformer Prime for pre-order of which …

Get £50 off Sony S tablets

Did you get the PC World / Currys discount app ? Gah, be quick, because we’ve just spotted a good £50 off Sony S tablets. That’ll knock the price down to £299 (normally £349) on the 16GB version. Now, if you’ve not got the app then you could …

Apple lose court battle, is the tide about to change?

Come on, you’ve probably seen all the news about Apple and various other phone manufacturers being involved in lawsuits. Until now Apple has been fairly successful in winning every legal battle and have forced many manufacturers to change the design of their products, licence features or just remove …

Review – Dragon’s Lair

Remember this?  The original, laser-disk arcade game first appeared in 1983, the same year as the first Star Wars arcade game and as Nintendo produced the 8-bit Nintendo Famicom.  It was about the same time that I fell in love with arcade games; shortly after I got a …

Panasonic Coming Back To Europe

Panasonic once made phones for Europe quite a while ago, some of you might remember the GD87 which was at the time quite an advanced phone so to speak. Well Panasonic are coming back with a bang and with Android now available for manufacturers to use gives them a chance …

OnLive gaming app now available on the Android Market.

Yes I know this was released yesterday before you say anything. OnLive appeared a few months ago and it is a service that basically allows you to play the latest pc or xbox games over the internet. All that was previously needed was one of their tiny consoles …

T-Mobile Vivacity review

The other week I bought the new T-Mobile branded Vivacity. It is a repacked ZTE Crescent and also a variant of the Orange San Francisco 2. I have been using it as my main device since then. My main problem with it is that my normal phone is …

Google introduce Currents for Android and iOS

Last night Google introduced another new service that is only available to Americans. This time it is a magazine reader that has more than 150 different publishers on board. Google are certainly building up a decent range of products (for Americans) to rival Amazon and Apple. This also …

New Twitter apps arrive on Android and iPhone

Twitter look to be giving their site a new look at the moment so it’s good to see that both the iPhone and Android apps have had a facelift too. The new look is clean, fresh and simplistic. Everything is now easier to use and it’s better at …

Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre available for Android

Hey football fans, come close. A few hours ago, and I mean just a few hours ago, Sky Sports added this rather nifty app. It’s the Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre app for Android and it’s really rather good. Whether you have a Sky subscription or not, …

Android Facebook app gets a new look

OK, hands up if you use Noseybook? Sorry, I meant Facebook of course. Everyone uses it for keeping in touch with their friends (and by “friends” we generally mean nosing around the lives of people you bumped into and a few dozen people you bumped into over the …

App Review – Writepad

Writepad is a text input method for tablets and phones. Oh great another keyboard app, Android really could do with a few more of those. This one though is different, it uses either your finger or a stylus to capture your handwriting. Yes like you could do in …

HTC Sensation XL – Up close and personal

Hopefully by now you’ve read our HTC Sensation XL review. Today we got sent another one, so we figured it was time for some daring camera angles and zoom-shots 🙂 Inside there’s that clever Beats technology that, when combined with the Dr Dre Beats headphones, provides superior sound …

Win a Sensation XE with The Smartphone Centre

Have you read our Sensation XE review? We were pretty impressed. The Android handset from HTC adds Beats Audio and has a 1.5Ghz CPU. You can win in a brand new (and network free) HTC Sensation XE from those nice people at The Smartphone Centre. They’re celebrating their …

Get yourself a Honeycomb-filled Flyer this Christmas

What will you be opening on Christmas morning ? If it’s another pair of socks and a random DVD then it might be worth buying yourself a gift. The HTC Flyer seems to be getting a swift kick in the price department, with some outlets (which we can’t …

Amazon Fire to hit UK in January?

Amazon’s Fire Android tablet has been a hit in the US, but we are still waiting for it to hit the UK. According to the Gadget Show website though, we might not have long to wait. A “source inside Amazon” has said the tablet will come to the UK …

App review – World of letters

Our son is three and, when he gets hold of my phone, I’d like him to be using an app that’s educational. There’s loads on the Android Market, but unfortunately I’ve not seen a great deal that are good. They all try, but here in the UK we’re …

Archos G9 tablets to get Ice Cream Sandwich

Yesterday Charbax from Archosfans posted a video of an upcoming update for the current range of G9 tablets. This update is to Ice Cream Sandwich, the tablets currently run on Honeycomb and we reviewed the Archos 80 G9 here. Hopefully once the update is out we will look …