The ‘Pro’ version of the official Heathrow Airport Android app, which launched to literally ZERO FANFARE a week ago for the price of £1.79, is now FREE according to whoever’s been given the job of updating the airport’s Twitter page – as a way of helping lost, confused and significantly poorer travelers reschedule their ruined flight plans.
Of course, if you’ve been stuck in an airport for the last five days living on over-priced bottles of water and Mars bars, it’s unlikely your Android phone’s battery will have any juice left in it to send a text message or get past the Android boot screen, but it’s a nice thought.
This ‘Pro’ version of the app lets users track flight departures live, if there are any, and do relatively useless things like read security tips, look at a map of the terminals and see a list of the shops on offer to help while away your 48-hour delay. It’s not that good, a fact which gradually dawned on us as we wrote this update.
AppBrain says it’s had fewer than 50 downloads so far. Link via AndroidGuys.
Motorola’s latest flagship dual-core Android monster is a massive, original powerhouse, that’s a big improvement on previous MOTOBLUR mobiles – but still isn’t a total winner.
A slim and glamorous phone from Sony Ericsson, with the sharpest display around. It’s no powerhouse and the screen’s not the biggest out there, but we don’t mind. Because it’s cute.
LG’s first glasses-free 3D phone is a heavy, fat monster, with a clever 3D effect that works rather well. As a smartphone, though, it’s heavy and underwhelming.
A very shiny thing from Sony Ericsson, with a 3.7″ screen and Android 2.3.3 inside. But is it exciting enough to win fans in today’s spec-obsessed market? Can man live on one core alone?
INQ’s Android phone is an interesting “boutique” piece of hardware, packed with unique interface customisations that go far beyond the headline Facebook integration. We like it a lot.
Geoff
/ April 21, 2010Low download numbers could be because a search for pname:com.baa.heathrow in the market on my HTC Desire brings up NO matches..
Just like Google Earth..