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Review: BBC iPlayer on Android 2.2

This is slightly old news to those of you on the BLEEDING EDGE of Android, but if you’re in possession of a phone upgraded to Android 2.2 and loaded with the final version of the Flash Player, you’ll be automatically redirected to the BBC’s hot new mobile version of the iPlayer site. So we thought [...]

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August 21, 2010 in Apps, Good Apps, News, Opinion

StumbleUpon app arrives on Android and iPhone

StumbleUpon, which is a super-popular social web rating tool that millions of people use but no one ever seems to talk about, has released an app for Android. It’s rather simple – you login or create an account, then get pinged with an endless list of web sites from your chosen categories. You then give [...]

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August 20, 2010 in Apps, News, Opinion

GALLERY: LG’s Optimus Z fashion show

Another day has already brightened up significantly by the latest regional promotional activites of LG, which held a “fashion show” in its Korean home land to illustrate how stylish the company’s Optimus Z Android phone is. It has once again called upon the powers of Z-Boy. Some of these photographs are much better than others…

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August 17, 2010 in Handsets, News, Opinion

WEEKLY WRAP: Elsewhere in Android this week

Time for our list-based summary of the Android news WE DID NOT cover this week, in which we round up the Android-based reports we skipped – and marvel at the stranger mentions of Google’s OS in the mainstream press. So what have we missed and ignored this week? This lot. In no particular order of [...]

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August 15, 2010 in Opinion, Weekly wrap

GALLERY: LG unleashes “Z Boy” on the people of Korea

This is how LG is going to sell six million smartphones around the world this year – by dressing up the Google Android character like Zorro and parading it around the streets of Seoul along with a collection of lovely ladies. It should work. We’d buy anything this bunch told us to, mainly out of [...]

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August 12, 2010 in Events, Handsets, News, Opinion

The Best Android Games #9: Scramble Touch

We’ve been a bit slack on the games-reviewing front recently, but were convinced to give Scramble Touch a go by a couple of visiting iPhone users we encountered. They were MAD for it. The actual iPhone game this is based on is called Word Scramble 2 and is a Zynga production, but the Android Market [...]

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August 11, 2010 in Apps, Games, Opinion

VIDEO: Android TweetDeck in action

There’s not much more to say about this – it’s a 20-second clip of the Android TweetDeck client in action, minus a five second chunk of nothingness when they guy takes his phone off-screen to enter his password. So 15 seconds of the Android TweetDeck sign-in process it is. You won’t see a more exciting [...]

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August 11, 2010 in Apps, News, Opinion

WEEKLY WRAP: Elsewhere in Android this week

Here’s our weekly summary of the Android news we didn’t write about this week, along with a collection of the more interesting mainstream mentions picked up by Google’s Android OS over the last seven days. The hardest part about this update is coming up with new ways to phrase that opening paragraph every week. Here’s [...]

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August 8, 2010 in News, Opinion, Weekly wrap

BEST DEALS: LG Optimus for £109

We’ve not had a fiddle with an LG Optimus, but you can’t really go wrong with a 2010-model Android phone for £109, can you? The Optimus, AKA the LG GT540, features a 3megapixel camera and a 320 x 480 resolution 3″ screen, so it’s rather an impressive piece of tech at this bottom-end of the [...]

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August 7, 2010 in Deals, Handsets, News, Opinion

NICHE APP: Anchor Alert

This Android app is for people who regularly need to place, secure and monitor anchors for ships and boats. The developer’s description goes into much more detail than we can comprehend, not being seafaring types. Here’s what Anchor Alert offers: Unlike other anchor alarms, Anchor Alert allows you to project an anchor position in any [...]

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August 5, 2010 in Apps, Niche apps, Opinion