Microsoft releases OneNote Mobile for Android

Good old PC goliath Microsoft has once again released another app for Android, this time bringing its OneNote Mobile app to the Android Market for Google-powered phones running Android 2.3 or higher.

What you’re getting here is a fairly familiar note-taking, sharing and syncing tool, which lets you create media-rich notes built from text and images, plus there are “to do” lists with little tick boxes and full syncing through Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud servers for easy access on desktop.

It’s free, but here’s the disclaimer about that part:

With the free version of OneNote Mobile for Android you can access, create and edit up to 500 notes. Once you reach this limit you can still view, delete, and sync your notes. To continue taking and editing notes, you can upgrade OneNote Mobile for Android to unlimited use through an in-app purchase

And that in-app purchase will cost you £2.99 to unlock access to the full thing for life.

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What exciting lives Microsoft employees lead. If you also lead an exciting international playboy lifestyle and are therefore always having to remember about places, events and things, OneNote Mobile is on the Android Market here to make it all easier.

More facts can be had over on the OneNote Blog.

No Comments by  /  February 7, 2012  /  Posted in: Apps, News

Adobe comments on Android Chrome’s lack of Flash – “no chance, we’re done”

Don’t get your hopes up if you’re waiting for a version of Flash to appear for use in the new Android Chrome Beta. Adobe’s Flash blog has just updated us on the issue, reminding everyone that it’s now stopped developing the mobile versions of Flash. So if you need flash in a browser, use the standard browser pre-loaded on your phone, is the advice.

This, in fact, is some of the advice from Adobe…

Today Google introduced Chrome for Android Beta. As we announced last November, Adobe is no longer developing Flash Player for mobile browsers, and thus Chrome for Android Beta does not support Flash content. Flash Player continues to be supported within the current Android browser.

…which is just a fancy way of saying “no” to the people that will be asking for Flash support within Android Chrome, from now until… forever.

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So don’t go cluttering Adobe’s comments sections up with your questions. It’s washed its hands of the whole Android love affair.

4 Comments by  /  February 7, 2012  /  Posted in: Uncategorized

VIDEO: Yarvik TAB465EUK GoTab Exxa

That rather interesting and very cheap forthcoming 9.7″ Yarvik GoTab Exxa Android 4.0 tablet is the star of a new walkthrough video uploaded by the maker, giving us our first proper look at the possibly game-changing Android “Ice Cream Sandwich” device in action.

It’s packing the connections very well, featuring the right-shaped holes for Micro USB, Micro SD, a second host USB connector and a mini HDMI output. Here it is, aspirational “aluminium unibody” casing and all:

The chap doing the guide specifically says the Android Market won’t come with the device, which looks like being the only downer in this €249 tablet. No mention is made of launch date, but it was previously pegged for late Feb or early March, so hopefully that’s still the plan.

1 Comment by  /  February 7, 2012  /  Posted in: News, Tablets

“Mr. Legs is the best CHERRY picker in all the Deserts Of Londonium”

Mr Legs is one of those endless scrolling/running/collecting games, only the action is presented in an unusual 1930s B&W (plus the odd explosion of colour) animated style. It’s like if Walt Disney actually made his name developing Android games. It’s created by I Like James Games. Everything about this appeals to us.

In fact, this may well dethrone Winter Walk as out current favourite mobile release.

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Mr Legs is a paid game, costing 99p on the Android Market. Given how bonkers and original it looks, we’re prepared to take a chance on that being a rather sound investment. Bucketloads more of this sort of thing, please, James.

There’s a video of it in action below…

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2 Comments by  /  February 7, 2012  /  Posted in: Apps, Games

Chrome for Android launches as beta

There’s some mega-exciting news out for fans of Google’s excellent desktop browser, with the Chrome development team finally launching an official version of Chrome for Android. It’s a beta right now, bringing Chrome-standard features like bookmark sync, the “omnibox” and an incognito mode for special late night internet doings, plus on Android we now get support for “unlimited tabs” and the ability to send pages to mobile Chrome from PC.

The one rather enormous disclaimer is the OS requirements – you need to be running Android 4.0 or higher. Which means it’s rather limited in appeal at the moment. But still. Chrome! For Android! With proper tabs when used on a tablet and everything:

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But no Flash support. That’s interesting. Android Chrome Beta is on the Android Market here. It’s available in the UK, too, so if you’re a Galaxy Nexus owner there’s a very nice new thing to play with. Read more over at the Chrome blog.

A couple of Android Chrome demo videos are embedded below…

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8 Comments by  /  February 7, 2012  /  Posted in: Apps, News

Toshiba AT200 launched in the UK, exclusively through Carphone Warehouse

The very slimline Toshiba AT200, which was known overseas as the Toshiba Excite X10, is now available in the UK. Toshiba has done a deal to make the Android tablet a Carphone Warehouse exclusive, which is currently listing both a 16GB version and a 32GB model for £399 and £449 respectively.

The AT200 is a super-slim model that’s a mere 7.7mm thick/thin, and will arrive running Android 3.2 on a 10.1″ display running at 1280×800 resolution, giving it a wide 16:10 aspect ratio. Plus there’s Android Market access on here. For apps. And all that.

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Processing is handled by a TI OMAP 4430 running at 1.2GHz, plus there’s 1GB of RAM. It’s quite an exciting thing, to be honest, and should go some way toward patching up Toshiba’s thus-far awful reputation in the tablet world.

Link via Gizmodo.

4 Comments by  /  February 7, 2012  /  Posted in: News, Tablets

Fake Instagram app running riot on Android Market

Be wary of an app going by the name of Instagram and published on the Android Market by a developer calling itself App for Android. It is NOT the long-awaited arrival of Instagram on Android, it’s a fake. The app forces users to give it a 5/5 rating in order to access its features, then fills your phone up with malware.

The five-star ranking thing is a clever tactic, as one of the visual clues we use to identify if an app is safe and genuine is a high Android Market user feedback score. Thanks to this fake feedback boost, the Instagram fake has racked up over 1,500 highly positive reader reviews in less than 24 hours.

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This is a very embarrassing and high-profile attack, especially as Google only just announced that its Bouncer auto-scanner would be able to put a stop to such shameful practices. The fake app’s here [hooray, it's now been deleted] if you’d like to have a look – just don’t install it.

Thanks to reader Mr Perkins for the tip.

32 Comments by  /  February 4, 2012  /  Posted in: Apps, News, Opinion

WINNER! Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY competition

The judge of random luck has decided. Of the 1,508 people that entered our Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY competition, one has emerged victorious. The winner, chosen at random from all entries, is… Glenn H. Glenn correctly worked out that Sony Ericsson will soon just be called “Sony” due to serious business reasons.

Well done, Glenn. This is what your hands will look like soon:

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Hope you like it and are in when the postman calls. Do let us know how you get on with it. And thanks to everyone else who entered.

6 Comments by  /  February 3, 2012  /  Posted in: Handsets, News
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