Google UK has finally launched Google Books in the UK, ending the annoying period of US exclusivity for its e-reader ambitions. And this also means the Google eBooks Android app has now been unlocked for international distribution, so we can all fire it up and have a play with the paid and out-of-copyright freebies. The two million out-of-copyright freebies, according to Google…
Readers in the UK now have access to the world’s largest ebooks collection, with hundreds of thousands of ebooks for sale – from major UK publishers like Hachette, Random House and Penguin – as well as more than two million public domain ebooks for free.
Android 2.1 or higher is required to make the Android app work. Here it is…
…and as you can see, we now get access to the Android Market Books section through the app – but the web-based Android Market isn’t yet showing Books section for us through the desktop browser.
Get Google Books on the Android Market here.
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Android Egis
/ October 6, 2011interesting news you sharing.
oddbin
/ October 6, 2011I was just on my way over here to tip this. Roll on movies music and tv!
MetalMickey
/ October 6, 2011Looks like the market has been updated on my SGS2 as well just had the terms & conditions pop up again(like when you first register your phone) Looks a lot cleaner & faster, there have been a lot of people moaning about how slow it was after the past few updates, due to being too much like the tablet version crammed into a phone. I like it better now.
MetalMickey
/ October 6, 2011scrap that, looks like it was just a homepage, clicking on a tab takes you back to the other one…damn!
Sim
/ October 7, 2011This might sound trivial.. but why are there no ereader apps that do the cool page turn effect?
Gary_C
/ October 7, 2011Apple patent?
Anton Gully
/ October 7, 2011To be honest I thought Cool Reader did but it’s been a while since I used it. Why you’d want it I don’t know because it just slows you down.
oddbin
/ October 7, 2011Cool reader does. The htc book reader does too. Tbh you get bored of it quickly or just stop payig attention to it.
Anon
/ October 7, 2011Didn’t Laputa do it?
NS
/ October 10, 2011Watch out! According to the numerous comments on Android Market, once you install this you can’t uninstall it! I passed so I can’t confirm this.