A beta version of the long-awaited official VLC player app for Android has arrived on the Play Store, with VLC warning that it’s an unfinished, unstable beta version that won’t run very well at all on most phones right now. Still, it’s there. In fact, it’s here.
When it is finished and working properly, Android VLC will support multiple audio streams and subtitle files, network streams, aspect ratio tweaking and quite a lot more. But at the moment, you get this:
The developer even says that the user interface itself is also unfinished and will change before the final release, so… this really is about as barebones as public test builds get. Get Android VLC Player here if you fancy fiddling with the work in progress.
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?
Adrian68
/ July 3, 2012I currently use MX Player for playing my videos on my One X, it plays 720p AC3 audio codec complete with subtitles without a hitch.
Anton Gully
/ July 3, 2012I wonder will this end up in a lot of acrimony and gloating as happened with the “dubious” iOS release way back when.
Stuart Halliday
/ July 4, 2012Looks good.
But yet another video player that doesn’t loop and play the same video over and over for demo purposes…:(