Android BBC iPlayer app now compatible with 10″ tablets
The BBC has updated its Android iPlayer app once more, today uploading a version of the code designed to play nicely with 10″ tablets. Previously, owners of big-screened devices were simply forwarded to the BBC’s mobile web site by the app, while phone and smaller tablet users got the actual app experience. Now 10″ tablet [...]
Race Illegal launches on Android via Herocraft
If you have not already thoroughly HAD IT with games about cars, you might want to have a go on this. Race Illegal is the latest title to hit Android courtesy of useful developer Herocraft, with its big boast being support for online multiplayer racing. Apart from that claim it looks like a relatively standard [...]
HTC First UK launch cancelled, says source
According to sources quoted by Mobile News, the HTC First is not going to be launched in the UK after all. At the phone’s launch event last April, Facebook claimed the HTC First “Facebook phone” would arrive in the UK on the Orange and EE networks some time during 2013, but, apparently, pre-orders are now [...]
Blip Blup promises “addictive conundrum of coloration”
Blip Blup is a new puzzle game from developer UsTwo, which brought us the bizarre anti-social photography app Rando and the super-successful free-flier Whale Trail. This one’s quite different, offering a tile-based puzzle game that’s all about filling the screen with blocks of colour. We haven’t tried it yet, what with it being the middle [...]
Samsung Galaxy S4 sells 10 million units in a month, purple and brown models on the way
Samsung’s quite happy about the way people have been snapping up the new Galaxy S4, claiming it’s already shifted 10 million of the things after just one month of (slightly patchy) availability. As well as boasting about its sales numbers, Samsung announced a few more coloured variants will be arriving later in the year, with [...]
Amazon Local app now live for UK users
The Amazon Local app, which is part shopping tool and a much bigger part voucher aggregator, is now live for use in the UK, with pounds prices, local deal listings and more all available from within the Android app. Amazon Local is basically a simplified Groupon clone, offering the usual odd collection of spa breaks, [...]
ATTAB Seven 7″ Tablet, yours for £59.99
There’s a NEW LOW been reached on the high street in terms of mass market Android tablet prices, with the Dixons/Currys group now selling the ATTAB Seven 7″ Tablet for a shockingly low £59.99. For that you get a rather predictable power and feature set, with the tablet offering a 7″ display running at 800 [...]
BEST DEALS: Huawei Ascend P1 for £189
All sorts of alarm bells went off here this morning, as one of our favourite Android phones of last year received a significant online PRICE CRASH. Retailer Expansys is now selling the Ascend P1 for £189.99 including free delivery, for which you get a very capable and virtually unskinned Android model with a decent camera, [...]
Vodafone Smart III – 4″ 1GHz Jelly Bean model for £95
Literally out of nowhere Vodafone UK has announced the availability of the Vodafone Smart III, a 4″ Android “Jelly Bean” model powered by a single-core processor clocked at 1GHz. Vodafone says the Smart III features a WVGA 480 x 800 resolution display, 5megapixel camera with flash, and is yours for £95 on PAYG or on [...]
Sega’s original Sonic The Hedgehog out on Android
The game that changed the world and helped make it a better place for the following five or six years has arrived on Android, thanks to Sega publishing its first ever OFFICIAL version of the original 2D Sonic game for Google phone users. Obviously you’ve been able to play Sonic 1 on Android for years [...]
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