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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Service Saver helps you escape motorway journey RIP OFF HELL
This is one of the best ideas for an app we’ve encountered for a long time. Service Saver is designed for UK motorway travellers, pointing out nearby off-motorway supermarkets, and therefore enabling drivers to avoid the MISERY that is paying £3.49 for a cup of tea and £4.69 for a limp egg mayo sandwich in [...]
View from the Train explains what you’re whizzing through/past
View from the Train is a new Android app developed by Scottish Natural Heritage, designed to encourage you to LOOK OUT OF THE WINDOW while travelling by train through the Scottish countryside, instead of staring at your phone for the duration of the trip. The app is sort of a virtual Michael Portillo, offering wildlife [...]
SEGA SALE: After Burner Climax and House of the Dead reduced this weekend
If you’re a lapsed SEGA fan too disillusioned with the state of its modern product even to spend £2.39 on an Android version of After Burner Climax, here’s some good news for you, Gary — the game’s been discounted to just 77p as part of a weekend promotion. We don’t know why. It just has. [...]
STATS: Android powers 58.4% of UK smartphone sales in 2013
Analyst Kantar Worldpanel has issued some updated analysis of the UK and European smartphone scene, revealing that Android powered a whopping 58.4% of all smartphones sold in the UK during the three-month period to the end of March 2013. As in, the three months before the Galaxy S4 and HTC One launched. It’s going higher. [...]
“Have you ever wanted to send a message to someone in another vehicle?”
YES. OFTEN. The above is part of the description of new Android messaging app Reg1t, which claims to enable car drivers to message other vehicle owners based up their publicly available registration details. The maker says it shouldn’t be considered a private messaging system, as the communications will be publicly viewable by anyone who types [...]
GuardianWitness Android app out today
The Guardian group has launched an Android app it calls GuardianWitness, which is a sort of all-in-one hub for gathering together all of the user-generated contributions it adds to its online news pieces. From what we can tell, it’s a way to get people to send in their funny cat photographs and to get other [...]
Share photos with strangers using Rando
We’ve been waiting for this interesting little thing to arrive on Android after a short period of exclusivity on iOS, and here it is. Rando is a simple, stylish little app, that does one thing — shares photographs. Randomly. You take one, send it off, then you get one back in return. That’s the entirety [...]
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