BBC Worldwide launches Good Food Magazine app
The money-making arm of the BBC has launched an app to partner its print title Good Food Magazine, which is now available on the Android Market here. Android users in the UK will be surprised to see it covered in adverts for a toothpaste brand, but that’s just how BBC Worldwide is allowed to roll. [...]
NASA launches space station monitoring app ISSLive
If you’re forever sitting outside in the dark with a duvet over you waiting to see the ISS travel overhead, here’s an app for you. NASA’s latest Android offering is ISSLive, which lets users “Interact with live streaming data from the International Space Station.” You also get background info on the ISS itself, plus crew [...]
Fortean Times launches Weird News Android app
The Excellent Fortean Times magazine continues to spin its best content out into standalone smartphone apps, with a new Weird News app now joining the previously released collection of strange death news. The latest app costs 69p, for which you get a simple, browsable collection of the strangest reports gathered up from around the world. [...]
OrangePixel’s Neoteria out now on Android
Superb mobile game developer OrangePixel has caringly churned out another great looking, retro themed title, with its latest game Neoteria now available on the Android Market. There are both paid and ad-supported versions of the game out there, which sees the developer moving away from platform action to deliver a 2D scrolling shooter. This is [...]
Game Insight launches airline game Airport City
Incredibly prolific mobile developer Game Insight has just popped its latest up on the Android Market. It’s called Airport City. Not only do you make an airport and plan the flying business like a young and nerdy Richard Branson, you also build a nearby city so there’s an ample supply of willing tourists ready to [...]
Barclays Pingit – instant mobile money transfers
Barclays has lagged behind the other UK banks in offering any form of official mobile app, but it’s just stormed into the lead with something it calls Barclays Pingit. Once you’ve given the app your bank account details and mobile number, users can use it to make payments to others, up to a limit of [...]
Strange Deaths – Fortean Times out now on Android
The Fortean Times is easily one of the world’s finest magazines, cobbling together news of the weird, the occult and all sorts of general assorted craziness to do with religion and things born with more heads on them than they are supposed to have. Now there’s a small slice of Forteana on Android, in the [...]
MoneySupermarket Car Insurance app now on Android
This MoneySupermarket car insurance comparison thing has been floating around on Apple’s iTunes servers for months, now it’s on the Android Market for us to have a fiddle with. It’s BIG BOAST is that you can just stick in a number plate and see insurance quotes using data pulled straight from the DVLA’s files, so [...]
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 [...]
“Fluffy clouds form an easy-to-read clock in the sky”
It looks like we’ve attracted the attention of the Live Wallpaper crowd after yesterday’s thing about PlanetScapes, as here’s news of another rather sweet animating Home screen design. This is the Tree of Life, which sticks a big tree in the middle of your phone’s display, then changes lighting patterns and introduces random wildlife events [...]
Reviews
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Panasonic Eluga review
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 Eluga’s powered by a 1GHz dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP processor, which is running a 4.3″ OLED [...]
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HTC One V review
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 it still arrives running the same HTC Sense 4 interface we saw in the excellent [...]
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HTC One S review
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is). -
HTC One X review
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well. -
HTC One X review: Camera, photo and video samples
Some camera samples taken with HTC’s quad-core Android monster.
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Sony Xperia S review
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? -
Sony Xperia S review: Camera, photo and video samples
We’ve spent most of the last week captivated by the staggeringly sharp screen of the new Sony Xperia S, while putting together what will hopefully be something resembling a review for you all to read very shortly. In the meantime, to be getting on with, here are a few sample photos and videos, taken using [...]
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LG Prada 3.0 review
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? -
ACCESSORY REVIEW: Case-Mate Tough Case for Galaxy Nexus
£30? For a phone case? It had better be good.
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ACCESSORY REVIEW: Samsung Official Mesh Vent Case for Galaxy Nexus
Samsung’s official Galaxy Nexus case. Costs a lot. Has a glittery little logo.
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ACCESSORY REVIEW: Case-Mate Barely There for Samsung Galaxy Nexus
Fresh from reviewing the cheap and cheerful FlexiShield case for the Galaxy Nexus, we’re back with another protective offering from industry veteran Case-Mate. Although this particular product retails for around the same price as FlexiShield’s TPU option, it’s quite a different proposition. Review submitted by extremely patient retro gaming advisor Damo. As the name suggests, [...]
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ACCESSORY REVIEW: FlexiShield Case for Galaxy Nexus
Seeing as we’ve just reviewed the brand spanking new Galaxy Nexus, we’re in the mood for some accessorising – and we don’t mean earnings and handbags. To that end, we’ll be covering a few Galaxy Nexus-themed items over the next few weeks, starting with the FlexiShield Case. Review submitted by reader, writer, gamer and occasional [...]
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Panasonic Eluga review
