DJ Rivals For Android, Next Best Thing To DJ Hero On The Wii?

Tweet Big fan of DJ Hero for the Wii?  Well, I think this might be the closest you’re going to get to it on your Android smartphone, for now anyway.  DJ Rivals, by developer Booyah Inc, is  a fast paced rhythm tapping, cross-fading, bass dropping and live scratching game for the DJ enthusiast in you or any plain old average Joe wannabe.  Whatever the case, get ready to battle to reclaim stolen ground by Bland Corp, a money hungry corporation...

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Sony Ericsson ST18i and CK15i leak

Tweet What could be Sony Ericsson’s replacement to the XPERIA X8 has apparently leaked, under the codename the Sony Ericsson ST18i “Asuza”, along with another new touchscreen/QWERTY handset, the CK15i. Similar in appearance to the new XPERIA mini, the ST18i is tipped to have a 3.3-inch display and run Android 2.3 Gingerbread; the CK15i is believed to be launching as the Sony Ericsson txt pro, and have a slide-out keyboard like the new XPERIA mini pro. The ST18i has twin...

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Amazon cooking “family of devices” not just one Android tablet?

Tweet Amazon is tipped to have a “family of devices” using the Android OS in the pipeline for a holiday 2011 release, according to the latest leaks, potentially spanning not only various sizes of tablets but smartphones and/or set-top boxes (STB). According to Android and Me‘s sources, Amazon has been working closely with Google on the new range, potentially using Android Ice Cream Sandwich with a heavily customized interface developed by a specialist in embedded systems. Exact...

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Samsung Galaxy S, gain full control of your device with nitrality

Tweet We’ve got another great application coming from another genius developer over at XDA. This app is called ‘nitrality’. XDA member nitr8 has developed an application that allows you to control many of the features and functions of your Samsung Galaxy S from one app. Hit the break for the list of features from the nitrality XDA thread and some screenshots. Full-featured tool to control your SGS. Change Display Resolution Change Popup Animation Speed Change Transition...

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Samsung Galaxy S II Able To Use Standard USB OTG Cable For USB On-The-Go Access

Tweet Samsung Galaxy S II owners waiting for the release of their USB On-The-Go cables will wait no longer thanks to member NZtechfreak over at XDA.  The member discovered that a standard off-the-shelf USB OTG cable will do just fine while simultaneously saving you a major hole in your wallet. Only enough power to supply pendrives, but drives with their own power supplies, or drives connected to the phone via an externally powered HUB, will work.Read...

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HTC ThunderBolt OTA Update This Weekend [Rooted Users Included]

Tweet Take a peek in your ThunderBolt guts right this very moment because an update is coming your way. You might end up getting a notification starting yesterday, but if you’re in to the whole “I’d like my phone to be as awesome as it can be” thing, head to settings – software update – check new and you may well have a surprise waiting for you. This is the update we noted at the beginning of this month and includes items in web browsing, data access, email, messaging,...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab for $199 at AT&T – Refurbished

Tweet AT&T’s crazy deal of the weekend is the refurbished Samsung Galaxy Tab for $199.99, and free shipping. So if you are looking for a cheap Android tablet that is easy to root and sweeten up with some Gingerbread, this might be the deal for you. You have to get a data plan, too, but you can cancel it later if you want to. These are selling for $349.99 new, so 200 bucks is a pretty nice deal. You can find rooting instructions here at the XDA forums, if you should...

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Samsung Galaxy S II Official Extensive Live Demo [VIDEO]

Tweet The almighty Samsung Galaxy S II has already hit Korea and the UK, but has yet to reveal a date for its U.S. release. Either way, with a recent announcement of a NFC-enabled version heading to the UK in June, the device is certainly ready to set foot on our shores any day now. And what better way to whet our appetites than with an extensive 12-minute long demo to show off its power, speed, and cool new UI features. The Samsung Galaxy S II is the successor to...

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Leaked Netflix apk Comes to All Devices (with a little root magic)

Tweet It was a bit disappointing when an Android Netflix app was finally released, and many found out their phone wasn’t supported, but now the proud owners of rooted phones can get the app with a little bit of searching and some sneakiness. 1) Make sure you have enabled “side loading” apps. Check Menu > Settings > Applications, there you should have “Unknown sources” 2) The first thing you have to do is download the apk to your phone. All you have to do is...

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OGT Mobile Teases Eros Tablet [Video]

Tweet There will be tablets aplenty coming out this summer, in fact, we may even decide to call it “the summer of the tablet”. And we had heard that OGT Mobile had a tablet coming out called the Eros Tablet, and that it is called “the world’s thinnest tablet”. But we don’t know much more than that. Today, OGT has come out with a teaser video to get us all excited. The video has suspenseful music, along with text that comes flying at you. The descriptive phrases and adjectives...

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HTC Sensation 4G – A Closer Look [VIDEO]

Tweet The HTC Sensation 4G will be HTC’s first dual-core smartphone and one of its first to feature their slick Sense 3.0 interface. We caught a quick intro to the interface with their “First Look” video and we’ve also got a hands-on video. But if that isn’t enough, then behold the latest almost 6-minute long video from HTC that gives a much closer look and intimate tour of the device. The HTC Sensation features an aluminum unibody chassis powered by a 1.2Ghz Qualcomm...

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Google News Regional App on Android Market

Tweet   This is not an official Google app, it is an outside developer. The app uses the language set in the phone plus the coarse position of the user to choose your location, mine immediately went to U.S.A. I thought I might be able to set it to a more precise location than that, but it is only at the country level it seems. Some minuses for this app are that you can’t refresh from the menu, and it doesn’t seem to automatically refresh. Also,...

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Google I/O 2011 T-Shirt Puzzle Deciphered

Tweet Google always has some fun with its I/O t-shirts and this year is no exception. There was a hidden message in the shirts, which appeared to have some sort of binary or Morse Code on the back. You can take a look at the shirt below and see if you can decipher it before continuing after the cut for the answer. Putting the dots and dashes in line and considering the line breaks to be spaces, it turns out to indeed be Morse Code. After plugging it into a Morse Code...

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HTC Flyer Unboxing And First Impressions [Video]

Tweet The HTC Flyer comes just after a slew of recent Android tablets including the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola XOOM, and the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer. But what makes this 7-inch tablet stand out is its compatibility with a digital stylus for convenient note-taking. Chris Davies from our sister site SlashGear has gotten his hands on it and brings us now the unboxing and his first impressions. Although these days it seems the stylus, Davies finds that it does...

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‘Android Eats Apple’ Wallpaper Download

Tweet At the Google I/O developer conference earlier this week, Google poked a little fun at Apple on its big screen during the first day’s keynote. They showed an illustration of the Android robot happily eating an apple, which had many folks not only thinking it was funny but wanting it as a wallpaper. Thanks to the original artist, it is now available. The artist behind the ‘Android Eats Apple’ illustration is Fraser Ntukula, who tweeted the original image that’s...

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Quick Look at Today’s Amazon Free App: Chalk Ball

Tweet Today’s free Amazon app is called Chalk Ball, normally priced at $1.99.  Chalk Ball is a reincarnation of the classic “draw a line to bounce the ball where you want it to go” style game, but with a chalkboard art design.  Your goal is to draw chalk lines off which your ball will bounce, to ultimately either bounce into a gold star, or just to keep it in the air as long as possible.  Every time you draw a line, it depletes your chalk reserve, but ...

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Dial Your Programs With ZLaunchy For Android, Now Available In The Market

Tweet One of the few things I can recall appreciating on my Blackberry smartphone was the convenience of just typing out a contact’s name from the main screen and their info being suggested, filtered and then revealed before me instantly.  To my knowledge, I regret not seeing this implemented or integrated on the Android OS.  Well, that is until now anyway.  XDA member wojciechka, brings you this very functionality by way of a third party application...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Arriving First On Verizon With 4G LTE?

Tweet At Google I/O earlier this week, every attendee got to walk away with a limited edition Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. We reviewed the slate and compared it with the Motorola XOOM and the LG G-Slate and we even did an epic unboxing battle to which you can vote a winner for a chance to win the limited edition tablet. And what’s even better? Now we get word that the ultra thin and lightweight tablet may be heading to Verizon as its first carrier and sport speedy...

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Sony Ericsson defends sluggish XPERIA Play PSOne game sales

Tweet Sony Ericsson has dismissed suggestions that poor sales of its PSOne classic games available for the XPERIA Play are a cause for concern, arguing that it’s a matter of awareness rather than lack of appeal. PlayStation LifeStyle [article offline at time of writing] spotted that Sony Ericsson’s five PSOne launch titles had all been downloaded less than 1,000 times, suggesting adoption by XPERIA Play owners was less than impressive. Of the five, Destruction Derby...

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NOOK for Android updated: Tablet UI, Digital Magazines, mo

Tweet Barnes & Noble has updated its NOOK for Android app, with a new tablet-friendly UI and the introduction of NOOK Newsstand periodical support. Over 140 titles are available through the digital magazine system, including ESPN and The Economist. As for the interface, that now gets a library grid view, while book margins and line spacing are also tweaked. The ebook purchasing system has been reworked, and the ArticleView system from the NOOKcolor has been dragged...

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Confirmed: HTC Sensation dump shows signed bootload

Tweet One of the best things about the Android operating system is the hackable and open nature of the OS. You can unlock mod, change and do pretty much what you want. Comparatively, the iPhone is locked down with a constant fight between hackers and Apple to find and patch holes that allow the phones to be jailbroken. Recently, many of the big names in the Android smartphone market has been doing things like offering unlocked bootloaders for some phones. Both Motorola...

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DROID X2 set for May 26 launch

Tweet We mentioned just yesterday that the DROID X2 dummy devices were turning up hinting at a launch soon. The launch now has a specific day for us to look forward to. The smartphone will land on May 26, almost exactly two weeks from today. This smartphone was originally expected to land today, but was delayed. This will be the first dual-core Tegra 2 Android smartphone on the Verizon network. A launch date of May 19 is pegged for fulfillment orders, which presumably...

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BeBook Live 7-inch Android tablet coming June 21 in UK

Tweet We have already talked quite a bit about the BeBook Live tablet that runs Android. We mentioned earlier this month that the launch date was tipped for this summer. What we didn’t have then was the actual launch date to mark in our calendars. That official launch date has now been revealed by BeBook as June 21. That date comes from an email BeBook sent out in the UK. That email also had the RRP for the BeBook Live at £229. The price in the States has been pegged...

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Samsung Galaxy S II updated: Swype swiftness, auto-brightness fix

Tweet Samsung’s Galaxy S II may be fresh to the market, but that hasn’t stopped the company’s engineers from pushing out updates. In fact, we’ve seen two firmware updates arrive through Samsung’s Kies app in short order, bringing the GSII up to i9100XWKE2. The first left Swype more responsive and apparently also addressed some connectivity issues, while the second fixed the Galaxy S II’s automatic brightness. The firmware is also rootable, which is good news for those...

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LG Optimus Pad arrives in UK today

Tweet The HTC Flyer isn’t the only tablet arriving in the UK today. Carphone Warehouse has confirmed that the LG Optimus Pad – aka the T-Mobile G-Slate in the US – is now on sale, offering Android 3.0 Honeycomb and a 3D camera array for stills and video. Your money gets you a 10.1-inch display – which can show 3D footage, as long as you wear the bundled red/cyan glasses – along with twin cameras, WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth. Inside is NVIDIA’s dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 chipset. The...

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HTC Flyer hits shelves today

Tweet HTC is working its way through releasing the various devices it announced back in February at MWC 2011, and latest to hit shelves is the HTC Flyer. The 7-inch tablet has arrived in EMEA, undercutting the iPad 2 in mainland Europe at least, at €649 $929) for the 32GB 3G + WiFi model, while the 16GB WiFi-only Flyer is priced at €499 /$714). Unlike in the US, both come with the digital HTC Scribe pen as standard. That can be used to draw, annotate documents or create...

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These Dancing Android Toys Are Awesome [Video]

Tweet  I received this email whilst browsing the Android developers’ sandbox area at Google I/O and I had to drop everything when I saw the video that was included – dancing Android toys! The toys – which can be found in several places (including Dead Zebra) – have been modified for mechanical movement. Arms, head, waist – this is more than just a lone spinning motor, folks. And these little guys have a ton of skill. There are no instruction links, unfortunately, but I’m sure a few of you crafty individuals will find a way to emulate this. Video’s abov...

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Sprint Enticing Current T-Mobile Customers to Switch With ETF Fee Waived?

Tweet In yet another attempt to smear the AT&T/T-Mobile merger proposal, Sprint is said to be offering customers $175 credits when porting their number over from T-Mobile to Sprint. Think of it as sort of a “safe haven” for customers who are uncertain about Magenta’s future. The $175 should cover most of the ETC you’d otherwise pay (and depending on what type of phone and plan you get, could pay for 2-3 months of service before you’ll have to come out of pocket). The...

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What Do You Think of Google Ice Cream Sandwich OS?

Tweet During Google I/O 2011 in San Francisco, the Google guys demonstrated the upcoming newest of their mobile operating systems, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, and the word is that Ice Cream Sandwich will be a universal OS for both smartphones and tablets, so as the Google guys say…one OS Everywhere. According to an article over on Engadget, Ice Cream Sandwich will join Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the tablet centric Android 3.0 Honeycomb to play nice on the smallest Android...

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Official T-Mobile G2 Gingerbread ROM Leaked

Tweet We’ve already seen a test build of the Gingerbread ROM that’s soon to be headed to T-Mobile G2 customers, but 911Sniper has leaked yet another. And this time, it looks to be a final, stable build. ROM makers are going to want to get their hands on this one right away, but for those of you who don’t fancy doing that sort of stuff today’s leak suggests T-Mobile is just bout ready to roll this out to users. Let’s hope to hear official word about it from them sometime...

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Samsung Galaxy S II overclocked to 1.5GHz, used to obliterate benchmarks (video)

Tweet What do you do after you've bought the most powerful smartphone to yet grace the Android universe? Some timid folks would urge you to just enjoy it, but if you're like us, you'll probably want to know just how high that dual-core Exynos 4210 birdie could fly. The processor inside the Galaxy S II started off life at 1GHz, then got sped up by Samsung to 1.2GHz just before release, and has now been taken all the way to 1.5GHz thanks to coolbho3000 over on the xda-developers...

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iRobot Ava mobile robotics platform hands-on at Google I/O (video)

Tweet If you're under the impression that robots were all over Google I/O this year, you'd be right -- after all, it's a only small leap from robot to Android. Yesterday we got some hands-on time with iRobot's Ava mobile robotics platform and came away rather entertained. Ava is an autonomous robot that's equipped with and array of sensors (two Kinnect-like 2D / 3D cameras, a scanning laser, ultrasonic transducers, and contact bumpers), driven by omnidirectional wheels,...

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View Google And Touchdown Exchange Calendars In Quick Agenda For Android

Tweet Some of my favorite apps to review are ones of productivity.  I’ll take anything from any developer if it’s going to make my life easier in the least slightest form.  Next up to make the productivity apps list is an agenda view widget that integrates content from both Google and Touchdown Exchange calendars along with a ton of other data sources.  The widget is extremely customizable and offers easy access to check out your events, tasks and...

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