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Amazon to Release Android Tablet Alongside App Store?
Last week we spoke of an email mobile developers were receiving from Amazon, and speculated the purpose of this email to be regarding the development of an Amazon Android Application store. Although an Android app store powered by Amazon’s intelligent recommendation engine would likely be …
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MOG to Bring On-Demand Music to Android in Q2
If you’re anything like me, you may be growing impatient with the repeated delays coming from Spotify and Rhapsody regarding on-demand music streaming services. As of this post, Spotify is now working on a next-gen version for a U.S. release (read: don’t expect that any …
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Motorola CLIQ XT/Quench Officially Announced
The CLIQ‘s slimmer sibling, the CLIQ XT, was announced by Motorola this morning at Mobile World Congress. The CLIQ XT is a touch-only device, bearing many of the same features as the original CLIQ such as screen size, resolution, camera, MOTOBLUR, and Android 1.5. Upgrades …
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Mini Sony Xperia X10 Spotted
The Xperia X10 was just announced for Canadian wireless carrier Rogers, but already we are being introduced to its smaller sibling, codenamed “Robyn”. Described as “compact and clever”, it looks similar to the X10 although little is known about physical specs. Like the X10, Robyn …
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Logitech Seeking Android Developer for New Product
A recent job posting listed on Logitech’s website indicates a need for a “super-star engineer” to help develop a breakthrough product which combines “an Android UI with web based content and media services”. It is unknown as to what type of product is in development, …
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TextPlus Brings Free Text Messaging to Android
TextPlus, an ad-supported application which allows for free text messaging, is now available for free on the Android Market. Initially an App Store offering (the application’s official website has not yet been updated to show Android support), textPlus now allows Android users to send free …
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Nexus One to Include Built-In Version of Spotify?
Spotify, the European music streaming startup which provides on-demand music streaming, may be closer to reaching an agreement with U.S. record labels for a launch on our soil. TechCrunch has received word that Spotify may launch in the U.S. under a free model; however, it …
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ADC2: What Are Your Top Picks so Far?
The winners of the Android Developers Challenge 2 are scheduled to be announced later today so I wanted to do a last minute poll. As we know, the criteria each app is judged upon is based on four topics: Originality of concept, Effective use of …
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App Review: Astraware Sudoku
Astraware’s Sudoku for Android is an app for true “Sudokuphiles”. I say that not to imply that only a true Sudoku fan would agree with the $4.99 price tag it bears on Android Market, but because a true fan will appreciate the wealth of features …
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Four Reasons Why the CLIQ Just Clicks
Motorola’s first entry in the Android arena will be available in just a few days. You may have heard of the two main features of the MOTOBLUR software, Messages and Happenings, applications which pull updates and messages from all your sources of communication into two …
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Rhapsody to Hit Android by End of the Year
Shortly after releasing the Rhapsody app to iTunes, RealNetworks has announced via the company blog (and a teaser photo) that a Rhapsody app will be available on the Android Market “before the end of the year.” For those who do not know,
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App Review: Alarmed
If you’re anything like me, getting out of bed is one of the hardest parts of the day. You deliberately set your alarm to go off at least 30 minutes earlier than when you really need to get up, just so you can hit snooze …
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App Review: Pandora for Android
Pandora, the popular ad-supported music streaming service, has now been available for the Android platform for over two weeks. In this review I’ll discuss some highlights and opportunities for improvement which we will hopefully see in future versions to come (reviewing version 1.0.0).
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