The Nexus One, Nexus S, and Galaxy Nexus are all flagship Google phones, each being the first to use the then-latest version of Android (2.2, 2.3, and 4.0, respectively), each being free of any third-party UIs like TouchWiz or Sense, and each being the only flagship phone at any one time.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google might change how it handles that last point. Apparently, rather than partnering with one handset manufacturer at a time to create a single, de facto flagship device, Google might work with up to five manufacturers at once, to create a whole stable of Nexus devices – including tablets.
For more details, read the original article. Do you think it’s a good idea?
Cheezia: Gears of Fur is an engaging and fun platform game with some very cool physics elements thrown in. Your job is to help Manu, a mouse housed within a wall-climbing cogwheel of some kind, save some important recipes from the grip of an Evil Kiwinel bird. So, this adventure is all about food, then: cheese, mainly.
If you like dairy, and also like your games Mario-esque and dripping in cheese, this is the game you’ve been waiting for. Grab a cracker or some nachos and read on for more…
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Most of us struggle with keeping our busy lives organized, especially if you throw a family into the mix. That is why there are so many apps in the Play Store that deal with personal organization – but it’s hard to weed through them all to find true help. When all the dust has settled, Cozi is one Android app that’s left as a real winner.
Organization requires three separate tools: a calendar, a to-do list, and a shopping list. They are all needed in our every day life and it’d be nice if they all worked together in tandem, and worked for the whole team (or family). Cozi is all of these tools in one convenient app, and they’ve included a journal to boot…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’re probably aware of the battle that has been raging between the iOS and Android platforms. Loyalists on both sides have been taking turns throwing punches at each other. For a good few years, the one punch Android fans were having a tough time deflecting was about the visual quality of apps on iOS. Make no mistake: to this day, iOS apps trump their Android counterparts in the aesthetics department.
Things have been changing pretty rapidly though, and since our first roundup of beautiful Android apps, a huge number of new contenders have arrived. Here, then, is a look and some more Android apps that are gorgeous to look at and – in most cases, if not all – also do a stellar job of functioning as well as they look.
This week in apps has been a hectic one, with a new app that has you guessing the logos to major corporations, a Flickr competitor’s entry into the mobile app world, and the latest photography craze GifBoom, all making a splash not only on the Play Store, but on my device as well! So read on to see what’s happening this week in the world of Android.
There’s a diverse range of puzzle games on Android, and Train Crisis is my latest favourite. U-Play has developed another snazzy looking game that will have you gripping your phone intensely! It’s a particularly good strategy game that requires quick thinking, quick reflexes and the ability to hold your temper – it can get quite difficult. So put down Angry Birds and hop on board…
After months of speculation and rumors, the Samsung Galaxy S III was officially announced last week. This is a big deal mainly because it’s predecessor, the S II, garnered rave reviews throughout its lifetime – even a year after its release, it still remained one of the best Android phones money could buy.
So the S III has a lot to live up to, then, and despite it not even being on the shelves yet (you’ll have to wait till the end of the month), some people are not happy with it. Know Your Mobile complains that it fails to deliver, for instance. Android Police wrote a great article arguing that the design of the handset was heavily influenced by the iPhone – heavily influenced in the opposite direction, that is, so as not to get into any more trouble over patents and trade dress.
Naysayers aside, this certainly looks like a great phone on paper. It has top specs: 4.8 inch 1280x720px screen, up to 64GB in-built memory plus support for a 64GB microSD card, 8MP rear camera and 1.9MP front camera, Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC, and slim and light as well. It’ll run Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box. And Samsung has been working on some new interface gimmicks, like the ability to detect when you’re looking at the screen and keep it on if so. Plus – I may be the only reader excited by this – it has an optional stylus accessory.
If I hadn’t just updated my phone recently, this might have been a day one purchase for me. As it is, I’ll wait for the first month’s reviews before deciding whether to trade my handset in. What about you?
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but a bunch of these new sites called ‘social networks’ have been cropping up all over the place and they seem pretty popular. Social networks, of course, allow us to share some or all facets of our lives with our friends, our family, and the general public. While the vast majority of social networks are web-based, a lot of them come with accompanying Android apps. Let’s take a look at some of the more popular ones (as well as a few niche networks).
In Grow you control a fish with a simple mission: consume every creature that is smaller than you. The controls are also simple and easy to use, offering a few different ways to play – via tilt, virtual joystick, or touch-and-move (for both right- and left-handed players). Grow requires Android version 2.1 or above, and is suitable for all ages.
I don’t want to be cheesy, but families are like boats on top of an ocean. Just when you think all is fine and dandy and start enjoying the sunrises, sunsets and the sea breeze, they tend to rock like crazy for no significant reason. No doubt, it’s highly annoying, but without those boats, many would have sunk a long time ago.
Beyond a couple of generations, it might get tougher to keep track of who our relatives were or are and how exactly they fit into our family picture. So, it is a good thing to start charting out all our family members from both the past and the present to preserve our family legacy. Ancestry.com is a pioneer in helping build family trees online.
You never know where or when you’ll make a new discovery. That’s why they have an app to carry with you all the time. After the break, let us check out how to create a family tree using their companion Android app.
