PayPal recently did a massive overhall on their Android app after the previous version received a lot of negative reviews on the Android market. For those that don;t know, PayPal is a popular online payment method which allows you to send and receive money without having to give the recipient your card details – it is often used to pay for [...]
Archive for August, 2010
ESPN Score Center for Android App Review
ESPN is one of the greatest sports channels in the USA and is gaining huge popularity in the UK. When Score Center popped up in the market I immediately downloaded it. The app allows you to see live scores on a huge number of sports – any sport you can imagine is there. When first setting up [...]
Home Switcher App Review
Today’s review is going to be a short one but t could also prove to be very handy. For those that don’t know home replacements offer features above and beyond your standard home – there are a variety such as ADW or LauncherPro – they all have their pros and cons and people prefer different [...]
Advanced Task Manager App Review
Advanced Task Manager was one of the first apps I ever paid for on Android, I was very surprised that something like this was not included in the operating system itself. In a nutshell, Advanced Task Manager allows you to see running tasks or processes and force them to close. There has been some controversy over [...]
EStrongs File Explorer App Review
Android does not include any way to browse your files (although some manufacturers are now including a basic file explorer in their roms), this not only makes organisation hard but means you can’t see what data is being stored. Luckily, being Android this problem was soon gone when file explorers such as ES File Explorer [...]
Swype for Android App Review
One of the great things about having an open operating system is that applications can totally change the whole look or feel of a phone. Swype for Android is a custom input method which brings innovation to typing on a mobile and I must say the results are extremely impressive (to enable it long hold [...]
Movies by Flixster for Android App Review
Movies by Flixster is one of the earliest and most well polished Android applications available and has been hugely popular with over 250,000 downloads. Originally Movies was a free app with no ads, now it is ad supported but they aren’t intrusive and it is understandable that the developer would want to have some way [...]
Blow Up Game Review
Blow Up is by Camel Games, the maker of other popular Android games such as Hyper Jump. Your tast in blow up is to place a given amount of bombs in different places in a structure in order to blow the structure to the ground. More points are awarded for getting a Panda to ht [...]
WordPress for Android App Review
This review won’t be relevant to everyone but it’s definitely an app worthy of a review. WordPress is a free blogging system (that this website runs on!), and is the most popular of its kind in the world. The WordPress for Android app allows you to view comments, add new posts, add new pages and view your [...]
Tapatalk Pro for Android App Review
Tapatalk Pro is an Android application that allows you to connect to many forums, as long as they have Tapatalk enabled. Many forums do indeed have Tapatalk enabled which makes accessing your favourite forums on your mobile much easier – but do beware there are still forums that do not implement it and due to [...]
Trillian BETA for Android App Review
Trillian BETA launched a few hours ago – for those that don’t know, Trillian is a multi protocol instant messaging client. Trillian have been in the instant messaging game a long time with most IMers using Trillians PC application at some point. Trillian supports AIM, Facebook Chat, GTalk, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, WLM (MSN), MySpace and Yahoo [...]
Doodle Jump for Android Game Review
If there’s one game everyone has heard of for the iPhone then it’s Doodle Jump. As soon as I saw it pop up on the Android Marketplace I had to download it to check it out. For those that don’t know, Doodle Jump is a game where you have to bounce on platforms using the accelerometer (much [...]
SMS Popup App Review
SMS Popup has been around for a long time on Android. There are many programs which aim to enhance SMS on Android but SMS Popup is the original. The app is pretty simple – when you receive a new SMS, instead of just having an icon in the notification bar you also get a popup. Many complained [...]
eBuddy for Android App Review
eBuddy is another one of the many multi protocol instant messaging clients for Android, many of you may have also heard of eBuddy for their web based messaging services. eBuddy doesn’t include quite as many services as some other IM clients such as Nimbuzz but it still has the main ones, these are: MSN, Yahoo, [...]
tAttachApkInstaller App Review
Todays review is going to be short and sweet, just like this app! tAttachApkInstaller lets you install APK’s from a Gmail attachment. This is extremely handy, instead if getting a lead out and transferring the app to the phone or any other method, you can simply email an APK to yourself and install it directly from a [...]













