Archive for August, 2010

Nimbuzz for Android App Review

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Nimbuzz is one of the many multi network instand messaging clients for Android – this means that it connect to many different instant messaging services. The supported services are MSN, AIM, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo, Google Talk, Orkut, MySpace, ICQ, Gadu Gadu and Hyves. The amount of support is really great and it’s one of the best features [...]

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Pocket Racing Game Review

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Pocket Racing is a top down racing game in a similar style to the immensely popular Micro Machines games. The first impressions of the game are excellent with a small tutorial of how to play the game. The controls are extremely simple – you turn left you simply press the left side of the screen [...]

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TweetDeck for Android BETA App Review

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TweetDeck is a social networking client that so far has been available for desktop and iPhone use. It is one of the most popular Twitter clients around and also integrates Facebook, Buzz and Foursquare. Earlier this week TweetDeck announced that they would be releasing a BETA of their Android version of TweetDeck by the end of the week [...]

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Crush the Castle for Android Game Review

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Crush the Castle dropped for Android today after being extremely popular for the iPhone and iPod touch. The premise of the game is simple, you need to destroy all of the enemies in a castle using your Trebuchet to fire boulders. To control the game you simply tap to start the Trebuchet and tap when [...]

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Facebook for Android App Review

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I’m sure a lot of readers here user Facebook and are probably disappointed by the lack of decent Facebook client for Android. The official app was finally released around a year ago now but it was extremely basic when compared to its iPhone counterpart – updates have been almost non existant since with the only major addition [...]

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ChompSMS App Review

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ChompSMS is one of the oldest and most downloaded apps on the Android marketplace. In short, it is a highly customizable SMS client with the ability to also send extremely cheap international texts via ChompSMS’s network – although this really great feature is barely mentioned now on their Android marketplace listing. Originally, ChompSMS was a totally free [...]

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Spider Man Game Review

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Spider Man is a brand new game on the Android marketplace. At first glance it looked to me like another spam game (a lot of those seem to be popping up) but after having a closer look, to my surprise it wasn’t. Spider Man is a simple game where you swing from one platform to [...]

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Abduction! World Attack Game Review

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Abduction! World Attack is one of the first games I purchased for Android when I got my G1. It first peaked my interest because I had seen my friends with iPhones playing ‘Doodle Jump’ and thought this looked similar. The objective in Abduction is to bounce your animal on platforms and steer him using the [...]

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Springpad for Android App Review

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Something I’d been looking for on Android recently was a nice and flexible notes application that could be used for a few different applications such as lists. I saw Springpad pop up in the market and thought it was worth a look, and I’m sure glad that I did because in my opinion it’s the [...]

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360 Live for Android App Review

360 Live for Android is an Xbox 360 application allowing you to see what your friends are doing online, send them messages or view achievements, view game information and accept/reject friend requests. Unlike other Xbox 360 applications, you log in on 360 Live to your Xbox Live account and it bring up your friends list and [...]

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Act 1 Video Player App Review

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Something that I found missing from my first Android phone – the G1 was a decent video player. I’ve gone through many and have finally stuck with Act 1 Video Player and the experience so far has been very good. My main gripes with the other options available for Android are that they are too [...]

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IMDb for Android App Review

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The internet movie database (IMDb) app for Android was much anticipated – whilst the Movies by Flixster app was a good substitute I still found myself wanting an IMDb app – when it finally came it certainly didn’t disappoint! The app has most of the great features from the full website including searching for Movies, TV [...]

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Hyper Jump Game Review

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Hyper Jump is a brand new game from Camel Games who are amongst the top game developers for Android at the present time. The game is similar to other popular games such as Doodle Jump and Abduction but they have innovated and added some nice features. Currently the game is in quite an early stage [...]

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Tower Raiders Gold Game Review

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I am a huge fan of Tower Defence games os when I saw Tower Raiders Gold in the Android Marketplace I couldn’t resist! For those of you who are unfamiliar with tower defence games. they are quite simple yet extremely addictive and fun. The main concept is that waves of enemies will try to get [...]

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FeedR App Review

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FeedR is an RSS and Atom feed news reader for Android. One of its standout features is that it syncs with Google Reader, this is a great feature for people that used Google Reader before getting their android phone or anyone that uses Google Reader – it is also particularly handy if like me you [...]

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