The Android App Reviewer

So, this a common complaint about the Galaxy S is that the GPS is awful – I personally haven’t ever had much of  problem with it so I will share how I use it to see if it can improve your luck somewhat. Firstly, no firmware has caused me any problems but to be safe, [...]

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That’s right, EA have reduced all of their Android games for the holiday season. So go grab yourself some bargains such as Need for Speed Shift, Tetris and the Sims! How’s everyone finding the games? let us know! Bookmark It

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Good news, if you are in the UK and have an unbranded handset then there’s a new updated available for you – only a minor one but it offers some great speed improvements over previous versions. To grab the update ensure you have the latest version of Kies installed from Samsung’s website. The firmware is [...]

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Today Facebook has received a large update which includes the much wanted chat and push notifications. This can be grabbed from the market now. How is everyone finding it? Review to come soon! Bookmark It

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Today a new firmware leaked for the Samsung Galaxy S I9000, the version number is 2.2.1 and the build date is the 3rd December 2010. This is not available by KIES yet but can be flashed using other methods. Users are reporting yet another speed boost. For more details check out the thread at XDA-Developers: [...]

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TeamViewer have released a BETA version of their app for Android. TeamViewer allows you to remotely connect to your Windows or Mac computers from your Android device. The BETA expires at the end of January but, TeamViewer have said that non-commercial users will be able to use the full version of the app for free. So [...]

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Chrome to phone is an app for Android with an accompanying extension for Google’s browser – Chrome. So what does it do? Firstly, you need a phone running Android 2.2 or greater and you need to install the Chrome to phone app from the market and the extension for the Chrome browser. Once these are configured to [...]

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So this has been a long anticipated update for the Galaxy S. Last week Samsung officially released this and unbranded handsets should be able to get it now by Samsungs Kies software – those with branded handsets will have to wait a few more weeks until their carrier makes their modifications to the update. So [...]

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ChompSMS – a popular alternative SMS client that allows for cheap international texts has just updated to version 5.0. This version has added the something called TextFreek – this allows you to send free texts to other TextFreek users. This sounds like something similar to instant messaging clients such as WhatsApp and Ping! Chat but [...]

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My6sense is a really multifunctional social networking application which aims to make your experience more relevant. It allows you to add your news feeds, Twitter, Facebook and Buzz accounts. so what does it do with all of these accounts? Well first of all you can view all of your news streams, it’s  a basic Twitter [...]

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With the Market on my Galaxy S seemingly getting slower every day and then when I do finally get to see the new apps seeing hundreds of spam applications I’ve been looking for an alternative for a while. AppBrain allows you to browse the market from your Android device and use filters to find newer [...]

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This is probably less of a review and more of an eye opener really as this is such a simple yet useful application. Caffeine quite simply is a tiny application that stops your phone going in to sleep, lock or dimming the screen. The application has a notification bar icon (it needs this to work [...]

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Navigon for Android is a fully featured satellite navigation system. Rather than with other navigators such as Google Maps Navigation, Navigon stores maps on your SD card which means it doesn’t use any data but it also offers a wealth of other features that can not be matched by its free counterparts. Navigon has an [...]

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Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance (N.O.V.A) is a first person shooter for Android made by Gameloft. There’s not been many FPS’s on Android so far so I was eager to get my hands on one and see how it played and to my enjoyment, I was pleasantly surprised. N.O.V.A is a sci-fi FPS in which you [...]

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If you have an Android phone and haven’t played Abduction then you need to get yourself straight to the Android Marketplace! Abduction 2 is the sequel to Abduction! World Attack which is one of the most popular games on Android so far. The gameplay is simple using your phones accelerometer, your character jumps on to platforms and you need [...]

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