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At Google’s big Android Honeycomb presentation today, Disney announced that it would be offering its popular iPhone game, Tap Tap Revenge 4, for Android now that in-app purchasing is on the way. Tap Tap Revenge has been one of my favorite games for iOS for some time now, and it’s good to see that it’s…
Google unwrapped the Android 3.0 Honeycomb platform today and it looks really cool but it won’t succeed against the Apple iPad unless there is strong app support. We’re happy to hear that Fuze will be bringing its meeting app to the Motorola Xoom and Honeycomb. The Fuze meeting app is currently available on the iPad…
Hopefully, you were watching our live coverage of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb event at Google HQ this morning but we know you wanted some more, so we’ve got a chance to get some hands-on time of the little, green robot that was built for tablets like the Motorola Xoom. As we noted in our preview,…
In a move which could spur even more developer interest in the platform, Google said at its Honeycomb event this morning that it would be bringing in-app purchases to Android. The new revenue stream will be available to developers by the end of Q1, and can take as little as five days to implement. The…
In its Honeycomb presentation, Google announced a new web-based version of the Android Market. This new website lets users easily browse and find Android applications. The layout is perfect for app discovery and includes both a carousel of featured applications and the familiar categories that are found on your Android device. Each application includes a…
LG has been building up hype for their new glasses-less 3D phone to be shown off at Mobile World Congress, and we even got a glimpse of a live device. Now LG is showing off the hardware through a fog of poorly-translated English in a promotional ad, though we’re still mostly in the dark when…
Sprint is planning an Android handset to combat Verizon’s Droid Pro, by the looks of it. We don’t know much about this Samsung handset, but it’s got the full physical QWERTY keyboard and a portrait-oriented touchscreen. It doesn’t look like there’s any kind of front-facing camera, so I wouldn’t expect 4G on here, but really,…
Android Honeycomb is going to be unveiled very soon, and Google exec and designer Matias Duarte gives us a little insight on what he wanted out of the platform. The main theme seems to be that Duarte doesn’t feel like humans should do what a computer should, hence his distaste for Android task killers. If…
For those addicted to Angry Birds, a new edition of Angry Birds Seasons is due out real soon, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Rovio recently announced that an update to Angry Birds Seasons is due out next week, and the update will include 15 new levels, plus bonus content… and it will all be…
The AT&T Inspire 4G takes center stage in a one-minute commercial highlighting the salient features of this entry-level Android handset. The HTC handset was unveiled at CES and includes includes a 4.3-inch Super LCD display, an 8-megapixel camera with 720P HD video, and both Dolby and SRS Wow Surround SOund HD technology. Powered by a 1GHz…