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The rumor is that Amazon is planning to bring its Appstore to Europe during this summer. At the moment, the online retailer has dedicated web stores in select European countries, including United Kingdom, Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Spain so it’s fair to argue folks living in those markets will be their primary targets for…
On the heels of announcing that 75 million people have interacted with its service (and that it has 17.5 million unique users interacting with it each month), voicemail provider YouMail has recently unveiled a new version of its Android app. The updated application is focused on greetings, making it super-easy to assign people personal greetings,…
Presuming you own an Android smartphone (rather than the iPhone) and that you also buy your tickets using Songkick Concerts’ website (rather than Ticketmaster), you’ll be glad to know that their mobile app is now available to download from Google Play. Similarly to the iOS app, the one made for Android device also scans your…
Augmented reality experts at Layar launched a new app and platform – Stiktu, allowing users to “remix the real world.” Available as a free download from the Apple AppStore and Google Play, it lets users add their own drawings, text, images and stickers to magazines, posters and more by simply scanning them with a smartphone.…
Linaro, which bills themselves as a non-profit team of engineers looking to make Linux kick ass and take names, have been playing around with the source code for Google’s mobile operating system, Android. They reckon that the tweaks they’ve made can increase performance by as much as 100% in certain benchmarks. The video below demonstrates…
No matter what it turns out to be, a new handset announcement can always be a fun time. Sony is putting a little twist on how they will be announcing its new Xperia handset by putting that announcement date into the hands of the fans. Initially set to be announced on the 22nd of this…
Though AT&T has yet to officially announce a release date to begin selling its version of the Samsung Galaxy S III, Droid Matters has noticed that when you pre-order on the AT&T Premier website, the handset is scheduled for arrival on or before June 21st. To clarify, AT&T Premier is a segment of the AT&T Wireless…
Spotify, the wildly popular music streaming service has just given its Android app a major overhaul. The new version of Spotify has been rewritten with full support for Android 4.o Ice Cream Sandwich and it brings a slew of new features including slide-out navigation, a new home screen widget, new sharing social features, 320Kbps streaming and…
Sony Mobile Communications, which less than four months ago was known as Sony Ericsson, hasn’t exactly had an exciting 2012. Their new lineup consists of devices that were clearly designed before the merger was complete, and worst of all their portfolio utilizes chips that were meant to be put into 2011 smartphones, not 2012 flagships.…
Custom CM9 and AOKP ROMs are not reserved for select HTC One X versions (i.e. those with quad-core CPUs) any more, and now owners of AT&T’s version of the device can join the party, too. Needless to say, we’re talking about very first ROM builds, so you better be careful and have a spare device…