March 2011 Archives

Google

Google Mobile search adds Instant Previews on Android 2.2

Google Search has a great feature called Instant previews that shows thumbnails of page results. This allows Google visitors to enter a search term and see quick previews of a page without clicking the link. So…

Android News

Honeycomb browser isn’t up to par on HTML5

Sencha has released a “developer scorecard” for the Motorola Xoom, focusing on the HTML 5 performance of the Honeycomb browser. It comes up with some interesting findings, which they boil down t…

Accessories

Phoneboat turns your phone into a tripod and handsfree mount [Accessories]

The HTC EVO 4G is a great Android phone for many reasons, but I’m partial to the kickstand. I love the way that it enables handsfree video calling and watching videos on my phone. But there are plenty of othe…

Google

Leaked Android app has cloud sync for rooted phones. Are we closer to Google Music launch?

Google Music was previewed at Google I/O 2010 as a future product that would sell music downloads and provide storage for personal libraries. After 9 months of waiting on the future to land in the Android Market…

Android App Reviews

Gowalla checks-in with Android app that links with Facebook and Foursquare [App Reviews]

Gowalla CEO Josh Williams calls this “the best app ever created for Android,” but that’s just eager hype. Gowalla is just like the dozen other “check-in” apps used on Android…

Commmunication

Kik Messenger adds group chat and photos for Android & iOS users

Kik Messenger, the cross-platform instant messaging app similar to BBM, has updated to include groups and photo sharing. Though Kik suffered a major blow when RIM BlackBerry support was blocked, today̵…

HTC

HTC Thunderbolt listed as $299.99 at Best Buy

The HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon has been seen and heard for months, but we still don’t know when it will be released. Best Buy has decided the waiting sucks and has at least told us how much the first Verizon 4…

Samsung

Samsung announces the portrait QWERTY Galaxy Pro

The portrait QWERTY form factor is no longer as underrepresented in the world of Android devices as it was just a couple of months ago. The Acer beTouch led the way in June last year, and since then the Motorola Dro…

Android Apps

Android Apps Alert #51: Torrents, News, and Chat edition

The best Android apps are always in our sight at Androinica.com. Hundreds of new Android apps are released each week, some performing better than others, so we try to find the apps and games that will best intere…

Samsung Tablets

Samsung is changing the iPad/Android tablet conversation

If you subscribe to any other Android news feeds, you’ll have noticed the continuing coverage of Samsung reacting to the iPad. It’s just shocking that a manufacturer is changing their strategy b…

Tools

uTorrent Android Remote adds Mac OS support

The uTorrent Remote application for Android lets users control torrent downloads from an Android phone. The app launched last month and supported only uTorrent PC users, but BitTorrent has released a Mac OS a…

Tablets

The Android community must fight generalizations on Honeycomb tablet price

I fully understand when people around the iPad 2 announcement make blanket statements that “Android tablets are too expensive”, because I take everything connected to an Apple event through a b…

HTC

HTC makes 1 of 5 US smartphones, Android tops Nielsen rankings once again

HTC ranks as the top Android phone maker in the United States according to recent smartphone market share statistics released by Nielsen. Between November 2010 and January 2011, 12 percent of smartphone purc…

Commmunication

LiveProfile aims to be fastest messaging app for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS [Interviews]

The “BBM for Android” market is a crowded space. PingChat was among the first to replicate RIM’s popular app, Kik rose and fell in a tech blink, and Beluga achieved massive support for its po…

Tools

SnaPanda by Edulang: a dictionary app with a twist

Augmented reality apps usually display real-time information on top of what you see through the camera of your Android device. A fairly new dictionary app by Edulang uses a similar concept; it lets you point yo…

Android Apps and News

Malware Bullcrap

Motorola Xyboard

Apps Alert #86

Toshiba Thrive 7 Review

GTV Cable

Tablet Size

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Google

Google Mobile search adds Instant Previews on Android 2.2

Android News

Honeycomb browser isn’t up to par on HTML5

Accessories

Phoneboat turns your phone into a tripod and handsfree mount [Accessories]

Google

Leaked Android app has cloud sync for rooted phones. Are we closer to Google Music launch?

Android App Reviews

Gowalla checks-in with Android app that links with Facebook and Foursquare [App Reviews]

Commmunication

Kik Messenger adds group chat and photos for Android & iOS users

HTC

HTC Thunderbolt listed as $299.99 at Best Buy

Samsung

Samsung announces the portrait QWERTY Galaxy Pro

Android Apps

Android Apps Alert #51: Torrents, News, and Chat edition

Samsung Tablets

Samsung is changing the iPad/Android tablet conversation

Tools

uTorrent Android Remote adds Mac OS support

Tablets

The Android community must fight generalizations on Honeycomb tablet price

HTC

HTC makes 1 of 5 US smartphones, Android tops Nielsen rankings once again

Commmunication

LiveProfile aims to be fastest messaging app for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS [Interviews]

Tools

SnaPanda by Edulang: a dictionary app with a twist

Android App Reviews

Android Featured Video