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Review: Door 6’s “Vacuum: The Global Competition”

Door 6, developers of “The Training Mission,” an Android game that finished in the TOP 20 games in ADC2, will soon have something new for Android gamers to try out. “Vacuum: The Global Competition” is scheduled for release on March 20, and offers more incentives for winning than your typical high score entry. Apparently, Door [...]

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Review: Mobile Stream’s EasyTether for non-rooted phones

Good news for owners of non-rooted phones: Mobile Stream’s EasyTether app, already available for Palm, Blackberry, and WinMo users, is now available on the Android Market as a free beta. EasyTether allows you to use your phone’s data connection to provide internet connectivity for your laptop or other device via a USB cable. Because the app [...]

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Sync Outlook and Android with CompanionLink (software review)

Microsoft Outlook is a must-have tool for millions of people. Outlook controls their email, daily appointments and agenda, tasks, and memos that power them through the day. For Android users with such a dependence on Outlook, not having those critical elements can be challenging – and in many cases unacceptable. CompanionLink is an Android/PC sync solution [...]

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Review: TwonkyMedia Server Mobile

Announced at this year’s CES, TwonkyMedia Server Mobile allows you to stream media from your Android phone to any UPnP or DLNA capable device on your network. This could include your computer, XBox, or Playstation 3, among other things. Just to see how well this could work in my home, I set up TwonkyMedia Server [...]

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Barnes & Noble’s “Nook” ereader review roundup

It’s several days later than I originally planned, but I finally got my hands on a Nook. Sadly, it was an in-store demo unit because I was late to pre-order the device and fell victim to unchecked, rampant misinformation provided to me by several employees at my local Barnes & Noble retailers. I’m very disappointed, [...]

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Review: Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Force Recon

Oh man. At this point in time, I’m pretty sure you’re well aware that a video game came out a couple weeks ago. It was a pretty big hit. And with any kind of smash-hit like Modern Warfare 2, I guess everyone and their cousin should have realized some kind of spin-off was due. Maybe [...]

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Seesmic makes its way to the Android Market

Have you gone through the Twitter clients available in the Market already, and just haven’t been able to pick one that you like? Or, you know, one that you use more than another one? If that’s you, then here’s another application that will surely make you happy. Or just frustrate you some more. It’s Seesmic, [...]

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EXTRA! EXTRA! Associated Press’s “AP Mobile” is a great Android news app

Through cooperative agreements with some of the world’s largest newspapers and television networks, the Associated Press supplies much of the news items that you’re likely to come across in a given day. With its new AP Mobile Android app, those stories can now be piped directly to your Android device. AP Mobile delivers the hot-topic news [...]

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New Motorola Morrison spy shot emerges

The Motorola Morrison, originally suspected to be Moto’s first Android-powered phone, has been spotted again sporting Android. A spy shot posted to Phandroid shows the Morrison running the Green Bot, showing what could very well be the next Android phone to hit the US market. The Morrison has a slideout QWERTY keyboard and bright blue and [...]

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App Review: CoPilot Live takes Android voice navigation in the right direction

Put on your seatbelt, check your mirrors, and launch CoPilot Live for Android? That’s not the traditional pre-driving routine, but it’s what I did when testing CoPilot Live, a new GPS application that offers turn-by-turn voice navigation for Android. The ALK-produced service creates Android GPS navigation systems on the fly thanks to massive map libraries [...]

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