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Grand Theft Auto 3 Gets Android Update

No advertisement is need for a game which is there for already ten years. Hurry up now to buy your copy of the Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 3 tenth anniversary edition, which was developed to work also on Android and iOS devices. Now the company has released the next update to the famous game. The update with number 1.3 will make the operation of the game on more devices including Asus Transformer Prime (quad-core, runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich) and Medion LifeTab. Follow the list below to know the latest updated features:

  • Includes Integrated with Immersion Haptic Vibration Feedback feature, for more realistic gaming experience.
  • Possibility to adjust visual experience (visual effects high/med/low) with the updated video settings.
  • Possibility to install the game to an SD memory card, if you need the space for other purposes.
  • Improved controls for Xperia Play and supported gamepads plus full support for the GameStop Wireless Game Controller.
  • Dynamic Shadow.
  • A number of fixes of technical bugs reported previously.

Now go to the Android Market to grab your official genuine copy to avoid the various fakes already spread over the web.

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January 27, 2012 | 0 Comments More

Android Maps Armed with Night Vision

Map apps are a feature every decent smartphone must have. Maps of course cannot show different locations on different brands, and here is that the other details play the decisive role of whether that map will be liked or no. Maps these days are turning into more of navigation assistance tools, but not only.  They can now remember your favorite place, like restaurants, cinemas, parking and so on.

One of the favorite maps is the Google Android Map. In its new version the Android Maps has a Navigation option (still in Beta though), Place and Latitude features. Navigation is a free GPS navigation tool now released with voice support. Places are the locations where the user would most probably visit most often also providing tools to find place, compare them and get advice on where to go for a specific activity (like cafes, bars, supermarkets and various attractions). Latitude helps find out where the friends (and husbands) at that particular moment are and also check in at some locations.

Moreover, now the Android Maps were updated to include a night mode, which allows the maps to adjust themselves automatically to the low light conditions, when traveling for example in a tunnel. So grab this free and very useful app, which is also void of annoying ads found in some apps.

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January 26, 2012 | 0 Comments More

Banned Android Apps to Have Shelter

Koushik Dutta who writes codes for Android has come up with an idea to create a space where apps banned from Android Market can find their refuge. Dutta proceeded carefully by announcing about his idea this month, but getting many encouraging responses, decides to turn the idea into reality.

Dutta is a member of well-know SyanogenMod team and is the developer of the ClockworkMod app, which is a custom recovery console for Android handsets. Mr. Dutta named the banned Android app store CyanogenMod store, which is still in construction and has no official release date yet. Not clear though why Android bans some apps from time to time, possibly they contain some sort of malware, violate copyright laws or can damage the OS eventually. Anyway, the new store will host tethering apps, game emulators, customized ROMs and so on.

Whatever it is, for getting CyanogenMod apps you need to root your Android handset. Rooting on Android is the same as the jailbreaking on the iPhone. It provides the owner with the possibility to try customized OS and install third-party apps and run services. But be careful while rooting, since the process contains some risks: for example if the rooting fails during the operation, you can say goodbye to your device, or pay hundreds of dollars to make it usable again. Viruses and malware are also looking more for rooted devices to infest.

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January 25, 2012 | 0 Comments More

Ovum Sure Android will Outrun Apple

We can freely state now that the smartphone market is dominated by two brands: that is Apple iOS and Google Android. And the competition battle between these two is not limited to the devices and only. Fans as well wage “bloody war” on each other. An Android fan cannot understand how one can buy such an expensive and “overrated” device as the iPhone. The iOS fans in their turn think Android users are lunatics to trust such an “experimental and unreliable” technology as Android.  The truth is that Android slightly lags behind iOS in statistics.

Now the London based research firm Ovum announced sensational information claiming that Android is going to be the dominating platform for developers in the next 12 months. Only for developers? Does this exclude ordinary folk then? The research firm also states the developers are going to work less with Java and Flash technologies, preferring more HTML5 standard to build cross-platform apps.

As to other stuff, Ovum said developers are getting more interested in Windows Phone platform and also RIM OS (this one is really interesting). Ovum analyst Adam Leach said, “The growing momentum behind Windows Phone indicates that Microsoft has managed to convince developers that its platform is worthy of investment; its challenge now is to persuade consumers.”

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January 24, 2012 | 0 Comments More

Android Activations Reach 250 Million

Tell any iOS fan that Android is doing just fine, and you will get all kinds of negative responses, eventually calling you an Android troll or something. But numbers can speak for themselves and numbers show that indeed Android is not a weird underground product, but something which eventually can destroy Apple’s kingship in the smartphone world.

The activations of Android OS devices seem to grow on geometrical scale. Recent update from Larry Page gives some clarification on how fast the Android “virus” is spreading all over the world. He says as of November last year only 50 million handsets were activated with Android, now that number is 250 million. It is assumed 700,000 activations are happening daily and with 3.7 million activations done only during Christmas period alone.

In addition to this, 11 billion downloads have been already done through Android Market. To make things clear by comparison, look on Apple’s App Store, which is older than Android Market by 3 month and has reached its 18 billionth download last year in December. Pity no information is available as to which percent from those downloads was done for paid apps and which for free.

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January 23, 2012 | 0 Comments More
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