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Android lacks a top class sports scores app – with almost all being from unofficial sources they tend to lack the polish you might expect. Soccer Score Centre, although focussed on only one sport, is arguably the best of the bunch so far.
The look and feel is inspired by Sky Sports News, with a useful [...]
Providing access to over 100 publications around the world, Newspapers is one of the most definitive news apps for the Android platform.It’s a basic tool, essentially just a collection of bookmarks to the mobile versions of newspaper websites, yet for that convenience alone it is worth a download.
Although light on features – there’s no widget [...]
The standard Android browser is pretty effective for casual use. Yet, as you so often see on mobile browsers, heavier use tends to show up its limitations pretty quickly.
Dolphin Browser HD, the latest version of the already popular Android browser – and designed for Android 2.x devices – brings over multiple elemens from the desktop, [...]
Coming from the Google stable we have high hopes for Goggles. And while they are currently only partly met, the potential this app has is clear to see. Goggles is a visual search engine.
Rather than typing in a search term, you simply point your camera at an object, take a snap and Goggles tries to [...]
Look into any app store and you will find a plethora of single-function applications that will go unused for long periods, before prove themselves utterly invaluable when you really need them.
RAC Traffic is one such app. It uses GPS and Google Maps on your smartphone to locate the position of your car as you drive [...]
Recent versions of the Android OS come with some built-in tools to help you analyse your battery life – useful if you’ve noticed a recent drop in the amount of time you get from a charge.
Spare Parts goes a step further, unlocking some of Android’s hidden settings, giving you even more information than before. As [...]
Google’s Android OS is an incredibly powerful and flexible mobile operating system. Here we present another eight great ways you can squeeze yet more function from your phone.
Free navigation
If you haven’t yet spotted it, note that Google Maps with free Navigation is now enabled for the UK. Update your copy of Google Maps from the [...]
The HTC Hero was one of the best smartphones of 2009. It’s follow up is the HTC Legend, a stunning new handset with brings together Android 2.1 and a tweaked Sense User Interface from HTC, superb AMOLED screen and clever chassis design.
The mix of hardware and software features combine to create a smartphone which, apart [...]
There has been a growing enthusiasm about a new category of app for the iPhone and Android OS. Known simply as augmented reality apps, these innovative reality browsers overlay the physical real world with virtual data courtesy of a smartphone’s built-in GPS functionality, compass and camera.
If you are an avid watcher of sports coverage [...]
Smartphones running the Android platform are popping up thick and fast now, and it is becoming increasingly important for them to have an angle, something special, different, alluring to draw you to them. Well, Samsung’s new Galaxy Portal has a pretty large hook in the form of the Layar browser.
This is an augmented reality application. [...]
Google’s Android platform is a baby compared to the other mobile operating systems that dominate the smartphone market, but it has quickly gained attention from millions of people worldwide and crucially from the big manufacturers such as HTC and Sony Ericsson. It has also not escaped the attention of navigation software makers and you now [...]
Google’s Android platform is a baby compared to the other mobile operating systems that dominate the smartphone market, but it has quickly gained attention from millions of people worldwide and crucially from the big manufacturers such as HTC and Sony Ericsson. It has also not escaped the attention of navigation software makers and you now [...]
Smartphones running the Android platform are popping up thick and fast now, and it is becoming increasingly important for them to have an angle, something special, different, alluring to draw you to them. Well, Samsung’s new Galaxy Portal has a pretty large hook in the form of the Layar browser.
This is an augmented reality application. [...]
These top apps, all available from the Android Market, will give your new HTC Desire an instant boost.
Facebook
A true must-have for social networking addicts, the Android Facebook app lacks some of the more advanced features seen on the other smartphone platforms, but as an at-a-glance tool for keeping up to date it is indispensible.
Spotify
The future [...]
Setting up a new Android phone is exceptionally easy and care has been taken to guide you through the initial steps. If you have a Google Mail account, make sure you have your information ready and you will be up and running in minutes.
1/ A Google account is required to use the Android Market and [...]
One of the most eagerly awaited smartphones ever, the Google Nexus One has a lot to live up to. That it doesn’t quite meet expectations is perhaps not surprising, given that at heart it’s ‘just’ an HTC tablet and that Google themselves are still new to the game.
However, quite a lot of what’s wrong can [...]
Android Marketplace may now be claiming over 10,000 apps but the quality still lags a long way behind iPhone equivalents. A case in point is Yukiyo, which looks like a promising Super Mario clone with 40 brightly drawn levels split over 4 different worlds.
However, with a choice of either sluggish tilt or sluggish touchscreen controls [...]
Android is becoming something of a star in the smartphone world. The operating system is finger friendly and benefits from an app store with many free – and useful – applications to choose from.
HTC is making quite a play to be at the top of the tree as an Android supporter, and has several smartphones [...]
There are now plenty of Android based smartphones around. Not as many as of, say, Windows Mobile or Nokia’s S60, but enough for potential buyers to have a good choice between designs, and enough that are available on operator contract to give the buying public some real choice.
Samsung’s I7500, also known as the Galaxy, is [...]
Confused about the ever-expanding number of smartphone platforms? Unsure which is the right one for you? Our Five Reasons to Choose series gives you an instant guide to the things you need to know about every mobile OS.
Part six: Android
1. Google integration
One often-overlooked benefit – yet the most important one to consider – is that [...]
Got yourself a Nexus One, or one of the other great Android smartphones? Then try these six apps to enhance the device’s functionality and also give you an insight into the Android Market in the process.
Spotify
Overcome those music syncing problems by streaming everything you could ever want to hear over the air. For a [...]
Although not a smartphone the Archos 5 Internet Tablet is of interest to smartphone watchers as an example of a device based on the truly open source version of Android: in other words, an Android device without Google.
Because while Android is open source and freely usable, the Google apps have to be licensed separately, which [...]
With the Android Market you have thousands of third party apps available to expand the capabilities of your smartphone. Here’s how you install them.
Press the gray arrow at the bottom of the main Home screen. Select the Market icon. You will see featured apps listed first, and several categories to choose from.
The best way to [...]
The Acer Liquid could be something of a dark horse in the world of Android powered handsets. Acer is not the first name that springs to mind when thinking of smartphones – honestly, it would be lucky to scrape into the top ten. Yet in the Liquid the company has produced an understated and immensely [...]
