14
Feb
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Minus Cloud Storage Becomes An Instagram Competitor, May Be Minus A Lot Of Android Users Soon [Update]

Posted by in Applications, News

Sometimes a site or service needs a new approach, or a little fresh paint. This would seem to be the case with Minus, formerly a simple cloud storage provider akin to Dropbox. Yesterday the company unveiled a new look and new direction: location-focused, social sharing of photos. It includes local chat features, with the new tagline "make friends near you." The revised app description sounds like a combination of Instagram and Foursquare. There are filters. There are stickers. There are likes.

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It's a pretty radical change in direction, and while there's no telling whether it will take off or not, a vocal subset of users are demonstrably unhappy.

13
Feb
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App Roundup: Here Are Four New Valentine's Day Apps That Don't Suck [Update]

Posted by in Applications, Roundups
Last Updated: May 13th, 2013

Around the offices of Android Police, we go through a lot of apps. We're talking hundreds or even thousands every week, to bring you the best in our app and game roundups or (if they're good enough) individual posts. Before every major holiday, we are inundated with more themed applications than we know what to do with. And to be honest, most of them are terrible. But we've found four Valentine's apps that are bearable, even interesting. So put on your white sportcoat and pink carnation and download a few, if the holiday spirit moves you.

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Rebtel is an otherwise unremarkable VOIP service, offering the usual cheap international calls and the like.

12
Feb
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[New App] Neatly For Twitter Releases Beta App For Your Sideloading Pleasure

Posted by in Applications, Apps/Games, News

It's hard for a Twitter client to make a name for itself with the market so saturated with competitors, but maybe Neatly has a shot. This Twitter client isn't just delivering your Tweets; it lets you sort, filter, and highlight tweets in your timeline so you see more relevant information. This app has arrived on basically every other platform (even Symbian and BlackBerry 10), but the developers have now offered up a beta Android version for you to try in advance of the actual release.

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Neatly claims to be a smarter Twitter client. It scans your timeline and can build you an interest-based experience rather than just showing you everything.

09
Feb
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[App Roundup] Our Top Six Favorite New Apps To Check Out From January 2013

Posted by in Applications, Roundups
Last Updated: May 13th, 2013

January, like most months, had plenty in the way of new apps and games. We've already published our list of the top five games from last month, so it only seems right that we follow up with the month's best apps.

From backup utilities to social/RPG/motivational fitness apps, January 2013 had something for everyone. In the interest of saving our readers time, energy, and perhaps some money, we've rounded up the six very best apps every Android user should know about from the past month.

06
Feb
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RunKeeper Updated To 3.0 With A Completely New Holo UI And Features

Posted by in Applications, Apps/Games, News

RunKeeper is one of the top fitness apps in Google Play, and it just got a huge update to version 3.0. Not only does this version continue RunKeeper's trend toward a more modern Holo-inspired UI, it adds features that will make your experience better.

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Here's what's new in this version of the app:

  • Visual redesign- Complete visual redesign from the ground up
  • In-activity splits- Shows your pace per mile/km or workout interval throughout the activity
  • ‘Me’ tab- Central place in the app to view your goal progress, personal records, and activity tally over time
  • Audio cue improvements- More robust audio cues
  • Workout reminders- The ability to schedule your next workout when you finish the last one

RunKeeper is a solid way to keep track of your workouts, and provides you with gobs of data to dig through.

06
Feb
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21 Best New Android Games From The Last Week (1/29/13 - 2/6/13)

Posted by in Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News, Roundups
Last Updated: May 13th, 2013

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous week or so.

This edition focuses only on new games. The app roundup is coming up soon.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets, which include ratings and pricing info.

Looking for the previous roundup editions? Find them here.

Featured App

CritiCall Free

Today's roundup is sponsored by CritiCall from Simply Applied. CritiCall solved one of the most obvious problems with modern smartphones: the lack of a selective silent feature.

04
Feb
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37 Best (And 1 WTF) New Android Apps And Live Wallpapers From The Last 2 Weeks (1/21/13 - 2/4/13)

Posted by in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, News, Roundups
Last Updated: May 13th, 2013

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.

This is the app roundup. The game roundup from this week can be found here.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the AppBrain widgets, which include ratings and pricing info.

Looking for the previous roundup editions? Find them here.

Featured App

WhatsApp Suite

Today's roundup is sponsored by the WhatsApp Suite by CremaGames. If you've ever thought that your chat conversations could be enlightened by a little Philosoraptor or Success Kid, then you need this app.

31
Jan
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Apps Sales For January 31, 2013: Shadowgun, Samurai II, Reddit News, And More

Posted by in Apps/Games, Deals, News

When it comes to buying apps, I try to wait until a sale comes along. I usually end up buying things on a whim most of the time anyway, but I try to wait – especially for games and such that may be outside of who much I'm willing to spend on one app. If you're also the type who waits for a good sale to roll around, some pretty decent price drops just hit the Play Store sales floor.

A nice variety of apps there: a couple games, a reddit browser, a barcode scanner/organizer, and a fitness tracker.

30
Jan
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New App Annie Index Shows Google Play Taking Off – Led By Strong Sales in Japan, US, And South Korea

Posted by in Apps/Games, News

There was a day when app developers who chose to work on the Android platform were looked down upon by their more lucrative iOS brethren. Well, those days are drawing to a close. The newest App Annie index of mobile application sales is out, and it's overflowing with interesting data. The takeaway message is that Google Play revenue doubled between the third and fourth quarter of 2012.

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This is, in many ways, the same trope we've seen in other metrics in the past. Android is behind iOS in absolute numbers, but the rate of growth is much higher. While Google Play revenue was growing by 100%, Apple's App Store was up only 20%.

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Jan
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Web Play Store Now Offering To Translate Foreign Descriptions Using Google Translate

Posted by in News

Ever since Google launched the web-based Play Store, it has been iterating rapidly to improve the experience. Now that there are more apps in the store than you can shake a phone at, you're more likely to run into one with a description written in a language other than your own. With that in mind, it's pretty cool that Google has chosen to quietly deploy Google Translate in the Play Store.

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If you land on an app listing in another language, you might see the Translate bar right above the description. It will read, "Translate the description into [LANGUAGE] using Google Translate?" In this example [LANGUAGE] is replaced by whatever your default language happens to be.

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