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Aug

ESPN Bowl Bound App Becomes ESPN College Football, Tempts The Wrath Of NCAA Fans Everywhere

Posted by Jeremiah Rice in News

Long-awaited updates to popular apps are usually met with adulation, but ESPN's college football app may be an exception. The old Bowl Bound app is now the more generically titled ESPN College Football, with a few new bells and whistles added into the mix. ESPN news for all Bowl Championship Series teams is complemented by video clips that promise to be constantly updated, and users can save their favorite teams for quick and easy access to news and live scores.

And here's where the trouble starts. In order to access your favorite teams, you'll need to sign into your ESPN account, or create one if you haven't already.

Aug

[New App] NFL Preseason Live For Tablet Scores One Of The Lowest Ratings In The Play Store, Wants $20 In Return For Poor-Quality Streams

Posted by Ryan Whitwam in Applications, News

Are you ready for some football?! If you have $20 and a high tolerance for irritation, the new NFL Preseason app for Android tablets is out and ready to accept your cash. The fee is actually for a subscription to the online preseason coverage, which can be watched in a web browser. Judging by the early reviews of NFL Preseason Live for Tablet, that might be where you want to watch it.

NFL Preseason Live is only for tablets at this time, but you can install it on anything 7-inches or bigger. The preseason app has the full preseason schedule as well as the full catalog of games.

Aug

[New Game] GAMEVIL Distils Soccer Down To Its Addictive Essence With Freekick Battle

Posted by Ryan Whitwam in Games, News

You can always rely on Gamevil to create engaging little games that will eat up your free time. In that spirit, Gamevil has released a new game on Google Play called Freekick Battle. This title has easy-to-master controls and a single goal: to err... score goals. All that other soccer stuff is out the window, though. All you're doing here is taking free kicks. It's just you and the defenders.

The controls are very simple, so after a few minutes you'll get the hang of it. Just line up the shot, and use the big soccer ball button to determine the speed and angle of the kick.

Jul

Yahoo! Sports Beyond Gold 2012 Provides Mobile Olympics Coverage, Just Like You'd Expect

Posted by Eric Ravenscraft in Applications, News

The games are underway in London and the whole world is watching. If you'd like to follow the course of the events without spending the next couple weeks glued to your television, Yahoo! may just have you covered. The app is decidedly slick-looking, though some users have reported some trouble with the app, however in our test runs, it's worked adequately. Your mileage may vary.

The app has sections for news, photos, and quick access to which countries have won what medals for which events. Because, really, isn't that why we all watch? The app seems fully featured for the casual viewer, though it lacks any video streams, so it's not quite the complete experience, but it should be plenty to keep you update while you're away from the telly.

Jul

[New Game] Com2uS Brings Authentic Baseball Gameplay To Android With 9 Innings: Pro Baseball 2013

Posted by Ryan Whitwam in Games, News

Longtime Android game developer Com2uS has its fair share of experience with baseball games. Most Android users have at lest heard of, if not played, Homerun Battle. This series is designed to provide a more authentic feel than those cartoony games. 9 Innings: Pro baseball 2013 has the real players you know and love with physics to match.

If you're a baseball fan, this is probably the game for you. Com2uS has fed in all the stats and data for over 1,400 players on 30 teams. The roster is accurate as of July 5th, and Com2uS has a contract with the Major League Baseball Players Association to keep it up to date.

Jul

Endomondo Sports Tracker Updated To Version 8, Featuring New Ice Cream Sandwich-Flavored Redesign

Posted by Liam Spradlin in Applications, News

Endomondo, an extremely popular sports and exercise tracker got an update to version 8 today, bringing a handful of minor enhancements. Among these are improvements to routes, the option to like/dislike routes, and the addition and removal of favorite roots. More importantly though, version 8 brings a brand new UI, designed with Ice Cream Sandwich's legendary style guide in mind. Check out some screenshots:

What's great about Endomondo's new UI is not only that it enhances the UX greatly and makes the app as a whole "prettier," but that it brings the app's design more into line with the Ice Cream Sandwich style guide, without making the mistake of following the idea that holo is everything.

Jul

ESPN Replaces Its Old, Crappy ESPN Radio App With Brand New, ICS-Ready Hotness

Posted by Eric Ravenscraft in Applications, News

ESPN hasn't exactly been the poster child for great app design in the past. While the company has made several Android apps, many of them have looked rather atrocious and a bit too iOS-y. ESPN, however, has re-launched its ESPN Radio app. The old app appears to have been made by independent company Airkast, while the new app has been brought in-house. And, apparently, ESPN's house does a fine job of making an app. Just take a look:

^{The old ESPN Radio app}

^{And the shiny new one}

The new app adheres much more closely to Google's app guidelines and looks much better for it.

Jun

[New App] Official Nike+ App Finally Arrives On Android

Posted by Ryan Whitwam in Applications, News

Look at you - going for a run without a gizmo to track your progress and bother your friends on Facebook. Lame, right? Well grab your sneakers, because the Nike+ app had landed in the Play Store, and it's free.

The app connects you to nikeplus.com, which acts like a portal for all the social features in Nike+, as well as a larger interface to check out your run data. There is no additional hardware needed to use Nike+. Just load up the app, and it uses your phone's GPS and accelerometer to record your pace, distance, and time.

Jun

ESPNsoccernet Hits The Play Store, Feeds Your Football Addiction

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

Here in the States, we call it soccer. Everywhere else, it's called football (which makes far more sense to me). Regardless of what you call it, though, there's one universal truth: like many other sports fans, soccer/football fans want to stay as up-to-date as possible about what's happening with their sport.

Enter a new app from ESPN called ESPNsoccernet that helps you do just that. It offers a pretty extensive set of features for the football/soccer-lover:

Comprehensive football coverage. The latest football news and features, as well as live scores, commentary, Gamecast, match stats, fixtures and results, league tables, player and club profiles.

May

Motorola's MOTOACTV Watch Gets An Update To Version 6.12/6.13, But Not All Devices Are Equal

Posted by Ryan Whitwam in MOTOACTV, News

Motorola has released a pair of updates for the MOTOACTV Android-based sports watch. The last round of updates came in March with new features for golfers. The new updates, versions 6.12 and 6.13, come with most of the same features, but there is a confusing split based on whether or not your device already has the golf features included.

Both updates contain enhancements and bug fixes including:

Improved calorie burn algorithm during cycling workout with heart rate monitor
Added Primary Activity selection during setup so your MOTOACTV is tailored to your primary sport
Improved watch performance after display wake up
Enhanced the way Album Lists are displayed
Improved connectivity with Wahoo BLE heart rate monitor

The golf-compatible MOTOACTV watches will also get: