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Sep

Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 Special Edition Live Wallpapers Leaked, Available For Download

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Droid 2, News, Videos

The R2D2 is coming later this month, but in the meantime P3Droid from MyDroidWorld ripped apart the system dump and weeded out the special edition Star Wars themed live wallpapers. He was also kind enough to shoot a few handy videos demonstrating them, and I must say, they’re pretty cool and will definitely be appreciated by any Star Wars fan. Kudos, P3.

Millennium Falcon Asteroid Field

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Jump to Light Speed

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Interactive R2D2

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Space Slug

This one has no video because…

Sep

Camera ZOOM FX Review + Giveaway

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Applications, Contests, Reviews

When it comes to photo editing on the fly, there are usually two kinds of apps: those intended for mindless fun, and those intended for actual work. Without a doubt, Camera ZOOM FX falls into the latter category, along with its mediocre UI, strange (though not necessarily poor) selection of effects, and (relatively) low price tag. So is it worth a look? A purchase? Read on for the full Android Police review.

The Review

Design

Like I said in the introduction, Camera ZOOM FX’s design is not exactly my definition of sexy. The…

Sep

[App Of The Week] Multicon – Reclaim Your Home Screen Real Estate

Posted by Brad Ganley in Applications

Even though I have 7 home screens on my EVO 4G, I still sometimes find myself cramped for space. I have a whole bunch of apps and shortcuts that I would like to have instant access to. Enter Multicon.

The function of Multicon is to make widgets that pack in a number of downsized icons in the space that would normally be occupied by only single ones. This enables you to pack a large number of app shortcuts onto a home screen that only fits 16 by default (on most handsets).

Multicon is especially useful for devices…

Sep

Irony: Adobe May Be Killing Flash On Motorola Droid/Milestone

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Apps/Games, Devices, Droid, Milestone, News

We’ve pinged our contact at Adobe for clarification, but this could be some fantastic irony: Adobe has raised the minimum requirements for Flash. Specifically, the minimum CPU requirement for mobile devices with WVGA resolutions has been bumped up to a Cortex A8 running at 800 MHz. With its 550 MHz CPU, the Droid/Milestone no longer meets the minimum.

We’re not sure yet if this is retroactive – in other words, will the Droid receive an update that removes Flash support? Or does this only apply to new hardware going forward? Plenty of people still have…

Sep

Exclusive: Samsung Fascinate Live Wallpapers Leaked, Available For Download

Posted by Justin Case in Applications, Fascinate, Mods, News, Samsung, Verizon

Today, Jamezelle and I ripped apart the leaked system dump from the yet-to-be-released Verizon Samsung Fascinate and patched together six live wallpapers that are not present on other Galaxy S devices.

Like the previous Galaxy S live wallpapers, these must be flashed from a custom recovery, which also means you need to be rooted.

Download the zip below and flash it through your recovery menu like any other flashable zip. Depending on your device, the flashing process may take a minute, so just sit back, relax, and let your phone do its thing.

Do NOT

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Sep

Official CNET News App Lands In The Android Market

Posted by Brad Ganley in Applications, News

The official app for one of the most popular and trusted tech news websites on the internet, CNET.com, has made its grand entrance into the Android Market a few days ago. The app’s layout is clean and easy to navigate, thanks to the crafty hands of Treemo Labs‘ Ian Clifton who CNET/CBS hired to develop the project.

The CNET Experience

The CNET News app has a whole lot of great features that you would expect from such a popular website as well as a few really cool features you probably weren’t expecting. Let’s…

Sep

[App Review] Keep Tabs On Woot and Woot-Offs With WootWatcher

Posted by Jose R. Ortiz in Applications, Reviews

You Woot, right? Of course you do – everyone does. If you want to keep tabs on this Internet addiction, you should check out WootWatcher.

If you’re 1 of the 3 people left who aren’t familiar with Woot, it is a family of sites which includes Shirt.Woot, Wine.Woot, Sellout.Woot, Kids.Woot, and the main site, Woot.com. Every night at 12:00 AM CST, each site puts up a new deal that is available for 24 hours or until it sells out, which ever comes first. These deals can range from a $300 32” HDTV…

Sep

Angry Birds Beta For Android Is Here – Download It From The Market

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Games, News

Angry Birds, one of the top selling games for the iPhone, hit the Anroid Market this morning.

Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, promised an off-Market beta earlier this week, but got so much positive response that it decided a Lite Beta version in the Market was actually a much better idea. In fact, the Android launch is turning out to be so popular that Rovio’s own servers are are too overloaded to handle all the traffic.

Gameplay

The premise behind the game is simple – you use a sling and launch angry, bickering, round birds at…

Sep

App Review: Keep Your Car In Check With aCar

Posted by Brad Ganley in Applications

In this day and age, it’s increasingly difficult NOT to become at least a little interested in the small (or maybe not so small) charges that you incur on a regular basis. With gas prices soaring, tracking your vehicles fuel economy has become a regular practice for many consumers, myself included. It can be hard, though, to maintain a database of all your mileage information and aggregate this data in a pleasing and useful way.

Wait, let me back that up. Rewind. Enhance.

It can be hard, though, to maintain a database of all of your mileage…

Sep

SwiftKey Receives A Substantial Update – Multitouch, Better Voice Recognition, Less Lag

Posted by Brian O'Toole in Applications, News

One of the more popular tip-tap software keyboards got a nice little upgrade today. SwiftKey, an aftermarket keyboard that uses intelligent statistical methods as well as scanning of your SMS inbox to predict the most likely next word, now has support for multitouch typing. As seen previously on the Droid X’s keyboard, this greatly enhances possible typing speeds… unless you have one of HTC’s infamously erroneous older touchscreen panels, that is.