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Sep

[Updated: Now Official] Google Voice Update Brings Honeycomb Support... Sort Of

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

Update 9/2/11: Aaand now with the latest 0.4.2.36 update, Honeycomb support is official.

A short while ago, the Google Voice app received an update that brought about a few bug fixes. Almost immediately we began hearing rumors that a Honeycomb interface may have been incorporated into this build. A quick search of the Market revealed that it's not officially supported just yet, so I pulled the apk from my phone and sideloaded it onto my Tab 10.1. Here is the result:

As you can see, the settings menu moved from its previous location in the navbar to the upper right-hand corner -- the typical place for the settings menu of Honeycomb-optimized apps.

Sep

13 Android 3.0+ Apps For Honeycomb Tablets From The Last 2 Weeks (8/14/11 - 9/2/11)

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Best Apps/Games/LWPs Of The Week, Games, News, Tablets

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

This edition focuses only on new tablet apps or ones that added Honeycomb support. Regular apps and games are coming 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:

For Tablets

Beautiful Notes for Honeycomb

Beautiful Notes is a tablet optimized note-taking and todolist-management productivity app targeted at Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablets.

Sep

Download: Motorola Droid Bionic Wallpapers

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, Bionic, Motorola, News

The Droid Bionic is coming out a week from now, but its guts have already been leaked online and examined by some curious Android minds (remember the boot animation?).

One of them, P3Droid, ripped out the wallpapers unique to the device, packaged them up into an app, and posted it online. Since I like to see things in front of me, feel and touch them, I then ripped the wallpapers out of his app and am now posting them for individual viewing and downloading (the app is free, so put down your pitch forks).

Pick your poison - get P3's app or just the wallpapers you like.

Sep

[New App] Smart Lyrics Makes It Easy To Find Lyrics For Currently Playing Tracks With A Simple Tap

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

We've all been there -- you're listening to a track when you hear an out-of-place lyric. You think to yourself, "what? That doesn't sound right." So you fire up a lyrics app (or browser) and begin your quest to find the real content of the misheard line.

While this method may work, it's not exactly efficient. To achieve that status, there's an app called Smart Lyrics.

Smart Lyrics is a small and useful app that sits in the notification area, monitoring currently playing tracks from the most popular media players, including Android stock, HTC music player, Winamp, RealPlayer, DoubleTwist, Meridian, PowerAMP (requires Last.fm scrobbling), and Cubed.

Sep

CyberLink PowerDVD Comes To Honeycomb, Brings A Slew Of Features Along With It

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Applications, News

Anyone who has been using a PC for even a short amount of time has probably heard of PowerDVD from CyberLink -- if you haven't, go check it out, I'll wait.

Back? Okay, now that you're more familiar with what PowerDVD is all about, you'll be glad to know that it has made its way to Honeycomb powered tablets, and it's packed with features. With the official app, you can:

Wirelessly stream media from PowerDVD on the PC to your tablet
Wirelessly save MP4 videos, photos, and music from PowerDVD on the PC
Watch videos and play music with the native players
Touchup photos with one-click enhancements
Create playlists and manage your media library
Share content from your tablet to your DLNA TV
...and more

That pretty much covers the gamut of mobile media viewing, but with the vast amount of features offered by PowerDVD, you can expect an equally large pricetag to go along with it -- $20, to be exact.

Sep

WakeVoice Is A Brilliant Alarm Clock - And 20 Lucky Readers Can Win A Free Copy

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Applications, Contests / Giveaways

Last Updated: September 6th, 2011

WakeVoice

There are dozens of alternative alarms out there, but ever since I discovered WakeVoice way back in November, it's been my favorite. The biggest reason: I can lay in bed for a few minutes after I wake up and not feel bad about it since WakeVoice reads me the weather and news (it can also read your horoscope and, depending on your phone, your calendar). The app uses the stock Android speech synthesis voice, but third-party voices are linked from within the app and can be purchased. Better still, WakeVoice features voice recognition. Rather than having to find your phone to hit "Snooze" or "Stop," you can just say it using voice commands.

Aug

LiveSorter Eases The Process Of Sorting Apps - RIP, Manually Maintained Folders

Posted by Liam Spradlin in Applications, News

With somewhere around 200 apps on my phone at any given time, it can be a pain to scroll through all of them to find what I'm looking for. Categorizing apps into handy folders can also be time-consuming. Fazik Logic takes the concept of sorting your apps one step further however with LiveSorter, a new app that automatically sorts installed applications into appropriate categories.

Adding to the list of LiveSorter's benefits, it has relatively no resource drain as it only wakes when a new app is installed and needs to be sorted. At the moment the app only recognizes apps from the Android Market.

Aug

Serval Mesh, A Network-Free Communication App, Finally Makes It To The Android Market

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in Android OS, Applications, News

It's now been more than seven months since we first caught wind of the Serval project, which promised to allow Android users to make phone calls when conventional cell networks aren't available or simply don't work. Recently, however, the team's initial stab at network-free communication - an Android app called "Serval Mesh" - has landed in the Market.

As briefly mentioned in the above video, the Serval team also has another form of network-less phone calls in the pipelines: an inexpensive, relatively small phone tower that can be dropped into disaster areas by air.

In the meantime, you can check out the app using the QR code and link below, or learn more about the future of the Serval Project by visiting their website.

Aug

OneLouder Releases SportCaster - Live Scores And Twitter Commentary On The Go

Posted by Liam Spradlin in Applications, News

If you've been looking for a sports app that gives you up-to-the-minute scores, stats, and live commentary from hundreds of people in the know, you're in luck. OneLouder, the developer behind TweetCaster and FriendCaster, has just released SportCaster - an app that allows you to follow a variety of sports from your mobile device, and view a constant stream of tweets from players and experts as well as all the info you need about what's happening in the game.

Like any new app it has a few areas for improvement, but it's definitely worth checking out if you don't want to miss the game or if you want to keep track of the score from a single app.

Aug

Google Voice For Android Finally Updated With Fixes For Self-Pausing Play Button And Delayed Notifications

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Applications, News

The Google Voice app for Android, which I've been using as my primary voicemail provider after gladly abandoning Sprint's own visual voicemail, saw its first update in many months today, which, among other things, finally fixed the most annoying bug that's been plaguing it for as long as I can remember.

The bug I am talking about is, of course, having to click the Play button a second time after you've already clicked it once (the voicemail would stop playing 0-2 seconds into the call requiring this second press). Hallelujah!

The other bug fixes and enhancements in today's update v0.4.2.34 are:

Does not require data connectivity for making calls to all numbers you previously called

Warns you when no data connectivity before you compose/send text messages

Fix for notifications delays for SMS and voicemails

Grab the update in the Market or by using the widget below.