5 Android 3.0+ Apps For Honeycomb Tablets From The Last 2 Weeks (8/1/11 - 8/13/11)

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.

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Box.net

Box.net is one of the largest Dropbox competitors, and while I personally don't use it, it apparently has over 6 million users. Box has far more features than Dropbox and gives you 5GB for free, so it definitely has its market. The app itself isn't new, but its Honeycomb support is.

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Box for Android and Android Tablet gives you 5 GB FREE to:
- Upload, access and view content on your Honeycomb tablet or Android phone
- SSO for simple login process
- Easily share files and folders with links
- Find files fast with built-in search
- Save files you create in other Android apps to your Box account

  

Box.net

Box

UPDATED

by Box.net

50,000 downloads, 894 ratings (4.0 avg)

Free

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Moxier Mail for Tablet – Trial

Probably the best Exchange app that combines email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes and includes handy widgets that I've seen.

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Moxier Mail with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync for Corporate Email on the Go. Moxier Mail is the second to none EAS mail application that you can enjoy Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes in Mobile circumstance with advanced and state-of-the-art features such as Category, Mailbox search, Local wipe, Data encryption, S/MIME and 57 languages in the world.
Moxier Mail has been maintaining the perfect EAS Push mail application that Emtrace technologies made ever since 2008. Would you take Moxier Mail as the most latest and advanced EAS mail? You bet. Trial is good for 2 weeks and on Honeycomb or higher. For details, please visit our website at http://www.moxier.com/mail

  

  

Moxier Mail for Tablet – Trial

Syfy for Android Tablets

While Syfy fans will certainly appreciate this app, even those who have nothing to do with it may want to check out its beautiful tablet UI. If you're looking for some tablet design inspiration, definitely check out Syfy for Tablets.
Oh, and sorry - no full episodes are available in this app.

  

Syfy for Android Tablets

Bord

Bord, a new very well designed chalkboard/drawing app, supports Android 2.1+, but because its UI on tablets is specifically optimized for Honeycomb, and drawing apps are perfect for devices with large screens, I am including it in the tablet roundup.

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Bord app turns your Android device into a beautiful and unique chalkboard simulator. Bord is designed for children and their parents who wants to use Android device as an excellent educational device.
Bord unique features:
- Realistic chalk - Create drawings using six colors and three thicknesses of chalk. You can draw even with 10 fingers at once!
- Realistic sponge - Clean drawings with a sponge which left subtle traces of chalk. To completely erase the drawing shake device!
- Playback drawing - Load your saved drawings with playback of drawing in realtime or in different speeds!
- Email & Facebook - Send your drawings on e-mail and make your grandma happy! Post your creations directly on Facebook!
- Tablets - Bord fully supports tablets with Android Honeycomb 3.0 (ex. Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Flyer)

  

Bord

Bord

NEW

by Pixle

5,000 downloads, 40 ratings (4.2 avg)

Free

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Platinum Air Hockey (Free) for Honeycomb tablets

This game didn't make it to our last tablet roundup by a day or 2 (I later featured it in the game roundup), so here it is. There are many air hockey games on the Market already, but Platinum Air Hockey for Honeycomb deserves a mention because of these reasons:

• it's made specifically for Honeycomb


• it has Wi-Fi 2-player mode, which I haven't seen in any other air hockey game


• you can switch up the looks to make it look like soccer, basketball, etc


• it has the most over-the-top video preview any other air hockey game has ever been accompanied with (and I don't mean it in a bad way at all - real hockey games would be lucky to have some awesome trailers)

 

Platinum Air Hockey (Free) for Honeycomb tablets

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HTC DROID Incredible 2.3 (Gingerbread) Update: To be or Not to be?

Hardware manufacturers and cell phone companies try to avoid fragmentation of the many different versions of Android OS, but some phones are bound to be left behind. Of these, the HTC DROID Incredible was thought to not receive the upgrade to 2.3 (Gingerbread). An owner of the device questioned a Canadian HTC customer support rep to when he should expect his update. They promptly replied that “the Droid Incredible is not on that list” for future updates.

Yet recently, another E-Mail has surfaced stating that “The Droid Incredible is still slated for a Gingerbread 2.3 update”. The US HTC representative expressed that their is no estimated date for release, and that the update was definitely not cancelled. This is great news, yet hearing it from an official Verizon representative is what we are all waiting for.
Personally, there should be no reason for HTC or Verizon to cancel this update. It has sufficient hardware for running Gingerbread, and other devices with nearly identical specs (EVO 4G, myTouch4G) have already been updated successfully. Unofficial updates to Gingerbread for practically ancient phones (HTC Hero, HTC G1) have been available for months now, so it shouldn’t prove to be a problem.
If the phone wasn’t on HTC’s list, then maybe the update is far from ready; nevertheless, we should expect it eventually.
[via Phandroid]

Device Specifications and Information

Device Info

Device Name : Droid Incredible

Manufactuer : HTC

Carrier : Verizon

Announced Date : April 15, 2010

Release Date : April 29, 2010

Also Known As :

Display

• Screen Size : 3.70 Inch


• Resolution : 480x800


• Screen Type : AMOLED

Dimension & Weight

• Height : 4.63 Inch


• Width : 2.30 Inch


• Depth : 0.47 Inch


• Weight : 130 Grams

Battery & Power

• Battery Type:


• Lithium Ion

• Battery Capacity : 1300 mAh


• Talk Time : NA


• Stand By Time : 146 hours

Software

• Android OS:


• 2.2.x

• Audio Playback:


• AAC


• AAC+


• AMR


• MID


• MP3


• WAV


• WMA

• Video Playback:


• 3GP


• MPEG-4 (MP4)


• WMV

• Messaging:


• SMS


• MMS

Hardware

CPU : Snapdragon

CPU Clock Speed : 1000 Mhz

Core : 1

Ram : 512 MB

Internal Storage : 8.192 GB

Front Facing Camera :

Camera Resolution :8 MP

• External Storage:


• MicroSD


• MicroSDHC

• Camera Features:


• Auto focus


• Flash


• 720p Video Recording

• Sensors:


• Accelerometer


• Ambient light


• Proximity

QWERTY :

Cellular Network

• Network Technology:


• CDMA

• CDMA Band:


• 800


• 1900

Device Connectivity

• Wi-Fi:


• 802.11b


• 802.11g


• 802.11n

• Bluetooth:


• Bluetooth 2.0

• Location Features:


• Compass


• GPS


• Cellular location


• Wi-Fi location

FM Radio :

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HTC Ruby Specs Leak, 4.3″ Display and Boosted Dual-Core CPU

Remember the HTC Ruby we saw leaked a few times? It was first seen here in the reflection of a 7″ tablet and a few were able to make out the T-Mobile logo and over the past few weeks more pictures and details have leaked. The last photo revealed the most as we could see the entire device and got a better idea of its size and shape. New details are revealing some juicy info about the mystery device.

What we are now hearing is this device will be a nice blend between the HTC Sensation 4G and the myTouch 4G, yet faster then both. It wont be branded as a myTouch device but has a similarly designed speaker grill on the front. Details are sighting this device to be packing a upgraded 1.5 Ghz Snapdragon processor. The Sensation is only 1.2 Ghz so either this is the next version or a boosted up model to compete with other manufacturers future releases.

The above photo is the latest leaked shot and clearly we can see the bottom looks similar to the Sensation 4G while the top looks like a myTouch device, a nice blend if you ask me. We mentioned this when that photo leaked but the new details confirm it. It will be sporting a dual core 1.5 Ghz CPU, 4.3″ high-res qHD display, 1GB RAM, a rear facing 8 MP camera and 2 MP shooter on the front for video chat. It should also be powered with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the new Sense UI 3.5 but we are still awaiting more details on the latter.
[via TmoNews]

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Amazon Free App of the Day: Flick Kick Football

Today Amazon is offering their usual and awesome “Free App of the Day” deal that has made them so popular as of late, although not with some developers. Today the free app is a fun and addicting game called Flick Kick Football (soccer in America). Flick Kick is a popular series from the developers Prodigy Design and they have like 4 great games available so check those all out.

The idea is simple and nothing new, it’s like playing Paper Toss or any of those other finger flicking games. I’ll just say Football since they are calling it Football but the popular term is Soccer around these parts. You can kick, curve, and fling the football from all over the field with the flick of your finger. My personal favorite is actually the Field Goal version of this game as I’m an NFL fan myself.

I’m sure you’ve seen or played these games in the past so I wont go on about explaining how they work as its pretty self explanatory and the picture above should help clear anything up. Now it may sound easy but trust me it gets harder as you go along. They add defenders you must shoot through and the distance gets farther and farther out and really gives players a challenge. Try not to miss when you get on fire and enjoy some multi-player because it has full multi-player support.
Free for today ONLY in the Amazon App Store so head over and download this fun and time wasting game.
[via Amazon]

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Samsung’s Galaxy naming scheme unveiled

Ever wondered what’s the logic behind various Samsung Galaxy models? While we still don’t have the complete answer — like where Galaxy Ace and Mini fit into the scheme picture above — we do start to get the idea behind the Korean giant’s thinking (at least for the new phones).
As you can see for yourself, the S devices will keep their top-of-the-line status and will be followed by smartphones wearing R, W, M and Y marks:

• R – stands for Premium devices that are “Royal” and “Refined” like the Galaxy R


• W – is for high-tier “Wonder” phones


• M – “Magical” mid-tier devices which deliver solid value for the money, and


• Y – for entry-level phones catered toward young users

And that’s not all. Some of the models will also get additional indicators, like:

• Plus – for bumped up specs like the Galaxy S Plus, and


• Pro – for QWERTY phones

Finally, carriers on their end will keep their own naming schemes, further complicating the situation…
[Via: Unwired View]

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Nokia to undercut Android prices to gain U.S. market share

Nokia’s head of North American sales Chris Weber sat down in an interview Business Insider recently and explained how the Finnish company will regain its market share in the United States by writing “one of the greatest turnaround stories in history.” Weber said that Nokia will release a number of new smartphone models running Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango operating system and will compete with Android by pricing several of them lower than the cheapest Android models. Weber reconfirmed that Nokia is still on track to release its first Windows Phone handset this year, likely the SeaRay device we’ve seen leaked, but said the majority of its phones will begin to land next year. Business Insider also said that Nokia is deeply integrated with Microsoft’s plans for a complete tablet, PC and mobile phone ecosystem, which loosely suggests Nokia may have a tablet in the works, too.
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Amazon will show Apple what is Magical with a $249 high-end Android tablet

We know that Amazon will be launching a tablet or tablets soon, and most analysts are predicting that they will have the best chance at putting a dent into Apple’s dominance with the iPad.
How do they plan on doing it? Well their name for starters, but lets be serious, if you want to come out with a splash then you severely undercut your competition with price. Creative Strategies analyst Tim Bajarin thinks the Amazon tablet will cost $300, but they will discount the price to $249 with the hopes of getting their money back with sales from the Amazon app store. It is expected that they could recoup the loss from each tablet within 6 months and make a profit of 10 to 30 percent per tablet over the next 18 months.
Not only would this effect Apple, but it would also effect all Android manufacturers. Pricing like this make sense because I am still asking myself why anyone needs to pay $400 to $600 for a tablet that gives you nothing more than a smartphone except for screen size.
I have already predicted that Android will own the tablet market share by March 2012. If Amazon decides to go with this lower price, it may happen by the end of 2011.
Are you guys ready to jump on board with Amazon if they come in at $249?

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Huawei’s UK Boss: Blaze could arrive in the UK as soon as next month

Andrew Mitchinson, Huawei’s UK Boss, said in a conversation with Bloomberg that the Blaze could arrive in the UK as soon as next month. Distribution wise, Bloomberg said the likes of Vodafone and O2 could be on board, but the reference could have been to other Huawei devices like the recently revealed Huawei Vision.
The Blaze features a 3.2″ screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, a front-facing camera, and Android 2.3. While those numbers may not sound that impressive, the price of the phone may be.
According to Bloomberg’s analyst friends, the Blaze could cost as little as £100 ($162.69) when it is launched. If the specifications and price don’t change prior to its UK arrival, the Blaze could be a solid addition at the budget end of the Android phone ranges.

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