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Simranpal SIngh
Friday, November 11, 2011
New Dailymotion App Now Available
Any.DO Now Available For Android – Collaborate With Friends/Family To Get Tasks Done
The part I found most interesting was the share feature which allows you to team-up on tasks with friends, family or loved ones. For instance, you can collaborate an errand list with your spouse and tag-team to “git-r-done.” You can even be updated once a shared task gets completed.
For now, syncing is done through Any.Do’s service with support for Todo list, Todo, Remember the milk, gTasks, Springpad, Catch, ColorNote Notepad Notes, Google Calendar, Astrid, Outlook, Microsoft Exchange and more coming in the near future.
For those of Android users that like to read permissions first, the developer did state the reason the app needs to access your personal information and read contacts is for the “collaborate with your friends” feature.
You can find Any.DO for free right now in the Android Market. Once you try it out, leave us a comment with your thoughts!
[Market Link]
WildTangent brings its game rental service to Android
WildTangent announced its plan to expand to Android this summer, and the first version features a pretty good selection of popular Android games. Big titles like Burn the Rope, Age of Zombies, Fruit Ninja and Kona’s Crate ( not to mention Twilight: the Movie Game - joy) are available for purchase or rental. The app download the games from WildTangent’s servers, not the Android Market.
Rentals cost about 25 cents a day, converted into WildTangent’s propriety WildCoins currency. The interesting bit is that the WildCoins spent on a rental also apply to the purchase of a game itself. So if you download a $3.99 game as a rental, after twelve days you own it. It’s an interesting system, though those hoping to save some money over the Android Market versions of the game will have to keep a close eye on their usage. At the moment there’s only 91 games available, and expensive titles from Gameloft and EA are nowhere to be seen. Let’s hope some of the more expensive games out there will show up on the service soon.
[via GameZebo]
Motorola Lapdock 500 clears the FCC, spotted with the DROID RAZR
We’ve seen plenty about Motorola’s Lapdock offerings but until the recently released Lapdock 100 they were proprietary and only worked with a single device. The new Lapdock 100 and 500 will be universal and will work across all future top end Android devices from Motorola. We showed you a little about the Lapdock 100 during our Atrix 2 review but today its bigger brother the 500 has cleared the FCC and is on its way to store shelves soon.
During the Lapdock 500′s visit through the FCC it received a teardown and was even spotted with the beautiful new DROID RAZR. We have a few pictures to give you a better idea of what to expect from the new dock and there is plenty more from the filing itself. We even have some quick hands-on video of it below from the DROID RAZR launch event, check it out.
DROID Lapdock accessories video
Just like the Lapdock 100 the 500 runs Motorola’s Webtop apps, including Firefox, Facebook and tons of games and can function as a full out laptop (almost) or a phone with access to the market, your phones homescreens and more. With a webcam, additional battery life, 2 USB ports and more it gives you plenty of options that aren’t available on just a phone itself. Whether they are important enough to warrant the dock is up to you, the user.
It has a webcam, 6 rows of keys with a chick-let style keyboard and a large touchpad for controlling everything. You can see plenty in our video above as well as a few pics in the gallery below. Feel free to sift through the FCC filing for pictures of the innards of this device if that type of thing interests you. Once this larger Lapdock hits the streets I’m sure we’ll have it in for a full review so be sure and check back when the time comes.
[via Wireless Goodness]For the kids: Toys ‘R’ Us Reveals $200 Nabi tablet
Kids love smartphones and tablets. If you’ve ever taken your six-year-old to dinner and whipped out your smartphone, you know this to be true. The combination of a shiny gadget and a touchscreen is irresistible. But handing over $700 worth of HTC Jetstream to tiny hands that have been known to destroy anything that they can touch is a hard prospect indeed. Enter the Nabi, a safe, kid-friendly tablet from Toys ‘R’ Us designed to allow the youngins to have their fun while you keep your peace of mind.
The important thing about the Nabi is the software. The locked-down environment allow access to selected apps and games, a specialized “safe” web browser and access to the Nabi App store, populated by safe and simple games and educational apps. You can customize the tablet with whimsical cases, two of which are shaped like bears. Now the real question is, is the Nabi a better kid-friendly solution than buying an Amazon Kindle Fire or a Lenovo A1 and loading up some specialized software like Zoodles? You’ve got until December 1st to decide – that’s when the Nabi goes on sale for $199.99.
Samsung Galaxy S II overclocked to 1.6 GHz destroys benchmarks, nearly 7800 in Quadrant
WOW is all I have to say. We see benchmarks almost daily between custom ROM’s, new versions of Android, and devices that have beefed up or new dual-core processors. What we have today is the popular and widely known standard Bell Galaxy S II that has been tweaked, hacked, and manhandled to achieve one of the highest Quadrant benchmark tests we’ve ever seen. All the details on this crazy overclock and high performing kernel can be found below.
This bad boy running with one of the most popular kernels for the Galaxy S II known as SiyahKernel v2.1, manages to score almost 7800 in Quadrant Advanced — yes I said 7800, but its 7778 to be exact. I know some might mention that Quadrant results can be faked but this came right from a few friends of ours over on Google+ that love tweaking and overclocking their Android devices as much as we do. Cheers to Jamie Doege and Simms for the results shown above.
Jamie states that he’s running Checkrom v2.0.0 for the original Galaxy S II with SiyahKernel v2.1.1 clocked at 1.6 GHz to achieve the perfect winning combination for these deadly benchmark results. Take into consideration that stock the Galaxy S II scores around 3600 give or take, as shown in our original review here, these results just look even more impressive. We overclocked the G2x to 1.5 GHz and were able to squeeze out around 4600 in Quadrant but getting nearly 8000 is jut downright crazy. I think it’s safe to say the Samsung Galaxy S II is the new benchmark king, as if we didn’t know that already.
The links below will give you all the information you need if you feel like giving this ROM and custom kernel a try yourself. As usual try these sorts of crazy things at your own risk but most of all, have fun and enjoy it.
Checkrom v2.0
SiyahKernel v2.1
[via Jamie Doege] — Thanks SimmsMotorola ELECTRIFY update coming soon, Moto is seeking testers
The new and powerful Motorola Electrify from US Cellular has been running strong with Android 2.3 Gingerbread but just like all phones a few updates and bug fixes are needed. Motorola and US Cellular appears to be recruiting around 200 or so users to test the newest update for the Electrify according to the Motorola Forums.
The Motorola ELECTIFY (aka PHOTON) was released on US Cellular back in September and here is our full Electrify review. Apparently a software update is in the works and they’d like to start a soak test or beta test with a few current users and are asking for help at the forums. Here is what they had to say:
Motorola and US Celluar are happy to announce a future pre-release* opportunity for MOTOROLA ELECTRIFY, before it is officially released to all customers. We are recruiting 200 Electrify owners to test and provide feedback on future updates.This isn’t really anything new as we’ve seen plenty of updates get tested before going out, and Motorola hasn’t been very lucky with some of their recent updates so the more testing the better. With updates like this hitting support forums we can expect some sort of update coming in the next few weeks. If all goes well it will hit for all users shortly so stay tuned for more details.
This registration period will be open until we receive our limit of qualified applicants. Note that you must be a member of the Motorola Owners’ Forums to register. If you’re interested in testing and want to take part, just join our community now and then fill out the short Motorola Feedback Network registration form. When specific opportunities become available you will receive additional info via email to register for a particular Electrify opportunity.
Please note that registering with the Motorola Feedback Network will not guarantee you’ll be among those testing the software update as testers will be chosen on a first-come, first-served basis, and on valid registration responses. Selected users will receive additional information to prepare for the update via email when the trial begins.
Thanks!
Mark
Support Forums Manager
* Motorola Software Pre-Releases are final software checks, with a limited group of users, before upgrades/updates are provided to the general public. Software tested may be no different than what other users receive, once testing is complete.
**Please check back here for updates on general availability.
Verizon 4G LTE keeps rolling, more markets announced for December 15th
It’s no surprise that Verizon is pushing full steam ahead with their 4G LTE network, they’ve been updating with 10-15 new markets and locations almost every few weeks for months on end. Late last month they flipped the big red switch on 22 new markets and another list will be activated on November 17th, today they’ve just announced another round of upgrades coming in mid December.
Its been under a year and as of last month Verizon announced they have already completely exceeded and past their initial goals for the 2011 4G LTE rollout. Reaching more than 185 million users across the US and counting. With more coming this month, and another slew of updates set for December they’ll be serving over 200 million customers by years end.
The image above is an old graph but still shows the huge coverage by Verizon Wireless, I think I’ll just cover every white spot in red soon and use that instead. Today they’ve announced another location that will be receiving the 4G LTE expansion. The new areas of coverage that have been announced include Findlay, Tiffin, Warren, and Youngstown, Ohio. They also mentioned Indiana, White Twp. (including the Indiana University of PA campus), Homer City and Blairsville are among the few slated for activation in December. We didn’t get any other details regarding other markets in Ohio or Indiana but most likely the list is quite larger as they’ve been updating more than 10-15 each few weeks as of late.
Most updates have been activated and tested a week or two before becoming official so if you’re located in any of those areas feel free to start testing for those 4G LTE speeds if you have a capable device. Let us know how it goes in the comments below.
[via Market Watch]
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Zombie Driver HD coming soon for NVIDIA Tegra 3 devices
I was just shown this amazing looking game coming to Android and I figured I had to share it with all of our readers. I will warn you, there is lots of blood but this game looks fantastic. Available for consoles and PC’s the developers behind Zombie Driver are using the extremely powerful graphics inside the NVIDIA Tegra 3 (and Tegra 2) processor to bring this action packed game to Android. If you like awesome games with crazy good graphics and plenty of gore then check out the video after the break.
Unlike most zombie action games here we have cars, not to mention tanks and all sorts of vehicles to cause mayhem. If anyone has played this epic game on PC or consoles over the past few years you’ll know what to expect, only it has been given a huge overhaul for mobile devices and will rock the Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 gaming market. I could go on forever regarding the stunning graphics and all the gameplay types but I’ll just let you enjoy the graphic video preview, as it’ll answer most of your questions.
Zombie Driver HD for Android
With different vehicles and weapons, game modes, races and more you can really play for hours and hours. The car itself is a huge weapon not to mention flame throwers, missiles and everything else you’ve just seen from the epic game trailer above. This game is not new, and the trailer has been around for a while but with Tegra 3 getting close and 2011 coming to and end soon we expect to see this game launched sometime very shortly.
Zombie Driver HD should launch sometime this year for Tegra 2 devices and will be available in the Android Market and the Tegra Zone, and we expect to see an even better version with enhanced graphics and gameplay coming for T3 shortly. Enjoy a few screengrabs below while we wait patiently for this epic bloodbath of a game to be released.
[via Droid Gamers]
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