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Website: Need for Speed Shift
Price: £3

One of the big problems with the Android platform at the moment is the lack of quality 3D arcade titles. Need For Speed Shift goes someway towards addressing this issue.

It’s only designed for newer Android handsets running fast Snapdragon processors, but boy does it show off the more advanced hardware that these devices use. The 3D graphics are hugely impressive thanks to the fluid frame rate and detailed models and backgrounds.

Thankfully, the racing is top-notch too. The accelerometer steering control works well and there are onscreen buttons for braking or changing the camera angle. As with most 3D racing titles, you start with a meagre selection of cars and have to win races to gradually unlock models that are more powerful.

Verdict

Excellent 3D graphics and addictive gameplay makes Need for Speed Shift perhaps the best racing title on Android at the moment.

via Trusted Reviews

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Motorola’s anticipated Android-based Xoom tablet has been making a lot of headlines because it’s the first to use Android 3.0 and is upgradeable to a 4G connection. But now it’s making headlines for a less favorable reason.

According to a rumor originally posted on Engadget, the retail price of the Xoom tablet will be $799.99. Ouch. That would put it on track to become the most expensive multimedia tablet on the market.

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Website: Springle
Price: £1.28

Springle is not really an art package, but neither is it a game. Instead, it falls somewhere between the two. Its best thought of as a visual toy.

It creates psychedelic-style graphics similar to those you’ll find projected onto screens down your local dance club. However, Springle gives you control over the patterns that are created. If you move your finger around the screen, the graphics engine responds by adding new elements to the patterns it’s generating.

You draw by slowly dragging your finger on, but you can also tap on the display to create big explosions of colour. You can even cycle between various drawing modes by pressing your phone’s menu key.

Verdict

Springle isn’t exactly a must-have app for your phone, but it creates stunning psychedelic graphics and is fun to while away a few hours with.

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A few days ago, HTC Sync was updated. While this is usually no big deal, a Phandroid tipster managed to pull a few images from the updated Sync and what he gathered was an image of the already confirmed HTC Thunderbolt, the HTC Merge (which is hopefully confirmation of its future release), and this device. No buttons, a very generic looking build, and a Verizon logo stamped at the top.

Could this possibly be a new Android device that has yet to be mentioned by either HTC or Verizon Wireless? Some are saying the lack of buttons could be a gesture area, while others think its just an Android device sans the 4 typical buttons.

What do you guys think this mysterious device might be? Leave your comments below.

Unnamed HTC device from Verizon Wireless discovered in HTC Sync

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Gotta love Open Source, Marvell Technology has already been developing it’s own version of Android and is going to be releasing it on Motorola hardware in China.

HELSINKI, Oct 13 (Reuters) – China Mobile (0941.HK), the world’s largest mobile carrier by subscribers, will next year introduce eight OPhone smartphone models from U.S. phone maker Motorola (MOT.N), a company official told Reuters.

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We have had open source mobile platforms for years. Why has Android become a bandwagon, one big enough that people are wondering if it’s not growing too big for its britches.

One word: marketing.

Thanks to its low-cost structure, Google can subsidize the marketing of its products to a degree even experienced rivals can’t match. As I have said before there is a price lower than free, and Google is uniquely positioned to pay that price.

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