Twitter for Android is one of the fastest growing Twitter applications. Six months ago, it wasn’t among the top 10 most-used Twitter applications. However, in the last two months, usage has doubled, and now it’s among the top five – along with twitter.com, m.twitter.com (our mobile web site), Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Blackberry.
This is a much needed update that users have been waiting for.
Zynga is continuing to push mobile games. The company is rolling out “Words With Friends” to Android-based phones and tablets.
“Zynga is dedicated to making its games available anytime and on any device regardless of platform,” David Ko, Zynga’s senior vice president of mobile, said in a statement.
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
Android 3.0 Honeycomb – details emerge…
The Motorola Xoom is the first tablet to run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and Dave Burke, Engineering Manger from Google, was able to give us a more detailed breakdown of Honeycomb and what we can expect to see in the Motorola Xoom.
Android 3.0 Honeycomb controls:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb Browser:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb – YouTube:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb – books:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb: Google Maps:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb Gmail:
Android 3.0 Honeycomb speech recognition:
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The only mention-worthy Android Honeycomb tablet that’s headed to the US and is not the Motorola Xoom has got to be the upcoming T-Mobile LG G-Slate. Made by LG, the G-Slate will be the first 4G Honeycomb tablet to become available, and Magenta just put up an information page up for the device, in case you’ve been keeping an eye on this tablet.
Just as we saw with the initial T-Mobile G2 teaser site, the G-Slate sign up page gives you a simple silhouette of the device, devoid of any defined features. T-Mobile likes to keep their G-series devices under wraps until they’re good and ready to be revealed to the world. Other devices, like the Dell Streak 7, don’t need to be hidden since T-Mobile saves these kind of hype-building tactics for their flagship devices only. Besides, if you’re in the market for a tablet within the next few months, you’re likely not “getting a Dell.”
If you have yet to purchase some sort of tablet, and you’re looking for the top handful of tablets, then you’ll certainly find the G-Slate on the list. Our list of Top 5 tablets didn’t include some of the tablets we’re looking forward to, and if we were to redo the post, it would probably have to be a top 10 at this point, and the existing tablets on the list would be re-ordered significantly. Until that happens, we’ll have to pencil in the LG G-Slate and the just-announced Motorola Xoom.
Even though we’re still excited to see the iPad 2, Adam, and WebOS tablet, the G-Slate and Xoom have our attention more than anything else at the moment. Of the two, the G-Slate will ship with HSPA+ support out of the box, whereas the Xoom will need a hardware upgrade to get access to Verizon’s 4G LTE. You’re likely going to pay for that upgrade, too. So by default, Magenta’s tablet, even though we have yet to actually see the thing, is getting a big thumbs up from us.
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Mplayit, maker of the mobile app catalog that lives inside Facebook, will release a report later today that lists the top games in their collection. Tetris, The Sims 3, and Wheel of Fortune are among the winners. So are Tap Tap Revenge and Rock Band.
[via VentureBeat]
Mobile phones are becoming very competent and popular mobile gaming platforms. According to the largest third party application store, mobile games were 25% of all apps sold for the first half of 2009. That is a 6% increase from 2008.
According to Handango’s report, Android was one of the most popular gaming platforms for mobile devices. Games in the Android catalog accounted for a larger percentage of sales than they did in other smartphone catalogs.
Android isn’t alone in being a popular gaming platform. Handango also said that RIM’s Blackberry line was popular with mobile gamers, 36% of all apps sold for the device were games. The growth of mobile gaming is no surprise to me. We always have our phones on us for the most part and games are a great way to kill some time.
[via InformationWeek]
