All too often we see big media companies unfairly limiting paying customers from enjoying their content how they see fit. With the rise of smartphones increasing day by day, this all-you-can-eat, content anywhere mentality is only getting stronger. And yet said media companies are pushing back. However, Verizon has quite a an offering set up with their FiOS Flex View service. Essentially, it lets you log in to your account and stream/download FiOS content on up to 5...
Listen up Angry Birds fans: An update is out — for Android users that is. While iOS users got the big update many weeks back, the Android version of the app has been languishing with a lesser number of levels and an increasing list of unsupported devices. But never more. The latest update brings it up to par with the iOS equivalent, adding 45 brand new levels (now 192 total) as well as tossing in support for QVGA displays. The update is now live in the Android...
On my year-long stint with Android, I went through my fair share of homescreen replacements. The stock Android homescreen wasn’t particularly bad. It was just laggy. (No phone with a 600+ MHz processor should skip and jump when moving between screens.) And then LauncherPro came into my life. It was fast, quick, and had a relatively light memory footprint. I was in heaven. But if it was flair that you wanted, LauncherPro wasn’t the right homescreen...
The truly hardcore nerds not only love gadgets, but love updates to said gadgets. Version numbers for your favorite platform or app are a type of bragging right. This is especially true when installing early release/cracked updates before they actually roll out to the masses. But for now, we have something a little less thrilling to touch on — Android Market updates. It seems that Google has released a “hot update” (read: no OTA dialog to accept/deny) to...
The greatest thing about Android is that even though it has “an image”, end users (and regrettably, carriers) are allowed to mod and customize the UI as they see fit. With that said, there are plenty of home replacement options in the Android Market if the stock Android (or carrier provided) home app doesn’t exactly mesh into the fabric of your daily life. I’ve tried pretty much every home replacement on the market, eventually finding a winner in...
