Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Winamp for Android 1.0: Now Available - Winamp Blog

Winamp for Android 1.0: Now Available - Winamp Blog

With Winamp & Winamp for AndroidTM you can wirelessly sync your music over Wi-Fi, import your iTunes library, and stream thousands of Internet radio stations with SHOUTcast.

The latest release of Winamp for Android features a completely redesigned Home screen, Now Playing screen, and lock-screen player. You can also download free music, browse songs by genre, swipe album art to change tracks , and use Android's 'listen to' voice action to playback music in Winamp. We also added additional language support for Dutch, Italian, Spanish & Turkish.

Monday, 21 March 2011

A glimpse at Amazon's app store • The Register

A glimpse at Amazon's app store • The Register
Android News managed to grab screenshots of the store showing 48 applications, many priced to undercut Google's Android Marketplace, and two that appear to be exclusive to the Amazon store.

Amazon is best hope of a viable alternative to iPad • The Register

Amazon is best hope of a viable alternative to iPad • The Register: "Amazon . . . may . . . be the biggest threat to Apple's tablet lead should it launch hardware to go with its upcoming Android app store."

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

RIM PlayBook fondleslab to 'run Google Android apps' • The Register

RIM PlayBook fondleslab to 'run Google Android apps' • The Register

Acer unveils big-screen smartphone • reghardware

Acer unveils big-screen smartphone • reghardware: "Smart runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread on a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor, packs in tri-band HSPA 3G, 2.4GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS and an FM radio.

It has a 2Mp video call camera, and a second, 8Mp job on the back for stills and 720p video. It'll play 720p content out through its HDMI port, but not higher resolution footage."

Thursday, 20 January 2011

CES: Skype for Android two-way video chat all but guaranteed - CES 2011 CNET Blogs

CES: Skype for Android two-way video chat all but guaranteed - CES 2011 CNET Blogs:

Skype's Manrique Benares said at an Nvidea press conference at CES :

We are excited that NVIDIA has leveraged SkypeKit to build a reference implementation of HD video calling on Android Tablets. In the near future, consumers will be able to make video calls from their Tegra-powered Tablets to anyone else using Skype, whether it's on a PC, Mac, TVs, or phones.

We think it's a safe bet we'll see the same in a Skype-made app for Android smartphones.