Apps

Playstation Originals Now Playable on The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play!

  Android developer Yifan Lu has reverse engineered the Xperia Play’s native PlayStation emulator to make it run ripped PSX ISOs. That means you’re no longer limited to Crash Bandicoot or the handful of other PSX titles that have been officially released  from Sony Ericsson. Instead, you can grab your original games from the attic, [...]

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Google to Launch New Search App

After rolling out the new market, Google did its level best by throwing up a new version of its integrated search app for Android and then promptly pulling it. New features in the magically disappearing app include: a svelte new interface with categorized results which puts web hits up top then contacts and more in [...]

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How to add Arabic Support to Google Nexus S…

  Many people in the Arabian region that bought the Google Nexus S were shocked by the fact that the Android OS 2.3.3 doesn’t read or write Arabic and with limited support or solutions on the Internet, well look no more, all you have to do is download the link attached to this thread, copy [...]

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Blackberry PlayBook running Android Apps! How to..

Yes it’s true; RIM announced that its PlayBook supports both BlackBerry Java and Android apps. Including native C/C++ development support, HTML5, Flash and AIR support, in addition to game engines from Ideaworks Labs and Unity Technologies. This means that the user will have access to over 200,000 Android apps simply buy installing an optional app [...]

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Google Launches New Android Market!

Its here! Google has launched its new Android market. Designed to better showcase top applications and   games, improved UI, and provide a quicker path to downloading, or purchasing products; Moreover        introducing more merchandising for products. As soon as you launch the app, you realize your looking at a totally revamped market [...]

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Smart Car’s Smart Drive Kit for iPhone demonstrated (video)

Daimler hasn’t had a sales success on its hands lately with its line of Smart cars, with sales festering after an initial boom. To try to re-capture the imagination of we smartphone-loving Americans with short attention spans, Smart unveiled the Smart Drive Kit last month and now, at the NY Auto Show, is giving it [...]

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Skype mobile heading to Verizon smartphones on March 25th

We knew it was coming, and now we have a concrete date. Starting this Thursday, March 25th, Verizon Wireless customers with one of nine select smartphones (Motorola Droid and Devour, HTC Droid Eris, various BlackBerrys) and data plan will be able to use Skype over the 3G network. As we heard before, Skype-to-Skype calls will [...]

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Microsoft shows off Internet Explorer 9: says ‘yes’ to HTML5, ‘no’ to Windows XP

Microsoft is having a good old time at MIX10, showing off all sorts of new things. New things like… Internet Explorer 9, which has just been previewed at the developer event, and here’s what we’ve gleaned about it so far. First off, as expected it will support HTML5 video, boast a new Microsoft JavaScript engine [...]

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Recognizr Android App Uses Facial Recognition To Identify People

A company called The Astonishing Tribe are in the process of developing an application for the Google Android person, that will tell you who someone is by you pointing your mobile phone at them.The application prototype uses a 3D model to recognize facial features, it then searches its server to find a match, once a [...]

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Google Earth now available on Android 2.1

After a totally nonchalant, non-announcement type of showing by Erick Tseng at Eric Schmidt’s MWC keynote last week (thanks to Phone Scoop for pointing that out), the Android version of Google Earth is now available in the Market for download to the Nexus One (and, in the future, “most” other devices running 2.1 or newer). [...]

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