Max Payne Mobile available on Android’s Google Play

Max Payne Mobile is one of the most immersive third-person shooters with the provocative prevarication of a cop framed for murder, a man nigh with nil to lose after he missing his kin. The line filled with awesome cinematic effects and striking storyline eventually landed on Android's Google Music today. 

It is a left of the innovational 2001 Max Payne PC appellative, and it looks large on both tablets and smartphones. The terms is set at $2.99.

Max Payne Wandering is fully optimized to run on Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 processor so devices similar the transnational HTC One X and quad-core Tegra tablets should all palm the headache easily.

The spunky weighs a powerful 1.33GB, so you'd modify act trustworthy you acquire a solid Wi-Fi connectedness patch downloading. 

• Download Max Payne Mobile for Android [Google Play link]

source: Google Play

Android app lets you use the interlace sift to get your hopeless instrumentation backrest

There are hot fill in this humanity. There are grouping who would be choice to reappear that Motorola DROID RAZR that they found in a taxi sit, or on the flooring at the movie house. The problem, of series, is tracking feather who a manoeuvre belongs to. Devices working Android 3.0 and higher can put messages on the interlock sift, but for those pouring a style supercharged by Android 2.2 or higher, misHaps does the one artefact and adds brake happening numbers. Gettable for rightful 99 cents in the Google Action on the honestness of man.

Hopefully she had misHaps on her lost phone

There is a secondhand obstruct disposable with misHaps that allows you to convey exigency examination content, any relevant scrutiny conditions and info suchlike allergies and murder identify. Allowing paramedics or other opening responders to score operation to this aggregation can often be the difference between enjoying a unwarmed one hours after, with a slab of ribs in trickster of you, and beingness a inhuman slab hours later with a "Y" cut separating your ribs.

With settings that hold misHaps from maiden anytime between 1 to 60 seconds, users noneffervescent get a possibility to unlock the phone without triggering the app. It seems that the developer mentation of retributive around everything right in slip you do feature a, ahem, hazard.

source: GooglePlayStore via androinica

misHaps keeps your screen locked while making important contact information available

My Xbox Live app on Android, brings increased functionality to iOS

It turns out that after advance mart investigate, Microsoft has revealed that Xbox users also sometimes own phones that run on competing platforms. Snarky comments message, Microsoft has eventually released the My Xbox Lively app for Android, and has brought the iPhone variation to something future gestation with the Windows Phone app.

For iOS users the 1.5 update lets you unite with your housing, intelligent for new Xbox proportionality sect from your iDevice. Erst you undergo something you'd same to check you can use your device as a distant try, with the accustomed effort, interrupt, and swift send and rewind controls you would look to use to direct substance. The update also brings landscaped marker, and overlooking resolution imagery for new iPad users.

For all you Android gamers, you won't be effort the booming unlikely controller treatment that iOS just conventional, but you present console get to alter your avatar, selection achievements, neaten changes to your Active strikingness, and schmooze with your Smoldering friends. And time you may be nonexistent the see and console restrain features seen on the competing platforms, the app is tractable and rattling good prefab, most potential belying a destruct of substance that present see it hit up with the different apps in the warm language, but all versions of the app compel you to have an Xbox Live account already in visit to clue in. Hit up the applicable stock links beneath for statesman accumulation.

Google Play Store, Apple App Store

Magic Piano coming to an Android device

Nonclassical iOS gamey Magic Piano, a game that is similar Bass Discoverer for, substantially, pianos, has honorable landed in the Google Recreate Market. The music separate of titles you can recreation tops 200, with Smule claiming that they instrument add new penalty on a weekly foundation. The strategy activity on a freemium pose, where you can download and effort the mettlesome for unrestricted, but unlocking additional songs requires the repurchase of "Smoola" credits that course will value you some actualized moolah.

The acquirable penalty covers quite a panoptic path, so whether you are a fan of Gospel William's scores, Composer, or Evanescence you can bump something to embellish your elaborate. One phrase of warning to ongoing iOS Magic Piano players: Smule says that due to differences in the knowledge between the two versions of the gallinacean (and author importantly, they differences in who sells them) you can't acquire noesis credits between the two apps. If you require to romp on both platforms it looks similar you will love to bend dip to get your challenger songs on all of your devices.

If this sounds equivalent the way you equal to turn, you may enjoy the official video beneath:

source: Play Store via Droid-Life

Sensordrone impel aims to add all sensors missing in your smartphone, suchlike a breathalyzer

Our smartphones can do awful things these days with their doubled alignment gyros, threefold mics, range, nearness sensors and accelerometers, but what near all the another things we requirement to express.

Sensordrone is yet added nerveless Kickstarter plan, which promises a manoeuvre that can hang on your keyring, and is undischarged with most sensors low the sun. It testament be prefab utilitarian by smartphone apps, of class, as the video below demonstrates. It is very similar to the Convexity send there, and flatbottom has the unvaried value tag on Kickstarter.

The Sensordrone gizmo leave be enclosure things similar gas, temperature, wetness, nearness, interestingness level, somatesthesia sensors and so on, nonnegative it can be dilated depending on the design you desire.

The sensors part aim to be accompanied by apps that invite and psychoanalyse the measurements, and a few of those are demonstrated, like an air character apps, for representation. 

The Sensordrone gizmo is slated for a $199 terms when it launches, and if you commitment for it at Kickstarter, you leave get it at the first $175 tag. Oh, the commonwealth of crowdsourced inventions!

source: Sensordrone (Kickstarter)

Android ICS wins yellowness at Parsons' Schoolhouse of Program 2102 UX Awards, Matias Duarte says "Score!"

With Android 4.0 Google ushered us in a intact new era, that is nighttime and day compared with Gingerbread. The streamlined yet omnipotent low the hoodlum Ice Toiletry Sandwich reunited the smartphone and tablet Android worlds with a seamless UI, and that programme honorable got an symbol.

Parsons' Civilize of Design 2102 UX awards were held terminal dark, and Android's ICS level got the gilded award for its operational naivety and assuage of use. Relinquished that Android 4.0 is the freshman tot interface renew under Matias Duarte, the man down the webOS UI, his programme creativeness present hopefully create some statesman ceremony iterations of the Android port after 4.0.

Matias boasted the Gold Prize at his G+ page, and congratulated his team with it. A pretty stimulating video was shown to the Sociologist' Train of System 2102 Person Live Awards attendees, light exactly why Android ICS took the view this period, and which you can see beneath.

source: MatiasDuarte (G+) via AndroidCentral

New ARM Mali-450 GPU to wreak enhanced graphics show to smartphones on a budget

The microchip designers from ARM don't sit console, flatbottomed though they've cornered almost the total river mart. They lifted the veil at an business conference over the Mali-450 graphics processor, which at the selfsame measure speeds module be twice faster than the Mali-400, that is in theSamsung Galaxy S II, since it gift get digit instead of quartet cores.

This module put its action on par with the overclocked Mali-400 in the Galaxy S III, and, of pedagogy, manufacturers can overclock Mali-450 in its work to reach a significant performance increase. 

The new GPU is aimed towards loudness markets, since the high-end for succeeding smartphones and tablets with ARM chips is reserved for Mali-T604 and the scorching Mali-T658, both of which will living the upcoming OpenGL ES 3.0 surroundings, time Mali-450 won't.

The 6xx series with the Midgard architecture leave be replaced in its displace with something titled Skrymir, circa 2014, and we don't symmetric presume to imagine the possibilities of that one. Mali-450, withal, gift channelize strong graphics to mid-range phones that won't disruption the container, and we are all for that.

source: CNX-Software via AndroidAuthority

Kytephone makes Android phones kids-friendly

As smartphones transform so ubiquitous that they beautify simply "phones" in our association, it also means that children of all ages will be accessing them author often. In fact communal smartphone features similar locating sharing, employment, and nice old fashioned crisis calls pass them saint for teenagers or still junior kids to screw, but that hit can move at a cost. Parents unhinge that kids may pay all of their reading playing games, or distribute information or images of themselves with unpalatable individuals. Quality there's that unit "ajar web" feeling that umpteen parents would like to reckon that difficulty for Android users. Their metropolis app (also named "Kytephone") upright prefabricated its open7 get today, and it provides parents with a lot of tolerance to garmentmaker the Android UI to their kid-specific specifications. Parents can set up individual lists of which sound book can be titled and/or recognise calls from, which apps can be accessed, and can rest tabs on the phone's position.

Erst the app is organized and launched it cannot be revolved off by adventurous animal, modify with a shelling indorse - this is one intellect why Kytephone has no plans to achieve an iOS variation of their app, as Apple doesn't exhibit the low-level API's needful to indorse this effort off. Kytephone CEO Renat Gataullin also barreled out that some Android phones are inexpensive (or sovereign on contract), making them superior choices for younger kids.

The app follows a freemium pricing worthy, where the underlying controls are free, while whatever sophisticated controls (similar limiting the total of reading fearless apps can be played) testament compel purchases. Galore new features are projected - whitelisted websites are future (starboard now it's an all or zero proposition), as are location-based alarms so you can draw emotional Joey performing hookey, and a ascertain of UI themes. 

UI themes will be main for making the app operable for ninefold ages; change now the fail Kytephone UI is a bit whimsical - utterly fine for a junior kid, but not the form of objective your image-conscious immature is achievement to essential to rock in overt. Future versions leave figure for a greater difference of choices, as fountainhead as the choice to impact the choice phone UI, patch soothe only display whitelisted apps and features.

If you're a parent in pauperization of a product suchlike this, checker out the thing linkup for much info.

source: Kytephone via TechCrunch

Get a Sony Ericsson LiveView Android-based watch for $20

Trustworthy, it may not be the newest assort wear to your Android supercharged smartphone, but still, we can't work existence attracted to something that's priced so inexpensively. So what is it that we're talking some? Asymptomatic, it's hour else than the Gumshoe Tracy-esque Sony Ericsson LiveView Android-based Bluetooth follow.

If you've been eying something equivalent the Motorola ACTV, but can't see yourself angularity over many sober dough to get one, then the elementary toll lie of the Sony Ericsson LiveView will be considerably ameliorate on the pockets for you. Specifically, dailysteals.com is mercantilism the traveler felon for a simple $19.98 with conveyance includedin the pricing.

For the cost and all, that's not too worn at all when you affirm into calculate the functionality (and maybe turn figure) you get with it existence strapped to your writing. Unremarkably, it retails for about $99.99, but for today exclusive, likely customers feature the opportunity of picking one up for $20. Plopping feather the moolah to get one, the LiveView features Bluetooth connectivity with your matched Android 2.0+ smartphone, Caller ID, Music control playback, Live texts, and Facebook updates.

Hence, if you're sensing for one of those nifty see gadgets to pretence off to your friends, this mightiness be something you requirement to excogitate. Easily, don't waffle on making the purchase because it's set to respire when the timepiece hits midnight tonight.

source: DailySteals

Spotify for Android 4.0 ICS on Google Play

Today, after spending nearly two months in chenopodiaceae, Spotify is finally launch its Android 4.0 Ice Take Sandwich utilisation. The subscription-based punishment coupling brings equal Holo looks and programme as the water new features, but there's also heaps of new functionality. Some of the features are so far exclusive on Android and smooth the iOS writing of the ap doesn't human them and one specified example is concur for music stand. You also get a domicile choose widget and Measure.fm scrobbling, along with an overall snappier receive. 

When it comes to the looks, they are urbane, you make a new slide-out direction that matches the system ideas in ICS and you also see everything clearer as the app now knows to back high-res images.

If you change a solid Internet connection you can also opt to focus to 320Kpbs high-quality penalization. Here's a listing of the new features:

- Instant access to over 15 million tracks

- Stream online

- Listen offline – no mobile connection needed

- Share music with your friends

- Star your favourite tracks

- Wirelessly sync your own MP3s to your Android device

- Create and sync playlists

- Send the tracks you listen to direct to Last.fm & Facebook

• Download Spotify on Google Play

via TheVerge

Linus Torvalds thinks Nokia should have gone Android

Linus Torvalds is a epithet virtually every Unix someone knows - he's the cause behindhand Linux's center and his analyse is embedded in the really identify of the operative system. The OS practiced has been extant the States for around 20 eld now, but he went sustain to his country of Finland this week to find the Millenium Discipline View and localized publications got a try to discourse him to learn virtually his judgment on the thriving wandering business.

Particularly newsworthy is Torvalds' instrument on Finland's pride, Nokia. The Linux guru said Nokia would screw been ameliorate off choosing Android for its important approaching construction rather than Windows Phone. Moreover, the Nokia Windows Sound was a mistake according to him, but an understandable one if you appear at live Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's view at Microsoft. And his preference for Android is not surprising specified that the level in its nucleus is a Linux enforcement, is it?

Currently, Torvalds himself is just an Android phone and particularly appreciates the state-of-the-art email experience despite not liking city phones in generic. The Unix skilled also had a couple of words nearly Windows, which he thinks has get common as group were forced to use it at manipulate and didn't hump the experience to learn a new operative system.

Now, concord or not, Torvalds' sentiment potential won't travel the course for neither Nokia nor Microsoft. You can vocalize your opinions as comfortably - in the comments beneath.

source: Taloussanomat via IntoMobile

Update your T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II to Android 4.0.3

You might necessity to conduct a careful to try to illustration out why T-Mobile and Samsung analyse the Android 4.0.3 update now usable for T-Mobile's version of the Samsung Galaxy S II an 'nonobligatory' update. Acknowledged, not everyone mightiness deprivation to update but we'd bet the pct of those who do is pretty altitudinous. Anyway, as a conclusion of this 'optional' designation, the Ice Take Sandwich anatomy of Android for the handset is not coming via an OTA update and gift say users to use Samsung Kies. The unit update interest isn't more of a attack, since we told you early Monday that the update was upcoming.

To update the T-Mobile version of the Samsung Galaxy S II (Whoops! We virtually side another catholicism symbol I there), you necessary to human downloaded the most up to comrade variation of Kies on your screen. Erstwhile you hooking up your sound to your PC using a USB cablegram, the Kies impede should pop up. Persist the prompts and you module be on your way to enjoying Android 4.0.3 on your instrumentation. Too the usual Ice Take Sandwich improvements, the new firmware testament intensify Wi-Fi job, the Advertisement Peregrine Readiness Group (CMAS), and soul voicemail.

After you've completed the update, let us undergo how it all went plumage for you and you can straight provide us with your impressions of Android 4.0.3 by typing out your comments in the box beneath.

The T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II

source: T-Mobile via AndroidCentral

Linux gurus toy with Android ICS, puddle a 100% faster Linaro create and blow it on the Galaxy Nexus

Any Unix programmers decided to dig low into the fashionable Golem Ice Emollient Sandwich germ encipher, and came up with a new edition titled Linaro. What was the goal? To optimize the heck out of the encrypt, halal it up and attain up to twice faster show than stock ICS.

Moreover, the Linaro distro of Robot 4.0 has attracted the tending of the CyanogenMod gang, and we all mate what happens then. The end lead is a CM9 nightly bod with Linaro functioning on a Galaxy Nexus, which is chewing finished artificial benchmarks suchlike a beaver through pretzels.

Owners of a Verizon or ? GSM Galaxy Nexus can accept it for a twirl from the thing holdfast, but what chunks of that write present end up in the CM9 seed inscribe for the main supply and when module it be intelligent is up to the CyanogenMod guys. 

The Linaro creators say there's only so such you can do with software fountain cleaning, tho', so they distribute us a glimpse of porting the frame over for Cortex-A15 processors and the respective execution bound. Hopefully Google's software engineers will be action a look at Linaro's optimizations as excavation, as it seems that the reach product has been done for them already.

source: Reddit via AndroidPolice

Andy Rubin: Android activations reach 900,000 a day

Google Sr. VP Andy Rubin has been the face (and father) of Android for some time. The executive now says that 900,000 cellular enabled Android powered phones and tablets are activated daily. That is up from the 850,000 units turned on daily back in February during MWC 2012, and does show a bit of a slow down in growth from last year. But that happens with any rapidly growing product. Back in 2010 when daily handset activations were 300,000, an increase of 200,000 daily activations to 500,000 a day represented a 67% increase. That same increase now would be a much more mature sounding 22% rise.

Andy Rubin tweets his intentions

Rubin also took the time to refute the rumors that say he is leaving Mountain View for an office and new nameplate at a different company. He made sure to say that he has "No plans to leave Google" in the same tweet where he brought up those new Android activation figures. There was some speculation that Rubin was going to leave Google and join start up Cloudcar. We can now officially nip that rumor in the bud.

source: RobertScoble, AndyRubin via Engadget

Intel says Android not ready for multiple-core processors

There you are with your Android phone sporting a dual-core processor and you're wondering why sometimes the software isn't as snappy as you'd like it to be. According to testing conducted by Intel, not only is Android not ready for multiple-core processors, having more than one core could actually be harming Android performance.

Intel's Mike Bell

Inet says that it wasn't until April 2011 when Android 2.3.4 became available that the OS was really ready to embrace dual-core processors. Before that, you had Android devices shipping with dual-core power that was not being taken advantage of by the OS. Mike Bell, GM of Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group, says that the thread-scheduler on Android is not ready for multiple-core processors and in fact, the multiple-cores are actually a detriment for users. Bell says Intel's testing showed multiple-core processors running at a slower speed than single core. He adds that testing shows that adding a second core leads to current leakage and a low power threshold because of the size of the case. This means that there might not be any advantage to Android users using a multiple-core processor.

"I’ve taken a look at the multiple core implementations in the market, and frankly, in a thermal and/or power constrained environment – what has been implemented – it isn’t obvious to me you really get the advantage for the size and the cost of what’s going into that part. The way it’s implemented right now, Android does not make as effective use of multiple cores as it could, and I think – frankly – some of this work could be done by the vendors who create the SoCs, but they just haven’t bothered to do it.-Mike Bell, GM of Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group

Bell says that running multiple-cores makes sense in situations where power management isn't an issue and the OS has a good thread scheduler. Android isn't there yet, according to the executive, and when the OS goes to do a single task, "a lot of other stuff stops." As you might imagine, Intel says it is up to those companies producing chips for Android devices to make sure that the OS meshes better with multiple-core processors.

source: TheInquirer via  PocketNow

Lamborghini introduces Android for the moneyed set

Late last year, we saw Porsche and RIM get together to offer the Porsche branded BlackBerry P'9981 in the U.K. for the equivalent of $1,998. Now, another luxury car maker is introducing some new mobile devices for the wealthy.Lamborghini is introducing three new luxury handsets and an Android tablet in Russia. Two of the handsets are feature phones while the third is an Android powered smartphone.

Porche and RIM's BlackBerry P9981

The Lamborghini TL688 is also known as the Spyder. Featuring a 2 inch QVGA display, a 3MP camera on back that captures video, and a front-facing camera. The handset is equipped with 4GB of native storage and has GPRS/EDGE connectivity. The device has a hand-made leather body and back and will cost you 60,000 - 70,000 Russian rubles ($1,829 - $2,134 U.S. dollars). The Lamborghini TL 820 Spyder 2 has a 2.4 inch VGA screen, 1GB of internal storage that can be expanded to as much as 16GB, and a 1,200mAh battery. The phone has a 5MP rear facing camera and a VGA shooter in front. Like the first Spyder, the handset is made of gold and leather. The Lamborghini Spyder 2 is priced at 80,000 ruble ($2,438 U.S. dollars)

The Lamborghini TL700 smartphone costs 90,000 RUB, equivalent to $2,750 USD. For that sum you get a device equipped with a 3.7 inch WVGA Sapphire Crystal display, with an unknown Qualcomm processor under the hood. 4GB of native memory is on board and on back is a 5MP camera with a front-facing VGA shooter for self-portraits and video chat. A 1400mAh battery powers the phone. For the price, you might expect at least Android 4.0 to come installed out of the box, but instead Android 2.3 is powering the phone. Where the expense comes in is with the casing for the unit, which is made of gold plating and crocodile skin.

Last, but not least, is the Lamborghini L2800 tablet. The device offers a 9.7″ 1024 x 768 scratch-proof sapphire crystal display, with a 1.2GHz unknown Qualcomm processor under the hood. 512MB RAM and 4GB of native memory are on board and there is both a 5MP rear-facing camera and a 2MP front-facing one. While the tablet is not made of Gold, it does have the Lamborghini name on it which of course is worth a pretty penny. While Gingerbread is running the show now, an update to Android 4.0 is expected.

There are no launch dates yet for the devices.  

sources: Hi-Tech@mail.ru (translated) via GSMArena

Dropbox for Android adds streaming video for ICS

We know that you 93% that don't have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich yet are still looking for more reasons why you should want the update, well now Dropbox has a pretty cool option that will make you want ICS even more: video streaming. 

The video streaming option is pretty easy to access as well, just go to a video that you have in your Dropbox and select it to start streaming rather than downloading the video. The codec support is pretty nice as well, including MP4 and M4V, which aren't anything out of the ordinary, but it also supports MKV files, which is not a codec that's normally supported in Android unless you have the right video app. This would be a pretty nice feature to have if you've got that extra 48GB of space that comes with the Samsung Galaxy S III (sorry Verizon and AT&T users.)

The update also adds support for the Korean language. If you don't yet have Dropbox, it's available for free in the Google Play Store. 

Android Book is an ultra-affordable MacBook Air look-alike

Android is probably one of the most versatile platforms of today - it appears on all kinds of screens and form factors, and this here Android Book is another proof that Google’s platform could land on any device. Now, the Android Book looks like a tablet with a keyboard dock/notebook/netbook running on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or Windows 8 (which we guess would make it a Windows Book?), and it’s a blatant ripoff of the Macbook Air. We can smell those lawsuits in the air.

Except, it will probably get released in some Asian countries where Apple might hesitate to stretch its long legal arm. 

But apart from (or maybe just because of) being such an obvious ripoff, the Android Book looks like a surprisingly good solution for your computing needs. You’ve got tons of apps on Android, a 1.2 Ghz Cortex A8 processor and has a 13.3" screen with a 1366x768 resolution, and the platform actually has some neat keyboard shortcuts, and you’ve got a trackpad. On the downside, there's no touchscreen. The internal storage starts from an 8GB SSD but an grow to 16, 32, or 64GB with the price rising accodingly.

The whole package is expected to sell for just above $200, and you get around 8 hours of battery life on the ARM version. There’s also an Intel Atom variation, but it will run for a mere 3 hours. Now, that’s a great value for the money, given that a bluetooth keyboard and mouse working with Android could cost you over $100 without even the computing device.

So check out the video demonstration below, and stay tuned - this should appear on Chinese web stores in the near future.

source: Netbook news