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It’s Super Bowl weekend and we, at Phandroid wanted to do a little something fun for you guys. We’re teaming up with AndroidSlide — developer of the hit Android app, Camera Zoom FX — to throw another fun filled photo contest that everyone can join in on. Since you’ll most likely be partying it up [...]

Waking up to my phone today, I noticed there were a gang of apps in the Market with fresh updates ready to be installed. Checking my email, I noticed an actual press release from just such an app update, this time from cloud gaming service Onlive, who wants Android gamers everywhere to know that their [...]

The NFL today announced that the Super Bowl will be streamed live to viewers on the internet and on Verizon Wireless mobile devices that have the NFL Mobile application. The reason it’s exclusive is because Verizon is the official wireless sponsor of the NFL. Alongside the big game, which is set to kick off on [...]

Great news coming out of the Android Developers blog with the announcement of gaming apps finally being made available for our Android brothers and sisters in Korea. Starting today, Korean users can now download and more importantly pay for games in the Android Market using direct carrier billing. I know, I know — we don’t [...]

Covering the Google Music event today, I had to take a brief break and where else would I go except into my wonderful Android Market to look for the newest apps. Lo-and-behold I find out the hit game, Tiny Tower, has been released onto the Market courtesy of developer Mobage. The game has already captivated [...]

We’ve just been informed of a new promotion Verizon is running. It’s being called DROID Extraction and is specifically set up for the launch of the Motorola Droid RAZR (remember that it’ll be here on 11/11/11 at 11:11am). To play, you have to use a claw to remove the DROID RAZR from its panel. Simple, [...]

With Android Honeycomb we saw the introduction of USB hosting, allowing for connectivity with device like a USB hard drive or USB gamepad (like the Xbox 360 controller) on a tablet for use with games or emulators. In case there was any doubt that this would also be a feature in Ice Cream Sandwich, Romain [...]

While we were spending some time at the Samsung Mobile booth, Rob and I ran into “the Unity guy” who gave us a quick demo on the power of Unity 3D engine. Joe Robbins showed us how easy it is to build a cross platform game using the Unity engine and painlessly output that game [...]

If you thought the AQUOS 102SH was the only thing Sharp had up its sleeve, guess again. The company looks to make an even bigger splash in Japan with the announcement of the Sharp AQUOS 104SH. While the manufacturer has room for improvement in the naming department, they don’t miss a step when it comes [...]

It took a long time for this game to come to Android, and admittedly even longer for me to write this review. But I didn’t want to rush through playing it. Well, that’s what I’d want you to believe. Some of it was just very, very challenging. It really can be a brain tangler, but [...]