Android News

Cowon is upgrading their D3 line of Android media players featuring the same outer body, but brand spanking new internals (circa 2010). The Z2 Plenue will come with a 1GHz Cortex A-8 processor, 521MB of RAM and the same 3.7-inch 800×480 AMOLED screen as yesteryear’s model, along with the usual micro USB and HDMI ports. [...]

A few weeks ago we told you guys about the custom CyanogenMod 9 Music app coming soon to the Android Market that adds loads of tweaks and new features to the stock Android 4.0 Google Music app. Well, even though it’s not officially available from the Android Market, you can still try it out for [...]

Philips has unveiled a new media player that is Android-powered. It’s the GoGear Connect 3.5 and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread + Philips’ custom user interface. It supports 720p video playback and has support for their FullSound and Surround for Movies technologies to enhance music and video playback. No word on storage, processor type has been [...]

Max MP is celebrating the release of PowerAMP 2.0 by throwing a contest on their brand spankin’ new Twitter account. If you haven’t of PowerAMP — it’s arguably the most popular and full featured music player in the Android Market. Offering full control of EQ settings, crossfading, stereo “eXpansion,” lyrics support, scrobbling and a wide [...]

One (very) lucky Galaxy Nexus owner was surprised today when he found neither hide nor hair of Adobe’s Flash player on his device. And that’s not all — when he jumped onto the Android Market looking to download the Flash player app, it was completely absent. So what’s the deal? Well, an app like the [...]

This is a moment when you’ve got to acknowledge the differences between the App Store and Android Market. Whereas Apple keeps a tight leash on what they allow into the market, Android lets the free market reign supreme. Both have their advantages and disadvantages but somehow one of the disadvantages is being promoted by Google [...]

This could be it, folks. The end of an era. Adobe is going through some major changes. One of those changes involves the cutting of 750 jobs amid a broad restructuring. The other? According to ZDNet, Adobe will no longer support Flash on mobile devices — devices like the ones running Android. Now, we may [...]

Get your MKV’s, AVI’s and ANIME’s ready! Android developer/modder extraordinaire, CVPCS, was able to compile a working pre-Alpha version of VLC media player for Android. If you’re unfamiliar with VLC, it’s essentially a open-source (we like those words around here) media player for Windows, Mac and everything in between that allows you to play virtually [...]

The Android App Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook was promised as part of a future update to RIM’s tablet, but thanks to some snooping by N4BB, a pre-release build of the apps emulator has been unearthed. What’s more? The Android App Player is based around Android 2.3.3, meaning PlayBook users will have access to a [...]

Does your Market app not display Flash Player 10.1 for your device? It’s for you, my Android brethren, who own some of the… less powerful Android devices, that I now bring this to you. Back when Flash Player 10.1 was announced for Android, a lot of you probably noticed that it wasn’t made available for [...]