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- Win 3-months of Slacker Radio premium service!
- OnTrion Extended Battery review
- Behind the Curtain: A conversation with Game Insight
- Motorola teases new phone ahead of August 10 announcement (NOT REALLY)
- POLL: Which Android series is the best?
| Win 3-months of Slacker Radio premium service! Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:14 PM PDT
Yo! We've got three 3-month Slacker Premium accounts burning a hole in our virtual pocket. You want one? Sweet! All ya gotta do is tell us which musician, band, or artist you would listen to first if you won. You're answer could be anything across any genre - we don't care. Frankly, we're looking for something new to listen to around the office. Slacker's Premium accounts run $9.99 a month an include a host of features and options that are definitely worth the price. We've enjoyed their services over the last few years and appreciate the ever-growing list of music and news options. Heck, the last few months alone have yielded Live ESPN stations, Roku integration, and custom stations based around holidays and events (St. Patrick's Day, Summer Olympics, etc). Slacker Premium features include:
Win one of three 3-month Slacker Premium subscriptions! Hit the comments below and tell us which artist or song you'd listen to first if you won. We'll run this contest for around three days and will choose our winners on Friday, August 10. We'll email the winners and get you a license! Win 3-months of Slacker Radio premium service! was written by the awesome dudes at AndroidGuys. Get more AndroidGuys on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Join thousands of fellow Android enthusiasts at The 2012 Big Android Barbecue on October 21!
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| OnTrion Extended Battery review Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:21 PM PDT
If you're looking to extend the daily life of your Android smartphone and don't care much for the idea of a power bank, you're going to want to get an extended battery. When it comes to companies who offer quality extended batteries one name we've come to trust is OnTrion. We've had the pleasure of testing the OnTrion Extended Battery with Door for Samsung Nexus S and came away pleased with the results.
As folks who never stray too far from an outlet, we charge our phones as often as possible. We're happy to say that we've been able to tack on around an extra 50% or more battery with the extended model. Our usage varies by day but largely includes emails, texts, a few games, RSS, and other basic stuff. Once in a while we will spend a few hours playing games but nothing too heavy. The life that we get from 2900mAh battery is considerably more than you'll find with stock models and gets up near the Razr Maxx stuff. Ontrion offers a number of extended battery (with case) options for Android devices and even has a Super Extended version for the ZTE Warp. Nearly every battery in the company's lineup ranges between $30-$40 with most hovering in the middle. Head to Amazon and and you'll find they fall around $25-$30 on average. OnTrion Extended Battery review was written by the awesome dudes at AndroidGuys. Get more AndroidGuys on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Join thousands of fellow Android enthusiasts at The 2012 Big Android Barbecue on October 21!
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| Behind the Curtain: A conversation with Game Insight Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:35 PM PDT
If you've owned an Android device for any length of time then chances are good that you've come across a game from Game Insight. As one of Google's "Top Developers" they've been churning out high quality games for quite a while. There are more than a dozen available in Google Play already, notably Paradise Island, Airport City, and Mystery Manor. It's not often that a developer is able to release a game that hits the million download mark, but Game Insight does it nearly every time out. We recently chatted up Andrew Park, the company's Brand Manager, where we asked him to show us the secret sauce. Hello! Thanks for taking the time to chat with us, we certainly appreciate it. Tell us a bit about yourself and your company, Game Insight. Hi, thanks for the interview. Game Insight is a global publisher and developer of mobile games with more than a dozen successfully-launched mobile games and another dozen or so games planned for release between now and the end of the year. We have about 300 employees worldwide, publish games all around the globe localized in 17 languages, and last year, we hit 50 million MAU for all our games. Most importantly, we've been making games for Android for quite some time, and are probably best known for Paradise Island, which was, of course, a big success, being the first game on Google Play to take the #1 spot for more than six consecutive months.  That's one heck of a feat! Moving along, the subject of this is series peeking behind curtains and exposing companies. What is it that you want Android users to know about you?That we love Android and we love making games for Android! The Android platform has treated us well, and more importantly, Android game players have treated us well--so we want to do our best to keep providing the best game content for them. Thousand of developers and half a billion apps. How do you differentiate from the myriad of other game makers on Android? We focus on making games that are of the highest possible quality--in other words, we do our best to make games that look great, sound great, and are fun to play--as well as being free to play and available globally to a variety of different audiences. Tell us what you do that consistently results in such highly rated games? What's the focus? At the end of the day, our focus is on building high-quality games that are actually fun! It's how we've continued to keep people playing our most popular game titles, like our city-building game My Country, and our hidden-object game Mystery Manor, which has more than 20 million players worldwide…and which we're delighted to finally be bringing to Android! How do you monetize you games? In- app purchases, premium apps? All of Game Insight's games are free-to-play. We monetize our games entirely through in-app purchases. Are you surprised by the success of any particular game(s)? Anything that did better than expected? We've found that for mobile games, the best policy is to expect the unexpected. We do our best to produce games that are the best they can be and we're always happy when they find an audience.  What games are your particular favorites? Anything near and dear to your heart?Mystery Manor isn't just one of our most popular and most-played games, it's also a game that we keep adding more and more content to because players can't seem to get enough. We're very grateful to all our players for the support they've shown and again, we're really excited it's finally available on Android. Chime in on the discussion of Amazon. Does it seem viable to Game Insight? Amazon still seems like a developing platform, so it might be a bit early to make any sweeping pronouncements. We've never been afraid to explore new territory and new platforms, so we're excited to see what the future holds for mobile games on Amazon. What challenges have you faced in working with Android? It's true that there are a lot of different OS versions and handsets in the Android ecosystem, but our focus has always been on providing the best user experience for every version of every game we make, so we've always approached developing games on Android (and on every other platform) by focusing more on how we can make sure every version of every game works as well as possible for all players. Is there anything in recent versions of Android that have helped you as a game developer? We tend to focus on making sure our games run well on the latest versions of Android, and go from there. Have you guys found anything in Android that keeps you from realizing a particular feature or service? We're still waiting for the Android add-ons that find affordable, convenient parking in San Francisco. Hurry up, Google! Maybe in the next release? Speaking of upcoming stuff, are there any features or games you can tease for down the road? As you've seen in some of our most recent Android game apps, Game Insight is looking to branch out into different types of games and explore new feature. In April, we released Rule the Kingdom (which was both a city-building game and also a full-on fantasy role-playing game) and Diamonds Blaze (a Match-3 puzzle game). Both are very different than the games we've released previously. We will, of course, continue to make the games that we know people love, but our entire company consists of people who play and love all sorts of games on all platforms, so we're also looking to branch out into new areas. Stay tuned. How does a user get in touch to provide feedback? We have a support page on our home page at http://www.game-insight. Thanks again for all your time and answers! If you guys have not checked out any of Game Insight's Android games then you have homework. Head to Google Play and get started! Behind the Curtain: A conversation with Game Insight was written by the awesome dudes at AndroidGuys. Get more AndroidGuys on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Join thousands of fellow Android enthusiasts at The 2012 Big Android Barbecue on October 21!
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| Motorola teases new phone ahead of August 10 announcement (NOT REALLY) Posted: 07 Aug 2012 11:50 AM PDT
Motorola has taken to Facebook to tease their next smartphone ahead of its Friday announcement. The first of 4-5 clues indicates that the handset will be 4G LTE ready. It's pretty much a foregone conclusion at this point that we'll be getting the Droid Razr HD's debut later this week but we'll still be watching closely. As a reminder, the Droid Razr HD is reported to include Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 720p HD display with Colorboost technology, a battery in excess of 2500mAh, and a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor. I'm thinking of a number between one and ten... UPDATE: As it turns out, Motorola isn't announcing anything new. No, they're just playing a game with their followers trying to get them to "guess which phone they are thinking of". Motorola teases new phone ahead of August 10 announcement (NOT REALLY) was written by the awesome dudes at AndroidGuys. Get more AndroidGuys on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Join thousands of fellow Android enthusiasts at The 2012 Big Android Barbecue on October 21!
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| POLL: Which Android series is the best? Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:10 AM PDT
Which is better: Samsung's Galaxy series or HTC's EVO series? What if we tossed in the Sony Xperia line and Verizon's multi-manufacturer Droid roster? Looking across all the various carriers and handset makers, we've seen some pretty great series of devices released. To each of us, some carry more weight than others. We want to know which one you find to be the best of the best of the best... Hit the poll below and tell us which Android series is the best. After you tick your box, head below and defend your answer. Tell us why you chose the way you did. EDIT: We added Nexus to the list of options as it was overwhelmingly popular among the early write-ins.
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