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- Five for Friday: Android apps for tracking a run
- In Brief: Other Android stuff worth knowing (Sept 7)
- This Day in Android: Verizon announces $300 Droid Bionic (2011)
- EyeEm 3.0 brings discovery to already wonderful photo sharing app
- Google patents mutli-user face unlock, first step to multiple user accounts?
- New HTC One X+ details confirmed?
- Comparing the Nexus 7 to the Kindle Fire HD
- EA Mobile optimizes titles for Amazon Kindle Fire family
| Five for Friday: Android apps for tracking a run Posted: 07 Sep 2012 03:50 PM PDT So you’re training for a half marathon eh? What are you using to track your progress or to give yourself goals? You are using your Android device for this, right? Time for another weekly dose of apps that you need to be checking out. This time we’ve put together a list of apps that will help track your runs, jogs, walks, and other exercises. We know there are tons of other fitness and running-related apps to help users log their workouts, but we simply couldn’t squeeze them all into one post. As the headline tells you, we’ve got to stick with five. To that end, we ask that you tell us your favorite apps for tracking a run. This week: Android apps for tracking a runEndomondo Sports TrackerMake fitness fun with this personal trainer and social fitness partner. Endomondo is the highest rated app of its kind on Android and ideal for running, cycling, walking and any other distance-based activity. Join more than 11 million users and start freeing your endorphins! Not only does Endomondo let you track your running, but it keeps log of darn near every other physical activity one can think of. Enter in a few physical characteristics and let the app keep a tally of calories burned, miles run, elevation, elevation, and much more. Share your workouts on Facebook and let your friends pep you up with real-time feedback! Complemented by a great web experience, Endomondo is one of our favorite Android apps, period. Let’s not even talk about the PRO version which, at $4.99, is full of additional value and features. RuntasticYour personal tracking app for running, biking and other sports activities! Take your fitness to a new level with runtastic. runtastic uses GPS to map your fitness activities – running, biking, walking – and track your progress (distance, speed, calories, and more). Be part of a global fitness community that is both fun and motivational. Map your runs and other workouts in real-time using your Android’s built-in GPS and track your progress, including distance, speed, time, pace, and more. Switch things up and check out the 3D Earth View and see where you are relative to mountains, buildings, and other landmarks. Additional features we like are the ability to set goals for times and distances, social network sharing, and support for manual entry for treadmills. Be sure to check out runtastic.com as well as the other apps offered by the developer, some of which are also free. RunkeeperTrack, measure, and improve your fitness. Join the more than 10 million people who are using RunKeeper to turn their phone into a personal trainer in their pocket! We like the simple design and view for checking detailed histories of the things we’ve done in the past. Running in a place you really like and want to do it again? Turn it into a route and gauge yourself against your previous times. Speaking of which, we love how the app notifies us of new personal bests and milestones. Extra credit for the ability to integrate activity data with 70+ apps and services including Fitbit, Withings, Zeo, and Garmin. Sports TrackerTurn your mobile into a social sports computer with Sports Tracker – now finally for Android! Track and analyze your performance, share workout data and photos with your friends, and most of all – get fit and stay healthier. Details include the ability to track and analyze performances and monitor progress across a myriad of activities. Keep a personal workout diary of everything you do, including calories burned, average speeds, distance, and more. Have friends using Sports Tracker? Check out their profiles, comment on workouts, and view photos! Bonus points for a full-featured online service and the enhanced experience that comes with the Sports Tracker Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor. Map My Run GPS RunningMapMyRun+ tracks the route, distance, pace, and more in real-time using GPS. MapMyRun brings you its mobile app for Android-based devices! Now owners of Android 2.1 or higher devices can track the route, time, distance, speed, pace and calories in real-time for their fitness activities using their GPS enabled mobile device. Use the location based feature of your handset and search nearby to find new and exciting places to run. Filter results based on length or type, and get a snapshot of elevation and current leaders. Pull up the history tab and see how well you did today as compared to the first time you ran in the park. Be sure to look at the host of additional Android apps from MapMyFitness as each caters to a different activity! Your turn!What’s your favorite Android for tracking your runs, exercises, and workouts? What do you like most about it? Leave a comment below and share with the class! Five for Friday: Android apps for tracking a run was written by the way cool dudes at AndroidGuys. Follow at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Popular PC time management game,Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, is now FREE to play on Android!
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| In Brief: Other Android stuff worth knowing (Sept 7) Posted: 07 Sep 2012 02:21 PM PDT In Brief is a compilation of notifications, rumors, and Android-related news tidbits, which for whatever reason, did not end up with a post of its own on AndroidGuys. These are things that we still feel are worth knowing, even if in a passing manner. Consider it a grab-bag of Android goodies. If you have something that you think is worth a mention on AndroidGuys, be sure to reach out to us via the contact page. Carry a personal inventory of your household items with your Android smartphone using Playcolors Home Inventory. View items by location, add photos, tag, and more so that you don’t lose track of that book you finally got us to borrow. A new startup in Virginia looks to take on multiple companies (Paypal, Square, etc) with their new initiative and service. Caled PaidThx, they believe you “should be able to send and receive money whenever you want, wherever you want. Whether you owe a few bucks to a friend or want to donate to your favorite cause, it should be as simple as the swipe of a finger and shouldn’t cost you a penny.” Users will be able to send and receive money to whoever they want, regardless of banking institutions. Interested in the beta? Sign up now Star Splitter 3D is free to play and features 60 quests and missions as well as 80 types of equipment and weapons, special armor, and satellite-droids for your ship can protect you and attack the enemies. Download from Google Play today and explore the outer reaches of the universe. Sing and record your favorite Karaoke songs with the free PureSolo Karaoke app. Browse tracks across pop, rock, hip-hop, R'n'B, standards and more. Once complete your song, share your recordings directly to Facebook and Twitter! Just don’t take your phone into the shower, silly. Have you seen Gameloft’s new title, Cosmic Colony? Just landed in Google Play and it is on the way to 100,000 downloads already! Join veteran Planetnaut Breck Powers as you help him build the ultimate space colony and explore the galaxy for the good of humanity! Create and expand your space-age settlement, explore the surrounding planetside, and fend off invading space pirates who want to disrupt your idyllic little space town. Space! A new blog post from Flurry shows us where Android and iOS adoption is soaring the fastest. Don’t look now, but China is fast approaching the United States! Teach children the importance of standing up to a bully with Awesome Upstander, a side-scrolling adventure game. Go around and rally the troops to stand up to the school bully, collecting bananas, air fresheners, and rolls of toilet paper. Once your group is large enough, you can show that jerk who is the boss. ScanLife 4.5 has introduced a pair of new features for those of you who like to scan and read barcodes with your Android phone or tablet. Download the free app from Google Play.
A previously unreleased book from the 1960′s written by the creators of The Berenstain Bears has just arrived on Android. It’s called Nothing Ever Happens at the South Pole and it’s on sale for $1.99 right now. Oceanhouse Media has a strong record of Dr. Seuss, Berenstain Bairs, and Little Critter titles for Android so we say check it out. Going rollin’ with the homies tonight? You’ll need to make sure you’re dressed in the right outfit, and up on the latest fashion trends. Stay up with designers, trends, brands, and more with StyleTag. Put together a totally bangin’ ensemble and share that thing on Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr. In Brief: Other Android stuff worth knowing (Sept 7) was written by the way cool dudes at AndroidGuys. Follow at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Popular PC time management game,Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, is now FREE to play on Android!
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| This Day in Android: Verizon announces $300 Droid Bionic (2011) Posted: 07 Sep 2012 12:38 PM PDT
What a difference a year makes, eh? Can you believe that it was twelve months ago today that Verizon and Motorola announced that the Droid Bionic would be joining the carrier’s lineup one day later. Priced at $299 it was hardly the phone we saw some nine months earlier at CES. Details for the Bionic, at the time, were pretty top notch stuff and included the following:
Where is it now?You can’t even buy the Droid Bionic through Verizon today, even as a used model. Amazon has it in an no-contract option for $379.99. How many of you were excited about the Droid Bionic? Did any of you have $300 bucks set aside for the Droid that “rules all machines”? This Day in Android: Verizon announces $300 Droid Bionic (2011) was written by the way cool dudes at AndroidGuys. Follow at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Popular PC time management game,Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, is now FREE to play on Android!
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| EyeEm 3.0 brings discovery to already wonderful photo sharing app Posted: 07 Sep 2012 11:04 AM PDT EyeEm, a great photo sharing app we’ve highlighted in the past, is back with a brand new 3.0 release. Details in this go’round include a discovery tool, sidebar navigation, an improved way to view photos, and more. With the new client it is not only easier to navigate the app, but it’s way faster and much more polished.
If you’re like the rest of the world and love to share pictures of your food, family, and fun stuff, we definitely say Eye Em is worth a look. Download EyeEm for Android (Google Play) EyeEm 3.0 brings discovery to already wonderful photo sharing app was written by the way cool dudes at AndroidGuys. Follow at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Popular PC time management game,Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, is now FREE to play on Android!
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| Google patents mutli-user face unlock, first step to multiple user accounts? Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:09 AM PDT
So imagine this: you’ve just finished writing an email on our Android phone, and your son asks if he can play a game. You simply lock the device, hand it to him, and it recognizes his face. Before you can say “Jelly Bean,” he’s off to playing his favorite game, without the possibility of his accidentally tampering with your personal information. Sounds pretty cool, right? This patent is a big step for Google, but there’s no rumored time frame for a release of this feature. In the meantime, we’ll have to imagine what multi-user face unlock is like. So, who else is excited about this feature? What would you use multiple user accounts for on your device? Drop a comment below! Via DroidDog Google patents mutli-user face unlock, first step to multiple user accounts? was written by the way cool dudes at AndroidGuys. Follow at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Popular PC time management game,Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, is now FREE to play on Android!
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| New HTC One X+ details confirmed? Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:50 AM PDT
Should HTC debut the HTC One X+ at the September 19 event, we might also expect to see the latest versions of Sense (4.5) and maybe any other new features and services they’ve cooked up.
New HTC One X+ details confirmed? was written by the way cool dudes at AndroidGuys. Follow at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Popular PC time management game,Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, is now FREE to play on Android!
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| Comparing the Nexus 7 to the Kindle Fire HD Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:33 AM PDT Until yesterday, the argument for low-cost tablets revolved, for the most part, around the Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7. Today, we’re swapping out the Amazon tablet for something a little more powerful. We thought we’d put together a quick head-head list of the details so that readers can get a general sense of what each model has over the other, if anything. It’s worth noting that this does not break down every single component, codec, and feature. In a nutshell, these are the features that most users will look to for the sake of comparison. Battle of the $200 tablet experience
Early ConsensusIf you are an experience Android user and really want to keep on the forefront of the platform, the Nexus 7 is the clear winner. It’s a stock Google experience that just happens to be the latest release available. The Tegra 3 processor is in a class of its own and the Google Play store opens the door to an exponential number of apps, including Amazon Appstore. Those who are new to the tablet and e-reader game will likely find the Amazon Kindle Fire HD more appealing. It might be easy to point to the extra storage, HDMI output, and Dolby Digital as the reasons for the justification, but it’s the experience that wins out. Amazon’s WhisperSync, FreeTime, and X-Ray are incredibly cool features that users will come to enjoy. Toss in access to the growing Amazon Prime Instant Video library and you can appreciate the “content is king” adage. Which one is right for you?We get the feeling that the younger you are, the more you’ll lean toward the Google device, but we could be wrong. The Kindle Fire HD is going to be the one you see in beauty salons and airports while the Nexus 7 is the device you’ll see in colleges and and sports bars. Obviously we’re speaking generally here, but the two appeal to different demographics. Ask yourself what kind of user you are or expect to be. Do you plan to play the latest games and push the tablet around, bending it to your will? Heard about some great apps that sound like they’ll change your life? Nexus 7. Primarily want to read magazines, books, watch movies? Like to game once in a while, but nothing too serious? Kindle Fire HD. In the end, neither of these are wrong for you. It’s a cop-out answer, but it’s what we’d tell our friends when they ask.
Comparing the Nexus 7 to the Kindle Fire HD was written by the way cool dudes at AndroidGuys. Follow at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Popular PC time management game,Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, is now FREE to play on Android!
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| EA Mobile optimizes titles for Amazon Kindle Fire family Posted: 07 Sep 2012 07:43 AM PDT EA Mobile is sending out an email today to advise that their games are now optimized for the Kindle Fire, and that new Kindle Fire HD. Titles such as The Game of Life, Tetris, Madden 12 and Plants Vs. Zombies are just some of the featured games they have ready for the new Amazon Kindle.
EA Mobile certainly seems to be growing fast as back in Q4 of 2011 they only had 10 games on the Amazon App store. Today, they have 24 games, with plans on bringing more to Amazon App users. What do you guys think about their success so far? Do you play any of their mobile-platform games? Let us know in the comments below! EA Mobile optimizes titles for Amazon Kindle Fire family was written by the way cool dudes at AndroidGuys. Follow at Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube! Popular PC time management game,Legends of Atlantis: Exodus, is now FREE to play on Android!
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