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- Getting into the Christmas spirit with your Android smartphone
- Android Community Weekly Christmas Edition: December 23rd, 2012
- Huawei Ascend Mate 6.1-inch phablet shown off ahead of CES
| Getting into the Christmas spirit with your Android smartphone Posted: 24 Dec 2012 11:10 AM PST Similar to what you would find for other holidays, searching the Google Play Store for Christmas will give countless results. That being the case, we here at Android Community spent some time digging through the listings and came up with a handful of Christmas related apps that should help keep you in the Christmas spirit. The app list includes some music, some sounds, wallpapers and live wallpapers and a naughty or nice scanner. Of course, there is the Santa Tracker app and also the Charlie Brown Christmas app, because really, can you get fully into the Christmas spirit without the Peanuts gang.
Up first, the apps have that deal with sounds. We have Christmas Radio (free). This app offers more than 50 stations including North Pole Radio, which is said to be broadcasting directly from the North Pole. And in addition to being supported on smartphones, Christmas Radio is available for tablets and Google TV. Keeping with the sounds and we move over to ringtones. This app is called Christmas Ringtones. This is also a free app and thanks to recent update, now includes 10 additional sound clips.
Next up, the scenery, which in this case comes in the form of wallpapers and live wallpapers. The regular wallpapers is the Christmas Wallpaper HD app and the live one is Christmas Tree Live Wallpaper. Both of these apps are available for free and feature just what you would expect — wallpapers with Christmas trees as well as snow, lights and more.
Moving past the audio and visual and we have two that should be fun for the kids, or maybe for the adults as well. We have the Elf Scanner – Naughty or Nice app which is $0.99 and A Charlie Brown Christmas which is priced at $1.99. The Elf Scanner app is as the name implies, it will allow you to scan your kids to see if they have been naughty or nice. The app has some nice looking graphics and in my limited time playing, seems to be really fun for the kids. As for the Charlie Brown Christmas app, what can we really say here as we suspect many will already be familiar. This app features dialog and soundtrack goodies from the original 1965 classic as well as the ability to decorate your own (virtual) Charlie Brown Christmas tree and more.
Finally, what Christmas app roundup post would be complete without a way to track Santa. This one is the Google Santa Tracker app and it does just what you want — it tracks Santa. This app is available for free and should help get those kids in bed at a respectable hour on Christmas Eve. |
| Android Community Weekly Christmas Edition: December 23rd, 2012 Posted: 23 Dec 2012 01:53 PM PST Hello and Happy Holidays to all you Android fans. Today we have another Android Community Weekly to wrap up all the fun and exciting news from this past week in the Android world. Being Christmas in a few days this is our holiday edition. We wanted to take this moment to start by saying have a happy holiday’s, and our team will be taking off Monday and Tuesday to enjoy the Christmas spirit. Read on for everything that happened this week.
Hmm, a lot happened this week and we’re not sure where to begin. Samsung had tons of Jelly Bean updates, Verizon had a big week, and Google was in the news more than a few times. We’ll start with some extremely interesting news from Friday, that being Motorola and Google working on a next-gen smartphone to take on the Android greats. It’s being called the X-Phone for now, and we don’t know much else. Then Google’s Android team released a Happy Holidays Video for your enjoyment.
We have a little more Google news too. The official Nexus 7 dock leaked and is coming later this month, and Google’s been showing off the Nexus 4 in a new TV commercial. Lastly we’re not sure this has much to do with Google, but it’s been being called the $99 Nexus 7. ASUS’s new 7-inch tablet was leaked in the flesh — check it out. There was tons of awesome and exciting news this week. Samsung’s Verizon Galaxy S III got Jelly Bean, ASUS updated their Padfone 2, and there’s tons more so be sure and check it all out. We’ll end on a few fun notes and let you enjoy the holiday weekend. Google’s send a call from Santa is back, Huawei’s 6.1-inch phablet was shown off, and Neilsen’s year end report has Android on top. Last but not least enjoy New Years with the official Times Square Ball drop app. We’ll be enjoying Christmas Eve and Christmas with our friends and family, but expect a few reviews and tips to come while you enjoy those new Android toys you open on Christmas morning. Enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend folks! |
| Huawei Ascend Mate 6.1-inch phablet shown off ahead of CES Posted: 23 Dec 2012 01:09 PM PST Huawei‘s big reveal for CES 2013, most likely the Ascend Mate 6.1-inch 1080p smartphone, is getting shown off a few weeks early this holiday weekend by none other than one of their own Execs. We’ve mentioned the Ascend Mate more than a few times already, but today’s reveal makes it completely official. Read on for more details on this larger than life smartphone.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. How big is too big? Huawei doesn’t feel a 6.1-inch smartphone is too big. And neither does Samsung with rumors of their 6.3-inch phone coming mid next year. However, this is all about Huawei. Today one of their big wig execs was out and about at a Huawei store in China and left little to the imagination after showing off the new smartphone. The Ascend Mate has been confirmed to be rocking a 6.1-inch low power IPS display with a 1080p HD resolution. Under the hood is Huawei’s own 1.8 GHz quad-core HiSilicon K3V3 processor, 2GB of RAM and all those other top tier specs we have all come to lust for. Other details include Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a massive 4,000 mAh battery. Other than that, little other details were given according to reports by Weibo. For those interested, the entire moment was captured on video live from the Huawei store and above is that video. Give it a look to see this extra large phablet smartphone in the flesh. The device is slightly thicker than the Note II, but certainly a lot bigger. We’ll be learning all the details and getting some hands-on with this smartphone early next year at CES 2013 so stay tuned.    [via SlashGear] |
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