It’s best Android apps time here at Electricpig, right on cue. Over the past seven days we’ve tirelessly searched the Android Market for the most notable applications in order to collate them into one exhaustive list. Recounted below are five truly brilliant digital downloads – apps you can place in your phone’s memory without any fear of disappointment.
February, 2011
Fire up that pot of coffee, it’s time to jump start your day with a daily jolt of tech news. In today’s US Update we cover the upcoming Microsoft announcements set for GDC in San Francisco, unveil the Xtreamer Ultra HD media player, look at the world’s thinnest Android smartphone and more.
What do you get when you mix Japanese cuisine with the stylish characters from Angry Birds — Angry Birds bento. A creative chef from mymealbox.com has drawn inspiration from wildly successful game in an edible onigiri rendition of the red bird and green pig. First an Angry Birds cake and now Angry Birds bento, when will it end?
Step aside Samsung, the Galaxy S 2 will no longer hold the title as the world’s thinnest Android smartphone. After the Galaxy S 2 took the title from the LG Optimus Black, NEC will reportedly unveil the 7.7mm thick Media N-04C at an upcoming DoCoMo press event, outclassing both competitors.
In the world of pre-built, media streaming HTPC replacements, there’s really only one mainstream stand-out product, the D-link Boxee Box. Today, we put the Boxee Box up against its newest competitor, the Xtreamer Ultra which goes on sale early next week. The spec showdown awaits.
Built on the power of the new Intel Atom D525 dual core 1.83 GHz processor, the upcoming Xtreamer Ultra HD media player is ready to take on the home theater PC market. This bite-sized streamer is ready to gobble up hoards of HD content thanks to the nVidia ION2 GPU and high-speed DDR3 memory. The revolution begins in seven days.
In the world of Xbox 360 shooters there’s Gears of War and then there’s everything else. Some may argue that Halo is the superior shooter, but fans of Quake, Duke Nukem and Doom, know all too well that Gears is where the action’s at. At next week’s Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, the Redmond camp is expected to unveil Gears of War Kinect and possibly a Windows 7 Kinect SDK.
We’ve broken the back in Monday now, so what say we have ourselves a little news roundup? It is sometime, after all. Read on for everything from a crazy Elder Scrolls 5 competition to our step by step recipe for making an Angry Birds themed cake you can play.