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April, 2011
If you’re an Angry Birds fan who owns a tablet and a smartphone, we’ve got some great news. Rovio Mobile, by way of Twitter, has confirmed it’s working on a solution which will “get all Angry Birds devices in sync”. In the very near future we’ll no longer need to beat the same levels on our tablets, computers and smartphones — we’d call this Angry Birds paradise.
Several months ago Google announced they were activating 300,000 devices daily. Today that number climbed to 350,000 units, an increase of 16 percent. To put this growth into perspective simply look back at the smartphone market a year ago — Google was activating a mere 60,000 devices per day.
It’s been another hectic afternoon in gadgetry. Let’s round up all of the top stories to break it down for you, no mastication required. Read on for your teatime tech.
It was inevitable really that in the wake of Instagram and Hipstamatic, someone would create a retro-filter-packing video app with social features plonked in there too.
And lo the it has come to pass with Viddy which snug on to the iTunes App Store yesterday. If you’re familiar with Instagram, you’ll get Viddy, our best iPhone apps entry today…
It’s hard to believe that for all the design plaudits it’s earned, HTC has actually been relying on the same design for its four inch phones since 2009. That same HTC HD2 chassis that was once so sexy is starting to show the faintest hint of crow’s foot. The HTC Sensation, launched today, finally moves on, with a new design language that’s all its own.
Our weekly rundown of the best Android apps is about to commence, so find a comfy seat, make sure your phone is fully charged and fire up the Android Market application, because you’re about to see the five best downloads from the past seven days – hand-picked by your hard-working friends here at Electricpig Towers.
The HTC Sensation was launched today at the company’s London press conference, but if you ask us, HTC Watch, its movie on demand service preloaded on the phone, is the real star of the show. It’s the start of a new trend for Android: delivering the multimedia content as well as the apps to take on the iPhone+iTunes tag team. And as HTC’s European president exclusively told us today, music is next.