Ste Boyd

Chief Editor of DroidHorizon. I own a few different devices at the minute and enjoy writing reviews and sharing what I think is cool. You can often find me playing Playstation 4 or sprawled across the couch with headphones on (maybe with a nice beer or gin & tonic in-hand)

Asphalt 7 Heat Updated….

What’s New What’s in this version: Get ready to turn up the heat again with this first update for Asphalt 7! -Drift and jump with the 2013 Hyundai Veloster Turbo -Enjoy the performance of the 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe -Customize your controls in the options menu -General bug fixes and technical optimizations We want to thank all our fans for making Asphalt 7: Heat one of the most down...[Read More]

Duck Hunt

A classic duck hunter game for your android! Do you want to hunt duck on your android phone? Now’s your chance! Grab your dog, gun and let’s get hunting dem ducks! Downloaded this only for nostalgia reasons. I was pretty young when this was first released on the NES way back when. The family used to gather round the big TV in the living room and all take turns shooting dem ducks. Good ...[Read More]

Amazon Appstore Available In The UK And Other EU Countries.

Looks like Amazon Appstore has eventually reached these shores. Download it from here and sign in using your account to enjoy the alternative Appstore experience that Amazon offers. Hopefully we’ll see Free App of the Day and other exclusives like Jetpack Joyride which were available previously. This time there are no workarounds, everything’s fully legit. 😉 As always leave a comment h...[Read More]

IFA;2012 Samsung Devices

  Announced today at IFA;2012 were probably the two greatest and most anticipated devices… The Samsung Galaxy Note2 and the Galaxy camera. Both very niche both very different both right at the cutting edge of hardware meets software. Pictures speak a thousand words to me, Samsung Galaxy Note II   Samsung Galaxy Camera                 Android 4.1 J...[Read More]

IFA;2012 Sony Devices

Announced at IFA today were a whole series of new devices from Sony. I caught the live stream myself and actually got pretty excited with their range. Two high and one more mid range, you could say plus a new Xperia tablet. I’ll post a few specs below for you to take a look at….. Xperia J: 9.2mm slim stylish design Large 4.0” FWVGA Display Social media updates with illumination 5MP AF ...[Read More]

IFA;2012 Berlin Electronics and Innovation Show

I’ve been having a look around the internetz to actually see which Android devices will be making an appearance at the IFA;2012 Show. It was this event last year that Samsung introduced the Note. Love it or hate it, the  phablet is huge in size and popularity. What we can expect this year?    Galaxy Note 2 5.5″ Screen, 1280X720 Resolution, Quad-Core 1.4GHz Samsung Exynos 4412 proc...[Read More]

Across All Devices. Phone, Tablet & PC

    We tried to design DroidHorizon to be used across all devices. Be it your phone, tablet or PC. I think we have achieved that.  On your… Phone you get the basic post categories. No ads, fast, clean and easy to read. We have ran tests and everything loads well and pretty fast, if we do say so ourselves.  Tablet view is identical to the PC experience where everything scales well a...[Read More]

New Poll….. Preferred Tablet Orientation?

The vastly popular Nexus7 running stock Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 and the very well reviewed Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, 7″ running ICS  including Audiophiles favourite Wolfson DAC both fantastic ‘Media tablets’ and both 7 inch. This weeks Poll is Preferred Tablet Orientation? You can find the Poll on the Home Page, as always, on the left-hand-side. We’d like to see which way you p...[Read More]

Samsung Galaxy S3 Cases x2

Thanks to our very good friends at Yoshie & Nico we have another great giveaway!! Why not take a look around over there for some funky accessories at very reasonable prices. Not just covers and cases for Android phones, they stock for tablets, iPads leads, and cables the lot.  Awesome!! Must also add they are very nice people when we have been sending emails back and forth. UK ONLY GIVEAWAY. U...[Read More]

Jetpack Joyride

From the makers of Fruit Ninja comes Jetpack Joyride.. Once only available on iOS you can now download it from the Amazon Appstore but not Google Play. Not sure why that is but we put the .apk in our download tab for you to enjoy if you have neither option. Great fun and highly addictive with great animations, colours and fluid game play make this an app you’ll be playing at every opportunit...[Read More]

CyanogenMod 10 Boot Animation

Looks 100 times better than CM9 in my opinion also you can grab it here

App Preview……Lumberjack

(Got to love that Meme) Log export and viewer designed specifically for Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich Lumberjack is a useful application for application developers, Android custom rom developers and users alike. This will allow you to see the live logs on your device, but also gives you the option to export the files to your favourite application such as Gmail or Dropbox. Unlike similar applica...[Read More]