How To – Downgrade Hangouts
How to downgrade Hangouts 2.3 to the old Hangouts 2.1.317 The new Hangouts is out with voice calls and a brand new look.The new look is to fit Android L design principles. Now I’m not sure if I need Android L to appreciate it or if it’s just a half baked version to work with KitKat APIs. Having to have a Hangouts dialer app seems to be evidence of this. Two dialers on a phone doesn’...[Read More]
SanDisk Dual USB Drive – Review
SanDisk Dual USB Drive – Review SanDisk have a sale on their Amazon store across most of their products. I used this opportunity to pick up a 64GB Dual USB Drive as two out of my three main devices are limited to 16GB. After the operating system and a few apps this doesn’t leave much room for films or photos. Recording a HD video would eat up that space very quickly. I cannot ev...[Read More]
Motorola Announcement – Recap
Motorola Announcement – Recap Moto X The Moto X was picked on a lot last year. It didn’t matter how smart he was. He tried to join in on a full blown stats war. Well that little smart kid didn’t go home crying, he went to the gym and pumped aluminium. Now he’s back and can go toe to toe with any of the big players. Just look at this stat list: Operating System 4.4.4 ( you know i...[Read More]
Skyling: Garden Defense – Review
Skyling: Garden Defense Skyling: Garden Defense is a crazily cute classic arcade style game. It was released on Android back in May but has only received 50-100 installs, something I feel to be a crime against games and gamekind everywhere. Considering this is an indie game it feels really polished, I’m yet to encounter a single bug and the general look and feel of it is of an extremely hig...[Read More]
Skinomi TechSkin – Review
Skinomi TechSkin for Moto X Review Screen protectors are not my thing. I’ve never used one as I respect my devices, probably as I always pay sim free prices and the wallet pain from that lingers longer than it does for contract phone users. My wife on the other hand has no respect for her phones and just drops them into her bottomless handbag, then proceeds to launch said handbag into the passeng...[Read More]
Nvidia Shield Tablet – Review
When the Nvidia shield started hitting the rumour mill we all knew it would be something rather impressive and by jove it really is! What Nvidia have done is take the Nexus 7 and put it on steroids. It’s bigger, louder and has a shed load more power. The tablet is being pushed as a “gaming tablet” by Nvidia, whilst it does have the most powerful GPU in any android tablet at the moment this tablet ...[Read More]
Google Cardboard – Review
One of the most overlooked announcements of Google I/O 2014 was Google Cardboard. Google Cardboard is maybe the first affordable homemade VR (virtual reality) headset and makes use of your smartphone. The simple hardware is supported by a very smart bit of software, inventively enough also called “Cardboard” and is made by Google. If you’re feeling creative then the hardware part can be made at ho...[Read More]
Space Smuggler – Indie Review
In this review we look at the indie game Space Smuggler by Pandula Péter. Pandula is currently at university studying Telecommunications and Information Technology and is making games as a hobby (makes me wish I was that good at my hobbies). Space Smuggler reminds me of old style Flash games more than the kind of games we have been spoilt with on Android nowadays, but please keep it in context in ...[Read More]
Bloodstroke – Review
Bloodstroke is John Woo’s first attempt at a mobile game, and after playing it I can only hope it’s his last. Maybe it wasn’t the director of Broken Arrow and Faceoff that the game needed but the writers. From what I can tell from the 14 levels I wandered through, the storyline places you as an ex-fighter pilot turned translator who turned out to be so good at killing that he got trained up ...[Read More]
Devious Dungeon – Review
Many of you may know Ravenous Games, makers of games such as League of Evil and Random Heroes. Well they’re back with Devious Dungeons, a dungeon crawler in the same art style as their other games. I am a massive fan of the old school pixel look, it makes it much harder to date the game. Devious Dungeons has a loose story; a king needs a hero to clean out his 65 different dung...[Read More]
Timberman – Game Review
Timberman – Game Review If you are a fan of flappy bird and are playing 3rd rate clones found on the Play Store… STOP…. NOW! A new frustrating and highly addictive endless style game is on the Play Store and has been downloaded over five hundred thousand times already. You become a Lumberjack cutting down an endless tree to the death. Noooo really go too slow and you will...[Read More]
Ministry of Silly Walks – Game Review
Ministry of Silly Walks – Game Review Most people should know the Ministry Of Silly Walks Sketch. Made famous by The Monty Python team and in particular John Cleese. If you have no idea what this is, check out the YouTube video here . Well now we get to do our own silly walks, on your Android phone or tablet. This game doesn’t bring much to the already full genre of endless run...[Read More]