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AdFree Android. New App

THIS APP IS FOR ROOTED PHONES ONLY! AdFree removes most ads in the browser and other apps. It does this by nullifying requests to known host names in the system hosts file. If you have problems with this app, or you know of additional host names not being filtered, please comment in xda-developers.com forum so it can be fixed! From the 24th December the previous application support has stopped. Th...[Read More]

Pre Christmas Games On Sale.

We’ve been searching and stumbling through Google Play Store for games that have been reduced in the run up to Christmas. We shared a few via our Google Plus Page and we thought we could put a more solid and confirmed list on our site. We’ll post the games we have found so far but I’m sure there will be more added to the list, so keep your eyes peeled. Or even better circle us on...[Read More]

Nexus 4: Holiday Photo Sphere

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Sound Search for Google Play added…

  What’s this song? “What’s this song?” The Google Play Sound Search widget can help you recognize music and songs playing around you. You can: -Identify songs, directly from your homescreen -Purchase identified songs straight from Google Play, and add them to your Plays Music library -Keep a song identification history, synced across all of your Android devices, so yo...[Read More]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City back on Google Play.

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New Category being added…

  Tips & Advice   For the guys and gals that have maybe just bought a Nexus7 for their partner’s Christmas present. Maybe they have been using an Android device for a while and unsure why the battery doesn’t last a full day. Possibly somebody is confused with all those terms and buzz words like Jelly Bean 4.2.1. That sort of thing. Also our very good friends over on Andro...[Read More]

Tidy up time.

Hey guys.   Been quiet on the site recently, new baby in the family, Black Ops being released and other stuff. Plenty of content and sharing on our Google Plus Page though. So for the sake of catching up and keeping things tidy from previous posts and prize giveaways… Two winners have been chosen to receive HTC OneX cases from our good friends over at GadgetWear.co.uk. They have or will...[Read More]

Win a HTC OneX case from Gadgetwear.co.uk

  Our good friends over at Gadgetwear.co.uk have offered up a few HTC One X cases which we reviewed as prizes for  liking their FaceBook page. HERE Gadgetwear is a local business, in the UK, which sell cases, covers and accessories for all types of phones and tablets. Not just Android. We’ll let this giveaway run for a few weeks and they’ll pick a few winners from their recent fol...[Read More]

New Nexus 4, 7, and 10 confirmed! 4.2, Photo Sphere, Music for Europe!

Via the Official Android Blog     We almost feel sorry for Microsoft and Apple now… 3 Nexus devices, Android 4,2, Photo Sphere, multi-users and the news that music will be available on Google Play for Europe, all in all, a pretty good day for Android! Nexus 4 with Google Now and Photo Sphere  Nexus 4 is our latest smartphone, developed together with LG. It has a quad-core processor...[Read More]

Google Plus Hangout Event.

  For a bit of fun we have set up a Hangout event on Google Plus to chat and interact about the new Android devices that Google release on Mondays big event. Will we see multiple Nexus branded phones? Probably not. Will we finally see the Nexus 4 from LG? Almost certainly. Also the Nexus 10 from Samsung and the 32GB Nexus 7 from Asus.   If you haven’t already circled us. You can so...[Read More]

DroidHorizon supports Movember!!

That’s right ladies and gentlemen I’ll be growing a mustache this November to raise awareness for men’s health. I’d very much appreciate donations or maybe for some of my friends in social networks to join me. I can only take donations from UK residents but DroidHorizon has joined forces with our good friends at AndroidSPIN for US followers to contribute too. (Link is highl...[Read More]

Design our new avatar, win a prize.

    Our very good friends over at gadgetwear.co.uk have offered a prize of a £20 evoucher to spend on their site to the best entrant, picked by the DroidHorizon team, who designs our next avatar. The competition will run for a month and we’ll reshare this article a few times between now and then. This is open to everyone to enter but you’ll have to be a follower on our prefer...[Read More]