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Reviews of Android apps, games, widgets and live wallpapers.
January 19, 2011
The single most common question TechCredo gets is easily “what’s the name of that awesome clock widget?” The clock people ask about is featured in several of the live wallpaper demo videos and in some of the Android screen shots on TechCredo. I try to leave a reply whenever the question is asked, but now [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews | Tagged Android, Beautiful Widgets, Clocks, Epic-Justice, LevelUp Studio, Themes, Top themes, Weather apps
November 7, 2010
Hardware keyboards on handsets have been a priority for me personally, for obvious reasons such as quick and convenient text input, but also to aid gaming and emulation. Still, my last two devices, the HTC Hero and Desire, have both been all about the touchscreen. And thanks to great software keyboards like those on this [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews | Tagged 8pen, BlindType, Dasher, HTC IME, HTC Keyboard, On-screen keyboards, SlideIT, Soft keyboards, Software keyboards, SwiftKey, Swype
September 17, 2010
While most Android live wallpapers are all about the eye candy and wow-factor, Album Art takes an entirely different and more subtle approach: it collects the cover art for the albums in your music collection on the SD card and creates a wallpaper of them. The covers are stacked in a collage, and there are [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews, Wallpapers | Tagged Album Art Live Wallpaper, Album Covers, Android, Android Live Wallpapers, Cover Art, Live Wallpapers, Living Music Wallpaper, LW, Review, Screen Shots
September 9, 2010
Android gaming has really evolved this year. There are now lots of titles with impressive 3D graphics, all the video game console emulators you can dream of, as well as plenty of clever and addictive games in the Market. Some games are addictive simply because they’re so much fun to play, and other games are [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Guides, Reviews | Tagged 3D, Addictive Android Games, Addictive Games, Android, Android Gaming, Camel Games, Puzzle Games, Top 10 List, Top Android Games
September 2, 2010
Nokia’s Symbian powered devices may still often have better cameras than Android phones, but since you’re basically stuck with the default camera application on Symbian, Android gets the upper hand nonetheless. There are excellent camera apps on the Android Market that are state-of-the-art, cool as heck and make taking great looking photos more easy, fun [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews | Tagged Android Camera Apps, Camera Apps, Camera Software, Cameras, Effects, Guide, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Real-time effects, Top 5, Vignette
August 6, 2010
Back in May, Gameloft released a series of games for Android to mixed reactions. On one hand, the company was praised for the impressive graphics its lavish games featured, but at the same time Gameloft received criticism for not making the titles available in the Android Market. To add insult to injury, Gameloft initially had [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Guides, Reviews | Tagged 3-D, Android RPG, Dungeon Hunter, Gameloft, Hack 'n' Slash, Hands-on, HD, Review, Role-playing Game, Ubisoft
June 1, 2010
During its initial year, the Android platform had some catching up to do when it came to mobile gaming. There were undeniably plenty of fun, clever and addictive games out there, but in general they didn’t feature any advanced graphics – not least because the available Android devices at the time lacked the hardware to [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Guides, Reviews | Tagged 3-D, 3D, Android, Best, Games, Gaming, Graphics, Hardware, HTC Desire, HTC Incredible, List, Motorola Droid, Top
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