If you’ve ever been looking for an excuse to walk into things, stumble around and generally put your life at risk, you could always try a quick game of Magic Maze for Android. devGuide’s new game combines physical GPS position with an on-screen labyrinth, which the player navigates by moving around their environment. The company recommends [...]
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Samsung Galaxy Portal i5700 hits UK
Samsung’s i5700 Android smartphone has been known by a few different names since we first spotted it last year: the Samsung Galaxy Mini, for instance, and the Samsung Spica when it got its Korean launch. Now, headed to T-Mobile UK, there’s a new name: the Samsung Galaxy Portal i5700. The name may be different, but everything [...]
DIY Virtual Reality Headset with an HTC Magic [Video]
Okay, so this time we bring to you an easy DIY project, all you need is an old – or new, it doesn’t matter – pair of lab goggles, cardboard, tape, a ruler, a knife, an HTC Magic, and of course, a lot of time in your hands. This is the creative handiwork of Recombu’s [...]
Augmented traffic app for Android surfaces
One of the new buzzwords in applications for mobile phones floating around is augmented reality. This type of app takes an image seen live form the phones camera and overlays it with directions or other data as an example. A slick new augmented reality app for the Android platform has surfaced called Augmented Traffic Views. The [...]
World’s first augmented reality browser coming to Android
You say augmented reality to me and I immediately start thinking virtual reality with gloves and massive headsets. That’s not really what the Layar augmented reality browser (that will be coming to the Android store soon) is about. The idea behind the Layar browser is that people can visit places and build their own layers to [...]
Android Community Week In Review – Week 5 2009
This week saw a few big stories for the Android platform, the most anticipated being T-Mobile’s official announcement of offering more Android-based handsets in 2009. A specific number was not given, but HSPA capabilities on these handsets are almost a given, with T-Mobile’s stance that they will have 3G data networks available in 300 cities [...]
ING Wegwijzer ATM locater app uses Augmented Reality
Bank ING have announced a free app for Android-based handsets, which helps users locate their nearest ATM. The software, ING Wegwijzer (“ING Signpost”), takes advantage not only of the T-Mobile G1’s GPS functionality but also its digital compass, presenting directions to the closest cash-machine overlaid onto a real-time view of their surroundings. It’s similar in concept to [...]
The Future of Mobile Devices, according to Andy Rubin
When he’s not obsessing over Android, director of mobile platforms Andy Rubin is busy obsessing over mobile devices in general. In the latest of Google’s soothsaying articles, the brains behind Android (and the Sidekick) looks at where ubiquitous computing is likely to take us in ten years time. “The phone that you have in your pocket, [...]
First LIVE images and videos of FULLSCREEN Android demos!
Google’s latest Android prototype is miles improved over the versions we last saw. Back at CES the GUI was clunky and the whole thing looked relatively primative; Google themselves asked us to keep an open mind and instead concentrate on the OS’ potential. Now, they’ve brought out a device that you could, frankly, [...]
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