Richard Sapp

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Angry Birds Rio arrives on Android Market

Android toting Brits can finally get their hands on Angry Birds Rio after a free, ad-funded version of the game arrived on the Android Market.

British bird chuckers had been left in the dark as the yet-to-be-launched-in-the-UK Amazon Appstore winning an exclusive release of the latest iteration of Rovio's hit franchise.

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For the past week or so iPhone, iPod touch and iPad owners have been lording it up around the nation with this movie tie-in game, but now Android owners can finally get their fix on the Android Market.

Rovio aren't charging a fee for this game, so you will be lumbered with those cumbersome advertisements blocking your view of those high-riding chortling pigs, but it's a small price to pay to finally get the title many are calling the best Angry Birds yet.

There's still no news on when the Amazon Appstore will launch in the UK so we're likely to face a similar wait or blackout everytime the e-retailer nabs an app exclusive.

Link: Android Market

Posted by Chris Smith

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HTC Desire Android 2.3 update begins next month

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Virgin Media TiVo service gets full BBC iPlayer app

The Virgin Media TiVo box has been given a key update, with the BBC iPlayer app coming out of beta and now apparently offering HD catch-up of Auntie's programmes.

The iPlayer app is already on the boxes, but was a beta offering with several bugs which have, presumably, now been ironed out.

The BBC catch-up service has proven to be phenomenally popular on Virgin Media, and the extension of a full app onto the Virgin Media TiVo box will be good news for many who have got their hands on the eagerly anticipated kit.

Taking advantage

"Taking advantage of the power to run dedicated 'connected' applications on the TiVo powered set-top box, a new BBC iPlayer app can be found in the growing 'Apps and Games' section and offers the full library of BBC iPlayer content, including catch-up shows in HD as well as radio shows for the first time ever," a Virgin Media spokesperson told TechRadar.

"With around 1,000 hours available - previously 350 hours - to watch from the last seven days and other new features such as subtitling and signing, the new service will also gain new functionality over time and supersedes the existing BBC iPlayer serviceon Virgin Media to provide the most complete TV on Demand service possible."

As TechRadar's Virgin Media TiVo review discovered, the latest PVR on offer is a powerful beast but in need of a bit of a polish ? and a refreshed BBC iPlayer app is certainly a step in the right direction.

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Galaxy S Plus, Desire S shipping, next-generation iPod: US Update

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

iPad 2 WiFi + 3G gets teardown treatment

With the iPad 2 WiFi having bared its secrets already, it only seems fair that the WiFi + 3G model should have the same treatment. iFixit wasn’t going to let a little thing like scarcity stop them from ripping asunder the WWAN-enabled tablet and peering at its cellular guts, and we can’t say we blame them.

Inside things are much as you’d expect from the WiFi-only version, so that means the same chipsets, battery packs and radios as before. Apple has used two different modems, a Qualcomm MDM6600 for the CDMA version on Verizon, and an Infineon 337S3833 for the GSM version on AT&T.

Obviously the CDMA iPad 2 doesn’t have a SIM slot, either, which on the GSM model is built into the headphone jack assembly. It’s also a pretty poor show if you wanted to replace the WWAN boards, since they’re soldered to the logic board.

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