If you are wondering what Twitter for Android 3.0.0 looks like with its redesigned UI, wonder no more. Here’s a screenshot tour of the updated app.
Category: Android
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Google+ for Android 2.2 gains search (finally!) and more +1ing
It seems like forever, but it took Google a couple of months to finally add search to the Google+ app for Android. The announcement appears, appropriately enough, in Punit Soni’s (Lead Product Manager, Google+ Games and Mobile) Google+ stream:AND a new version of the Android app 🙂 We made good on our promise eh?
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Are 10, 25 or 50 cent apps on their way to the Android Market?
A friend of mine reminded me of the Google Android Market’s ten apps on sale for 10 cents to celebrate 10 billion app downloads (thanks, Jeff!).Until now, I assumed that the Android Market’s minimum app price was either free or around 99 cents. However, since the Android Market has a weird Euro/Dollar conversion factor with apps given prices like $3.32, why not have apps priced regularly at 10, 25 or 50 cents? It might not be what most developers want to use as a price. But, there might be apps for which ultra-low (sub-99 cents) prices make sense.
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Usability expert Jakob Nielsen does not like the Kindle Fire
Jakob Nielsen took the Amazon Kindle Fire through its paces and doesn’t seem all that impressed.
Kindle Fire Usability Findings
His complaints:
- Heavy
- Lack of physical buttons
- Miserable magazine reading experience
- Slow screen updates
- Bad UI design (e.g., graphic buttons that are too small)
My take based on a brief (about an hour) use of the Kindle Fire is that it is a pretty good tablet experience for the price ($200). I would recommend it to people who don’t want to spent $500 or more for an iPad. The Kindle Fire may be the best Android tablet available at the moment in my opinion.
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Speed up the Kindle Fire browser by turning its acceleration OFF
Here’s an important tip for Kindle Fire users from stevesounders.com. You can speed off web browsing on the Fire by turn acceleration OFF
His results showed the Kindle Fire Silk browser performed better for ever site tested with acceleration turned off. Silk performed well with acceleration turned off when compared to the iPad 2 and Galaxy 10.1.
