Welcome to Monday’s Apps For Kids, a new Cult of Android feature where we take a look at kid-centric apps. Many of us are parents with kids who seem to know their way around our mobile devices better than we do. With the Google Play Store having over 400,000 apps, it can be quite a daunting task trying to find apps appropriate for our young tech enthusiasts. With Monday’s Apps For Kids, we hope to make that task easier by suggesting an array of topics and apps that have been kid tested and parent approved. So grab whatever crayon is lying around and get ready to write down a few apps worth checking out.
Calling all Tumblrs… Tumblrers… Tumblrites… Tumblrees? Whatever you call yourselves, your favorite (or soon-to-be- favorite) Tumblr app for Android just received a nice update. Users will be pleased at the completely new UI that is both smooth and functional. It’s a refreshing change that also brings:
Okay, this next one comes from a Korean site and claims that LG is prepping a competitor to the yet-to-be-announced Samsung Galaxy S III. While I always have trouble deducing what exactly is going on in a translation, I’m thinking these are the claims of the author and not LG. So what we basically have here is a rumored device to compete with another rumored device. If you’re interested in comparing rumored specs against the specs of well… rumor, then by all means check out the LG D1L.
Oh no, whatever will we do? Turns out HTC’s $300 million dollar investment in Beats Audio isn’t quite paying off. Apparently people don’t really care about Beats (they could have hired me for a hell of a lot less than $3 million and I would have told them that) and even worse — people don’t choose smartphones based on headphones (who would of thought). I know you’re sad to see them go but in the famous words of the King of Pop: “Just beat it.”
Android engineers have finally put an end to developer’s woes over the sluggish moving Android emulator. In an Android developers blog post today, they have announced a new and improved Android emulator equipped with added GPU support, more hardware feature emulation, and improved CPU performance. This should put a smile on many o’ developers’ faces and make building and testing apps a tad less stressful.
