Android Market Now Installs Apps On Officially Unsupported Devices

Google has this week rolled out a new update for its Android Market place, which has added support for additional unofficially supported devices. The new devices to now be included within the Android Market for applications to be installed on them include : HP TouchPad, Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, and Amazon Kindle Fire.





So if you have loaded Android on to any devices that didn’t originally ship with Android, you can now enjoy a simple install process directly from the Android Market.

But be aware the Android Market will also recognise some apps you might have installed from non-Android Market sources, and will try to update them but will fail.

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Google Announces More Services Closing, In Their Out Of Season Spring Clean

Google has today announced more Google Services will be closing in the latest round of out of season spring cleaning, currently in progress at Google. This month Google services to get the chop include: Google Gears, Google Wave, Knol, Google Friend Connect, Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, Google Bookmark Lists and Google Search Timeline.



Now with Google+ finished and launched, Google Wave is now being closed for good and as of January 31, 2012 the service will become read-only and finally close completely on April 30th 2012.

For more information one each service receiving the chop head over to the Google Blog post.

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EVGA Offers Special Edition Batman Arkham City GTX 580 Video Card

We know that a lot of gaming geeks are waiting in anticipation for the video game Batman Arkham City video game to land so they can get their Batman on. If you need a new video card to play the game you will want to check out the new offering from EVGA.



The video card firm has unveiled a new video card that is a Special Edition to go along with the game. It has Batman graphics from the game on the side. It would be perfect for a gaming PC with a clear side. The card has a GTX 580 NVIDIA GPU on it.

The card can be used in SLI mode and it has 512 CUDA cores. The 1536MB of GDDR5 RAM is clocked at 4GHz and it supports PhysX and 3D vision surround. The core clock is 797MHz and the shader clock is 1594MHz. The card is available now with the game for free for $509.99.

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Sony Ericsson Nypon LT22i Android 4.0 ICS Handset Leaked (Video)

It looks like Sony Ericsson has another Android smartphone in the works, as well as the Nozomi which we saw recently, details have been revealed of the Sony Ericsson Nypon LT22i.

According to the guys over at Recombu, the Sony Ericsson Nypon will features a qHD display with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels, and it will run Sony’s own processor, the NovaThor U8500, which is a dual core 1GHz processor, which you can see in action in the video below.




The device is also expected to come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, as soon as we some actual photos of the device and some more details we will let you guys know.

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xBounds Brings HDMI Mirroring To Android Smartphones (video)

During the DroidCon event in Amsterdam this week Dream Chip Technologies have introduced their new xBounds wireless display mirroring system for Android. Which has been designed to allow you to connect Android smartphones through regular WiFi to HDTVs, monitors and projectors.

The new xBounds systems brings true wireless display mirroring to Android and can be seen in action after the jump in a demonstration video.



Dream Chip Technologies explains:

“xBounds connects the Android phone e.g. over WiFi IEEE802.11 to the tiny xBounds RemoteGPU and mirrors unchanged Android Apps, including fast interactive 3D Games, wirelessly to an HD TV. We use a standard TCP/IP network. No cables and no additional HW in the phone is needed to enable low latency gaming on HD TV.”

Al Sutton, a UK-based Android developer, explained via a Tweet that the Xbounds dev kit (including a Nexus S) will be priced at €998 around $1,344, while the consumer kit will come to market at €99 (about $134).

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Facebook Messenger Windows 7 Desktop App Rolled Out For Testing

Today Facebook has rolled out their new Facebook Messenger desktop client to a limited number of test users. It has been designed specifically for Windows 7, and once officially launched to the masses will provide you with access to your ticker feed, notifications and allow you to chat your friends.

The new Facebook Messenger desktop client has been developed to enable Facebook users to remain logged in and up to date with events within their feed, without the need to keep a browser window continuously open.





If trials of the new Windows 7 Facebook Messenger client go well, Facebook is expected to rollout Messenger clients for other operating systems.

Facebook has already launched stand alone Messenger applications for Blackberry, Android and iOS devices. That provides users with the ability to chat to friends on the move, and Facebook is now looking to expand its chat services through its desktop client.

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Batman: Arkham City Arrives On PC, Robin DLC Ready To Download (video)

Last month the new Batman: Arkham City game launched in Europe on October 21st for Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers. But if you have been patiently waiting for the new Batman: Arkham City game to arrive on PC, your wait is over and the game is now available to purchase.

As well as the arrival of the PC version of the Batman: Arkham City game. The new Robin DLC is now also available, which lets you play as Boy Wonder, Batman’s faithful side kick. Watch the launch trailer for Batman: Arkham City and the new Robin DLC after the jump.

The Robin DLC is now available on both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network for 560 Microsoft Points, or $6.99.Batman: Arkham City has been developed by Rocksteady Studios, and promises to bring more of the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum. With Batman and Robin soaring into Arkham City, the new maximum security “home” for all of Gotham City’s thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds. Enjoy!

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LG Optimus 3D Android 2.3 Gingerbread Update Now Available

LG announced recently that the Optimus 3D would be getting updated to Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and the update would also bring a range of new features to the device, and it looks like the update has now started rolling out.

According to LG the update is supposed to bring some new 3D specific features which include 3D video editing and 3D to 2D video conversion at higher bit rates to the Optimus 3D.



According to some reports, users have not seen the updates that LG had promised with the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update.

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