One of a famouse FREE iOS game, Temple Run has just released in Google Play Store for Android device. Get ready to run for your life!

The addictive mega-hit Temple Run is now out for Android! All your friends are playing it - can you beat their high scores?!

You've stolen the cursed idol from the temple, and now you have to run for your life to escape the Evil Demon Monkeys nipping at your heels. Test your reflexes as you race down ancient temple walls and along sheer cliffs. Swipe to turn, jump and slide to avoid obstacles, collect coins and buy power ups, unlock new characters, and see how far you can run!

"In every treasure hunting adventure movie there’s one scene in which the plucky hero finally gets his hands on the treasure but then has to navigate a maze of booby traps in order to get out alive. Temple Run is this scene and nothing else. And it’s amazing." - SlideToPlay.com

You can download this game for FREE at Google Play Store now!

Thanks @sapiensbryan for the tips

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Nokia Lumia 610 and Nokia Lumia 900 are reported to support internet sharing out of the box which was suppose introduced in the Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) update whereby the Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 were missing of this.

After the release new firmware to Nokia Lumia in address the Soft-key illumination, call-ending and battery issue. Nokia will be expecting to roll out another update to push the WiFi Tethering feature. This is according to Plaffo's source.

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No more secret of the iPhone's most popular app is coming to the Android plaform.

Instagram has just opened up a signup page for those who want to be the very first to get a hand-on of the app. It's most likely to be a beta app to try out on their Android device.

All you need to do is enter your email address and you will receive an right away from Instagram that their will get in touch very soon.

You can register HERE

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Nokia Drive v2.0 has been released and now support offline directions. That's mean there will be no data involved and you will still get the voice turn-by-turn navigation with maps downloaded. ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) has added on the navigation along with the speed you are travelling.

Along with Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps for Lumia also has an update v1.3 with simple and better interface. It allows you to set favourite locations and can be pinned to the home screen, and shared via social networks.

All the update can be done over Marketplace. Check them out now!

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The announcement of the Nokia Lumia 610 to be have a new software to enhanced the capabilities to Windows Phone 7.5 platform to support lower memory and processor requirement, WP Tango.

The Windows Phone Tango that is now officially called Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh revealed an increase in the maximum number of background app in a recent leaked Tango ROM by XDA Developers. Multitask up to 8 apps in background are allowed rather the than current 5 on WP 7.5 Mango.

Beside that, WP 7.5 Refresh will have improvements for MMS, better SIM contact management and a new location alert icon. There is a new memory counter that shows in use and available memory which is helpful to those with low-spec device.

This WP 7.5 Refresh will be available out of box on the Nokia Lumia 610.

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Instagram is a fast growing photo sharing app for iPhone that just announced to have more than 27 millions registered users and the number expected to grow more when announced to Android users.

You can now have similar Instagram image editor app for Windows Phone with more functions and better control, Thumba Cam. It allow you to add filters to create quality effects. You can share it to your friends and family via Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

Thumba Cam features;

56 high quality effects tailored for a finishing touch
26 films that can be added to photos
Manual adjustments for brightness, contrast and saturation
Tools to crop and rotate
Share them on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr
Do not miss any Exif data
Integrated the Pictures Hub

You can download it for FREE from Marketplace. Search Thumba Cam in Marketplace.

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Ever wonder what's the improvement camera quality of iPad 2 with the new iPad?

iMore made some comparison of photos and videos between iPad 2's 0.7MP camera and the new iPad's 5MP iSight camera.

Although both the new iPad and the iPad 2 have a VGA front facing camera but surprisingly the new iPad has a better images, a new sensor perhaps? 

Watch the video below for the comparison.

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Proud owner of Samsung Galaxy Note and you are free tonight for John Carter's movie?

Head to Golden Screen Cinemas, Mid Valley Megamall tonight and claim a pair of tickets to watch John Carter by just flashing your Samsung Galaxy Note.

The redemption start at 9pm and the queue is starting at 6pm.

There will be only 71 pairs of tickets to give out, so be early.

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Demonstrate a great game by Games Academy for Windows Phone, Call of Carlos.

The mission of this game is to collect diamonds inside mining shafts while tries to break loose from lava that emerges from bottom of the shaft. You tilt your phone left or right to move and tap on the circles to move up with his pickaxe.

An interesting time challenge game with 40 levels to complete.

Use your grappling hook to escape the lava and collect precious diamonds!

You take control of Carlos, an apathetic and chubby mexican miner. One day, while doing his daily mining business, he suddenly finds a rare diamond inside one of the mining shafts. As he tries to break it loose, lava emerges from the bottom of the shaft! Carlos quickly grabs the diamond, takes his trusty pickaxe and tries to escape the lengthy mineshafts!

Game demonstrated on the Nokia Lumia 800;


Call of Carlos is available on Windows Phone for FREE. Download it from Marketplace or Zune.

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HTC has just announced 16 Android devices are set to get upgrades to the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS on its HTC's blog.

The 16 HTC devices are confirmed to get a tasty treat of Ice Cream Sandwich

• DROID Incredible 2 by HTC
• HTC Amaze 4G
• HTC Desire S
• HTC Desire HD
• HTC EVO 3D
• HTC EVO Design 4G
• HTC Incredible S
• HTC Sensation
• HTC Sensation XL
• HTC Sensation 4G
• HTC Sensation XE
• HTC Raider
• HTC Rezound
• HTC Rhyme
• HTC Thunderbolt
• HTC Vivid

As for timing, we’re in the early stages of rolling out Android 4.0 for the HTC Sensation and HTC Sensation XE and upgrades will be more widely available in the next few weeks. The update for the HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XL will follow. Please note, once we start pushing out updates it will take time for all carriers in each country to get the update. We are working closely with our carrier partners to nail down update schedules for our other smartphones and will have more to share very soon.

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Nokia has announced theirs first Windows Phone-powered device in Malaysia a month ago. Announced the Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800. I manage to get a review unit of the Nokia Lumia 800 from Nokia Malaysia.

Has been using it for almost a week now, here I'm gonna share my thought and impression of the new Nokia Lumia 800.

Let's start with the technical specification

• 1.4GHz single core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 processe
• 3.7-inch ClearBlack AMOLED screen with 800x480 pixel
• 512MB of RAM & 16GB internal storage
• 8MP Carl Zeiss optics with dual LED flash
• WiFi 802.11b/g/n & Bluetooth v2.1
• HSDPA 14.4Mbps, HSUPA 5.76Mbps
• 1450mAh internal battery

Design and display

The Lumia 800 design is identical with the MeeGo-powered Nokia N9 with add-ons dedicated-camera button, smaller screen size of 3.7-inch and capacitive touch buttons. The capacitive touch below the screen was very natural and didn’t set off although it’s very near to the screen.

The design of one-piece of polycarbonate matte finish material is solid but exudes a premium soft touch feel. The proportions of the phone are very ideal for gripping during phone call or one-handed texting. It has three colours to choose from; Cyan & Fuchsia which go well with the youngster and the Black giving corporate impression.

It uses a 3.7-inch 480x800 ClearBlack AMOLED smooth curve design screen with Gorilla Glass corning. Despite the pixels density is not as high as others, the AMOLED with ClearBlackDisplay able to provide blacker blacks that able to present bright, punchy colour production and better viewing even under sunlight.

The internal storage in the Lumia 800 is fixed only 16GB with no microSD card slot and there were no 64GB variant like the Nokia N9. Here the SkyDrive come in, there will be 25GB FREE cloud storage come with your Windows Live’s account. You can store your photos, videos, documents and etc into it and get access from your phone. Of course huge data transfers will involved.

Windows Phone 7.5 and performance

Nokia Lumia is one of the first smartphone to ship with Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). The main screen is dressed up with live tiles bring start screen to life with glance-and-go updates. Swiping to the right will list all the applications installed in alphabetic. The tiles’ colour is customisable to different colour to suit your mood, phone case or even your clothes.

The processor speed of the Lumia 800 is using a single-core 1.4GHz Snapdragon and 512MB of memory; this is behind the dual-core processor trite in the Android and iPhone devices. The one core isn’t a limitation; the Windows Phone was designed to run extremely fast and seamless in the regular interface even with lower hardware specification.

The WP’s interface is very simple to use and multitasking enabled by holding the back button, it will zoom out to a view of running apps in background and represented by a thumbnail.

The People and Messaging Hubs

Microsoft provide a robust social network integration (Facebook, Windows Live, Twitter & Xbox Live friends) in Windows Phone for ease of following them and stay connected all in one place. I can easily access to all of my friends’ updates, status, and photos. I can also post message/update/status on Facebook/Twitter/Live Messenger without running the applications. Chatting has made more easier with integration of Live Messenger and also Facebook Chat.

Internet Explorer

When it comes to the internet, the Nokia Lumia 800 is one of the fastest mobile internet experience with the uplifted IE9. Decent web experience and fast response in loading pages, as well video streaming.

Flash is not supported with IE9 thus it wouldn't able to load certain webpages that still embedded with flash. In fact Adobe has announced it's scrappping the system in favour for HTML5 which IE9 is supported.

Marketplace

This is the most asked question by my friends. To build a new ecosystem is not a week or a month work. Marketplace has been growing surpringly fast; the numbers of quality of apps are developed and more apps are coming to Marketplace

Apps & games

Most of the basic need of apps are pre-loaded which easy to understand and use. Example Alarm, Calculator, Calendar, Camera, Contact Transfer, Network Setup, Office and etc.

About Office, it provides access to mobile versions of OneNote, Word, Excel and PowerPoint capable of working with documents either on device storage or on SkyDrive/SharePoint and Office365 which is good for students and business-on-the-go.

On the games part, its linked between WP7 and Xbox Live that associated with your Xbox Live account. Unfortunately here in Malaysia we do not have Xbox and can't shout anything about this. We still can download premium games to play example Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, NFS, Splinter Cell, PVS and much more.

Nokia Maps & Nokia Drive

When it comes to maps, Nokia has been leading the pack. The Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive are the proprietary apps that only available out-of-box in Nokia Lumia. The speed of GPS lock and accuracy of location is superb, finding location within a couple of seconds. Voice turn-by-turn navigation in Nokia Drive made excellent navigation guidance.

Camera

A 8MP Carl Zeiss optics is placed at the rear of the Nokia Lumia 800. The 8MP f/2.2 camera with dual-LED flash are capable to record 720P HD video recording. A simple touch of the object on the screen or pressing the camera button it will focus and snap the picture.

Great UI on the Nokia Lumia 800 camera app that allow you have transition directly between the camera and captured shots and videos by swiping to the right. This actually cut the time to preview, retake, delete, share on Facebook, auto-fix and much more.

The image quality is quite good especially shooting in daylight. Sensitive White Balance and quick focus. Whereas in low light condition without flash, the photos can be quite noisy.

As for the video recording, it can't change zoom while recording which is sad to know. It struggle more to focus and sluggish in AWB adjustment in low light.

All these tests were running on the old firmware. Expecting improvement of the camera on the coming new firmware.

Battery

As mentioned previously, this is a review base on the old firmware. Currently a single full charge battery can last me about 6-8 hours. The battery life is not as good as I expected, probably caused by bad battery management. Hope the new firmware to fix this issue completely and do expected to double the battery life.


Like

• Love the simple design, unique shape, solid built, weight and good hand grip of the Nokia Lumia 800.
• Windows Phone 7.5 metro UI is very intuitive with impressive speed of response despite running on single core processor and 512MB of RAM.
• People Hub that linked everyone I know in one place allowed me to get connected with all my friend and family seamlessly.
• FREE Nokia Drive with voice navigation turn-by-turn

Dislike

• The AMOLED screen is vivid and bright but I do find is a little be over saturated.
• microUSB's lid cover is hard to open and may accidentally bend it.

• Bad battery life. Hopefully the new firmware update will resolve this.
• Major apps are there but would like to see more apps to come on this phone.

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All Android users, the long-awaited Android version of Instagram is nearly here. Co-founder Kevin Systrom has announced at SXSW Sunday that it will be released very soon but without any specific date mentioned.

“In some ways, it’s better than our iOS app. It’s crazy,” Systrom said. In a Q&A following his presentation, Systrom said the app is fast, works great on large screens and can share photos to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and other networks.

What took the startup so long to bring what’s clearly an extremely popular app to Android? “I don’t think it took us so long. We just had priorities. Had we tried to be both on Android and iPhone at the same time, it would’ve been tough to innovate in the way that we have,” said Kevin Systrom

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Still remember the tease of Angry Birds Space weeks back?

Rovio has uploaded a video on their official YouTube "Angry Birds Space: NASA announcement" which made in space. Yes! you heard me right! This is the first game in the world to announced in space.

Angry Birds Space is coming to Android, iOS, PC and Mac this 22nd March. Launching birds in zero gravity space? It's gonna be a new way of Angry Birds gaming experience. Wonder they coming out with Windows Phone?

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Would like to have white colour Nokia Lumia 800? You can head to Singapore to order one.

This white Lumia 800 is not the matte type like the current Cyan, Fuchsia & Black, instead it's a glossy white. Making this more unique and rare.

The white Nokia Lumia 800 is available through SingTelShop and is only $349 singapore dollor whe you renew a like or get a whole new one.

More info from SingTelSho.com

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Received a black Nokia Lumia 800 yesterday.

Here gonna make a quick unboxing of the new Nokia Lumia 800 which just launched few weeks back here in Malaysia.

The packaging is very similar to the Nokia N9 and the Nokia Lumia 710.

The box contains;

• Nokia Lumia 800
• Warranty Card & Quick Guide
• Soft Cover Case
• microUSB Cable
• USB Quick Charger
• Stereo Headset

Check out the video unboxing of the Nokia Lumia 800


Lumia 800 is now available at Nokia Store for RM1,650 or you can have this phone for as low as RM799 with telco-contract.

More reviews coming up next

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The Android Market with services like Google Music and Google eBookstore is now placed in one service "Google Play"

Now you can get your apps, games, movies, music and books, all in one place that's accessible from the Web and any Android device.



To learn more about Google play, play.google.com/about

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The day has come, today will be the announcement date for the successor of the Apple iPad 2.

The event will be taking place at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco at 10am (8th of March, 2am on Malaysia time +8GMT)

Will it be another disappointment announcement just like the iPhone 4S? Minor changes? Named as iPad 2S? iPad2HD? or as expected iPad 3?

M.I.C. Gadget shared a view to be claimed as the new iPad 3.

From the video it showcased the front glass panel and the rear shell which is very identical with the current iPad 2 but slightly thicker.

They claimed it to have larger camera lens, Retina Display, Quad-core A6 processor, better battery life and Siri.

Check out the video below to justify yourself it's fake or some pre-production sample.


So what do you expect features to be available on the new iPad? Do shall it with us by leaving comments below :)

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A new software for Nokia Lumia 800 has been pushed out to resolved the problem of fast battery drain issue and improvement of camera. The PR1.2 / build 1600.2487.8107.12070 is now available to update via Zune. Thanks to @belon1986 for the tip.

What to expect from the update?

• The fast battery drain issue has been fixed
• The lack of audio Bass when listening through headsets has been fixed. There’s a whole lot of bass now..
• The auto-white balance issue with the camera has also been fixed
• The hardware buttons backlights are now always on at all screen brightness levels
• Diagnostics app has been changed to prevent users from getting misleading info about their device
• Focus mode is now set to Normal by default in the camera app

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The hugely successful Nokia Life Tools has now become the new and enhanced Nokia Life, which includes great extra services like Life Skills and Parenting Advice, as well as new social elements.

Coming soon pre-installed for Nokia Asha 202 and Nokia Asha 203 in China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria.

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Nokia Lumia 900 & Nokia Lumia 610 which just recently announced at MWC 2012 has appeared on Nokia's Malaysia website. Mean its coming to shore very soon?

Unfortunately there is no sign of the best-new device in MWC 2012 smartphone, Nokia 808 PureView.

Planning to have one? You can now register ROI respectively, Nokia Lumia 900 & Nokia Lumia 610 to get the first hand news of the availability.

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Draw something by OMGPOP is another addicting cross platform games that available for iOS and Android.

Draw Something is a Pictionary-like game that have you to draw and guess words, play cooperatively with friends or competitively with rivals.

Play anywhere you want with any mobile device online Android phones & tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPhone Touch! Find your friends on Facebook, Twitter, email, by username or choose a random match.

This game is available for FREE on Android Market & Apple App Store.

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