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ZENRIN DataCom released the “Photo Japan Guide” Android app today. It is the English version of the Docomo map navigation tool, “Gotouchi Guide” and introduces tourist sites and local gourmet food to foreign visitors to Japan.
There is a lot more to Japan than Tokyo, Kyoto and Mt. Fuji. So download it and give it a try if you plan to visit Japan or live here and want to take a look around.
The app is free to download and features detailed photos, facility information, …
It seems like only yesterday that Google bundled Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 in its little biscuit layers and sent it off into the world (it was December, 2011, actually). That Android flavor has since climbed the charts rapidly, around four percent each month for the last while, and now occupies the ROM on 23.7 percent of robot-based devices — up from 20.8 percent last month. That’s in part due to new devices (like many in China) still coming out of the box with it, on top of older warhorses like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 finally grabbing some ICS. Meanwhile, its smooth-running younger sibling, Jelly Bean, made a slight gain to 1.8 percent of all Google-run slates and phones — though that will likely change when the Galaxy Note II hits the market en masse and the Galaxy S III OTA 4.1.1 disseminates to all its owners. Meanwhile, Gingerbread still dominates Google OS installed devices at 55.8 percent, probably thanks to delays or denials of newer flavors to legacy devices.
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ICS and Jellybean now on a quarter of all Android devices, but over half still stuck on Gingerbread originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Fans of the torrent-juggling desktop client can now get their downloads direct to their mobile device, because uTorrent’s launched a beta app for any Android device running version 2.1 or higher. It’s currently free, with RSS support, fully adjustable upload and download speeds and the ability to play games in the background as you wait for your files. There’s currently no limit on download sizes either — just so long as you can stomach the data charges.
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uTorrent beta app arrives on Android originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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