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Those who have been keeping a close eye on Google’s 7-inch, Jelly Bean-loaded Nexus 7 would know that the company kindly includes 25 bucks worth of Play credit with any purchase of said tablet. Unfortunately, as the famed cliché would tell us, all good things must come to an end — and, well, such is the case with this neat promotion, which will expire on Sunday, September 30th. Here’s the good news, however: there’s still a relatively good amount of time for folks interested to get it on the Google Play deal, so now would be the perfect moment to snag what some are calling the best $200 tablet — and who knows, this might even lead to a post-order Gangnam Style celebration of your own.

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PSA: $25 Google Play credit for Nexus 7 ends this weekend originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line.

Parent with a smartphone? If your kids are old enough to fiddle with a touchscreen, you’ve probably had your handset nicked. It can be a problem — you need that phone, for calls, emails and Engadget, but your little scamp just can’t get enough of Angry Birds. What do you do? Trust, says PlayMG, but verify. The old phrase ties closely to the core philosophy of the MG — a device the firm is developing specifically for kids who want to play Android games, but are too young for a smartphone. We met with the company’s Taylor Cavanah to get a first hand look at the device and its parental control system.

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Insert Coin: hands-on with the MG, a portable Android gaming solution for kids originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh poor, poor Grooveshark. Not long after surprisingly making its way back to the Android Market Google Play store, the streaming service’s Android application appears to be long gone yet again. If you’ll recall, the music app was pulled from Mountain View’s shop a few months back; this due to many claims from labels which suggested Grooveshark was allowing users to download tunes at no cost. Still, mum’s the word on why the app has been nixed out of Google Play this time around — especially after the service announced it had worked closely with the Android maker to get the official app reinstalled. For what it’s worth, however, word on the internet is the application can still be installed via the Grooveshark site, but we’ll have to leave that dicey decision up to you.

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Grooveshark app nowhere to be found, suddenly disappears from Google Play again originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re a football fan, then we don’t have to tell you that college football kicks off this evening. But, perhaps, you have yet to find the perfect app for your smart phone or tablet to keep you informed during the fifteen solid hours of football this Saturday. ESPN hopes that its new ESPN College Football App will be the perfect companion on game day, and all year round for that matter, by delivering up to the minute news, stats and even video clips. The app ties in with your ESPN.com account for easy access to your favorite teams and of course will alert you to scores and other things, like potential upsets. It’ll even give you quick access to the WatchESPN app so you can check out a game on your second screen. Add in the fact that this app is free, and we don’t see any reason a football fan wouldn’t head to the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and download it right now.

[Thanks, @bartenz]

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ESPN delivers College Football companion app to iOS and Android just in time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google has been doing a lot of maintenance to its Play App Store recently. Just this morning, we found out that Google is in the process of adding gift card and wish list support to the Android Play App Store. Today, Google has enabled Smart App updates, which was initially revealed back at Google I/O.

Usually, when one wants to update an application on their Android smartphone, the whole application is downloaded by the Google Play Store, which can take quite a while with the larger apps and if you have a slow connection. Now, Smart Apps only downloads the difference between the two apps allowing both the Google Play Store and the user large amounts of data previously wasted.

For example, the new Instagram app only required me to download 3MB of the 13MB of the actual app. Very useful if you want to download an app update but don’t have access to Wi-Fi where you currently are and don’t want to use up a lot of your data plan. Let us know if you have received the Smart Apps Update feature in the Google Play store yet and what you think of it in the comments section below.

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