Zite is a popular iOS app that personalizes your news content automatically based on your habits and interests. What differentiates it from other news readers is its ability to tap into how you interact with the articles you read. Zite gets to know you better and better over time. The app has finally made it to Android but unlike its iOS counterpart, has not received much praise. In fact, user reviews seem to slam the developer for making a clunky iOS port and completely disregarding Android UI guidelines. Apparently the app is laggy and feel more like a beta app than anything. Now I haven’t personally tried the app out but if initial reviews are any indication, I might now want to.
2012 Mobile Game of the Year, The Dark Meadow, received a pretty major update on iOS today. Aside from all of the new features, the game has also gone freemium. The freemium version, entitled Dark Meadow: The Pact is a separate download on the App Store and as far as I can tell is exactly the same as the original paid version. The decision to go freemium may benefit the developers over the long term and is the reasoning for the jump. Although it is only available on iOS at the moment, it is scheduled to hit Android next month.
Gameloft is at it again with their newest action packed sandbox thriller, Gangstar Rio: City of Saints. Set in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, you’ll experience a carnival of carnage with 60 varied missions, a wide range of weapons, and dozens of destructive vehicles. It’s bloodshed in Brazil, with bazookas, bribery, and a beach full of thong bikinis.
Developers of the popular stock Android music player alternative doubleTwist, have today released a welcomed update for the app. If you use Google Music to buy and store music, you’ll want to grab this update, as version 1.7.3 of doubleTwist adds support for offline tracks. Along with support for Google Music, doubleTwist for Android has also been given a few more nice updates:
Evernote is by far one of the best productivity apps in the Market Play Store, and even though they’ve won numerous awards, they’re continually looking for ways to improve. That’s why their latest update isn’t just your run-of-the-mill bug fixer and includes quite a few new features.
