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Hunger Games: Panem Run, Polarity, Flick Kick Football Legends, And Tic Tactics

adnane 1 Games, News February 08, 2014

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Welcome to the latest entry in our Bonus 
Round series, wherein we tell you all about the new Android games of the
 day that we couldn't get to during our regular news rounds. Consider 
this a quick update for the dedicated gamers who can't wait for our 
bi-weekly roundups, and don't want to wade through a whole day's worth 
of news just to get their pixelated fix. Today we've got a licensed 
Hunger Games, uh, game, a Portal-style first person puzzler, a classic 
take on a casual favorite, and a stylish 2D puzzle game. without further
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Hunger Games: Panem Run</h3>
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In case you hadn't heard, the second Hunger Games movie comes out 
tomorrow. A Temple Run clone isn't the worst movie tie-in I've seen 
lately - that dubious distinction goes to the Hunger Games Subway 
sandwich - but it's safe to say that this is for fans only. Even so, 
graphics are passable and it's more than just running and jumping: 
you'll use Katniss' bow and arrow skills for extra points, and you can 
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Unrest is afoot in the Districts, and you’re in the thick of it in 
this social endless runner!Build hope for the oppressed by running 
through three of the 12 Districts in randomly generated levels, with 
more Districts becoming available soon!Collect sparks and materials that
 can be synthesized as power-ups and participate in a global-wide 
competition to achieve the #1 position!
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Polarity</h3>
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The Portal influence in Polarity is hard to deny, but this 
first-person puzzle game has another interesting pedigree. It's a mobile
 version of a game originally intended for the Oculus Rift, so immersion
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shifts should be right at home, but if you're looking for complex 
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Welcome to Polarity, a first person puzzling adventure allowing you 
to experience the thrill of hacking into a super secure virtual bank. 
You'll solve mind bending puzzles by running, jumping throwing and 
inverting your way into the heart of the system to steal data for your 
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*Become a hacker!<br />*Immersive first person gameplay.<br />*Awesome HD graphics.<br />*Intriguing storyline.<br />*Complex, clear and clever puzzles.
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Flick Kick Football Legends</h3>
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Flick Kick has earned a lot of fans both among soccer (fine, 
football) fanatics and casual gamers. This new entry in the series is 
aimed squarely at the former, with an art style reminiscent of an 
old-timey comic book and a team full of memorable characters. You're not
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Flick Kick Football Legends brings Flick Kick to all new heights with
 more diverse onfield gameplay, team building and management, and a 
multi-level league structure. Packaged in a vibrant comic inspired style
 filled with lively characters, quirky scenarios and rich animation, you
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achieve legendary status.
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Tic Tac Toe might not seem like the most cerebral game around, but 
multiply the playing field by nine and it suddenly becomes a lot more 
strategic. Tic Tactics mixes the situational awareness of Sudoku and the
 give-and-take multiplayer of Go for an interesting spin on established 
board games. Single player, online turn-based multiplayer with 
matchmaking, and hot potato local multiplayer means that you'll always 
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A classic reborn! Tic Tactics is a turn-based multiplayer game that’s
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Hunger Games: Panem Run, Polarity, Flick Kick Football Legends, And Tic Tactics

Welcome to the latest entry in our Bonus Round series, wherein we tell you all about the new Android games of the day that we coul...

The Nexus 4 Finally Gets 4.4 - Here's How You Can Flash The KitKat KRT16S OTA Manually

adnane 4 android, Google, News February 08, 2014

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Good news, everyone! The coveted Nexus 4 OTA to Android 4.4 is finally here after a brief delay caused by several serious bugs. It started rolling out very slowly a few days ago,
 but it wasn't until just now that we were able to finally identify the 
OTA zip urls for those of you who want to flash KitKat manually without 
having to wait any longer. No need to mash the <em>Check for updates</em> button over and over - let alone it doesn't actually do anything.</div>
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So grab and flash the 239MB KRT16S Android 4.4 OTA right now, no 
matter what your rooting/bootloader situation is. Of course, if you've 
modified the system partition in such a way that the OTA won't apply 
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In order to complete the steps below, you need to have the <a class="external" href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Android SDK</a> installed. The SDK contains the latest version of <em>adb</em> and <em>fastboot</em>, which you will need for flashing. You will also need a MicroUSB cable to execute <em>adb sideload</em>, <em>fastboot flash</em>,
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Download the 239MB OTA zip signed-occam-KRT16S-from-JWR66Y:</div>
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Or if you already got the first OTA to KRT16O, grab the 9MB zip signed-occam-KRT16S-from-KRT16O:</div>
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<strong>Note</strong>: This method, just like the native OTA update procedure, does <em>not </em>wipe
 your data, and your bootloader does not need to be unlocked. You should
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<em>adb sideload </em>the zip you downloaded above by following my earlier guide here. If something fails, try to fix it by restoring the system files you've changed or use the factory image.
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Here's what you should expect to see if you're using the fine <a class="external" href="http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/193" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TWRP recovery</a>:
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And now that you've flashed yourself some KitKat, go read up on what's new and enjoy! Oh, and hopefully, this update fixes the nasty wireless charging bug too.</div>
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Rooting a Nexus 4 is very easy but requires an unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery. I recommend using TWRP.
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Flash TWRP from <a class="external" href="http://teamw.in/project/twrp2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> (<em>fastboot flash recovery FILENAME.img</em>).
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Reboot into recovery (<em>adb reboot recovery </em>or hold Power+VolDn, then select <em>Recovery</em>).
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Flash the latest version of <a class="external" href="http://download.chainfire.eu/supersu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SuperSU</a>.
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You should be rooted.</div>
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FlightTrack 5 Is A Complete Redesign Of The Travel App With Real Time Alerts

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FlightTrack is not a newcomer to Android, 
but this particular version of the app is. FlightTrack 5 is a totally 
redesigned experience that's being released in time to celebrate the 
developer's fifth anniversary. You can join in on the festivities by 
taking advantage of the introductory sale price for FlightTrack 5. </div>
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This app is designed to help you survive the horror of air travel. 
FlightTrack 5 does pretty much what the name says – it tracks flights 
and offers real time alerts whenever anything changes. You can also add 
multiple travelers who are on different flights, and keep tabs on who is
 departing and arriving at what time. The map view will show you live 
flight path data when available, and will overlay weather information. 
FlightTrack 5 is compatible with 3,000 airports and 1,400 airlines 
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The Android version of the app includes a few nifty extras including 
sharing trips via NFC, a Dashclock extension, homescreen widget, and a 
live wallpaper. The app's design also looks pretty nice. You can pick up
 FlighTrack 5 for $2.99 before the end of the month. After that is goes 
up to $4.99.</div>
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Verizon's HTC One Max Available Today For $300 And Two Years Of Your Life

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If you like massive phones, fingerprint 
scanners, HTC, and Verizon, today might just be the luckiest day of your
 life. Why is that, you ask? I'll tell you why! Because the massive HTC 
One Max is now available on Big Red. See, dreams really do come true.</div>
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But let's say you're not the 
huge-phone-fingerprint-scanner-HTC-Verizon-loving type. Let's say you 
have no idea what the One Max is. No problem, let's just clear that up 
right now.</div>
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The One Max is HTC's try at a big ol' phone, coming in with a 
5.9-inch screen. Stylistically it looks like a stretched-out HTC One, 
which includes BOOMSOUND (aka front-facing speakers); however, HTC also 
cut some corners and took out some of the things that make the One 
special, like the OIS camera, for example. The Max just has a regular 
4UP (UltraPixel) camera. Bummer. However, it does have a nifty 
fingerprint scanner that scans your fingerprints because <em>reasons</em>, so that's something.</div>
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If the One Max sounds like a dream trapped inside a cell phone to 
you, you can head on over to your local Verizon and pick one up for 
three Benjamins ($300) with a two-year agreement. Or, you could just 
stay comfortable at your computer and order one from here. They'll even send it to you! See? Like a pillow, Verizon really is there to support you</div>
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Verizon's HTC One Max Available Today For $300 And Two Years Of Your Life

If you like massive phones, fingerprint scanners, HTC, and Verizon, today might just be the luckiest day of your life. Why is that...

Verizon Launches The Samsung Galaxy S III Mini ($50) And Galaxy S4 Mini ($100)

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The "Mini" portion of Samsung's lineup is 
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phones that are (at least in some respects) a generation apart launch on
 the same carrier on the same day. Verizon has done just that: the <a class="external" href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/smartphone/samsung-galaxy-s3-mini?selectedContractTerm=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="">Galaxy S III Mini is now available starting at $49.99</a> ($249.99 without a contract) and <a class="external" href="http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/smartphone/samsung-galaxy-s4-mini-black?selectedContractTerm=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Galaxy S4 Mini is $99.99</a> (a full $399.99 contract-free). Oh, and both of them have the Verizon logo of shame on the home button.</div>
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Between the two, the Galaxy S III Mini
 is probably a better choice for the smartphone buyer on a budget. The 
specs aren't anything to write home about: 4" 800x480 screen, 1.2GHz 
dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage plus SD card, and a 5MP 
rear camera. But then again, the Galaxy S4 Mini
 isn't going to win any specification showdowns either. It's got a 
larger and denser 4.3" qHD screen, a 1.7GHz dual-core processor, an 8MP 
rear camera, and an extra half-gigabyte of RAM, but the storage and 
Android version (4.2.2 plus TouchWiz) are the same. Both phones can use 
the ISIS NFC wallet app, if you really must have it.</div>
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So why do I recommend the S III Mini over the S4 Mini? Well, the 
off-contract price is $250, which is about as low as you're going to get
 for a new Verizon smartphone. But you're going to get something 
on-contract, you might as well skip both of them and go for the Motorola DROID Mini,
 a great little device with solid software and 2GB of RAM, which has the
 same $50 contract price as the S III Mini and the same $400 
off-contract price as the S4 Mini. Just my two cents.</div>
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If you've got your heart set on a diminutive Galaxy, both the S III 
Mini and S4 Mini are on Verizon's website now. They should be showing up
 in retail stores today as well.</div>
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The Popular Farming Sim 'Hay Day' For Android

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There's a different farming sim out there for every type of gamer (except for those that hate farming sims, that is). There are realistic simulators, and then there are some that don't seem to have all that much to do with farming.
 There's Harvest Moon, FarmVille, and the list goes on. Producing a 
farming game seems to be a winning strategy regardless of platform, so 
now Supercell (developer of Clash of Clans) has ported its wildly 
popular <a class="external" href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hay-day/id506627515" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iOS game</a> Hay Day to Android, and it's available for free.</div>
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Hay Day isn't particularly complex. Players run a farm 
on which they grow the usual plants and raise adorable animals. They can
 sell their produce, go fishing, bake goods, trade with friends, and run
 ads to spread word of their products. It has the mix of being 
addictive, free-to-play, and easy to learn that leads to tons of 
downloads. Now that it's available for Android, here comes many more.</div>
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Though Hay Day is free to download, there are in-app 
purchases to deal with. Thankfully, you can disable these in the game's 
settings if you're not interested. Enjoy.</div>
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The Popular Farming Sim 'Hay Day' For Android

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Official Nexus 5 Bumper Case Quick Look

adnane 1 Accessories, reviews February 07, 2014

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Official Nexus accessories are always 
exciting. Not just because we get to have cool new official toys for our
 phones, but because Google has such a bad reputation for releasing 
official accessories (remember that Nexus 10 dock from the holiday video last year?) that when one does become available, it's like a treat.</div>
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It is with this in mind that I approached the bright red version of 
the official Nexus 5 bumper case, and decided to give it a review. 
Coming into the experience, I didn't expect there to be much to discuss 
about the case, but it's - somewhat surprisingly - not a "this is 
exactly you expect" kind of situation.</div>
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Look and Feel</h2>
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The first thing I noticed about the case was that it is <strong>not</strong>
 squishy. It's surprisingly rigid plastic, and takes not-insignificant 
effort to both put on and take off. That said, it feels sturdy, and the 
general presumption with phone cases is that they have the ability to 
protect your phone in some capacity.</div>
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All of that said, the texture of the case is great. I have a hard 
time describing how the case feels when your fingers touch it, but I'd 
probably liken it to the Nexus 7 2013, with a slightly finer grain. It's
 super smooth, but just a teeny bit grippy. It's actually softer than 
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The only downside to its texture is the fact that it doesn't "stick" 
to the Nexus charging orb. Given that Google is peddling a new wireless 
charger for Nexus devices, though, I guess that isn't a huge problem. 
And the case does still allow the N5 to work with the orb, but only 
because the bottom of the case can rest against whatever surface the orb
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There's also a very subtle "nexus" logo printed on the back, 
mimicking the logo hiding on the phone underneath. It's very subtle, and
 the texture of the printing can barely be differentiated from the 
material under it.</div>
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One thing to note is that the case has some nearly invisible, yet 
still noticeable ridges on the top and bottom edges. Whether this is 
because the case is thicker in some places than others (to accommodate 
port openings and the shape of the phone) I can't say, but they're 
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Another minor quibble with the case's material is that it picks up 
moisture and oil quite easily. Eating a single potato chip and touching 
the case left a shiny smear.</div>
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Speaking of the case's contours, there's a band around the inside 
that cradle's the Nexus 5's curved back. The approach Google took with 
the case is an interesting one, because it's clear that blocking off the
 curves that make the Nexus 5 such a pleasure to hold was a very 
deliberate move.</div>
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The lack of curves definitely makes a notable difference when using 
and holding the Nexus 5. The device feels more rigid and industrial, and
 all the finesse of the two-part curved chassis design is lost in 
angles. The bright side of this is that those whose hearts ache for the 
air hockey capabilities of the Nexus 4 will be at least partially 
satisfied with this case.</div>
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Buttons and Ports</h2>
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Angles aside, the real - and almost only - problem I have with this 
case is the buttons. They aren't clicky. On some level I knew before 
approaching the case that non-clicky buttons are a necessary evil of 
most plastic or TPU cases, but still - it's just no fun to press a 
button too hard without any kind of feedback except that the screen 
flicks on or the volume changes. If I press the buttons directly with my
 thumbnail I can feel the buttons clicking inside, but pressing them as I
 normally would feels wrong. It feels like I have to use more pressure 
than usual, with no feedback, and that the device just <em>happens</em> to react.</div>
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The cover has thirty-seven holes. Thirty-two of those are earmarked by the bottom-firing speaker (singular) and its big fat phony counterpart, with one each going to the micro USB port, headphone jack, camera, flash, and top microphone.</div>
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In theory, the speaker holes should line up perfectly with those on 
the actual device. In practice, there's pretty much no sound 
interference with the case, which is good. Past that, the two openings 
that really matter are the micro USB and headphone jack holes. The micro
 USB hole is amply sized. You shouldn't have any problem plugging in 
your charger.</div>
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The headphone jack can accommodate my earbuds with a fairly small 
connector, but the larger plug I typically use in the car just doesn't 
quite fit, which is disappointing. Then again, maybe I just need a cable
 with a smaller connector. Part of the reason my car-cable doesn't fit 
is likely that the opening is - like the rest of the case - angled, and 
doesn't stick closely to the curve of the case. With a headphone port 
that's already slightly less than a full circle on the N5, putting any 
more distance between it and the plug is bound to create problems.</div>
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Final Thoughts</h2>
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Is the case worth $35 plus shipping? As someone who very rarely uses a
 phone case, I wouldn't normally buy this case either. That said, it's 
nice for what it is. It has a great texture, looks fantastic, fits 
snugly, and at least gives the impression that it's offering your Nexus 5
 some serious protection. Its major downfalls are the non-clicky buttons
 and a headphone port that's not compatible with every cable I own, but 
those used to cases like this will probably feel right at home.</div>
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If, after reading this quick review, the case looks like something you want, you know what to do.</div>
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<em><a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_5_Bumper_Case_Black?id=nexus_5_bumper_case_black" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nexus 5 Bumper Case on Google Play</a></em></div>
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Official Nexus 5 Bumper Case Quick Look

Official Nexus accessories are always exciting. Not just because we get to have cool new official toys for our phones, but because Googl...