NVIDIA’s SHIELD gadget is undeniably unique in the Android world, which might be why the company has decided to go with a more mainstream form factor for its second hardware foray. The SHIELD Tablet, as it’s officially titled, was leaked hard last week, but NVIDIA made it official this morning.…

Last week Google released a sizeable update to Google Wallet that finally let you carry loyalty cards in digital form. Now Amazon has released its own version of… pretty much the same thing, minus all the other stuff that Google Wallet does. Amazon Wallet is currently in beta on both…

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so. Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the widgets, which include…

Wacom’s Bamboo Paper app has been a big hit on the iPad, and now it’s out on Android tablets. This follows the release of the slimmed down Bamboo Paper Memo app for phones late last year. To drum up some support, Wacom is including all the premium features for a…

Amazon wants you to buy its shiny new Fire Phone, and one of the biggest selling points is that fancy head-tracking camera system. So naturally, the first two games to come out of the company’s home-bred Amazon Game Studios for the Fire Phone feature functionality that can only be done…

The official Chromecast page has not thus far been a good resource for finding apps. It only listed a tiny fraction of the apps with Chromecast support, but now you can use the page to see all the apps. That’s a lot of apps, but luckily you have search functionality…

Android Wear has only been out for a few weeks, but already developers are trying their hands at designing apps for Google’s wearable platform. Since this is a new usage paradigm for Android, it’s hard to know what sort of user experiences will catch on and which will fall flat.…

Let’s just say you popped open Facebook and spotted something interesting shared by one of your friends – maybe you want to save that? I can’t remember the last time this happened, but I’m sure it’s possible. That’s what Facebook’s newly announced Save feature is for, and I’m kind of…

If you’ve played Gameloft’s Modern Combat 5, then statistically speaking, you’re almost certainly a pirate. That’s because the game hasn’t been released yet, and the only ones who have access to the final version are a few people who won a Gameloft contest. At least that’s how it’s supposed to…

Rooters and ROM flashers of several devices have new options today, as the developers behind the popular Team WIN Recovery Project have added three new Android devices to their growing list. The somewhat dusty LG Optimus 4X HD (from when phone names were crazy long), the LTE version of Samsung’s…