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Go Bald with Make Me Bald from Swiss CodeMonkeys

Overview

Most vain men fear one thing in life, and it’s something that may happen to a lot of us at some point and time. If you guessed going bald you’ve guessed right, but there’s no need to guess what you’ll look like when you’ve got Make Me Bald from Swiss CodeMonkeys. This funny Android App lets you give yourself mohawks, mustaches or go full on chrome dome.

Make Me Bald will have you lookin’ like Mr. Clean in no time, and you won’t have to age or break out the clippers either. You can take a new picture, load one from your phone or grab one from facebook; after that it’s as easy as moving your finger across your head to remove the hair. You can also do instant-bald or add one of around 15 funky mustaches. When your hairless masterpiece…

AT&T Bundles the Pantech Element Tablet and Pantech Burst Smartphone for $250

If you’re looking for an interesting bundle deal on a smartphone and tablet, then you may want to pay close attention to what AT&T is offering.

The recently announced Pantech Element Android tablet and the Pantech Burst Android smartphone are officially available through AT&T starting today.  Individually, the Element commands a $300 price point on a two year contract and the Burst commands a $50 price tag on a two year contract.  However, if purchased together, you will only have to spend $250 up front for both devices.  Keep in mind, though, that you will have to ink two contracts for each device — a data plan for the tablet and a voice/data plan for the Burst.

The Pantech Element features an 8 inch touch screen display, Android 3.2, 4G LTE connectivity, a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, is waterproof, a 5MP rear facing camera, and a 2MP front facing…

Train your Memory with Memorize from Mobivention

Overview

Memorize is a new brain training Android App that can help train your brain with its fun & simple games by finding matching pairs of animals on cards. It’s a simple concept and one that’s been done countless times so the real question is does anything set this app apart from the pack…

The concept behind Memorize is simple, you touch a card two cards to turn them over and see what animal lies on the other side. After you pick your second card you can select another one from the playing board, but the first two are turned back over leaving you to “memorize” their last location and what’s on them. The game lets you play three ways; by yourself, against a cpu opponent or you can pass and play with a friend. Your score is compiled depending on how many pairs you…

Airbnb – Android App Review

Overview

Ever wonder how much it would cost to stay in a castle for the night? How about an apartment in Spain or an Italian villa? If the answer is yes there’s a new app called Airbnb that can hook you up. Airbnb lists hundreds of cool places to stay and allows people to monetize that spare room they may just have sitting empty in Paris or Munich.

As soon as you launch the app you’re able to take a brief tutorial on how things work, sign in or browse. I went with browse and was quickly wowed by the amount and quality of the listings available. When they say “worldwide” they really mean it as I saw listings in Texas, Paris, New York, Russia, Italy, Munich, San Francisco, Asia, Africa and Rome… and that’s really just a small portion of the locations. You can…

Top 10 Android Apps of the Week – January 22, 2012

We’re back and doing things differently this week as we’ve finally separated our Android Apps & Games into two separate lists. You’ll find our Top 10 Android Apps below and our Top 10 Android Games on our sister site Android-Games.com. Without further ado, here are our Top 10 Android Apps of the week…

1. Wikipedia App

Wikipedia was all over the news this week with its site going black to denounce SOPA and PIPA. A lot of folks might have missed the fact that the Wikimedia Foundation finally came out with the Official Wikipedia Android App this week. Yup, you can finally access the biggest reference work in the world in all its glory from your Android device. You can search, share, and save articles to read offline and as a whole the…

Thrillist releases The Official JackThreads Shopping App for Android

Overview

Hipsters and trendy folk who like good deals on fashionable clothes got a treat this week as Thrillist released their JackThreads Android App. The JackThreads app gives you the lowdown on current sales and ensures that you’ll be rocking the latest trends next time you roll out the door.

Each day at noon EST JackThreads opens up 3-4 new sales that combine premium brands like Volcom & DC with newcomers. Most of their sale events last 72 hours and once they’re done that’s it, so you need to check in to make sure you don’t miss out. You can share your finds or invite friends over to JackThreads and for everyone that signs-up and purchases something you’ll get a 10 dollar credit. The layout of the app is just as stylish as the clothing, and it’s easy to navigate. You can…

Rate Everything with Jotly for Android

Overview

I ran across an interesting Android App this week called Jotly from Firespotter. What does Jotly do you ask? Well, it’s basically a “rating” app with style as it lets you rate anything and everything on Jotly and upload your own stuff as well.

Jotly is actually a lot more than a simple rating app as it has some nice features that set it apart from the pack. The pictures users have submitted to Jotly can be sorted by Most liked, Most comments, My Likes, My Comments, My Jots, Nearby, and Recent. You can also search by name which is handy if you just want to sit around and look at pictures of cute puppies or anything else you could imagine. You can leave comments and likes on all that you see and use the good old hashtag to help folks…

iNoko Studios releases Half Breed for Android

Overview

Half Breed is a new action adventure game from iNoko Studios that puts you in the role of a half-man/half-alien that’s out for revenge against his makers. You’ll have to use Half Breed’s powers to clear the levels and take down aliens and along with their powerful bosses.

It’s pretty safe to say that Half Breed is an action-packed game, after you get past the first “breaking you in” level the action picks up quite a bit. You control your character through two virtual joysticks; one for movement and one for attacks. I’ve only been through a few levels so far, but have encountered lasers, pits, enemies, and a couple of bosses. You start out with a pretty nice selection of powers as well that can be switched around when you pause the game. Each time you beat a boss you’ll inherit another…

A Review of Whale Trail for Android

Overview

I’m always on the lookout for the quirky Android game and I didn’t have to look long this week as news hit the net that Whale Trail by ustwo is finally available for Android. What’s Whale Trail you ask? It’s a one-finger flying game set in a rainbow land that lets you control a whale named Willow as he tries to escape from the evil Baron Von Barry.

Gameplay & Features

Controlling Willow is simple yet difficult as you’ll simply press and hold the screen to swoop up and let go to dive down. The only other move is a loop that can be done by holding the screen a bit longer.  As you zip along you’ll notice that Willow lets off a little trail as he flies; this is basically his exhaust and his…

Road Warrior Game Available Now for Android, Free for a Limited Time

Addicting, best-selling and top racing and shooting game for iPhone and iPad, Road Warrior has just bee released on the Android. If you’ve played this game before on iPhone or iPad, and you want to play it again on your Android tablets or smartphone, you better get it now from the Android Market. Road Warrior Android game is currently available as a free download, for a limited time.

For the uninitiated, Road Warrior lets you race against opponents. But more than that, you can blast your opponents using various car weapons as well. You can do whatever it takes to ensure that your vehicle will be the last car standing. Then you deserve to win. The game also puts premium on the respect you’ll earn, making you worthy of competing against several bosses in the game. The price for beating these bosses? – you’ll earn possession of their racing…

Quick Review – Chuash ‘em for Android

Overview

Chuash ‘em is a quirky new whack a mole style Android game from developer Felipe Zuleta. Instead of whacking moles you’ll try to tap cute little animals before they hide while avoiding Urchins and collecting power-ups.

You start out with 3 crates and as the level progresses more crates are added until you get up to 9. Chule the dog along with a spiky urchin will randomly start popping in & out of boxes, and you’ll want to tap Chule, but not the urchin as the pop up. You can do a single tap or a swipe for combos if there are multiple Chule’s on the screen. There are several other characters that can be unlocked or purchased like the Cow, Pig, and Sheep. Chaush ‘em also has three different modes of play with Arcade, Mini Goals, and Multiplayer.

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Creative Grid releases Felt Factory for Android

Overview

Every once in awhile we stumble across an Android app that’s great for kids, and reminds us adults what it was like to be a kid. This is the case with a fun little app I found last week called Felt Factory from Creative Grid.

Felt Factory lets you get creative by using different felt shapes to make your own spectacular felt scenes. There are over 100 felt shapes to choose from all broken down into specific categories like animals, nature, space, faces, letters, numbers, food, and shapes. There are also 7 different backgrounds with 3 scenes and 3 colored backgrounds. One neat feature is the ability to snap your own photos and then use the felt on those; the kids really liked this as they could decorate the pet cat or one of their friends.  The interface is very…

Quick Review – iDatank for Android

Overview

iDatank is one of those Android games that you just have to play for yourself to get, but I’m going to take a crack at breaking it down for you guys. It’s dubbed a Space Exploration RPG game, and while that doesn’t exactly do it justice it works good enough to give you an idea of what to expect from the game.

When you start up the game there is a tutorial level that I’m going to recommended you not skip; it’s not the most enlightened tutorial but it will give you the basics. In a nutshell, you’ll basically travel around a cool looking spherical 3-D planet in your little tank bot, following the radar, collecting crystals, and killing enemies. Your gun auto-fires so really you just need to drive to get the crystals so you can charge the portal and jump to…

Strain Your Brain with River Test Trilogy from Solverlabs

Overview

I’ve always enjoyed Android games that really test my brain, and make my friends look like idiots. There are a few great ones out there that cover both of those areas, and the latest one I’ve tried was a little game called The River Test Trilogy from Solverlabs. Is it graphically intense? Not by any means, but it is intensely puzzling depending on your logic skills…

River Test Trilogy is the story of one Irish guy who has horrible luck crossing rivers. The game itself is broken down into three parts; Getting Rich, Getting Girlfriend, and Getting A Family. In Getting Rich: Getting the Nuggets Across you’re given three men and three sacks of money in different denominations one on side of the river. You have to get them all across with their cash, but the…

Powellware releases Mars Images for Android

Overview

People have wondered about the possibility of life on other planets for ages, and Mars has always been a popular subject for extraterrestrial life. NASA has a rover called the Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover on Mars now snapping pictures of everything it comes across. It’s taken some very cool pictures, and thanks to an Android App called Mars Images from Powellware we can view them from our Android devices.

When you first open the app you’re given a long list of image thumbnails, and when I say long I mean it. I scrolled down for a few minutes and the images just kept loading; I’m not sure how many are there, but I’m guessing it may be all of the pics from the mission. The pictures are labeled somewhat, but there isn’t a way to sort through anything so you’ll just have to browse the…