Device Reviews

Wunderlist for Android Review [Video]

f-1024-0 Wunderlist is a Task Manager app similar to Google Tasks, and is available for iOS, Android, Mac OSX, Windows and the Chrome Web Store. It's a beautiful productivity application with a ton of sync features that made the switch from GTasks pretty easy. Check out the full video review to decide if this is the life-organizing app for... Read more »

MKB Reviews: Color Touch Effects [Video]

Thumbnail Color Touch Effects is a free app in the Android market that lets you recolor images and add some neat effects to pictures you download or pictures you take. The effect is simple, really: You color over a photo with an effect in desired places, then publish the photo and share! Interested? Check out the full video... Read more »

MKB Reviews: StatusBar+ [Video]

f-1024-0 StatusBar+ is an app with both free and paid variants that allows you to change the notification bar without root access. Pretty nifty! Keep in mind this app is very early in development and that can definitely be perceived during everyday use. If you want to try this out, the free version is linked above. If you're convinced this is the app for you, check out... Read more »

MKB Reviews: GNotes

3_device_comp You may have seen our previous review of a free app from the same developer: GTasks. GNotes is a similar note-taking application that allows you to synchronize with your Gmail account instead of with Google Tasks itself. This allows you to attach audio clips, photos and other files much like you can with the ubiquitous Evernote app on most platforms. If you're... Read more »

MKB Reviews: NewsR for Android 3.X

Thumbnail Check it out - Google's Reader Android Application is great for your mobile phone, but isn't optimized for the tablet reading experience. To keep up with your articles on the go on your Android 3.X tablet you should check out some of the better tablet-optimized reader apps out there. One of the best in the pack is called NewsR. Check out the full video review... Read more »

Motorola Titanium Review [Video]

Thumbnail The Motorola Titanium is a midrange Android 2.1 phone with a 3.1" touchscreen display, and a 4-row keyboard on the front. No, you didn't read that incorrectly - it's running an already outdated version of Android: Eclair. Nevertheless, those who are looking at a device like this probably care more about features like its push-to talk direct-connect ability thanks to... Read more »

MKB Reviews: SoundCloud for Android

Thumb SoundCloud is a web-based music sharing/streaming service that has been around for a while now - Long enough to adjust and refine their mobile experience and develop an Android application. The recent release of Spotify in the United States has attracted a lot of buzz to cloud music streaming lately, so let's take a deeper look at a competitor that has been around... Read more »

HTC Status review

DSC03464 Introduction: HTC's Status is "the Facebook phone," previously known as the ChaCha. It was released in America by AT&T on July 17th for $399.99 outright and $49.99 on a two-year contract with a minimum data feature of $15. The contract price and lowered data requirement make the Status a bargain entry for a new Android phone, and happens to ship with... Read more »

MKB Reviews: GTasks

Thumb GTasks is a free ad-supported productivity application in the Android market. It's one that requires little introduction or explanation; its purpose is self-explanatory. It is a full-featured client that syncs with Google Tasks - which just happens to be the To-Do list manager that organizes my life. With GTasks you can sync with multiple Google accounts, separate... Read more »

MKB Reviews: Google+ for Android

Thumb Google's new social network is upon us! Well - Some of us, anyway. Google+ takes a slightly different angle of approach at a social networking site than their previous attempts and is rolling out now via invites to Gmail users. Not only is there a web-based app and a mobile web app; there is now a native Android Google+ App available in the market. This app is... Read more »