Google’s kept pretty quiet about the Nexus Q since removing it from sale last summer. Last we heard, the company was still working on refining its streaming sphere, and that was back in January. In recent days, the lack of Nexus Q support in the new Google Play Music app had led some to believe [...]
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ITV Player for Android exclusive to Samsung devices until Aug. 31
May 10th, 2013 
dantekSamsung has announced that it’s scored exclusive rights to the ITV Player app for Android until Aug. 31, giving users of its phones and tablets access to the British broadcaster’s streaming content. The ITV Player app allows Brits to stream the past 30 days of TV content from ITV, ITV 2, ITV 3, ITV 4 [...]
Player FM aims to expand your podcast horizons
May 1st, 2013 dantekThere is no shortage of podcast applications in the Play Store, and everyone seems to have a favorite. Features and UI are usually the deciding factors for users when choosing an app to listen to their favorite podcasts. Player FM’s initial release (version 1.0.0) includes an attractive UI and some of the same features that [...]
Poweramp Music Player gets a major widget update
May 1st, 2013 dantekPoweramp is seeing some pretty significant changes in the widget department for version 2.0.9-b528. Homescreen widgets are now fully customizable: the background, text, icons, and buttons can now be completely configured to the user’s liking. For anyone that doesn’t want to spend the time tweaking every aspect of a widget, up to 15 premade styles are [...]
Netflix now available on ARM Chromebooks via HTML5 player
April 17th, 2013 dantekAlthough relying on Silverlight as a video player had many advantages for Netflix, one of the unfortunate side effects was its inability to play on platforms that couldn’t support the plugin — like Chrome OS. With the (not so quickly) approaching deadline for Microsoft’s shutdown of Silverlight, the move to HTML5 had to happen at [...]
Beam Player: simple, clean folder-based music player
March 17th, 2013 dantekThere are countless music players out there offering buckets of features and flair, but sometimes you just want a basic app to play music from a folder structure. Beam Player fits the bill for this use perfectly, and doesn’t go over the top on design or unnecessary features either. Best of all it’s holo, tablet [...]
Archos releases free, ad-supported version of video player app
February 14th, 2013 dantekOne thing that Archos has traditionally done pretty well is video, and back in December they launched a standalone version of the video player app that ships on their Android tablets. With a lengthy feature list, and a well designed UI, the only thing preventing some from giving it a spin was the price. At [...]
Netgear NeoTV Prime gets outed by FCC, newest member of Google TV player family
December 4th, 2012 dantekJudging from the influx of updates that Google TV has received in the recent period, it’s clear that Google still has some faith on the platform, despite it not taking off as quickly as intended.On the hardware side of things, we’ve seen Vizio doing its part in making Google TV more attractive by introducing the $99 Co [...]
Amazon Cloud Player launches in the UK ahead of the Kindle Fire’s arrival
September 19th, 2012 dantekThe Amazon ecosystem may well be pretty established in the United States, but in the rest of the world it still remains distinctly lacking. One such service is the Amazon Cloud Player, that today has launched in the UK ahead of the impending arrival of the Kindle Fire. The Amazon MP3 application is the portal to [...]
MX Player Updated To v1.7, Brings Background Playback, Improved Software Decoding On Tegra 3 Devices, And More
September 16th, 2012 dantekMX has always been a pretty impressive video player – it’s chocked full of useful features and offers nearly every codec imaginable. Today, it received an update to v1.7 that brings a fair amount of performance improvements for various devices, as well as one really neat key feature: background playback.Changelog:Stabilized S/W decoder on Tegra 3 [...]
