We reported on Full Tilt Poker’s removal from the Android Market on Friday and have heard back from the poker service with reasoning that we sort of expected.  Apparently the app is in such an early beta stage that it needed to be completely pulled from the market “due to maintenance.”  We received the email below which explains the deal:

Thank you for contacting Full Tilt Poker Support and for your interest in the Rush Poker * Mobile software.

Rush Poker * Mobile is currently unavailable due to maintenance.

While we are delighted at the success of the Rush Poker * Mobile software, due to the software being in beta testing stage, maintenance such as this is often essential.

Thank you for your understanding. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Regards,

James
Technical Representative
Full Tilt Poker Support

Anyone buying that?  Not sure I can even come up with 5 other apps that went live on the market and simply vanished 3 days later due to “maintenance.”  Usually you feel like your product is pretty solid when you release it to the public, right?

We wrote about the release of Full Tilt Poker onto the Android market just 4 days ago over at Android Life and it appears as if it has already been removed.  You can search for “Full Tilt Poker” in both the market and on App Brain and you will likely come up empty.  We even used the QR code from our post the other day and were welcomed to the screenshot above.

It’s anyone’s guess as to why it would be removed, but the fact that it’s the first “real money” poker app for Android could be a big part of why it is no longer available.  Many users also complained about it being like a Flash game essentially just running in a browser, so maybe the overall experience wasn’t up to Full Tilt standards?  I think we’re going with reason #1.  I should point out that I still have the app installed on my Droid X and it appears to work as it did from day 1.

We’ve reached out to Full Tilt to find out why and will report back as we have something.

Cheers @antroyd!

So…anyone get anything good today?  Add to your collection of Droid phones?  Picked up a new Google TV (our walk-through)? We talked about a bunch of deals going on at Best Buy, Toys R Us,  Radio Shack, Staples, Verizon (more), and Wirefly and wondered if any of you took advantage.  There are also a bunch of deals going on in the app store like Swiftkey and the Com2Us lineup, so let us know!

Hope you all had a great holiday yesterday!

“Anyone been doing some shopping lately?”, asked Tato as he whipped out his phone and opened up his BestBuy application. “I’m just gonna buy a couple things real quick”, he proclaimed. When asked why, he had but one simple answer. “Because I can!” That’s right you guys – We can!

Just on Halloween we introduced Liquid Frozen Yogurt V1.95 to the world. Well here we go again. This Midnight Frost theme by the talented davidjr621 is for those people who enjoy a good dark theme. (Me included).

Downloads and Instructions after the jump –

A lot of app makers doing half priced games on this lovely Black Friday!  We saw Swiftkey go on sale earlier this morning and now Com2Us and their lineup of uber-addicting games for Android are also on-sale.  All of their games will be $.99 starting today through November 28th (Sunday).  Happy gaming!

Via:  Com2Us

Cheers Chris!

For those of you that purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab this weekend and found a way to sneak out of the store without anyone forcing you to tack on a data package, here is your trick to bypassing the activation screen.  As you long as you can count, you should be able to do this in a couple of seconds and then will be on your way to enjoying the wi-fi tethered mobile version of this first legitimate Android tablet.

Instructions:

1. Press “Volume Up” once.
2. Press “Volume Down” twice.
3. Press “Volume Up” three times.
4. Press “Volume Down” four times.
5. Enjoy!

Stay close to Android Life after this for a couple of additional activation bypass instructions.

Cheers Mushka!

Back in August, we all the saw the debut of a new keyboard called BlindType that would look to change the way people type on their smartphones.  An ingenious idea that allowed you to type “blindly”, meaning you could type words or sentences without actually pressing the correct keys each time.  With small on-screen keyboards dominating our lives, BlindType would allow you to type in the area of keys and then it would do its best to predict exactly what it is you were trying to type.  It sort of took the world by storm and just as we were anticipating its release, it was purchased by our friends over at Google.

So over the last couple of weeks, one of our readers brought back up the subject of BlindType, wondering why its website had been taken down with almost no mention of it anywhere.  Our thoughts?  Maybe it will make a Gingerbread appearance.  We’re expecting the new Android 2.3 to be announced within the next couple of weeks and this could be one heck of an addition that most people probably wouldn’t have expected.