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We love to tinker with apps, so whenever something new is released by Google, we almost always dive into the settings to look for developer options or new Labs features. Sure enough, Chrome for Android has just that in a feature called “Tilt Scrolling.” It’s not the most practical of all features, but the cool factor is too high to not show off.

When you are in your “stack view” of open tabs, Chrome can use your accelerometer to spread your tabs apart or close them together. Again, the day-to-day usefulness of this can be questioned, but I think the point is to show you what this browser and a mobile device are capable of. We’re officially impressed.

To enable this option, head into Settings>developer tools and check the box to “Enable Tilt Scrolling.”

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Alain Mutricy is the senior VP of portfolio and product management at Motorola. More importantly, he has an awesome French accent that turned this intro video for the DROID 4 into an instant classic. I’m not sure that I want to buy one anymore than I did before watching it, but that is not this video’s fault. Just watch and enjoy.

On Friday, a company called Carrier Coverage reached out to us with a new app that they referred to as being like Carrier-IQ, only it aims to help consumers rather than carriers. Using the term “Carrier-IQ” was an odd way of framing their position, but they had a snazzy video and what seemed like a decent enough idea that we gave it a look.

So what exactly is it? Carrier Coverage wants to have enough data to be able to tell you which carrier and phone is the best in the areas that you visit most frequently. Actually, it goes beyond that. Let’s say you plan to take a vacation or move into a new house – this app will eventually tell you if your particular carrier and phone will be able to perform at the level you need it to. By gathering data through their app (location, carrier, signal strength, and more), they should be able produce some useful info, assuming they get enough users. 

How are they gathering data? They will obviously need access to some pretty important and private info. The good news is that they acknowledge that they understand the importance of security and allow you to choose whether or not you participate (find the options in Settings). They also let you choose how often your phone is pinged so that it isn’t a complete drain on your battery.

Rooted users.  If you are rooted, they have said that they can’t use your data (initially) as it may compromise their intent. That doesn’t mean you can’t still utilize the app and its benefits, it just means that they can’t use the info you send. Sort of makes sense.

Here are some additional features that they plan to introduce:

• 3G vs 4G comparison
• Heat maps
• Specific address/radius support
• Data speed tests
• International support

Sound interesting enough? I can definitely see the long-term benefits of an app like this, assuming that enough people decide that it’s secure and worth their time.

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Arguably the coolest video of 2011 was Corning’s “A Day Made of Glass.” It racked up over 17 million views and gave us a look into a future that includes nothing but touchable surfaces, almost Minority Report style. It could be years and years before we see anything close to a world like this, but after watching this new version, you will again wish that it was happening now. Fully touch-capable walls that can share in real time with tablets and are interactive? Yes, please. Changing the theme of your car through a tablet and a swipe? Mmmhmm. How about live augmented reality video using a tablet in something like a state park? Corning believes in it.  

“A Day Made of Glass 2″:

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Story behind Corning’s vision:

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The original “A Day Made of Glass”:

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Via:  Pocket-Lint

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Samsung’s 90 second spot for the Galaxy Note dropped some time around the beginning of the 4th quarter during yesterday’s Super Bowl, and boy was it somethin’. I’ve watched it a number of times now, yet still can’t decide if it was 100% win and hilarious, so over-the-top that it may have scared Android enthusiasts, or simply forgettable. It was so different from their subtle jabs at iPhone lines in previous spots that had a certain witty brilliance. I get that it’s the Super Bowl and things are supposed to be big and boisterous, I’m just wondering if it was a little much? Your thoughts?

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Our instructions for installing Google Wallet to your Verizon Galaxy Nexus were giving people enough trouble earlier that one of our readers made a quick video to help everyone out. He went with the lengthy version that the majority of folks have had luck with. Hopefully this helps and gets you all on the official market version of Wallet.

Step-by-step written instructions here.

*Note – This method will apparently work on almost any app that Verizon has decided to have blocked from the market.

Huge cheers to Joey!

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Saving Yello, another successful iOS game has made its way to Android this week. At first glance, I was convinced that this was just another Angry Birds knock-off, but once I watched the video and looked into it a bit, you can tell that it’s much more. And having been downloaded over 1 million times on iOS, we wouldn’t certainly hope it’s more than a slingshot destruction game.

The goal of the game is to launch a fish back into the safety of his bowl, but you will need to accomplish tasks on the way. Destroying toys, grabbing power-ups, and using physics to your advantage are all a part of the game. It’s free if you want to get a 10-level taste with an in-app purchase of $.99 to unlock the rest.

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Just recently, Team6 have announced that they have plans to bring a version of the PC classic FlatOut to Android devices . This version shall be called FlatOut-Stuntman and will feature all of the aggressive racing and carnage that players know and love. For those not familiar, your goal is to crash the car in a manner that will force the driver to be ejected from the vehicle in a humorous, yet morbid manner. Sounds pretty sick, right?

Team6′s CEO had this to say about bringing the classic game to Android:

When we were doing concept art for the levels we had in mind, we suddenly realized that there is not a single game we can think of that’s more fun to develop than ‘FlatOut-Stuntman’. It’s the pure essence, it has all the ingredients, of what the perfect videogame should be made of: The gameplay is entirely based upon very short levels but each of them highly additictive with a replay-value like no other game. The visuals we were able to achieve on Tegra3 are truly unbelievable and meanwhile our level design assured that gamers will be pleasantly surprised or even shocked by the possibilities in gameplay and content: There is nothing left for us to wish for what a great game should include.

No word on when we can expect a release, but we can hope for Q1. Ready to get your reckless driving on?

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Via:  DroidGamers

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I know this is only a teaser, but they better come bigger than this on Sunday. The full 90 second spot will air during the 4th quarter.

A month before Mobile World Congress kicks off and we have the first mega-leak to drool over. The HTC Ville was caught in a lengthy video this morning, showing off its official spec list, Sense 4.0 over Ice Cream Sandwich, and an ultra thin body. This is a device that we have covered for a while now over at Android Life as it is rumored to be heading to T-Mobile, but with this being one of the first polished sightings of Sense 4.0, we wanted to make sure that everyone saw it.

So what is the Ville? It’s HTC’s thinnest smartphone ever at roughly 8mm thick, but will rival some of the other players for the “thinnest smartphone in the world” tag. As you can see from the front, HTC is moving to a 3-button approach to match up with Android 4.0, however, they are still using hardware soft keys instead of on-screen soft keys. The design itself looks like most of HTC’s previous work, but again, this sucker is ultra thin.

Hit up the break to see the full spec list and a quick run-through of the device.  

Specs:

• 4.3″ qHD display
• 1.5GHz dual-core processor
• 1GB of RAM
• 8MP rear camera
• VGA front camera
• Bluetooth 4.0
• HTC Sense 4.0
• Android 4.0.1

Update:  Video has apparently been pulled already. That was fast.

Update 2:  A new version is available to watch.

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Via:  HTC-Hub