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Cut The Rope available on Android!

Cut the Rope screenshot taken on iPad. © ZeptoLab

Okay, I admit it. I’ve cheated on my Android phone with an iPad, of all things. I’ve been enchanted by the large amount of iPad apps and games which look absolutely stunning and work so well, and I’m a sucker for great graphics. A game app can be excellent, clever and well-designed, but if it’s got poor graphics I won’t find it worth playing. The Android Market has so far been a little disappointing in that area.

While devouring iPad games I came over Cut the Rope – and at the very first moment I met Om Nom and fed him a candy I was hooked. And my HTC Desire wept, laying jealous in a dark corner. Okay, actually it just lay on my desk.

But today, Friday 24th of June 2011, Cut the Rope became available on Android via the alternative Android Market called GetJar, for free! My HTC Desire quietly let out a little cheer, clinging on to the hope for me to pay attention to it again. Okay, okay, it still just lay on my desk.

The process of downloading Cut the Rope from GetJar when you don’t have the GetJar app from before is a bit clumsy. I couldn’t find the GetJar app in Android Market nor on their website, so this is how I did it. Remember to set the option to allow your phone to download apps from unknown sources.

  1. On your Android phone, open up your browser and navigate to m.getjar.com.
  2. Scroll to the very bottom, and click on “Quick download”.
  3. In the pop up, enter 75206. This is GetJar’s ID to Cut the Rope, but as for now you’ll just download the GetJar app.

Cut the Rope on my HTC Desire

Your phone will now download the GetJar app. When it’s installed, fire up the app. It will direct you back to the GetJar-website, showing a list of available apps. Cut the Rope should be one of the top apps in the list, or you could click “Quick download” and enter 75206 again. Either one will download and install Cut the Rope on your phone. Yay! I downloaded it today, on Cut the Rope’s launch day, so I had to try a few times before I got through.

Edit July 8, 2011: As of now Cut the Rope is available at the Market, but costs money.

On my HTC Desire running Android Froyo (2.2) it runs smoothly and works just like on iPad, it’s just smaller (duh). Mind you, since the app is free there are ads in the game. But you’ll barely notice them since they only appear in the menus, not while playing. (As opposed to the Android version of Angry Birds where the ads appears in-game blocking some of the game field. Grr!)

Edit January 13th, 2012: Cut the Rope is even available in a splendid HTML5 web version.

June 24th, 2011 in Gaming, Tech talk | tags: , , , , | Print This Post Print This Post | No Comments

My favorite Android Apps: Take Two

Yep. I’m still a nerd. In May I wrote a (lengthy) post recommending my favourite applications (apps) for Android based phones, (and also bragged about just getting a HTC Desire.)*cough* Not much have changed since then, except for the expansion of the Android Market (for you iFolks: that would be the Android version of App Store). I admit that I’m not one to pay very much attention to the development of new apps, but I’ve traded tips from colleagues and friends with Android phones. The Android OS version 2.2 finally allowed us to move apps to the SD card, and a couple of weeks ago Norway finally opened up for paid Android apps. So I figured an updated list of awesome Android apps were in order.

The list is fairly shorter than my previous post, and it contains both free and paid apps. I’ve included QR barcodes next to each app so you can scan the image with Barcode Scanner on your Android phone and get the direct download link to the app.

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October 18th, 2010 in Tech talk | tags: , , | Print This Post Print This Post | 3 Comments

My favorite Android apps

HTC Desire, my new mobile phone toy

I recently got myself a brand new mobile phone, HTC Desire with Android 2.1. And (apologies to my bf) I’m in love. Not only with the phone itself, but the OS as well. I was sick of my previous phone which was, in more ways than one, like a piece of brick – a HTC Touch Pro with Windows Mobile 6.1. I wanted a smartphone with touch screen, possibility of installing additional software (apps) and a well-functioning way of syncing contacts, mail and calendar with my PC. The choice was between an iPhone or an Android-based phone. I’m not a fan of Apple and iPhones, so I decided to give the fairly new Android OS a shot. Almost immidiately after getting myself a Android phone, I see at least five things my phone can do that iPhone can’t.

A few days after I bought my HTC Desire, a bunch of friends also bought a HTC Desire saw how awesome HTC Desire really is that they bought it. Even my boyfriend. He who spent a few days defending his beloved and trusty HTC TyTNII, only to wake up one morning and totally fall in love with my phone. So to share my excitement for Android, support the expanding app market and to tell people which apps that would totally rock their world (well, at least the phone’s world), I’m listing my favorite Android apps in this post. The application market for Android is fairly new, but is expanding fast. There are already tons of applications that make your Android phone even more awesome.

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May 13th, 2010 in Tech talk | tags: , , , | Print This Post Print This Post | 2 Comments