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24 August 2010 ~ Comments Off

Flightview Android travel app updated, improves itineraries, battery life

Android travel app Flightview — read our initial review — just announced an upgrade, adding a trio of improvements. They are: Manage Travel Itineraries – with the updated My Trips feature, users can save grouped flights together, record reserva…

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28 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Android Quick App: FlightView

If you fly more than, say, once a year, you absolutely should look into an Android travel app. And a new one to Android is FlightView. It’s got the all the basics that you’d expect from a top flight-tracking app –track by flight number, track by rout…

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24 July 2010 ~ Comments Off

Original Flight Control coming to Android

Airplane-landing games are a dime a dozen now, but the original and best is coming to Android. You might want to consider quitting your job to free up time for this one. [Firemint via @alexessory] Thanks, Rene!Posted originally at Android CentralSpons…

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20 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Hands-on with Laminar Research’s X-Plane Android flight sim [#io2010]

X-Plane Android app

I’m pretty sure I could probably fly myself home after spending a few minutes with Laminar Research’s X-Plane Android flight simulator (this is no mere "app"), which we toyed around with at Google IO. You have seven airplanes — Piper Malibu, Beach King-Air, Eclipse Jet-500, Piaggio Avanti, Cirrus Vision, Cessna 172 and Columbia 400 — from which you can choose, and it features custom terrain (no Google Earth here) and even shows where lift is affecting the aircraft. It’s not available yet in the Android Market because they’re waiting for a few technical issues (with the Market, not their app) to be resolved. But hopefully we’ll see this soon. Check it out after the break. Anybody want to navigate for me?

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20 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Hands-on with Laminar Research’s X-Plane Android flight sim [#io2010]

X-Plane Android app

I’m pretty sure I could probably fly myself home after spending a few minutes with Laminar Research’s X-Plane Android flight simulator (this is no mere "app"), which we toyed around with at Google IO. You have seven airplanes — Piper Malibu, Beach King-Air, Eclipse Jet-500, Piaggio Avanti, Cirrus Vision, Cessna 172 and Columbia 400 — from which you can choose, and it features custom terrain (no Google Earth here) and even shows where lift is affecting the aircraft. It’s not available yet in the Android Market because they’re waiting for a few technical issues (with the Market, not their app) to be resolved. But hopefully we’ll see this soon. Check it out after the break. Anybody want to navigate for me?

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