The excellent service Readability has finally got an official app for the Android…
Readability turns any Web page into a clean view for reading now or later on your computer or Android device. With the Readability app, you can catch up reading you’ve saved with the free Readability add-on for your Web browser. Already a favorite on Kindle e-readers, now you can enjoy the benefits of Readability on your Android devices.
via Google Play.
If you’re like me and have combined impatience with hackery, there’s good news as the recently rebranded and updated Android Store apps are now available for direct download to your phone.
These apps also work well if you’re in a region that they don’t support (tip: they work well, but are just blocked from download from the store)…
Google Play Store (which replaces the Android Market)
For novices there are tips on how to allow 3rd party app installs on The Android Soul
Nice to finally see Chrome on an Android phone (seriously what took so long!), it’s a very solid first version, but for me it will remain defeated by the excellent Dolphin HD browser, as that supports adds such as the excellent Xmarks and Lasspass…
Though Android’s existing browser has long shared bits and pieces with desktop Chrome (notably WebKit rendering and Google’s V8 JavaScript engine), the release of Chrome for Android represents a more thorough synergy: they’re both now based on the open-source Chromium Project, which means it’ll be easier for Google to advance the products in better lockstep with one another — features, capabilities, fixes, and so on.
Worth keeping an eye on for future versions, I’m sure addons can’t be that far off.
via The Verge.
