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"From ephemeral Facebook messaging apps, to ones that simply let you say 'Yo!' to your buddies, we covered a lot of ground with new Android apps in June. So by way of a quick recap and to help you filter through the debris, here\u2019s our pick of the newbies from the past month.\r\nMailWise\r\nThere's already no shortage of email clients for Android, but MailWise is a nice addition to the party.\r\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 \r\nMailWise covers a lot of ground in terms of the range of accounts it supports, including Gmail and Exchange, but its core selling-point lies in clutter-free conversations. Yes, it strips out repetitive information such as signatures and headers within a thread.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0 MailWise\r\nCopy Bubble\r\nWith bubbles for browsing and bubbles for translating,'bubbles' seem to be the in-thing with Android developers just now. Copy Bubble is the latest bubblicious app to hit Google Play.\r\n\r\nCopy Bubble is a brilliantly simple way of accessing multiple copied items from your clipboard - you can access your recent copy history from the main floating bubble on your screen, allowing you to delete an item, share it (e.g. to email, Facebook, Dropbox), or paste into another application.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA4MKL7Ughk\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Copy Bubble\r\nContact Box\r\nBeing able to easily share multiple contact details with groups or individuals can be useful, which is why Contact Box could find itself a fan-base.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqE3Vt1tXB8\r\n\r\nIn a nutshell, Contact Box allows users to create and organize contacts into easily shareable lists \u2013 which can be sent via email or SMS message.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Contact Box\r\nTrover\r\nIt was almost three years since we'd last covered Trover, a travel-themed, user-generated, photo-exploration app that counts Expedia and Zillow co-founder Rich Barton among its creators. While an Android incarnation had previously existed, it was pulled from Google Play due to resource restrictions a while back, but it has now reappeared again.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tW4k-IRD6s\r\n\r\nUsers can (visually) share stories about their favorite hotels, restaurants, parks, swimming spots, and more. It's essentially a geo-tagged, photo-based social network for curious explorers, one that helps create a sense that you\u2019re walking through a neighborhood finding new things along the way.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Trover\r\nSlingshot [Facebook]\r\nFollowing an accidental false start, social networking behemoth Facebook (you may have heard of it) launched a new standalone messaging app called Slingshot this month, kicking off initially in the US only, though it was later introduced globally too.\r\n\r\nframeborder=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nJumping on the ephemeral bandwagon, Facebook wants to remain relevant to the younger generations. The gist of Slingshot: to see a photo or video sent to you by a friend, you have to reply with a photo or video.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Slingshot\r\nGinger Page &amp;amp;amp; Grammar Keyboard\r\nGinger Software specializes in \u2018language enhancement' tools to make it easier to write English correctly - native-speakers and learners alike.\r\n\r\nThe Ginger Page &amp;amp;amp; Grammar Keyboard goes beyond in-line spell-checking\u00A0to give you tools that instantly rephrase certain words and options for contextual synonyms, translations or definitions \u2013 all of which can be very useful, regardless of what your first language is.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Ginger Page &amp;amp;amp; Grammar Keyboard\r\nAviate [Yahoo]\r\nYou may remember that Yahoo acquired Aviate back in January, and just this month the Internet giant launched the Android homescreen service\u00A0out of beta.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj-cYb9eiRY\r\n\r\nAviate is a beautiful thing, as it aggregates your personal and local data on your device\u2019s homescreen and strives to help organize your day. This includes\u00A0weather forecasts, email shortcuts, transit information\u00A0and calendar.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Yahoo Aviate\r\nOyster [US only]\r\nOyster has often been referred to as 'the Netflix of ebooks,' serving up an unlimited supply to digital books for $9.95 a month. While it remains a US-only service for now, you may be pleased to know it's now availabe for Android too, joining the company\u2019s existing\u00A0iOS app which launched last year.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIf you're a speedy and regular reader, Oyster will likely appeal. If you're not, and tend to plough through books at a rate of one-per-quarter, you'd maybe want to give Oyster a miss. That said, you can at least 'suck-it-and-see' before committing to any given book, which is nice.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Oyster\r\nYo\r\nSome might reckon that the less said about Yo, the better. But for one reason or another, the app really hit a nerve this month due to its sheer simplicity (read: lack of features), coupled with the fact that it's VC-backed. So it's worth a mention again here in this roundup.\r\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 \r\nYo is a single-button, \u201Czero-character communication tool.\u201D Rather than saying \u2018Good Morning\u2019 to your buddies, you simply \u2018Yo\u2019 them. That\u2019s all you can really do with it.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Yo\r\nNike+ FuelBand\r\nPerhaps two years too late, Nike finally unveiled an Android app for its FuelBand activity tracker.\r\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 \r\nIndeed, Nike has come in for a lot of criticism for not supporting Android with the FuelBand, and many suspected this app would never materialize. However, it did - though it only supports the second generation of the wristband, those with the first incarnation are still restricted to iOS from a mobile perspective.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Nike+ FuelBand\r\nBillGuard [US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand]\r\nBillGuard isn't a new app per se, but June saw the service finally roll out of North America and truly into international waters, starting with the UK, Australia and New Zealand.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe service sells itself as the world\u2019s first \u2018people-powered antivirus system for bills\u2019. Predictive algorithms alert you when there\u2019s unexpected charges such as hidden fees, billing errors, scams and fraud on your credit card or debit card. It also delivers warnings when a similar dubious charge has been flagged by other users.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 BillGuard\r\nAmazon Prime Music [US only]\r\nAmazon\u2019s first music-streaming service, Prime Music, went live this month, which resulted in its existing Amazon Cloud Player app being rebranded as Amazon Music and updated with streaming capabilities.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe bundling of free music-streaming for Prime subscribers remains US-only for now.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Amazon Music\r\nPath Talk\r\nPath followed in the footsteps of Facebook this month by launching a new standalone messaging app called Path Talk.\r\n\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0 \r\nAs with other similar messaging apps, Path Talk wants to replace SMS (and, as before, Facebook), letting you converse with friends, family and groups, with messages that are automatically erased from Path's servers within 24 hours. Sound familiar? But it does have some nice features - for example, 'Ambient Status' automatically tells your friends whether you're in transit, nearby, or even low on battery.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Path Talk\r\nEverythingMe\r\nStrictly speaking, EverythingMe isn't a new app. But after shedding its beta tag in February and launching in the US, UK, Germany and Spain, June saw it roll out to users worldwide.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fHOYuzsIZo\r\n\r\nYes, EverythingMe is one of many Android launchers on Google Play, but it is beautiful and very useful, serving up a swift way to change the look, feel and functionality of your mobile phone.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 EverythingMe Launcher\r\nNudge\r\nThe quantified self movement may well be in full swing, and you can track and monitor every movement, but with so many different apps and gadgets for tracking different facets of your life, it can be difficult to keep on top of everything.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nNudge aggregates your health and fitness data from multiple apps and trackers, with an overall \u2018Nudge Factor\u2019 ranking your health and fitness holistically. It\u2019s nicely designed and has a lot of potential, but there needs to be much wider support for third-party apps and devices - for now, it only taps Moves, RunKeeper, MapMyFitness, Fitbit and UP.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Nudge\r\nUdacity\r\nJune saw Udacity expand its online learning platform with the launch of a brand new Android app, in addition to four extra courses designed in collaboration with Google.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSUVLpfkyww\r\n\r\nUdacity lets you stream lectures and test your knowledge with quizzes, as you learn all about programming and big data.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Udacity\r\nWhat...you want more?!?\r\nIf you\u2019re on the hunt for more Android apps, check out some of the best ones from May, or put your feet up and peruse through the pick of the bunch from the whole of 2013. Alternatively, you can check out some of the best iOS apps from June too - some of which you may recognize from the Android incarnations listed here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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