G4TV

by n3rdg1rl Aug 16, 2010 3:35 PM – 7 Comments

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G4. Now you can overload on all the awesome that is G4 whenever you want. With the G4 App you can get the latest, up to the minute gaming news, insider game reviews and cheats and a ridiculous amount of videos from your favorite G4 shows. If you consider yourself a gamer and a fan of G4 this is one app you can’t live without! (For all Android versions)

Update: Almost immediately after posting, the good people over at G4 updated their app. Now the previously annoying issues on 2.2 are fixed! Thank you, G4 for proving again why I love you so much!

Price: Free

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Get news straight from G4 about upcoming games
Search function built in
Game reviews
Videos from G4 shows and game reviews
Has cheats

Cons

Share feature only uses Facebook and email, no text messaging
No auto rotate
Videos only work with Wi-Fi

Features:

I play games. I have a PS3 (the 60 GB of course…need those PS1 games), an XBox 360 (old Elite), a modded Wii (gotta play those foreign games), a Dreamcast, a modded PS2, and a Nintendo 64 hooked up to my TV right now. Of course I also have a PSP, a PSP Go, a Nintendo DSi, a GameBoy Advanced, and a GameBoy Color. Yes, I am a girl and I love my video games. Therefore, I watch G4. If you have a gaming console and cable or satellite TV tuning into G4 at least a few times a week is almost a requirement at this point. Now, you can tune in on your phone.

After the iPhone had a G4 app for quite a while now, someone over at G4 realized that Android is amazing and that we needed to have an app as well. Thank you! Now I can find out the top news, watch clips from shows, cheat past that part I’m stuck on, and get reviews right on my phone whenever I want from a source I know has a great reputation. When I find great information that I think everyone should know you can post it straight to Facebook or email it too your closest buddies. But while it is a great app there are two failures that need to be fixed NOW!

The content is great, but with two bugs that effect the apps functionality, I am kind of upset about the app as a whole. When you are on the main news page, when you click on the story it actually opens the story below it. Also, when you go back to the home screen from the app and try to return to the app, it will not open. I had to go into my task killer, kill the process, and then reload the app. Now these only happen with Android 2.2 (Froyo) so it will only effect a small percentage of people, but to those of us with 2.2, it’s sort of annoying!

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: G4TV for Android News

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: G4TV for Android Shows

: G4TV for Android TheFeed

Usefulness:

I’m rarely home and when I am I’m working and don’t always have time to know what’s going on in the gaming world. Now I can keep up on my news no matter where I am all in one place.

Ease of Use:

The menu is easy as pie. Want to see videos? Click on Videos. Want to know cheats for a game you’re reading about? Click on Cheats. No complicated 10 click away functions here.

Frequently Used:

This depends on how hard core of a gamer you are. If you need to know everything that’s going on all the time, you’ll use this app all the time. If you just want to know when one game in your favorite series is releasing, you’ll use it less often. Me personally? I’m using this app constantly!

Interface:

The news, reviews, and games is laid out in easy to find columns. The videos look awesome. The menus are intuitive. What else could you ask for?

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (4.5 out of 5)

Should you Download G4 Reviews for Android? Do you find yourself with a controller in your hands more often than anything else? You need to download this app!

Developer: Comcast Entertainment Group

Tags: Android App, Android Apps, Android Apps for Gaming, AndroidTapp.com App Review, G4, G4TV, G4TV for Android, G4TV.com, Video Game Reviews

Categorised in: Entertainment

7 Comments

By Kevin Huffman on August 23, 2010 at 1:06 pm:

Is anyone else having an issue with this on Samsung’s Captivate (a flavor or Galaxy S phone)?
I click on a video, it allows the video to load and play but there is a box in front that say “Can not play video”. If you click ok or x out of the box the video shuts down like if it was done.
Anyone know a fix or am I the only one having this issue?

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- By Tracy D on August 25, 2010 at 11:04 am:
  
  I have the Samsung Vibrant (tmobile’s version of the galaxy s series). I have the EXACT same problem. The video loads and plays in the background of the screen as a giant box saying “Cannot play video” sits in front of it in the center of the screen. Is there a fix? Somebody?!
  
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  - By dukdukgoos on September 11, 2010 at 4:03 pm:
    
    Same issue here with Vibrant. Looks like it’s time to uninstall. Too bad… I wanted to use this app…
    
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    - By skeeboe on September 15, 2010 at 10:28 pm:
      
      Same here, no vids on Vibrant. Sent an email to the developer, hopefully they’ll fix it.
      
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By HardNoks on August 30, 2010 at 10:59 pm:

i still cant download this and im running Eclair. its not FroYo only is it?

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By Bowch on September 14, 2010 at 5:01 pm:

Can’t download this. In UK using HTC Desire with Froyo.

Barcode Scanner works fine but states can’t find in Marketplace when I tell it to open in browser. Searching for G4 or G4TV in Marketplace doesn’t show it up either.

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By CeejayNightwing on September 25, 2010 at 7:03 pm:

Yeah, same problem trying to find it in the Marketplace here in the UK on the Smasung Galaxy S. Total no-show no matter how you type the search string.

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