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Summer is coming and, by Bob, you’d better be ready. Despite the torrential downpours in the UK clouding even the most optimistic person’s thoughts of sun-drenched days, that brief window when Britain boils will soon be open and the time to get beach-body ready is here… read more

This week we’ve been shooting crims from long range, clocking up some miles on foot, adding sumptuous effects to our snaps, getting our itinerary organised, and throwing down some ill beats in municipal parks and garden centres. All that and we still found time to round up our top five Android apps of the week. Drink them in, ‘droiders… read more

The Android Market isn’t short on fitness apps but Trimble’s new version of its AllSport GPS is certainly worthy of your attention just because of the painstaking hands-on research gone into fine tuning the app. According to developer Trimble more than 350 athletes, veteran users of the original app and beta testers put the app through its paces over a three months period, collaborating on the design and features. During that time Trimble recorded the pavement pounders and bike riders carrying out 1800 activities over 17,000 miles and burning just shy of nine million calories. Life of Android is short of breath just reading those stats.

The AllSport GPS app comes in two flavours: Pro and Free. The Pro version costs £2.76 but for the extra outlay you get access to more preloaded offline topographical maps, aerials photos and road maps, capture videos and photos as you go and upload them to YouTube read more

Adidas has made its name from being the fastest, the fittest, the best. What a surprise it is, then, that MiCoach has taken such an age to make it to Android. Still, it’s here now and that’s all that matters.

The MiCoach app has gone down a storm with our iPhone and Blackberry brethren with its training programmes for six different sports and audible pep talks during sessions. GPS pace zones keep a track of your speed and the app harasses you until your ears bleed should you drop the pace during a workout. We’re just kidding of course. But it will have words. read more