Free Apps from Kyocera?

[monil]

Kyocera Announces “Summer of Free Apps” Exclusively for Kyocera Echo Dual-Touchscreen Smartphone - Business Wire - SunHerald.com
Saw on Google. Cannot access the website so far. But, does look promising.

If someone is able to open the website, let us know!

 

[sabbys]

That is the G-Gee app manager associated games they offer from the "Echo Top Apps" shortcut on your device. When you go to the Echo by Kyocera site/Top Apps and click on any of those featured games (sonic, monkey balls, burn the rope, etc.) you are sent to the G-Gee site.

I have gone back and forth on the pros & cons on this third party plug-in/app manager. But I saw that it was native to Gingerbread this time so I thought I would give it more of a try. I think the concept, and the games, are OK. The manager loads at 6+ megs but all of the games are store on SD exclusively. So if you do like 4-5 games there is probably a positive trade off.

And I discovered one thing, if you install the G-Gee manager first and ask for all the games from within that app, the individual game short cuts never get added to the app drawer. Now this is a matter of personal preference, but I thought that was nice. If you want app drawer shortcuts, download the games from the site individually. This will create little 45~ k installs that launch the G-Gee manager.

Probably more information than you wanted to know, but the games are available now from the installed "Top Apps" shortcut.

sabby

 

[monil]

Sabby:

Thanks. Are you able to login to the Kyocera site?
If not, can you share the link to G-Gee App site?

I checked ggee.com from my phone. I am unable to download any of the games / app manager.

How did you get the same installed Sabby?

 

[sabbys]

In the app drawer there is an icon called "Echo Top Apps". This is a shortcut to Kyocera's site. When there just click "Echo games", then the red "developer site" square to the right of whichever game you are interested in, say Burn the Rope or Sonic. That takes you to the g-gee site to install the game. When the game "installs" it will start the g-gee app which will ask to update itself.

I am thinking now that I had to install one game first to get the updated g-gee apk when it went to open. But I saved that apk and had since reset my phone.

And the main home link for Kyocera does say down, but these links look good still:

Dual Screen Touch Phone | Kyocera Echo Apps | Kyocera Wireless

G-Gee by GMO - Android Games

sabby

 

[Relgoshan]

Hm. I've played some games from the G-Gee portal. Super Monkey Ball is exceedingly great, just as "funstrating" as regular console versions. Most of the rest are OK. Quite a few just use an emulator wrapper but this is fine. Phone version of Coropata is too short by far, doesn't have nearly as many levels as DS version. Burn The Rope is decent bite-size distraction, same with crazyass Sudoku puzzles.

A tolerable entry to the english-speaking games market, but their native Japanese portal is bigger.