Sep 30 AT 3:42 PM Taylor Wimberly 17 Comments

Day 5: Final chance to grab some Android apps for $0.25

It’s the final day of Google’s huge 25 billion downloads celebration and that means a fresh lineup of top Android apps is on sale for only $0.25. Our top picks for Day 5 include Horn, Dark Knight Rises, Nova Launcher, and Great Big War Game. . Let us know which apps you purchased in the comments below.

Horn™ $6.99Zynga PLAY QR

The Dark Knight Rises $6.99Gameloft PLAY QR

Haunted House HD $1.99DualBoot Games PLAY QR

Smart Tools $2.4Smart Tools co. PLAY QR

Nova Launcher Prime $4.0TeslaCoil Software PLAY QR

Great Big War Game $3.03Rubicon Development PLAY QR

Scramble With Friends $0.99Zynga PLAY QR

Kids Numbers and Math $2.99intellijoy PLAY QR

Guns'n'Glory WW2 Premium $5.23HandyGames PLAY QR

Gravity Guy $1.47Miniclip.com PLAY QR

Air Control $3.13Four Pixels PLAY QR

Air Control HD $3.21Four Pixels PLAY QR

SketchBook Pro for Tablets $4.99Autodesk Inc. PLAY QR

SPY mouse $0.99Electronic Arts Inc PLAY QR

Source: Google Play

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96 kwills88 09/30/12 3:48 PM

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While the offerings wasnt as great as past sales, today’s class of apps are a great steal

Getting:

Batman
Horn
Nova

Btw, Taylor, have you been playing batman? if so, does IAP make it difficult to enjoy?

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- 100 Taylor Wimberly 09/30/12 5:14 PM
  
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  I playbed Batman but only the first couple of levels. Gameloft didn’t do a very good job of optimizing it for the Nexus 7, so I grew bored of it quickly.
  
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76 Dirge 09/30/12 4:10 PM

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Sucks Horn isn’t compatible with the Galaxy Nexus. :(

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12 Tarwin 09/30/12 4:10 PM

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I’m personally buying several (in part because you say it’s the last day, too bad it’s not 25 cents for 25 days…):

Nova app launcher
Batman
Sketchbook
Smart Tools (mostly because individually you can see the apps go for about a dollar for a total of five dollars vs. 25 cents, so I’ll see if they’re of any use)
Spy Mouse (for the kids who play with my tablet when I leave them alone with it =P )
Haunted House (tomorrow’s the first day of October so I figure why not)
War game
and finally Scramble

I would buy Horn if it weren’t a Tegra exclusive. It’ll most likely stop being an exclusive eventually but unfortunately as well all well know the market only lets you buy for your current device(s). No ability to take advantage of a sale in the hopes that it becomes compatible via an update, or because you’ll be buying a new device which is compatible in a few weeks. I really wish that the incompatible thing was just a warning where you could sign away your rights to complain (and maybe even the rights to a refund as you obviously won’t be able to try it in 15 minutes).

Kinda wish I hadn’t missed out on the first two days (Google Wallet refuses to work well with my normal card so I’m using a pre-paid credit card which I didn’t have the chance to top off to fully take advantage of the sale until the fourth day. I really wish I had been able to buy some of the apps from day 1 and 2 :(

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- Remo1Guest 09/30/12 11:00 PM
  
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  Haunted House HD is tight, and tons customizable! Its fu#%$$ing killer.
  
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MariaFLGuest 09/30/12 4:33 PM

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Firesale. Is google out of money???

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- Remo1Guest 09/30/12 11:03 PM
  
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  Google has specials like this, they just celebrated like 25 billion downloaded apps or something. I also bought Battle Los Angeles for $5 bucks.
  
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95 YMS123 09/30/12 4:34 PM

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Blasted exclusivity, I want to buy Horn….I even tried to edit my build.prop to make the market think I had a Nexus 7, it didn’t work and now my phone won’t boot (I gotta fix that now) I wish I new some one with a Tegra 3 device to add temporarily add my account, …..maybe you Taylor?

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- Tripstah JonesGuest 09/30/12 6:25 PM
  
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  Nexus 7 settings (works for tablets, otherwise you may have to set your profile for a tablet too):
  
  ro.product.model=Nexus 7
  ro.product.brand=google
  ro.product.name=nakasi
  ro.product.device=grouper
  ro.product.board=grouper
  ro.product.manufacturer=asus
  ro.product.locale.region=US
  ro.build.id=JRN84D
  ro.build.display.id=JRN84D
  
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64 cthonctic 09/30/12 5:22 PM

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I’d definitely be getting Nova Prime if I hadn’t been using it for the last six months already. Great custom launcher for sure.

Still, purchased Tools Pro because you never know when that stuff might come in handy.

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- 64 cthonctic 09/30/12 5:53 PM
  
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  Oh, and I would also have gotten Horn if Play would let me. I am planning to get a Nexus 7 in the next few weeks but since my Galaxy Nexus is deemed “incompatible” I am not allowed to give them money to purchase said app without installing it immediately.
  
  Google, please fix that asap!
  
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  - Tripstah JonesGuest 10/01/12 5:12 AM
    
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    You can get Horn if you edit your build.prop file and spoof a Nexus 7. Make sure you’ve rooted your phone, download a build.prop editor (or a file system explorer and go to /system), and change your settings to:
    
    ro.product.model=Nexus 7
    ro.product.brand=google
    ro.product.name=nakasi
    ro.product.device=grouper
    ro.product.board=grouper
    ro.product.manufacturer=asus
    ro.product.locale.region=US
    ro.build.id=JRN84D
    ro.build.display.id=JRN84D
    
    Reboot your phone, open Google Play, and it’ll let you download Horn now. This works on tablets, but if you’re modifying a phone you may need to change the profile to laptop too.
    
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98 Nathan D. 09/30/12 9:20 PM

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Horn on the list, but it came out not to long ago. Either way, it a great steal.

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Remo1Guest 09/30/12 10:56 PM

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Haunted HD live wallpaper is awesome!! Take my word for it. And of course it is live wallpaper, battery issues, none the less must by, im’a show it off at work tomorrow…

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- Remo1Guest 09/30/12 10:58 PM
  
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  It has to do with Halloween, I mean it.
  
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ketanGuest 10/01/12 1:08 AM

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nice & helpful information….
also watch my site:–http://android-tech4u.blogspot.com

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lrqGuest 10/01/12 10:23 AM

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not access in the most part of the world,TT

google need to take strength on pushing G Play Paid accessable

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