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Engadget is your ultimate destination for reviews, news and research from the world of consumer electronics. Our team of expert editors and columnists at engadget.com work passionately (some would say, obsessively) to bring you the best information about all gadgets, the science and technology behind them as well as insider insights before the products are even in the market. Want up to the minute coverage on the latest smartphone news, HDTV reviews and hands-on looks at all gadgets from laptops to game systems? Engadget delivers the definitive tech news you need instantly. With this app at your fingertips, you’ll be an informed tech expert in no time.
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* Engadget Podcast now supports background playback
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4.0
34,822 total
5 18,710
4 7,749
3 2,976
2 1,620
1 3,636
Beau Wastier
Love the new UI The new ui is great, but it still has an issue with stories loading slowly causing me to click on one and it switch to the other article it just refreshed into its spot. Also, there seems to be an issue with it not always loading the articles thumbnails. Regardless of how good or bad of a connection my phone has at that moment.
Brett Raczynski
Not loading all stories Love Engadget, it gets me through the day. But lately the app has been behind on stories. Things I saw this morning are coming up as the most recent on my feed and the new ones....well they don't seem to exist.
A Google User
Not so much anymore I like the direction it's going in, however it has some serious problems. It seems every other article is truncated and many videos don't play. It also takes a while for new articles to show up. Other than that I really enjoy being able to favorite articles so they are easy to find later, perhaps this could be better if they were saved locally on the device though.
Matthew Bliss
Great news but.. So laggy on a s5 that it's frustrating. When scrolling through articles, duplicate articles appear. When I click on an article, I might get the one I clicked on, but I might get the article below. If I go back and click on it again, I will continue to get the wrong article. Also I'm not sure why this app is the takes up the most space out of all my apps, and I thought Facebook was bad.....
Robert LoPinto
Obnoxious Ads and Duplicate Content Timing of ad loads and article loads causes many unintentional ad clicks. Also, last version had every article appearing twice. Had to uninstall and reinstall. UPDATE: Reinstall has identical issue. Please fix because the article content is really good, but the experience isn't.
A Google User
Horribly Laggy It is no improvement over just using the website. It tries to be a little too flashy in as a result the user experience is diminished. Scrolling is painfully choppy. It's frustrating and virtually unusable most of the time. No butter in this recipe!
User reviews
Love the new UI The new ui is great, but it still has an issue with stories loading slowly causing me to click on one and it switch to the other article it just refreshed into its spot. Also, there seems to be an issue with it not always loading the articles thumbnails. Regardless of how good or bad of a connection my phone has at that moment.
Not loading all stories Love Engadget, it gets me through the day. But lately the app has been behind on stories. Things I saw this morning are coming up as the most recent on my feed and the new ones....well they don't seem to exist.
Not so much anymore I like the direction it's going in, however it has some serious problems. It seems every other article is truncated and many videos don't play. It also takes a while for new articles to show up. Other than that I really enjoy being able to favorite articles so they are easy to find later, perhaps this could be better if they were saved locally on the device though.
Great news but.. So laggy on a s5 that it's frustrating. When scrolling through articles, duplicate articles appear. When I click on an article, I might get the one I clicked on, but I might get the article below. If I go back and click on it again, I will continue to get the wrong article. Also I'm not sure why this app is the takes up the most space out of all my apps, and I thought Facebook was bad.....
Obnoxious Ads and Duplicate Content Timing of ad loads and article loads causes many unintentional ad clicks. Also, last version had every article appearing twice. Had to uninstall and reinstall. UPDATE: Reinstall has identical issue. Please fix because the article content is really good, but the experience isn't.
Horribly Laggy It is no improvement over just using the website. It tries to be a little too flashy in as a result the user experience is diminished. Scrolling is painfully choppy. It's frustrating and virtually unusable most of the time. No butter in this recipe!
OK but video missing Seems to work well. No performance issues but any story with video is useless because they hype up a video that you can't watch. No videos display in this app. Serious error on the developers part. Nobody told them that there are news articles with video?
Doesn't update articles anymore Articles frozen since 1st Jan 2016. Wiping data, cache and reinstalling all fail. Now unable to connect to server so completely broken for last 3 days. Get some quality control.
Very poor The app often loads a different article to the one clicked on. It rarely let's me scroll down articles. It is very slow to load and often videos don't work. The Engadget app on my palm pre was genuinely better than this effort, what is going on?
This thing is a big ol' mess For something designed for Android, it sure doesn't work well. Scrolling is laggy, it takes too long to refresh stories when opening, and recently I'm even getting duplicate stories showing up. Time to take this out to the wood shed and put it down.
Performance improvement actually loads new content now. Brand refresh. Same app. Needs to follow material design principles to look a bit better and the app icon should have rounded corners. It sticks out like a sore thumb on my home screen. Good update though!
Down the drain It was bad enough when the app started reloading articles it had already downloaded wasting my time and data. It got worse when reloading messed up the images on half of the articles. It got still worse when slide show articles and videos didn't work. Then either the articles were being written without context or the app was only loading half of the article, I'm not sure which. Now it won't even bother connecting to the server. Seriously, do you guys even use your own app? How is none of this noticed?
New Version Fails Big Time This app used to work flawlessly. Since the last update it has not been able to connect to the server and hasn't updated once since then. "Retry" does nothing. Old articles are of no use. Clearing the cache made the app unusuable. At least the real website still works. This app is now useless and needs a major fix!
Terrible app Terrible app ruining the engadget experience. No videos, can't reply or even read comments. Can't jump to browser version within the app either.we used to have this things, are you coming this app backwards??? Surely you must realise a huge part of your readership are mobile users???
App is S L O W Thank you for the font size settings! Now, the app is slow to load and scroll. Also, the content is really lightweight. Needs more details after the click-bait headline. Please try to improve your app.
Latest update is borked. I used to like this app. But over the years it's become worse and worse. Truncated articles is this updates claim to fame. Hit up the website if you must but I'll likely opt for no Engadget at all.
What a clunky app... I really like the content side of Engadget, but boy, is this a slow and clunky app. It's so busy loading info that scrolling through articles is a stuttering mess. Sort this out and I'd give the extra two stars.
Is it just me or? Engadget have great news and i have been following them for years. However with the recent new generation writers, posts are becoming like a thesis and worst of all, app does not separate paragraphs, chunk the entire text as a single paragraph. Definitely not good when I commute and try to read without straining my eyes :( would the Dev kindly do something about it.)
Laggy Why does it lag so horribly on my Nexus 5? Is this the tech sites' subliminal message telling me to switch to a faster phone? A year later, still horrible.
No longer works New app was truncating articles so that the text would begin at the second or third paragraph - introductory and background parts of the story were often missing. Since yesterday it doesn't even load stories at all. Deleting and reinstalling didn't help, so now I'm staring at a blank app with no content, no matter how many times I refresh. Fix it, Engadget!
Such a shame Used to be a go to app. Now, well look at all the recent 1 star reviews. What's worse is that the issues haven't been fixed. Might be time to listen before there's no one left using your app.
Ads Its like they dont want people to use the app. Keeps getting worse and worse. Now videos and slideshows are not on the app and it freezes all the time. I guess I will get tech new elsewhere...
Problems As you can read here, people are experiencing a lot of problems with the app. I'm viewing on an s6 edge but I'm not able to see the entire articles nor see videos. At the moment I'll just have to go back to the browser version and wait for an update. Hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
Every single story is double Everything on Engadget app for android is double one has a picture and name of the person who obviously wrote the story / report etc and then there is another directly underneath it without a picture to match the story and no name of the story editor. Please sort this out. Have only just reinstalled it after you not listening for 6 months of random errors
Not good anymore Very unreliable app. Sometimes you can read the whole article, sometimes only part of it is there. Sometimes the links are to wrong articles. The ads forced me to use an ad blocker since a paid version isn't available. And this morning, there's an article posted about several markets missing the NBA and NHL playoffs due to Dish Network. But, we're all going to miss them because they are both over. Pretty sad 'reporting'.
The old one worked fine! UPDATE: App now duplicates articles. Poorly designed app. Can't read articles because it will not let you scroll. Images are not being pulled from server. And what is with the purple? This needs sorting ASAP
In the dumpster (again) EDIT: Just want to add that in addition to a ton of lag, every article is duplicated. This app is an embarrassment. I don't understand how a tech blog can create such a problematic app. No other app on my phone lags and chokes like this one. It's frustrating. To add insult to injury, the comments have been removed. Please get your act together and produce an app that performs well and includes the comments section.
Mediocre. Horrible app, duplicate articles and no thumbnails to view embedded videos or pics. Not to mention the comments still don't come up in the app. Really guys CNET'S mobile site is better than your app.
App updates when it wants I love Engadget hence having the app on my phone. The problem is the app sucks. I have no idea why but the app hasn't updated since Sunday. It's now Wednesday. This is s frequent problem with it. Sometimes it will say "cannot reach server". I will close the app and still same thing. I switch to cellular still same thing. I restart my phone still the same thing. It's been months of this bs when is a fix in the works?
If there was an option for zero stars Good lord, but can AOL and Engadget ever get their S&@% together? This app went from good, to crappy, to completely broken and useless. So sad. Avoid at all costs.
Bunch of Issues. Most of the time this app fails to load content. I use Note 5, and I never have an issue with any other app but this one. On the main screen, images of the top stories fail to load, and very often like 9 out of 10 times I get an error message on top. My Internet at home is 200 down, so I don't have any cause to experience the lack of performance from this app. Sad because I have been loyal to Engadget for years, but their experience makes me lean towards other news sources.
Buggy - hate it Half the articles don't load completely and now the summary/index page is linking to the wrong articles. Fed up of only getting the first paragraph of articles. Uninstalling. If this is the best this tech team can come up with then how can you trust their view on the tech world.
No longer works Used to work but then started saying cannot connect to server. Tried to uninstall and reinstall and now it's completely blank. Anyone else having this problem?
Still a Crap App - It's a Crap! Engadget is a great site - great content, up to date, always gets me the latest news. Their app, however, is a giant piece of crap, and has been for years. Slow to load, slow to update, half the pictures don't load, garbled text, truncated articles - just plain junk. Use the website instead.
Simply doesn't work, still..... Have you used your app? It's horrendous. If it wasn't for the editors and content I would have deleted years ago. Please improve your app
Just when I thought it couldn't get worse The app just stopped being able to connect to the server and refresh. This new development on top of an already clunky, slow, and buggy UI
Used to work The new app is very jittery when scrolling, seems to always be loading something. I just end up going directly to the site as it's not worth the bother of using the app.
I use the mobile website instead The app is slow, and stopped updating stories yesterday for no reason. I also get stories repeated in the app where one will have images and the other won't. I enjoy the content from Engadget, but will be using your website to get my tech updates from now on.
Terrible This app has consistently been the worst performing app I have used. Why can you get this working? Freezing and failing to load and force closes. I love tour site but this app is just terrible. Please fix it.
Wasn't working on s7 edge Switched from Galaxy s4 to s7 Edge. Used to work fine. Now just shows blank white screen. Uninstalled, reinstalled, same thing. At least web site still works. Update. It's working on new phone but still really slow.
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Updated
February 9, 2016
Size
5.8M
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1,000,000 - 5,000,000
Current Version
3.0.2.0
Requires Android
2.3.3 and up
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