The updated 7digital Android app features a new swipe navigation, additional recommendations and featured music, hardware acceleration and enhancements. It is designed to take advantage of the new functionality in Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), including the Android Beam Near Field Communication (NFC) technology.

Using Beam, 7digital users can share music playlists by touching their Android 4.0 smartphones or tablets together. Playlists will consist of 30-second track previews, unless both users have the tracks already downloaded.

7digital now has over ...