PlayUp launches new Android social network for sports fans on Google Play

With the 2012 NBA Playoffs right around the corner, this is one application I was quite pleased to hear about. PlayUp, a new social network application for Android, was launched earlier this week by a development team that goes by the same moniker. The app gives users free access to live scores from a ton of different sports, as well as allowing them to create private hangouts and chat with one another during the game via real-time instant messaging.

Check out the full details from Google Play below:

Description

Pick your sport, invite your friends and hang out during the live action.PlayUp – Where Sport gets Social.

Love talking about live sport? Then you’ll love PlayUp, the first mobile-based social network for sport fans.

PlayUp serves up live scores and stats for all the usual suspects in International sport such as NBA, MLB, Premier League, NCAA College Sport, Cricket, World Football and Rugby. We also cover AFL, Hockey and much more.

Best of all, PlayUp connects all this live sport to you and your friends, allowing you to instantly create private hangouts and message each another in real time around the action.

Features:

• Free instant messaging around sport
• Live scores and stats for 25,000+ live games
• Invite friends from any social network
• Hangout and message in private with friends during the game
• Share posts with Facebook and Twitter
• Push notifications and friend alerts
• Join public discussions with other fans
• Make friends with like-minded sport fans

So if there’s a sport and you want to talk about it – join the PlayUp community and be part of the conversation.