An Android phone hogs internet data much more than a normal phone. This is particularly because of all the background stuff going on like syncing contacts, photos, instant messages, social network updates, email and much more.
Some people might like to limit the connectivity to certain applications. avast! Mobile Security and Internet Firewall are two of my favorite applications to do this job. They act like a firewall which restricts the connectivity to particular apps, just like in your PC.
Ever wished to have multiple user accounts on your Android just like in your computer? A new app for Android, Switchme, lets you do that!
It can create multiple profiles (like a guest profile) in your phone which you can switch between anytime. It saves all the information for a particular profile including your applications and data as a file in the memory.
Wikipedia, the largest encyclopaedia known to the mankind containing more than 20 million articles in 280+ languages, has released it’s official application for Android. The application UI (user interface) is pretty sleek and very neat and packs in a bunch of features.
The app is more convenient to use than using Wikipedia’s web-page, though there are few good un-official apps for Wikipedia in the market too, Wiki Encyclopedia and Wapedia being the good ones. Apart from few areas where the offiial app lacks, there are still many good features to make it stand out of the crowd.
The wait is over! CyanogenMod has finally released the CM 9 which brings Android ICS to HP Touch Pad.
Here is a quick tutorial to help you install CM 9 on your TouchPad.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has been the biggest redesign yet for Android, offering a much-more improved user interface. Now, it wants the developers to do the same.
Google has launched an Android Design portal for developers as a guide to help them learn design their apps ‘exceptionally’ well, both in terms of design and functionality. The guide covers several sections like Creative Vision (of Android), Design Principles, Themes, Typography, App Structure, Gestures and much more.
Searching for an Email or document can be real pain, especially from a mobile phone. On your PC/browser it’s a whole lot easier, but on a mobile phone it is almost impossible to get the desired result without an App.
CloudMagic is a perfect solution to this problem.
Remember those days, when there was no phone/email and you had to send letters/postcards to your loved ones, just to let them know you are fine or away on a vacation?
Though a time consuming process, it had it’s own sweetness.
Postcard on the Run App allows you to send a fully customized postcard to multiple recipients easily right from the comfort of your phone.
If there’s one big thing that Android phone manufacturers are doing since the birth of Android, it is their update policy. Recently, Samsung clarified that their second-most-popular-phone-ever will not be getting any taste of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Why? Because Samsung says it’s not possible for them to deliver an ICS update packed with their Touchwiz 3.0 UI.
Probable Reasons?
- You want your customers to buy newer phones (Galaxy S3?)
- It’s really not possible to update Galaxy S to ICS.
Both of them are possible, but the first one sounds more reasonable.
The word ‘Cloud’ has been synonymous with Android since its birth, integrated to its core. In recent times, with the launch of free cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Docs, Picasa and more, it has become quite difficult to manage files stored on the cloud from a mobile.
Enter SanDisk Memory Zone application, a combination of a File manager + Cloud storage manager + Data protector + Backup utility. I discovered this app while searching for a file manager for my not-so-geeky friend who owns a HTC ChaCha (aka Status). Sure, there are some advanced file managers out there like Total Commander, File expert etc. but he wanted an intuitive interface rather than being one for nerds.
The CyanogenMod team gave an awesome Christmas gift yesterday for all the Galaxy S II users. Finally, after waiting for about two months after the launch of Ice Cream Sandwich, they’ve released CyanogenMod 9 as an experimental build for the S2. Wuuf, this took more time than I wanted (not expected).
It is still under heavy development and will probably be finished in January/February 2012. Anyways, here’s my review after using the ROM for a couple of hours, in Bullet Style.
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