Posts Tagged ‘motorola
Alchemy – Android App review
Price : Free What : A game that lets you use four basic elements – Fire, Water, Earth and Wind and wants you to combine these and figure out 330 elements. How : A home screen gives you the 4 basic elements and lets you move these elements over one another to generate a new [...]
3G Watchdog – Android App review
Price : Free What : If you have a data plan that is not unlimited, then this app helps you monitor your data usage. When you reach a limit, you can choose to cut off your data connection through 3G. How : In the settings, you enter your plan and the start date. There is [...]
A perspective of the history of Droid
Most of us already know the history of the mobile phone wars. Here is our perspective and timeline of it. To appreciate this lineup of phones, it is pertinent to understand the history and the stakes that different companies had in this phone. Apple : On June 29, 2007, Apple released the iPhone which changed [...]
Android 2.2 – Froyo updates for Droid OTA right now
All right… the Froyo update has resumed for Droid 1 – the original Droid. In just 9 days short of 3 months after Google released Froyo, Motorola and Verizon are finally ready to put the Droid owners on it – AGAIN. While a lot of us no longer wait for over-the-air updates, some of us [...]
Google News and Weather – Android App review
Price : Free If I had to name a single app that I spent a lot of time on everyday, it would be the Google News and Weather widget. When a friend of mine who is quite tech-savvy and has had an Android device for the past year didn’t know about this, I knew I [...]
Shake Uninstall Android App Review
Price : Free What : If your idea of having fun is browsing the market for new apps, downloading them, trying them out and then uninstalling the less tasteful ones, then this is a very useful app. If you share my agony of going to Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications and then [...]
Walkie Talkie Push to Talk – Android App Review
Price : Free Lite Version Paid Version : $4.99 What : Walkie Talkie lets you have walkie-talkie style voice communication. We have found this app to be very useful. Messages can be sent to a group of people. Received messages are automatically played. If program is running, incoming messages arrive as soon as 15 seconds. [...]
Newspapers – Android app review
Version : 3.0.11 Price : Free What : Ever miss those times when you would get up early in the morning and sift through the newspaper, looking for something that suits your taste and catches your eye? With the advent of the bits and bytes age, that has changed over to scouring over changing pixels [...]
Android App Review – City Caller ID
Version : 1.0.13: FC fix Price : Free What : Ever gotten a call from an unknown area code that made you go - ‘Huh, wonder where this number is from’. I have had these moments many times and thanks to this app, I don’t anymore. How : This app displays the City and the [...]
Comparison of Android phones in US
For people who want to buy an Android phone, but are not sure about the available choices, here is the breakdown by the mobile carrier in the US. If you are not particular about any carrier, right now the Nexus One is the best Android phone available. If you are a stickler for a particular [...]