Cheeni Labs, a startup based out of Chennai has launched a new Android app, PlanHound that chooses the best mobile plans based on your usage. This automatically gets the phone data such as local and STD call minutes and also the local and national SMS to get you the best plan. This app uses the uses the 3gsimplified.com’s comparison engine. Continue reading “PlanHound Android app suggests the best mobile plans based on your usage”
Gmail for Android has been updated to version 2.3.5. This version brings new features that include, custom notifications and ringtones for specific labels in your inbox, sync only priority mail to save bandwidth and lots more. It’s been months since the app got updated, and the previous version was 2.3.4 that was launched this February. Continue reading “Gmail for Android v2.3.5 update brings custom notifications for labels”
Google Maps for Android has been updated to version 5.8.0 that brings new features like photo uploading for places, My Places to access starred and recent Place quickly and add new places to check-in. Previous Google Maps update v5.7 earlier this month had features like Transit Navigation and offline map viewing. Continue reading “Google Maps v5.8 update for Android brings photo uploads and My Places”
SPB Shell 3D for Android has been updated to version 1.2 that brings new features like landscape support, Stereoscopic 3D, 3D edit mode and lots of improvements. This is the major update after Version 1.1.0 that was released this May. Continue reading “SPB Shell 3D v1.2 update for Android brings lots of new features”
Wikitude Drive is now available in the U.S, that shows the Augmented Reality (AR) view of the desired navigation route on to the phone using the phone’s camera. The app was launched last year in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, UK, Spain, France, and Italy. Continue reading “Wikitude Drive AR navigation app now available in US”
Viber VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) app is now available for Android. This app doesn’t need any registration and you can make a VoIP call or send a message using the mobile contacts without adding people. The app is already available for iPhone. Continue reading “Viber VoIP app now available for Android”
Here are two travel apps, Car Finder and Wipolo for your Bada and Android phones. The Car Finder app uses GPS to remember the location of your parked car and guides you to it. Wipolo is handy to view the travel information like weather forecasts, currencies, timezone etc. Continue reading “Car Finder and Wipolo – Travel apps for Bada and Android phones”
One of the popular Android keyboard, SwiftKey X is now out of beta and SwiftKey Tablet X debuts for the Android tablets. Both these are now available in the Android Market for purchase. SwiftKey was launched last year as beta and it has reached 1.5 million downloads since then. Continue reading “SwiftKey X and SwiftKey Tablet X now available in the Android Market”
Twitter for Android has been updated to version 2.1.0 that brings the most awaited features like push notifications and support for multiple accounts. The multiple accounts support is already available in Twitter for iPhone. Continue reading “Twitter for Android v2.1 brings Push Notifications and Multiple Accounts support”
SMS Blocker from Optinno, which is one of the popular Symbian app, is now available for the Android phones for free. The features in the Android app is similar to the Symbian app such as block or allow by number, filter by keywords etc. We reviewed the SMS Blocker Symbian app last year. Continue reading “SMS Blocker now available for Android for free”
Liveshare app by Cooliris lets you share pictures with others directly from your phone by capturing an image immediately or adding it from the image gallery. You can also like or comment on the images and also create different streams to share a folder with different group of people. Continue reading “Liveshare – Group photo sharing app for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone 7”
Google Maps for Android now includes turn-by-turn driving and walking navigation with public transit navigation directions in 400+ cities around the world. This version also includes updated directions, better search results, photo viewer for the places page and option to download offline maps of an area. Continue reading “Google Maps v5.7 update for Android brings Transit Navigation and offline map viewing”
If someone asks me why I love iOS or Android, I would say the variety of apps is the reason to love both operating systems. Well, first all popular apps were limited to iOS but now they are making their way to Android as it’s growing up rapidly. You all may know about Angry Birds which is known as one of the famous iOS and Android apps and it was launched for iOS first and then Android. Continue reading “Cut The Rope hits Android, free for 1 week”
Facebook for Android has been updated to version 1.6.0, that brings video upload support. The previous version was 1.5.4 that was released this April. The new version also brings some improvements in the news feed and ability to view the Facebook pages. The video uploading feature was available for Facebook for PlayBook app recently. Continue reading “Facebook for Android v1.6.0 brings video upload support”
Pixel Punch has launched an innovative Augmented Reality app called Paparazzi for the Android phones. This is actually an interesting game that lets you become a paparazzo and take the picture of an augmented celebrity to earn money. This app has won the 1st place in the Qualcomm’s Augmented reality challenge. Continue reading “Video Demo: Paparazzi – Augmented Reality Android app”
