Android Browser surpasses Opera to take the first spot
- Category: Apps
- Monday, 05 March 2012 12:39
- by Amol Mathur
We all know that Android OS is expanding its reach with so many activations per day and users loving it to the core, and this has gone on to make the Android Browser become the most used in the World.
Until now it was Opera who used to dominate the mobile Web browser category but then back in February 2012 the Android browser has finally been able to push Opera to the second spot.
Type your heart out @ 60 WPM on your smartphone with MessagEase
- Category: Apps
- Sunday, 04 March 2012 12:55
- by Rishabh Jain
Ever since we have had phones, we have lusted for fast typing speeds whether, we are browsing or messaging. MessagEase is one app that might make typing fun as ever. This Android/iOS app uses a patented one finger typing technique to boast your typing. The best part though is that it is totally free.
How does it happen? Well, what happens is that the keys you use the most are pushed to the start while you can swipe and drag other letters and characters. Besides, the app offers large-than-life buttons instead of those tiny ones you see on every other smartphone nowadays. It might take a while to get tuned to these keys, but then they contribute to making your typing faster. Also as you can see in this picture, you can swipe to get different letters. You do need to get tuned to this keyboard, maybe even memorize some letters and characters and then start typing without looking time and again at the keyboard. Then, you will need to play the inbuilt game that is more like a type master and trains you to type fast. The record in the game currently rests at 63 WPM, which you are welcome to try and break.
Splashtop THD brings your PC to your Android tablet
- Category: Android Apps
- Saturday, 03 March 2012 14:17
- by Rishabh Jain
Everyone nowadays talks about tablets replacing PCs, but to be practical, there are some things that you can do only on your PC. Tablets can’t boast of many things that PCs offer such as high memory, High RAM amongst many others. So what’s the solution? Well, here it is, the winner of the best app award at this year’s CES – Splashtop THD. Splashtop THD does something similar for your Android tablet to what Motorola’s Webtop connectivity and Samsung All share. Well, that and some more.
Splashtop lets you listen to music, browse the net and watch movies. But, the best part is that it even lets you play games right from your PC to your tablet. But, there is one sad news in all of that. This 7$ (Rs. 350) app is available only for Android tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich OS on Tegra 3 processors such as the Asus Transformer Prime. There are not many of those out now, but we hope sometime in the future, they become more commonplace.
VLC media player Beta version out for Android
- Category: Android Apps
- Saturday, 03 March 2012 13:46
- by Rishabh Jain
One of the most popular media players till date, the VLC media player is set to make an appearance on Android smartphone. The availability of the VLC Media player is proof of how Androids are etching closer to delivering a PC-like experience on your smartphone.
The version we are talking about is not the official version, so it has not made an appearance on Android Market as yet. The support page suggests that it available for phone ARMv6/ ARM11, ARM v7a/ Cortex A8/ NEON and ARM v7a/Cortex A9 processor. What thy is s means, basically is that your processor should have one of these builds. The best way is to install it on your MicroSD card. You can find it in settings under apps.
Polycom brings RealPresence Mobile app to iPhone 4S, updates for iPad 2
- Category: Apps
- Saturday, 03 March 2012 12:54
- by Amol Mathur
Extremely popular on the tablets for video conferencing with people at work, Polycom has announced its RealPresence app for the iPhone 4S and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which will arrive sometime this month.
The RealPresence Mobile app is powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, which is a secure, enterprise-grade video software solution for mobile devices that extends the reach of video collaboration beyond the conference room, allowing users on the go with a mobile device to easily connect with other standards-based video systems including immersive video rooms, group/desktop systems, laptops, tablets, and smartphones in HD quality.The RealPresence Mobile app features an intuitive user interface for individual or multi-party video conferences in HD quality, RealPresence Mobile on the iPhone 4S will allow users to view content – such as presentations – by swapping the view between the content and conference participants. The app delivers the awesome Polycom video and audio for a higher quality for a great enterprise-grade experience, and also allows users to block their video image during a meeting if they desire.
The RealPresence Mobile app is powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, which is a secure, enterprise-grade video software solution for mobile devices that extends the reach of video collaboration beyond the conference room, allowing users on the go with a mobile device to easily connect with other standards-based video systems including immersive video rooms, group/desktop systems, laptops, tablets, and smartphones in HD quality.The RealPresence Mobile app features an intuitive user interface for individual or multi-party video conferences in HD quality, RealPresence Mobile on the iPhone 4S will allow users to view content – such as presentations – by swapping the view between the content and conference participants. The app delivers the awesome Polycom video and audio for a higher quality for a great enterprise-grade experience, and also allows users to block their video image during a meeting if they desire.
Improved Android Market app developer stats are out; Developers, watch, learn and improve
- Category: Android Apps
- Thursday, 01 March 2012 18:59
- by Rishabh Jain
If you belong to the cult of app developers for Android or are trying to get there, we got just the thing for you. App stats let you know how your apps are performing. They also give you differentiated data based on countries, platforms devices etc. App stats have gotten even better this tie with publisher data, new metric, analysis and a revamped UI.
We explain the improvements in detail. Adding new metrics to your dashboard shows you app penetration by unique users and unique devices. The installs have been divided into 4 categories – active installs, total installs, daily installs and uninstalls. The devices tab will show you active and daily installs, uninstalls and upgrades.
This slingshot controller is the coolest way to play Angry Birds!
- Category: Mobile / Tablet Games
- Thursday, 01 March 2012 15:01
- by Rishabh Jain
Angry Birds has it all. It has been voted the best popular game at the MWC, reached 700 million downloads, has access to not only smartphones and tablets but social networks too and finally, continues to inspire game merchandize. Whew! As if the countless Angry Birds toys floating around weren’t enough, some companies have gone one more step ahead and created special utilities for Angry Birds. One of the craziest we have seen till date, the Simon Ford USB slingshot controller form ARM is quite the coolest thing ever.
This slingshot controller has a built in accelerometer that measures how much you tilt the controller and also has a ‘rubber stretch sensor’ which then initiate appropriate mouse movements based on how hard you pull back. The slingshot has a USB connector and an mbed NXP LPC11U24 Microcontroller.
Samsung ChatON now available as Web interface
- Category: Apps
- Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:47
- by Amol Mathur
Samsung ChatON which is Samsung’s own answer to WhatsApp like messaging service was till now available on Samsung, Android, BlackBerry, Bada and even iOS devices only. But now Samsung has made the ChatON available on the Web.
Yes now you can chat with your ChatON buddies via the web interface too and don’t just have to depend on your mobile phone.
Yes now you can chat with your ChatON buddies via the web interface too and don’t just have to depend on your mobile phone.
MWC 2012: Opera announces Opera Mini Next and Opera Mobile 12
- Category: Apps
- Monday, 27 February 2012 17:03
- by Amol Mathur
Opera had a few days back announced that it will release new versions of its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browser at the Mobile World Congress 2012 and today the company has made the release official.
Opera has announced the Opera Mini Next for J2ME (JAVA), BlackBerry and Symbian devices, whereas the Opera Mobile 12 has been announced for the Android and S60 devices.
Opera has announced the Opera Mini Next for J2ME (JAVA), BlackBerry and Symbian devices, whereas the Opera Mobile 12 has been announced for the Android and S60 devices.
What’s new in these browsers? Well the Opera Mini Next is a preview version of what’s next for Opera Mini with which feature phones get even smarter with advanced social media functions. Opera has introduces the Smart Page. The Smart Page will take its position alongside Opera’s famous Speed Dial shortcuts and give feature phones smarter access to social networks, the latest news and more. The Opera Mini Next now also goes on to support unlimited speed dials as Opera has removed the 9 speed dial limit thus letting users to customise the browser better.
The official change log is as follows:
- Added Smart Page with social integration
- Support for more than 9 speed dials
- Much improved RTL text renderering
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to get a context menu for an URL text input field
- Last character of a long word was missing when input was done
- Auto update support
- Splash screen optimizations
- General stability fixes
- Translations for Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Hebrew
- Support for Russian input in Opera VK (S60 only)
- Quick access to URL/search from Symbian status bar (S60 5.0 and Symbian^3)
Now coming on to the Opera Mobile 12, the new version will bring in WebGL on Android phones, for all things 3D and web. With WebGL on mobile, it’ll be even easier to make games cross platform and to distribute them. Next up is Ragnarök, Opera's HTML5 parser support which brings in better web apps and increased compatibility with websites. More HTML5 means more advanced web functionality. Now users can find support for camera use in the browser. And also more customization of the Speed Dial of Opera Mobile, thanks to the unlimited speed dial feature.
Official change log for Opera Mobile 12:
Added:
- Support for more than 9 speed dials
- WebGL support (Android only)
- HTML5 Camera (Android 2.1+ only)
- HTML5 Device Orientation
- HTML5 parser (Ragnarök)
- Android Beam support (NFC)
- Added Flash support on Android 4.0.3
- RTL text support in UI
- Turkish, Arabic, and Farsi translation
- Support for Russian input in Opera VK (S60 only)Quick access to URL/search from Symbian status bar (S60 5.0 and Symbian^3)
Improved:
- Keyboard support (Android only)
- Scrolling on high pixel devices (Galaxy Nexus)
- Closing of tabs
- SSL connection speed
- Tab session restore
- Find in page UI
So, head over to m.opera.com to download the latest version of Opera Mini Next and to download the Opera Mobile 12, head over to the Android Market, or Ovi Store or simple log on to m.opera.com from your mobile browser.
New malware spreads on Android via Facebook
- Category: Android Apps
- Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:00
- by Kunal Khullar
A new Android malware has been found by the Sophos security website which is said to be spreading courtesy Facebook. So if an unknown person sends you a link on Facebook or even a friend request, do not visit the link as it will download a malware apk file to your phone named “any_name.apk” or “allnew.apk”.
However, you don’t have to worry, because it does not install itself, rather if you manage to download it, chances are it will just lie there as a harmless file until and unless you install it. But this goes on to prove that despite Google’s efforts to strengthen security on the Android Market with the Bouncer system, we are still seeing malware apps hitting the store.
However, you don’t have to worry, because it does not install itself, rather if you manage to download it, chances are it will just lie there as a harmless file until and unless you install it. But this goes on to prove that despite Google’s efforts to strengthen security on the Android Market with the Bouncer system, we are still seeing malware apps hitting the store.