Android

Opera Mini browser for iPhone has been unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, and may be available soon in the App Store, if Opera has it’s way with Apple. Android users don’t have to wait that long. The world’s fasted mobile browser is now available for download. (more…)

Google is always trying to come up with new ways to search, be it their search suggestions, search results filter, SearchWiki, search by voice, Google Squared, Google Goggles, or many more such innovating features. Now they have added a new search feature for Android mobile phone users. A new Google Labs application lets you search with hand gestures, and quickly find what you are looking for. (more…)

Want to save the battery of your Android phone when you are not connected to the Internet or any local network? Why not temporarily switch off the Wi-Fi and the data transmission, so that you can save both battery and bandwidth. While APNdroid, a free app,  lets you toggle Internet (3G/EDGE/GPRS) manually, it cannot automate or schedule the battery saving mode by itself. It depends the expensive Locale app for automation.  (more…)

HTC Desire has been recently unveiled at the Mobile World Congress and is set to be released in retail a couple of months from now. While HTC Desire has almost the same hardware as the Google Nexus One phone, it has some non-Nexus One features such as the HTC Sense UI, a unique graphical interface with cool widgets that is only found on HTC phones, the face recognition camera app, touch focus, and so on. (more…)

Many Android users would like to tether their device so that they can connect their PC to the Internet on their mobile phone. For the unaware, Tethering means to use your mobile device as a modem, to connect any other devices such as a Computer to the Internet. Tethering is usually done via USB or Bluetooth. (more…)

A member of the XDA forum has leaked what appears to be an upcoming release (ERE36B) of Android 2.1 ROM for Google Nexus One. Apparently this new ROM fixes the 3G issue faced by many T-Mobile and AT&T users. While a workaround was already found for the 3G connectivity problem on the Nexus One, this leaked firmware upgrade fixes that issue. (more…)

OpenEclair is a new community based ROM, based on Android 2.1 Eclair source code. The project is hosted on Google Code, and is supported by many developers as well as helpers for issue tracking and forum moderation. OpenEclair aims to bring some extra features to Android 2.1 Eclair OS on phones, including HTC Magic, T-Mobile G1, and T-Mobile MyTouch 3G. (more…)

Motorola Droid, with it’s 550MHz ARM Cortex processor looked just fine. Till the Nexus One came into market, with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Droid users who are looking for ways to over clock their device, that is run the processor at much higher frequency than it was made for. (more…)

Want to get the cool Multi-Touch features on your Nexus One? Unfortunately due to some patent issues, Nexus One and also Motorola Droid released in US do not come with multi-touch. However by rooting your Android device, you can install a custom ROM with multi touch support or just a standalone multi touch supported application, such as web browser. (more…)

Are you stuck up with EDGE connectivity on your newly purchased Nexus One, even though your network supports 3G (T-Mobile or AT&T)? Kevin C.Tofel of jkontherun may have a solution for this 3G connectivity problem on Google’s Android mobile. (more…)