Cryptographically secure phones has been around for quite sometime now but the use of such devices are highly underutilized due to their high cost and low user support. Android is now being used by Guardian Project in an effort to bring these types of devices to the masses. Android-compatible handset will be updated with new firmware release that would add an anonymous browser, encrypted email, secure voice calls and secure data sync, along with various other security related things.
With the expansion of Android launching in different markets all across the world, many of these markets still doesn’t have access to paid apps. This often times lead users to find “alternative” ways of obtaining these highly sought after apps. Paid apps usually offer more features and more options versus their free counterpart. Most of the time there is no free version so if you want the app, you just cant get it through the Android Market.
Slacker, Inc. has finally unveiled their v2.0 of their software for Android handsets the big update in this new version is that Slacker Radio Plus. This edition allows users to cache their favorite radio stations and listen to them offline. That means you can have your music with you whether you have a data connection or not. This is great for users that has Android devices with no data plans. You can hop on WIFI, cache all your music and still have it with you while you are on the go.
Available for Apple’s iPhone since 2008, Google Earth is now finally available for Android, too – although you need to have an Android 2.1 device (like the Nexus One) to use it.
The Android version of Google Earth is the fastest mobile version yet and comes with Roads layer, a feature that you might know from the desktop version (it provides “road labels drawn on top of the satellite imagery”).
Leveraging on the integrated voice recognition capability of Android 2.1, Google Earth for Android also features a “pocket globe that responds to your every command,” so every time you want to search for something, you can do it by voice only.
iVdopia is a mobile advertising platform which debuted on the iPhone 3G in March of 2009. If you thought the occasional banner ad popping up in your app was annoying, your gonna really hate this. Mobile ad giant iVdopia is bringing its video-serving advert formats to Android.
Google Shopper lets you find product information quickly by using your phone’s camera. It can recognize cover art of books, CDs, DVDs, and video games, along with most barcodes. You can also speak the name of the product you’re looking for. Use Shopper to make smart decisions about what to buy, what price to pay, and where to buy it. You can star items for later and share them with friends. Shopper also saves your history so you’ll always have the information at your fingertips, even when you don’t have a signal. Read the rest of this entry »
The Weather Channel is running a promotion to encourage viewers to download its Android app while watching TV. During select broadcasts, TWC will display a barcode on-screen that viewers can scan with their phone and find a link to TWC’s Android Market entry. The barcode will play at 20 minutes after during:
Day Planner (Monday – Friday, 11am-2 pm)
PM Edition (Mon-Fri, 4-7 pm) and
WeatherCenter Late (Mon-Fri, 10pm -1am)
The Weather Channel bills this promotion as the first time a broadcast outlet has offered an Android app as an on-screen scanable download; however, I can’t confirm that claim. I know that QR code scanning is more popular in Japan, so I’d bet that a network has incorporated a code somehow. Either way, this is probably one of the first U.S. occurences of a network making an app downloadable from television.
The long awaited WordPress App has finally arrived in the Android Market. Android Community uses a version of this open source blogging program, this will come in handy for yours truly as well as a few others.
If you used wpToGo app you will be able to just download and get work on your posts, it is essentially an upgraded version of wpToGo free version that has been in the market. Some features of this are:
• Configure and manage multiple blogs
• Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
• Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
• Create and Edit Pages
• Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar
For you Fring users out there, a new update has just been released. Here’s the changelog for Version 1.2.0.25:
* Improved Connectivity
* Voice Improvements
* Better Stability
* Hide GSM buddies
* Hide offline buddies
* Disable fring mood (in IM)
* Disable fring signature (in IM)
* Nexus One Support
* Motorola Milestone audio fix
You should see the update pushed out anytime now. You can also get Fring in the Android Market, or by scanning the bar code below. New to Fring? Find out what it’s all about here.
Amazon’s MP3 download store has been a feature of US Android devices since the beginning, but its taken until now for the on-device media store to hit the UK. Fresh to the Android Market, the app allows users to search and browse Amazon’s MP3 catalog and purchase DRM-free music for download to their smartphone.
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