Android Phones and Applications

Google seems to be very keen to make Android the most popular mobile operating system. Few days ago the company announced new revolutionary service, which allows all users to easily create applications for their phones. Basically users will not require any programming skills or knowledge to create an application, and anybody will be able to do it.  This service is called Google App Inventor and is available for users to register their interest. The official website says that users will be given access to the service in the coming weeks. Users will be able to create and download applications to their phones, but not to other Android users at this stage.

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Distimo is a company that specializes on mobile application market analysis for different platforms. They have recently released interesting statistics on the proportion of free vs. paid applications for the Android Market, AppStore, OVI Store and others. They have also listed top 10 most popular free and paid applications for Android. The results are quite interesting, and in the case of our beloved “Market” entertaining.
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First information about the new, probably the third version of the Android operating system started circulating the web last week. It is believed that the developers are likely to stick with the existing naming convention, and the new version will be called Android Gingerbread.
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HTC Hero owners can start celebrating… The moment so many people were waiting for has finally arrived. Official upgrade to Android 2.1 has been released yesterday. The question you are probably asking now is – ‘So, how do I upgrade?’

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There is nothing more frustrating than being lost and not knowing how you got there. What if you are not looking for a specific building or house, not searching for the shortest route, you just want to return to the starting point in an unfamiliar area. There is an excellent program that will help you do just that – My Tracks.

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A new multimedia player for the Android platform was officially announced last week. The player is called DoubleTwist. And this event could go unnoticed, because there plenty of music players available on the Market, and the release of another one is not such a big news… The fact is that compared to some other players, DoubleTwist looks very cool and attractive due to some features and nice design.

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As is the case with Twitter clients, there are plenty of file managers available on the Android Market. However, not every application is worth installing on your phone, and frankly speaking most of them are rubbish. So, to save your time and nerves, I want to recommend a great application that should be installed on almost every Android device – ES File Explorer. Read the rest of this entry »

Few hours ago Google officially announced Android 2.2 codenamed Froyo at Google I/O conference. The new version offers a lot of improvements – speed, full Flash support, more enterprise features, new SDK, Cloud to Device Messaging, backup and other minor improvements!

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Google I / O conference will be held soon, so it’s not long until we find out the official details of Android 2.2. Of course there is a chance that rumors will not be confirmed, and we will not see the next version of the operating system. However the below video of Nexus One demonstrates some interesting elements of the interface and the Flash player preview.

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I cannot say that we waited a whole year for this, but the release of an official Twitter client for Android was quite a big milestone, which was noticed by the community. Let’s see what Twitter can and cannot do, how it differs from other applications, and whether it is worth installing, and more importantly keeping on your phone.

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