Posts Tagged ‘android apps’

Smozzy Gives Free Web-Access Via Texting On Android Phones

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Smozzy, new Android app launched with the help of T-Mobile’s unlimited messaging plan, helps users surf the web for free. Smozzy intelligently encapsulates the communication between the browser and the web as SMS and MMS, thereby enabling users who do not have unlimited data plans to use their Android devices to surf around. The app is currently in beta, and has been tested only on Nexus S and HTC G2 devices.

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Why Twitter is a Google Shopper’s Best Friend

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One of the greatest things about social media is the way you can marry different concepts for endless possibilities. Google mixes well with almost anything, of course, and so it makes sense that one of Google’s newer services combines so well with Twitter. Google Shopper, an app that lets you search items, scan barcodes, and use voice recognition to aid your shopping experience, has the Twitter world abuzz. Here’s why…and how you can use tweets to leverage Google Shopper. Read more

5 Android Apps Only a Mother Could Love

There are Android apps that are useful, inspiring, and downright cool. Then there are those apps that are the opposite of fun: boring, overly practical, and stuffy. Here are apps that only a mother could love — both because only a mother would be proud of her son or daughter for making them, and because neurotic mothers are the main people who would actually download them for regular use. Read more

10 Android Apps Every Google Nexus One Owner Should Have

I just got my Google Nexus One a couple days ago and I’m already enjoying it. It’s not better than the iPhone but certainly at par with it in terms of features and capability. And just like when got my iPhone – I immediately look around for great apps to download.

To help you decide which Nexus One apps to install on your brand new unit, here are my top ten Android Apps so far.

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What is a smartphone without a Twitter app? While there are several of them available at the Android Market, Twidroid is possibly the best. It’s robust, fast and has all nice eye-candy that you would look for in a smartphone app for Twitter. Twidroid is a full-featured Twitter app for Nexus One and other Android smartphones. Some of its features include – postings, mentions and DMs, view user profiles, follow/unfollow, native retweet option, threaded view for DM and more. It’s available as a free and paid premium versions. The paid premium version cost $4.95 but gives you Lists, multi-account suport, bit.ly and some other advanced features.

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