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Opera Mobile For Android – Coming Soon
October 16th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Faizan
Recently Opera announced that they are releasing beta version of Opera Mobile for Android with in a month. It will feature Pinch to Zoom, Hardware Acceleration for fast navigation and of course tabbed browsing. Opera Mini for Android is already available in Android Market.
How To: Force move to SD on Froyo without Rooting
October 8th, 2010 / 6 Comments » / by Faizan
One 
of major issues with android phones (except the new HTC Desires) is that they are low on internal phone memory, like my HTC Desire comes with around 100 MB free internal storage out of which only 15MB is free right now. With loads of new app coming everyday there must be a way to install install Apps to SD card. With Froyo implementation of Move to SD you cannot move all apps to SD card, in order to move an app to SD card app developer must specify it explicitly during development and most of apps still lack that option.
In order to force Move to SD Card your phone must be running Froyo and ADB drivers must be installed on your system.
Skype For Android – finally Released
October 5th, 2010 / 5 Comments » / by Faizan
After long wait, Skype for Android is finally here. You can make free Skype to Skype calls over Wi-Fi or Mobile Network.
You’ve been asking us for it – and now it’s here. Skype is now available on a wide range of Android phones, so you can save money and stay in touch when you’re out and about. Visit skype.com/m on your phone to download, or read on to find out what’s inside.
From Skype Blog
I’ve to install it manually as it didn’t showed up in my Android market. It crashed for the first time but since then its working fine. I made a Skype to Skype test call over Wi-Fi and voice quality was crystal clear with no lag.
What is google webP image format
October 3rd, 2010 / 3 Comments » / by AF8AB
Google has announced its exciting and new image format for the web called weppy or WebP. Google wants to improve the web in addition to saving the bandwidth of massive amounts of data flowing through Google’s servers. Here is what Google had to say about WebP and why a new image format was needed.
Most of the common image formats on the web today were established over a decade ago and are based on technology from around that time. Some engineers at Google decided to figure out if there was a way to further compress lossy images like JPEG to make them load faster, while still preserving quality and resolution. As part of this effort, we are releasing a developer preview of a new image format, WebP, that promises to significantly reduce the byte size of photos on the web, allowing web sites to load faster than before.
As mentioned above, WebP (pronounced “weppy”) is an all new image format set to replace the aging and bulky JPEG format, currently the king of the web. WebP, like JPEG, is a lossy compression format, so don’t expect images to look any better. However, WebP uses an entirely different compression method based on Google’s open-source VP8 codec, which results in images approximately 40% smaller than their JPEG counterparts.
WebP also utilizes a new container based on RIFF, allowing developers to insert metadata and potentially more future “features”.
Although WebP images will be smaller than JPEG versions, image quality may not be any worse, though we’ll have to wait and see for definitive proof. For a comparison, check out Google’s JPEG vs WebP gallery.
Smartphone Wars Continues – infographic
October 1st, 2010 / 4 Comments » / by Faizan
No matter how popular is iPhone but still its looser in worldwide Smartphone Market share. Recently Nokia introduced their new smartphones C6, C7, E7 and HTC introduced their Desire HD and Desire Z as smartphone war is heats up.
This infographic shows some interesting facts about smartphones and their users, some of them are:
1. 89% of current iPhone users will buy iPhone as their next phone.
2. 71% of current Android users will buy an Android device.
3. 42% of Blackberry owners will buy blackberry.
4. only 17% of world’s mobile phone are smartphone.
5. Nokia still leads world wide mobile phone market share with 40% and Apple has only 2%.
6. only 25% of American phones are smartphones.
Google Maps for Android – Caching & WorldWide Navigation
September 23rd, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Faizan
If you have an android phone and you live in a country where Google Maps Street Navigation doesn’t work, all you need to do is to download Google Maps Modded app and install it.
1. Worldwide navigation using Google Maps Directions
2. Map tiles caching on SD card
3. Force-enable MT. If you’re on Eclair or some custom Donut and don’t have multitouch zooming, then maybe this will enable it.
4. Force-enable Buzz feature
5. Fix for map shift issue in China
6. Option to hide zoom buttons
7. Installable on non-rooted devices
8. Could be installed beside original app
Remember to enable Brut Mod Features from Menu > More > Brut Mod
[via XDA]
Twitter For Android 1.0.4 Update
September 23rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Faizan
Twitter just released 1.0.4 update for its Android client. 
I’ve noticed following improvements
- - Redesigned Home Screen
- - App is now much more responsive, fast, user friendly and you will notice more animations while navigating through screens and different options.
- - My Profile now shows more details and user can edit their profile from within the application.
- - Separate icon for trends Added instead of animated trends
However I’ll still prefer Seesmic for Android over Twitter for Android for missing ‘Quote Tweet’ feature in twitter for android app. Move to SD Card feature is still missing in this update which I think is must to space precious phone memory.
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