Archive for March, 2009
Palringo For Android
Palringo recently launched in the Android Market, allowing G1 and Dream owners to communicate with a load of messenging services in innovative ways. They claim to offer more messaging services/options than any other messaging type app on the market. The application is free to download but you do need to create a Palringo account. Check out a demo [...]
ShopSavvy gets real-time local stock checking
ShopSavvy is one of those apps that, once you’d lived with it on the G1, makes you miss the Android platform if you switch to rival devices. The shopping comparison software is about to get even better, however, with the inclusion of real-time inventory checking for a number of major retailers. In a nutshell, ShopSavvy allows you to [...]
Android Drives 5% Of Smartphone Web Traffic
Six months ago, the T-Mobile G1 didn’t exist. Today, the device is responsible for 5% of all mobile web traffic from smartphones. While that’s certainly an impressive number, the iPhone still towers over Android, RIM, WinMo and Palm with 50% of the market. And to be honest, it drives more than all 4 of those combined: Keep in mind [...]
Palringo launches on Android Market
Palringo rich messaging has launched on the Android Market. Offering a list of communication tools, for all those instant messaging fans out there, this is pretty cool. Palringo allows user to talk through AIM, Google Talk, MSN, Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger and other messaging services and social networks. There is the added ability to send photo [...]
Three Months In, Android Has 5% of US Smartphone Market Share
According to recent figures released by AdMob Mobile Metrics, Android has grabbed 5% of the US smart phone market. This is up from 3% in January. Not too shabby for a clunky device, is it? Also in the report is a stat that says 5.2% of all smartphone web traffic comes from the G1. While these figures are nowhere near the iPhone numbers, [...]
AlchemySnap: OCR & Photo Search for Android Handsets
We just received a tip from the makers of a forthcoming app called AlchemySnap. With not much more than a paragraph and a 2-minute video to go by, we’re already extremely excited about the prospects of this app. The cameras on Android phones are being used for so much more than we’ve previously seen on other handsets. First we have [...]
Palringo Launches its Multi-Service IM Application on Android Market
Another cool app has arrived in the Android Market in the form of Palringo. This application ties together many of the popular messaging and social networking services such as Google Talk, MSN, Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, iChat, and more. With the ability to run in the background, users can share their location with friends using the [...]
Acer A1 Coming In September?
Last month at Mobile World Congress, Acer introduced their first 4 mobile phones since purchasing phone maker E-Ten Information Systems. To the disappointment of Android Phone fans everywhere, every single one of those phones ran on Windows Mobile. But there is light at the end of the tunnel - according to an artilce on BusinessMirror, an unnamed [...]
Ask Not What Android Can Do For You…
The following is a reprint of a post I made to the Google Group, slightly edited to make it independent of the context of the thread in which it originally appeared. Approximately three-quarters of the content of is “desired features, improvements, and upgrades you would desire to see in a future Android release”, frequently packaged [...]
App Review: Google Finance
Title: Finance Developer(s): Google Available: Now, Android Market Price: FREE Lasting Impression: A mobile financial application with a great UI that displays your Google Finance portfolios. Nitty Gritty: Even though I’ve lost a good sum of money in the stocks I still like to know how they’re doing. Especially when to get back in with the [...]
